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Hello?
No!
Somebody please help me
Someone's trying
to kill me!
Help me!
Uh, you know what?
It's all right.
Ever since they, uh,
made the goalie pads smaller,
my stats analysis has been
thrown off anyway, so
You're no fun, man.
Hockey is-is-is
more than stats.
The stats are fun for-for me.
REPORTER 1:
Hey, guys,
look over here!
REPORTER 2:
Hey, fellas,
look in the lens!
Why do they want pictures
of us?
He's a famous
mathematician!
No, don't do that.
Go ahead, get
your vogue on,
Charlie, go ahead.
Hey.
Victor Smith,
L.
A.
P.
D.
Threat Assessment.
Don Eppes.
This is
my brother Charlie.
He consults with
the bureau.
What do you
got here?
Looks like
he broke the security system.
Scared her pretty good.
What, she was
here by herself?
Yeah, her husband's overseas
making a movie.
We called and left word.
Apparently, she's been receiving
threatening cards
and letters
for some time now.
Never took them seriously.
Yeah, looks like
this psycho was nice enough
to use the U.
S.
mail,
make this a federal case.
Well, lucky us.
Yeah, she's right
around the corner.
Skylar Wyatt.
Amita loves her, listens
to her CDs
all the time.
Oh, yeah?
Just hang back for
a second, will you?
All right, Officer,
I got it, thanks.
How you doing?
I'm Don Eppes.
I'm with the F.
B.
I.
You okay?
I'm all right, I guess.
Yeah?
So, what can you tell me
about the intruder?
He had something
over his face.
I couldn't really
see him.
Sorry.
Oh, that's all right,
I understand.
A stocking, maybe?
How long have you been getting
these letters?
About six months.
And you never reported them
to the police?
I thought if I
told the police
that it'd be all
over the news,
and I'd get even
more letters.
Well, the first thing
that's going to happen is,
we're going to have
to read the letters.
And, uh, if there's any others
that might have been sent
to your agents or managers
or any of those types,
we'll have to see them, as well.
Okay?
The guy got in my house.
You will get him, right?
Well, we're going
to do our best.
Stalkers fall into six
basic types: Rejected,
Resentful, Predatory,
Intimacy Seeker,
Incompetent Suitor
DAVID:
What if you know
somebody who qualifies
on all accounts?
What if you think
you're dating one?
You guys can laugh,
but studies show that 85%
of all women will
experience some form
of stalking in their lifetime.
Starts with flowers,
and then letters
and then dead bunnies.
Well, how about celebrities?
MEGAN:
Public figures are typically
stalked by incompetent suitors
or erotomaniacs.
And it's not that common
r celebrity stalkers
to become violent.
Why do you think this one has?
Maybe the guy's approached her
at a public event.
He's insulted
that she didn't single him out
for some kind
of special attention.
You think Skylar Wyatt's
actually had contact
with this guy?
Most likely
without her even knowing it.
DAVID:
$20,000 security system.
This guy's the Invisible Man.
Look, camera
placement is based
on a sophisticated
formula
of focal lengths
and field of view
geometries.
They should have picked him up.
She calls 911,
by the time the police arrive
seven minutes later,
stalker is gone.
How come the cameras
didn't see him leave?
Maybe he hid
in the house,
waited.
DAVID:
L.
A.
P.
D.
cleared it twice, man.
It makes no sense.
They found his footprints
outside.
Check with the neighbors, see
if anyone saw anything unusual.
Right? You know,
stranger, cat missing.
Someone saw something.
He didn't just disappear.
We all use math every day,
to predict weather,
to tell time,
to handle money.
Math is more than formulas
and equations.
It's logic rationality.
It's using your mind
to solve the biggest mysteries
that we know.
When you said
that you'd purchased a new car,
this isn't exactly
what I was picturing.
Oh, I know.
I guess it was a little
impulsive of me, right?
Very Chitty Chitty *** ***.
Nice car,
Dr.
Fleinhardt.
Is it new?
Well, only in the sense that
it's newly in my possession.
And it's, like, a '32?
Uh, '31, actually.
Dawn of an amazing
decade-- F.
D.
R.
,
Jesse Owens, Dirac's prediction
of antiparticles.
Yeah, our souls
were rekindled.
CHARLIE:
I can't help but see it as
LARRY:
You're just
jealous because
you can't drive
a stick shift.
Hey, you can't beat
automatic transmission
with cruise control.
Charlie tells us
you're looking
for Skylar Wyatt's stalker.
Yeah.
Her security video
didn't pick up his image.
And I understand that
camera placement
is done by
math formulas?
Well, whoever
designed it
probably isn't as good as you,
so maybe you'll find something
they missed.
Larry, a more modern pursuit.
Okay.
Anything?
Yeah.
So, on this block
last night, there was
one Zone diet delivery,
two Atkins deliveries,
and a Jenny Craig.
What happened to pizza
and Chinese, man?
Well, this guy down here--
he had a pizza delivered.
Yes.
Of course, then he had
a reflexologist come by
for about an hour
and a half.
What about you?
What'd you get?
In addition to the usual crowd
of paparazzi,
there's been cable,
satellite,
and Department
of Water and Power.
And not much empathy
for Skylar Wyatt.
Yeah, well, I guess
I can understand that.
How so?
Well, I'm just saying,
if I paid for this view,
I wouldn't want it ruined
by people standing around
trying to take pictures
of my neighbor
sunbathing topless, you know?
Chvatal's Art Gallery Theorem?
That would assume
a simple polygon,
though, wouldn't it?
Polygons.
ALAN:
Wow.
I was wondering why we
had no cereal left
or anything else
that was in the cupboard.
What in the world
CHARLIE:
I needed the cartons.
We're building a replica
of Skylar Wyatt's house.
We're checking the positioning
of her security cameras
for a blind spot.
Why didn't you just go to
the house and use that?
Well, as part of this test,
we need to be able
to manipulate these walls so as
to determine what types
of angles would be possible
under different scenarios.
That'll help us calculate
these potential blind spots.
And for some reason,
they won't let us move the walls
of the actual house.
How inflexible of them.
What is, uh
What are those?
CHARLIE:
That's where the F.
B.
I.
found two footprints.
Ah.
What conclusions
have you come up with?
LARRY:
Well, for
some reason,
we have too many cameras.
That's probably because neither
one of you can read a blueprint.
Let me just take
a look at this.
Now, you see here,
you got the slide door
in the wrong place,
and the dimension of
the parapet is wrong.
It's too high.
Let me fix it for you.
I-I feel like
I'm in the fifth grade again.
Remember, uh remember, Dad,
when we did that shoe box thing?
Yeah, the diorama.
Right.
Of Lincoln's
Gettysburg Address.
The one.
ALAN:
Yeah.
Your mother and I were so happy
to be able to help you out
with anything school-related
that you
conned us into doing
the whole thing for you.
Hey, what are you! I helped
calculate the aspect ratios
so we could get
the depth effect right.
Yeah, and certainly,
aspect ratios were the key
to perhaps the greatest oratory
ever written.
ALAN:
There it is.
Right size.
CHARLIE:
Every entry and exit point
seems to be covered
in this array.
The cameras
should have seen him.
Okay, well,
forgive me if I seem
overly reductive here,
but how do we know anyone
was actually
in this house?
Well, you had
that celebrity, right?
She said she saw him.
Right.
Plus, there are also
these footprints, Larry.
I mean, this isn't,
uh, Sasquatch.
Must be something wrong
with the cameras.
They were all
functioning.
ALAN:
Well, maybe
there's something wrong
with the way they function.
Okay, let's remember:
the human eye
can only detect color
within
a certain narrow range
of the spectrum.
Now, a camera, which replicates
the ability of the human eye,
is just as limited,
if not more so.
You're right.
The camera's an eye
and eyes don't see everything.
The cameras looked
right at the stalker
just didn't know it.
How did that happen?
The camera's iris is designed
to imitate
the function of the human eye.
When we stare directly
into light,
our pupil contracts,
keeping too much light
from blinding us.
And when it's dark,
our pupils dilate,
gathering in all the light
it can find.
A camera's iris works
the exact same way.
It widens when it's dark,
narrows when it's light.
Of course, the human eye
does this much more smoothly.
A camera has a device
called a galvanometer,
which opens and closes its iris.
Now, no doubt, your stalker
had a remote
tuned to the frequency
of the cameras'
galvanometer control.
All he had to do
was freeze the iris
here here here
Each time,
he only needed
a second
that looked perfectly natural,
like the second it takes
for a camera to adjust
from dark to light.
Yeah, but to know what the
camera positions were
and then to move
with such incredible timing
CHARLIE:
He would have had
to have had access
to the grounds
prior to the night
of the break-in.
But, well, you're just talking
speculation now, right?
Absolutely, it was
until I ran a curvelet analysis
on the obscured portions
of the recording.
Curvelet's
a mathematical analysis
that defines the edges
of an image.
The analysis reformatted the
pixels that were available
producing the stalker's image.
Wow.
If I didn't know
any better, I'd say
who's had access to Skylar's
place in the past year--
contractor,
pool guy, everybody.
Well, whoever it was
studied those cameras,
you know, I mean,
their positions.
Somehow, was able to get
past them-- I don't know.
We'll work it.
Right.
Hey.
Hey, can Charlie get anything
else off that video image?
Well, he's
working on it.
How about you
and those letters?
I think I got
something interesting.
Interesting good or
interesting bad?
It's never that good
when it comes to a psychopath.
But these are
the last 20 letters
that Skylar received
from this guy.
Uh-huh.
They're filled with expressions
of apologetic behavior.
So he knew
what he was doing was wrong.
Actually, he thinks
he's being responsible.
He's afraid he offended her
with the previous one, so now
he's trying to make up for it
with acts of kindness
and love.
But then,
his tone changes again.
In these last few,
he's saying, "You're an idiot
"and people are using you.
And if you're not careful,
you're going to end up dead.
"
I'd say that's
when he started stalking her.
And when were these sent?
Three weeks ago.
So give me some things
that might
trigger a change like that.
Well, something happened
that he perceives to be
a rejection,
and he's afraid of being alone.
And he's mad at his victim for
putting him in this position.
That's when stalking
usually begins.
So we should
narrow our search down
to people who've had
contact with her
in, like, the last
three weeks.
Mm-hmm.
What do you think the chances
are of him laying low
for a while?
None.
He'll keep coming back at her
again and again
until he's successful,
or until we stop him.
SKYLAR:
So you're saying
that this nut job
could be somebody that I know?
Yeah, but probably only
that you know vaguely.
Thank you.
Maybe that you met
at a public event
or somebody that
you worked with.
Maybe someone stopped you
or asked you for an
autograph recently
I had a CD signing
a couple of weeks ago.
There were a lot of fans there.
Does that help you any?
MEGAN:
Well, a couple weeks ago
is when the letters
started escalating.
could probably
get a warrant
to look at the security videos.
Damn it.
All right, look
I know this is difficult
for you, but
But what?
It comes with the territory?
It's a necessary evil?
Actually, I was gonna say
I respect the way
you're handling this.
Sorry.
When you can't even look out
your own window
you start to consider if maybe
the alternative
isn't better.
And the alternative is?
Gary, Indiana.
My mom lives there.
The people treat me regular.
Would you trade it?
What? Fame for privacy?
Are you kidding?
Not me.
No, thank you.
What about the money?
Hey, I took this
job, didn't I?
What's up?
D.
W.
P.
Didn't David and Colby
say something about
them being here last week?
Yeah.
Two meter readings in
the same neighborhood
in less than a week.
Hmm.
Seems strange.
Gentlemen.
Hey, how's it going?
Good.
Yeah, we're making progress.
Not much yet,
but there is something.
Well, anything
that can help
with height, build,
maybe coloration.
Well, we have
a better outline.
Let me show you.
Oh, okay, that's something.
And in this image,
he may not have the nylon
over his head.
Yeah, so that with
further enhancement,
we could maybe
see some facial features.
Oh, that would be
really helpful,
but how are you gonna
build an image
out of nothing at all?
That's what we do in astronomy.
We capture tiny
amounts of data
from powerful
radio telescopes.
We use them to construct images
of entire galaxies,
light-years distant.
And that's the same math
as this?
That's pretty amazing.
Yeah.
What's the best we can hope for?
There's almost no limit to how
much a photo can be enhanced.
You only get into deeper math,
the more you
All it takes
is math that hasn't
been done yet.
Oh, okay.
Are we working on the case,
or are we trying
to win a Nobel Prize?
There is no Nobel Prize
for mathematics.
Really? You're kidding.
They say that Alfred Nobel's
mistress had an affair
with a very famous
mathematician.
So, naturally, Nobel
wouldn't want to share
his prize with his rival.
So, all you math guys
are aced out 'cause one of you
was good in bed.
Guess so.
What is this?
I don't know.
That was here when I got here.
This was in-in my office?
Yeah, yeah, yeah,
just taped right here
to the blackboard.
Very pretty, Charlie.
Pink stationery.
Is it a love note or what?
It's not signed.
Oh, secret admirer.
It's from someone who says
she's a fan of my work
on low-dimensional topology.
Well, yeah
And she's a fan of my
hair.
Oh, come on.
Is this Amita's
handwriting, or what?
I don't know.
Maybe.
Hmm.
Why wouldn't Amita sign it?
I don't know.
MEGAN:
Owner of the supply store says
Jerry Wilcox bought a uniform
for the Department
of Water and Power.
Anyone can just buy
one of their uniforms?
Yeah, but the thing is,
utility workers get a voucher.
This guy paid for it
with a credit card.
That's why the store owner
remembers him.
We got anything on him?
Other than the fact
that even stalkers
don't take good pictures
at the D.
M.
V.
?
Pulled his tax returns.
Listed occupation: journalist.
Colby's out
hunting him down.
Has no criminal record,
but the neighbors haven't
seen him in about two days.
What's up?
Colby just found Wilcox.
COLBY:
Hollywood Hills patrol unit
spotted the Jeep with the
driver-side door open.
Figured the guy
made a run for it,
ran out of real estate.
His body was down
in the brush over here.
How long has
he been dead?
COLBY:
According to
the coroner's report,
about 24 hours.
So that's what?
Like, two days
after the break-in
at Skylar Wyatt's house?
Yeah.
Anything else?
Well, Jeep is registered
to a Sunshine Incorporated,
so David's
running that down.
Anything inside it?
Ah, the usual stuff:
insurance card
They did find some computer
stuff, peripherals, CDRs,
memory sticks.
DON:
We should be canvassing
these houses, obviously,
see if anyone saw anything.
All right.
MEGAN:
Got something?
Think so.
Check this out.
Skylar Wyatt's house?
DON:
You said this guy's was a
journalist, so what was he doing
up here two nights
after the break-in?
MEGAN:
If Wilcox was a photographer.
But taking pictures of her after
breaking into her house
doesn't fit the profile
of our stalker.
Maybe he wasn't the stalker.
Maybe the stalker caught him
up here taking pictures
of the girl's house.
And lashed out
in a possessive rage?
Looks like he's in one
of his own tabloid stories.
Something wrong?
I think most of the people over
here would probably say yes.
Just trying
to earn a living, Detective.
F.
B.
I.
Feds?
What's going on?
This is what you do, huh?
Stand out here taking pictures
of people having lunch?
Every one of these so-called
celebrities were nobodies
begging to have
their photos taken.
Believe me,
they'd all start complaining
if guys like me
stopped coming around.
I'm not so sure Jerry Wilcox
would agree with that.
Somebody certainly didn't seem
to like what he was up to.
I heard what happened.
It's a shame.
Yeah, we stopped by
your office.
We know he worked for you.
Yeah.
Jerry was a nice guy.
Worked for me
as a freelancer.
He got a shot, I'd buy it.
Come on.
What do you guys want?
Actually, gonna need
to borrow this for a second.
Hey.
This came off
of Wilcox's camera.
It's got your company's
logo on it, so I'm assuming
you got some software in here
that'll tell us what's on it.
COLBY:
What is this?
I have no idea.
Now can I get back to work?
Soon as you tell us
what Wilcox
was doing the night he died
out near Skylar Wyatt's house.
Looks like Brad Pitt's
about to pay his check, dude.
All right, look,
tabloids pay top dollars
for two kinds of photos:
celebrities with babies,
celebrities with lovers.
Last time I checked,
Skylar Wyatt didn't have a kid.
I couldn't see
his face very well,
but I'm pretty sure this
was not the man in my house.
Who is he?
He's a photographer, and he was
killed the other night.
From where we found his body,
he may have been
trying to take
photographs of you.
Do you know, on my honeymoon,
they waited six hours
to get a photo of me topless?
What kind of life is that?
Well, we checked
the photographer's e-mails
the day he was murdered.
He did, in fact, send a number
of messages to various tabloids.
Messages about what?
Seems he thought
he was going to get
some very valuable
photographs of you
the night that he died.
Well, I went to bed at 9:00.
I took an Ambien.
So no idea what
he might have expected to see?
No.
None.
I noticed your husband
hasn't rushed home
from Europe yet.
I told you,
he's away doing a movie.
What does that have to do
with anything?
Look, Skylar, a man
has broken into your home,
and now there's a man dead.
Now, we can't
keep this quiet anymore.
And I don't
want to upset you
any more than you already
are, but if I have to,
I will subpoena your phone
records, your e-mail,
I don't care.
And if you think your personal
life is public now
Dante Baker.
The rap star?
I was supposed to see him
that night.
Only he didn't show up,
so I went to bed.
Now you know my secrets.
Do you know why he didn't show?
No, you'll have to ask Dante.
But you were having
a relationship with him?
If you could call that
a relationship.
The truth is my husband
has been done
with his movie for three weeks.
And since then, he's
been in post production,
which basically means he's away
in Paris with his lead actress.
But I'm sure
you already know that, right?
It's all over the tabloids.
We don't really read tabloids.
Yo, what up with these fools?
Hey!
Fore, jackasses!
You believe this?
Can I help you gentlemen?
We'd like to talk
to Mr.
Baker.
Dante's golfing now.
No, no, no.
That ain't golfing, man.
I saw that practice swing.
You're using your wrists
way too much, bro.
Oh, yeah, well, maybe you want
to show me what I'm doing wrong?
I would love to.
David.
Just going to drive
the club head
right through the zone,
all right?
Watch.
Oh, yeah.
Just like that.
You see that, man?
That is a beautiful shot.
That's going to play
nicely for you.
We'd like to ask you
a few questions.
About what?
About a dead photographer
found up on Mulholland.
You know anything about him?
You know, I think maybe I ought
to talk to my lawyer first.
Why would you want
to spend money
talking to a lawyer, Dante?
It's a lot cheaper than talking
to you guys.
Thanks for the lesson.
So if this rapper Dante Baker
is sleeping with Skylar Wyatt,
maybe Wilcox goes
up on Mulholland
to get a picture
of the two of them together.
So, what? Baker finds out
and beats him to death?
I mean, there was
a history of assault.
I read something about a fight
at an awards show.
Or maybe
the killer is the stalker
if he thinks that Skylar
is going to be exploited
by Wilcox.
Charlie thinks he's going to get
an image of the stalker today.
How you doing on
the handwriting analysis?
Secret Service ran it through
something called FISH.
Forensic Information System
for Handwriting.
And you know who worked
on the program?
Let me guess.
AMITA:
You've got to drive
it more, Larry.
I mean, you just take it to
campus then bring it home.
That car deserves
the open road, Fleinhardt.
But the very thought of staining
that perfect finish
with sooty exhaust, exposing it
to the negligence
of some Humvee driver
on a cell phone
All right, Larry,
it's a car.
It's whole function
is to transport you
from point A to point B.
See, this
is the philosophical schism
between a student
of applied science
and a student of the cosmos.
For me, aesthetic beauty is
it's function enough.
Well, the aesthetic
beauty of the sun
is that it works,
not just that it's bright.
Hell of a point.
Well maybe it's more art
than a machine.
AMITA:
Hey, Megan.
Hey, guys.
Hey.
Uh, you're here
for the photo enhancement.
It's, um
it's still, you know, enhancing.
No, I'm here for FISH.
You mean the, uh,
Forensic Information System
for Handwriting?
All I'll say is that
I helped develop
an algorithm for
the Secret Service, uh,
based on segmentation,
or writing elements,
that are considered
to be in isolation,
such as whole words
or words separated
by pen lifts
At the moment, we're not having
a lot of luck with it.
Yeah, and I've always thought
that we missed something
in the development
of the software.
So I'm going to take another
crack at it.
What do you say?
I thought you'd never ask.
Thanks, Charlie.
Wow.
You know, the thing about
this car,
it's such a classic design
and engineering.
It's more like a work of art
than a vehicle.
Yes, I was saying
the exact same thing.
Dr.
Fleinhardt,
you have to promise
to take me for a ride
in this car.
Okay.
Yeah, we could tool around
in the parking lot together,
certainly.
Okay.
Sure.
If you're thinking of sending
these letters to Amita,
I would rethink
your approach.
Laugh riot, Father.
This is for
the stalking case.
I'm now working on
a handwriting algorithm.
Oh, I see.
To try to identify
who wrote them, huh?
And to single out those
that might be written
by different people.
Well, they seem to have been
written by the same guy.
They do, don't they?
You know, I've always said,
handwriting
it's a lot like
like gymnastics.
Writing is like running
a floor routine--
the component moves
are like letters,
unique to the person
that executes them.
Handwriting analysis looks for
similarities and differences
in shapes and letters,
choices of writing utensil.
Problem is, the gamma
distribution
used in the FISH program
is limited.
It misses things.
It's stupid.
Charlie, hey.
Hey, Colby.
How you doing?
Well, hey.
Mr.
Eppes, nice
to see you.
So Don sent me down here
to check and see
how the handwriting
analysis was going.
I was just telling my father
that we failed
to have the FISH program
take into account that the
shape of an individual letter
varies depending
on where it's placed in a word.
You write an "o" differently
if there's an "s"
placed in front of it.
Accounting for that,
I found some interesting things
about these letters
that we didn't expect.
All right,
what was that?
Hey, look at this.
This letter was an original.
Hey, Charlie, they let you
handle actual evidence?
Give that to me.
There shouldn't be originals,
you should only have copies.
Actually, that's not one
of Skylar Wyatt's letters.
Yeah, I know.
It's addressed to you.
Is that lavender I smell?
Yes.
Lavender.
( cell phone rings )
Thanks, Charlie.
I got to take this.
I'll be right back.
So who's it from?
Who the hell knows?
It's not signed.
Not signed?
No.
Since when does a college
profsor receive
anonymous fan letters?
You kidding?
Richard Feynman was a stud.
He got marriage proposals
by the dozen.
Einstein was
a true sex symbol.
Charlie, don't you think
that's from Amita?
Actually, um, no,
because I already
compared it to her writing.
Oh.
Sohe old FISH system
is inefficient,
but it kicked out a name--
Lawrence Pike.
His handwriting matches
the stalker's.
Okay, that's all
good, but
But the problem is this guy's
been in jail in Utah
for the last three months,
so he can't be the stalker.
Which is exactly what I was
about to tell you.
The same person did not write
all of these letters.
My analysis says there's
a first writer
and a copycat.
A copycat stalker?
Yeah, the guy who wrote the
original letters is in jail.
But Charlie says the guy who
wrote these most recent ones
is mimicking his handwriting and
even tracing some of the words.
And do we know which
ones are written by
stalker number two?
According to your brother,
the last four.
Well, that coincides
with the escalation
in threats against Skylar.
Right.
So, I mean, obviously,
if he copied the letters,
he knew they existed.
Right.
He has access to Skylar
and to her home.
And we know it's not
the husband,
because he's been overseas
the entire time.
All right, so I think we should
be putting together a list
of everyone who worked
for her in the last year.
That's housekeepers,
gardeners, trainers, security
Anybody who could have had
access to those letters.
Exactly.
What about the boyfriend,
Dante Baker?
Yeah, but how's he going to know
that Wilcox is up on Mulholland
that night?
I mean, I'm guessing the same
way Wilcox knew about Skylar.
Someone probably tipped him off.
So we should be focusing on
connecting Baker to that ***.
What do you got?
These are the photos
from the digital disk
we found in Wilcox's S.
U.
V.
They're all time stamped
just a few hours
before he was killed.
I'm trying to pinpoint
a location.
Wait, so what's this?
Why is he taking pictures of
I mean, it's bricks, right?
Uh-huh.
Maybe he's trying to calibrate
the camera
take a bunch of pictures,
see if everything's working.
I don't know.
MEGAN:
Well, wherever this is,
he was there just a few hours
before he died.
Techs blew it up.
There's nothing
in the background,
no way to pinpoint
an address.
You should go talk
to the girl again,
see if she showed those
letters to anyone else.
Okay.
You think you have something
with this photo?
I think so.
I mean, I read something about
using shadows
to find a location.
It involves math.
I'm going to run it by Charlie.
Find out where he is with
the security video, already.
Boy, he's certainly earning his
consulting fee on this one.
Hey, Skylar.
Hey.
Give me a minute.
Guess you have to keep in shape
for your job, too, huh?
I have an audition
in three weeks.
So have you learned
anything yet?
We have.
We're, uh
we're making se progress.
Good.
Right now,
what I need to know
is if anyone besides you
saw the letters
that you received
from the stalker.
No, I don't think so.
And where did you keep them?
In the kitchen in a drawer.
Some of them
I didn't even open.
Then I think I'll need a list
of everyone
who's had access to the kitchen.
I wouldn't even think you'd
read these tabloids
after everything that
you've been through.
Generally, I don't.
A friend of mine works
as an editor at that one.
She was nice to me when
I first started out.
I gave her the exclusives
to my wedding photos,
for whatever that was worth.
Do you think
I'm unapproachable?
Charlie, your status
on this campus and in your field
is beyond that
of most professors.
Whoever this is, I'm sure
they're just afraid to tell me.
Well, fear of rejection,
that's powerful.
Many a scientist has not
published his work
for fear of being ridiculed
by his colleagues.
You know, this isn't
the first time
I've received a love letter.
When I published
my first article
in the American Journal
of Mathematics,
I was invited
to spend the weekend
at a bed-and-breakfast
in Santa Barbara.
Yeah? Did you go?
Of I was 14.
My mother had
to break the news
to a very embarrassed female
professor at Berkeley.
( laughs ):
Anyone I know?
Actually
Charlie, Larry, how you doing?
Hey.
How's the photo enhancement
coming?
The program's been running
through the image we got
from Skylar Wyatt's
video cameras.
This is what we have so far.
That's not enough
for a positive ID.
CHARLIE:
It's still working.
That's great.
We have something new
for you to look at.
It's related to
the same case.
Now, we don't have
an address,
but we're trying to find
out where this place is.
I noticed that
the basketball hoop
was casting a shadow.
I thought I read somewhere that
you can calculate a location
based on shadows.
Spherical Astronomy.
Spherical Astronomy.
What's that?
Well, it's a way
of looking at at the cosmos
to define one's location
on the Earth.
Sailors use it
when they're lost at sea.
Cosmologists use it
when we're just plain lost.
And it just happens
to be the same math used
with sundials.
Agent Sinclair, you
just happen to be talking
to two card-carrying members
of the North American
Sundial Society.
Oh.
Let the good times roll.
Of course, for this
to work now,
you're going to need more
than one photograph.
Just so happens
There you go.
You're sure these time stamps
are accurate?
We think so.
We need to measure
the length of the pole
as well as the shadows.
Well, the basketball
hoop looks like
it's regulation height.
Ten feet.
Yeah, and those are bricks
Right.
on that driveway.
Bricks? How does that help?
Well, they're the same size.
It allows us to measure
the movement of the shadows.
By measuring the length
of the shadows
against the bricks
and then factoring in
the exact times that
these two images were snapped,
the equation can then determine
the altitude of the sun
on a grid.
Then by mathematically
overlaying these images,
I can provide to you,
with certainty, latitude
and longitude down
to a hundredth of a degree.
MAN:
Hold on a second!
Oh, man
Well, if you're looking
for Dante, he's not here.
Actually,
we're looking for you.
Me?
You want to step outside,
please?
All right, what's this about?
Well, we've been looking
at some pictures.
Of what?
Your house.
Yeah, and one of them actually
happens to be a picture of you
standing in Skylar
Wyatt's backyard.
It's not like you think it is.
Yeah? So why don't you
tell us about this?
Which we found
at your house.
Along with these.
Or do you go
both ways?
Is that the problem,
Orville?
Look, we know you
drove Dante
to Skylar's
house many times
before that night.
You knew that
they were lovers,
didn't you?
Come on.
You told Wilcox, right?
I didn't say
anything to him.
Oh, come on, Orville.
Wilcox is on the top
of a hill with a camera
the night that
your boss is going
to have sex with Skylar Wyatt.
Is that just a coincidence?
Look, I didn't tell Wilcox
nothing about Dante and Skylar.
Understand me? Nothing.
All right, why don't
you take a look at this?
'Cause this puts him at your
house the day he was killed.
Yeah, he was there.
But it wasn't to meet me.
So what are you saying,
Dante told him?
Why would Dante do that?
Dante said he was banging
this big pop star.
Only, if no one knows
he's doing her,
what good is it to him?
What are you saying?
He wanted pictures of him
with the girl?
He was using her.
And afterwards,
he'd talk trash
about her.
He didn't know her,
he didn't care about her.
Not the way that you did?
She was nice to me.
Dante would leave me
in the kitchen
when he went upstairs
to be with her.
Sometimes she
would come down
and we would talk,
you know.
And then, when she had to leave,
she would tell me
I could help myself to whatever.
And that's when
you found the letters?
I just wanted her to know
that Dante was using her.
I just wanted to scare her.
So you broke into her house.
Just to show her that
she wasn't safe.
You know, that she needed
somebody to protect her
that she needed me.
You had to kill the photographer
to stop him
from taking those pictures.
No! No.
I wasn't even there
that night.
I couldn't stand to be around
anymore when D was with her.
I was at a club all night.
About a dozen people
can vouch for me.
We want assurances that whatever
is said in this room
remains confidential.
Yeah, well, that's not going
to happen.
Well, then, I'd like
the record to reflect
that we met voluntarily
and that we ended this
meeting the same way.
We're done.
DON:
Hold on, counselor.
It's not a question of "if.
"
We know he told Wilcox.
I mean, you think you're
going have any street cred
when the media finds out
you sold Skylar Wyatt
to the tabloids?
You're taking this
to a new level here, pal.
How's "D ***" sound?
Look, you can't prove
that my client was the source
of this tip.
Your client's
cell phone records.
Three phone calls
to Jerry Wilcox
two weeks before the ***.
What happened
that night?
Why didn't you show up
at Skylar's?
I did show up.
It was Skylar who wasn't there.
Yo, you got
my cell phone records.
I called Wilcox
from my Hummer at
Skylar's house.
I assume you people can
triangulate the call.
Even if that's true,
it still puts your client
in the vicinity of the ***.
All right, look,
we suspect that
you may eventually find
forensic evidence
that places my client
at the crime scene.
What do you mean,
"at the crime scene"?
I was there
but I didn't kill him.
He was already dead.
All right, then why don't you
tell us all about it?
I got to Skylar's.
She wasn't home.
I waited.
And then I tried
to call Wilcox to tell him
it wasn't going to happen,
and I didn't get an answer.
So I drove up to Mulholland
where he was supposed to be.
He was just laying
on the ground.
I could tell
he wasn't breathing.
So you just took off?
I'm the one who had him up
on that hill.
I wanted those photographs
to be seen.
Now why the hell
would I kill him
to stop him from taking them?
I don't know,
but we're going to find out.
Skylar
Hello.
Can you give me
second, please?
Have you learned
anything new?
Yeah, why don't we
step over here?
Just spoke to Dante.
Claims he was at your house
the night of the ***.
Only he says
you weren't there.
Well, maybe I didn't hear him.
I told you I was tired
that night.
He also tipped Wilcox off
about the two of you.
I can't say you look
very surprised, Skylar.
You know he called
five magazines that day,
trying to start a bidding war
for those pictures?
MEGAN:
You did know that,
didn't you?
Because one of those magazines
is where your friend works.
And she called you
and told you what
he was planning.
We traced the call, Skylar.
You have any idea
what it's like to be sold?
To know that
the man
that you thought loved you
had arranged to sell photos
of you and him having sex?
So you were up there that night?
I found Wilcox,
and I told him
that I thought what he was doing
was despicable.
Know what he did?
He started
snapping photos of me.
So I grabbed his camera
and he fell to the ground.
And he grabbed my ankle
and he wouldn't let go.
So I picked up
his tripod
and I hit him over the head.
He was just
laying there.
He was just moaning,
trying to move.
I ran.
These people try
to justify what they're doing
by claiming that
it's the price of fame.
Now one of them has
to pay for a change.
Skylar, I need you to put
your hands behind your back.
Let's go.
Turn around.
I can't retrofit a 1931 car
with seat belts.
Why not?
Because it's not authentic
to the period.
Well, I know that.
What I meant was,
it's authentic to this period.
It's totally
physics, Larry.
I mean, without
a seat belt,
you could get hurt
even in a minor accident.
Look, if I'm in an accident
in that car,
I hope I don't survive.
Look, it's a love affair,
me and that car.
With affairs of the heart,
you know, sometimes common sense
gets thrown out the window.
Yeah, or through the windshield.
Hey, speaking of affairs of the
heart, did you ever find out
who sent you
that anonymous note?
Oh, yeah, I was wondering
about that.
No, not yet.
I think we could run
a handwriting analysis against
the school's records office.
You know what? I've decided
I don't need to know.
Oh, yes, you do.
Whoever it was,
they chose not to sign it,
maybe because they're
just not ready to tell me.
Well, I think that's very wise.
Let your life retain
some mystery.
Yeah.
Besides, you haven't
figured out what to do
with the girl
you already know about.