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01x03 - Clean Slate

Episode transcripts for the TV show, "Unsub". Aired: February 3 – April 14, 1989.*
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Series revolves around an elite FBI forensic team that investigates serial murderers and other violent crimes. Unsub is an abbreviation for the "unknown subject" of an investigation.

01x03 - Clean Slate

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37 it's better be princess Stephanie

hello Janice its Gina did they don't

know if she's gonna be okay it just blew

up we're on the sidewalk where are you Memorial Hospital I'll be there as soon

as I can catch a flight [Music]

and in each case food was taken from the pantry a meal was prepared and left

simmering on the where the hell is Tony

why is everybody looking at me the

ground request form by k9 yeah well Porter's got a couple detector dogs down

there I don't come in I want at least one of them up here by tomorrow

we'll do what you can't just give me the dog Tommy oh boy what a time you picked

to drop by I got a b*mber out there putting the fear of God into this whole town

so what you back for more post-grad that's the trouble with you Federal

League here's why Angelo is my goddaughter

Gina the candy store last night the little girl was hurt in the expl*si*n oh

geez told me I did yes sit down is she all right

they don't know yet she's conscious but not lucid

it's the third bombing in two weeks tell me about it well first the office

of a Japanese conglomerate down at the docks then a magazine stand downtown and now a candy store and the guy always

sends a letter to the Seattle ledger and then sometime that day boom when did you receive his last letter about two hours

ago I could have a criminal profiling unit here in six we've got the latest technology and two guys now to run it

great most experienced our expert can claims he once fragged as jobs lieutenant in

Vietnam unfortunately we've also got a commander and a commissioner who thrive on red

tape Tony would take at least five working days to process a request like that captain city meat and then it's found a

device downtown b*mb squads on the way for 12 days now this city has been a

hostage to fear as the unknown b*mber continues his spree the device discovered this morning by city

sanitation workers is attached to the bottom of a manhole cover along one of the busiest commuter routes in downtown

area police experts believe the b*mber is on an environmental protest regardless he seems intent on leaving

injury and destruction in his wake Al's for leave the Channel 3 News downtown where are we we got a box of

tacks on our manhole we're gonna freeze it with liquid nitrogen and get it out of you

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take pitches the crowd everybody give me our phone let me talk to my people in DC what are you doing in Seattle

I'm sorry it's a serial b*mber another expl*si*n went off five minutes ago I'm

at the site describe the location Tony downtown city block we're on the street where was the b*mb fastened beneath the

manhole cover do you still have an audience somebody's taking pictures now look for somebody

with his hand on his pants or his eyes glazed over anything to indicate he's getting off on it gone we want to know

what this b*mb is made out of so you're gonna be looking for two things trace evidence and expl*sive residue start a

spiral search from the b*mb site and work outwards pick up everything you find even if you think it's just junk

what else I want you to photograph any

burn marks or flame trails also get samples of the burns see if any was

broken nearby send us the fragments we can pull some residue off the glass anything else that might have trapped

pieces are the b*mb yeah a dead cop

have the corner check the carbon residue and his skin hair and clothing send us

any fragments you find in his body this place is like a circus

how soon can you get us an invite we're having a little problem with the local bureaucracy but I got a feeling this to

speed things up good agent but the personal info is trouble [Music]

the date b*mb went off right here side street downtown the one in the candy

store was here magazine stand here the

Japanese business office right here the locals think it was environmental

protester it turns out there's a division of the Japanese company in the

homeland that hunts well fact known by the environmentalists who are up on these things

copy the bombers first letter it's addressed to the Seattle ledger children's science editor the pollution

the stink stop the scarring stuff the agony the waste stop sign clean slate

he sends telegrams nope it's the unsub's writing style

when he does sound like an environmental activist with a candy store magazine

stand city street general antagonism towards the modern urban environment news media the junk

food wheat city itself a lot of positive organizations we could look into

Brotherhood of the tree save the cetaceans rural l*sbian separatist

movement

did you pick anybody out of the crowd as per your instructions glassy eyes hands

down the temps we found two winos and a guy who claimed it was adjusting himself we had to release him mistake Henry

really so long as self adjustment you better at least have gotten the guys name and address look he was here on

business from Minneapolis all right guys first day in town hey you handless or do

you want to go back at DC oh is that a line I'm sorry what about those letters

he leaves them at the paper and the b*mb always goes off sometime that day give me a time span within 12 hours

analog Wesley must be using an alarm clock or a watch as a timing device simple setup I'm being beep it's got to

be the Commissioner later wait you said he leaves the letters of the paper where

put some in the mail slot in the building lobby we've got to stick down right now we're the original letters Stila des ID we

couldn't find any prints any unusual watermarks printing codes indentations from previous writing no we didn't find

anything okay I'll send the letters to Washington um Brennan if it works putting the dictionary the what psycho

linguistic analysis based on writing style grammar repeated words use of

metaphor it's sometimes possible to make informed guesses about age race socioeconomic background a general

psychological state can be as specific to the author as a signature I guess you couldn't just check the return address

are you going the hospitals on the way back to the station I thought I'd visit Gina handsome company

yeah okay good night Henri threaten dictionary

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any luck nah how about you is our man a secretor it's impossible to tell there's

no saliva on the envelope smart enough not to lick an envelope he knows we'll get hold of it unless it just doesn't

like the taste of envelope glue or maybe

he's a clean freak all that stuff in his letters about stopping the filth a guy

like that wouldn't be putting his tongue anywhere it didn't belong

uh-huh uh-huh

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don't let me disturb you

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let's see how this one matches our Seattle expl*si*n four three go twenty

years ago I had gotten grounded for doing good he heard you and Alan we're

on the case gave himself up we got a serial number off the insulation the

wires from a supplier that sells an institutional sized quantities we're putting together a list but basically he

had to get it from one of a dozen electronics firms a university or a handful of construction companies that

narrows it right down doesn't it well we've now down the expl*sive Penta light it's a combination of TNT and petn oh we

didn't get any saliva off the envelope our b*mber is either real cagey he's got a thing about germs

look Starks just assumed the environment Langille from the letters that's why

they said the first bombing was that a whaling outfit the case of overthinks whaling outfits a conglomerate called

floating world US office has nothing to do with quail and a lot to do with perfume you see he would know that I've

seen their advertising all over town sells as much sex as it does perfume which feeds into the second bombing

magazine store there was a big porn section sounds more psychological than

political take a look at the letter that came right before the bombing on the street the child not intentional stop

healthy cells sometimes destroyed with cancer stop the pollution stop the filth

clean slate now in this letter alone the word stop appears three times the threat

dictionary puts stop under the intimidation and demands category but also under suicide about his reference

to cancer well the Bombers letters use a curious choice of words while on the

surface making demands about cleaning up the city cancer blood disease are all classed under body but also under

suicide I've come up with a profile of our unsub based on what we found so far late 20s to early 30s

male Caucasian above-average intelligence a family structure that promoted isolation it's possible that as

a child he was extremely ill or was forced to care for a sick family member that last ones a maybe no that feels

right his repeated use of a word like scars could be referring to his own scars physical or psychological trouble

with women relationships the bombings are a projection of his own body onto

the city perfume p*rn*graphy candy I'd bring it all closer to the body but how does the

b*mb in his street fit in he bombs the city and pretends he's creating a clean slate unfortunately the last letter suggests

that he's made the leap from the inanimate city to physical death sickness of pollution must stop the

noise policeman not intentional girl a mistake but see now the rightness stop

clean slate [Music] which means that sometime in the next

eight hours we're gonna have a lot of dead bodies

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so you're see by integrating being divisible by itself and see divisible by

itself and be you get two factors divisible by themselves which is why

which gives you a any questions fine

then for Thursday I want you to do the integration problems on page 72 see you

then mr. Benton I wanted to explain why

I didn't hand my homework in sorry I just turn it in on Thursday well actually I think I'm kind of lost I

was wondering if you could maybe tutor me or something I'd make myself

completely available to you I'm really very busy perhaps another teacher could

help well I was kind of hoping you could help I mean when you explain it

everything just seems to make sense

please well I'll think about thanks

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Oh

Paul how you doing

dreaming something

something about Beach and everywhere I looked her breasts all shapes and sizes

there's a festival of naked skin huh you

know what you could do for me what when I go oh hey it's a fact of

life right oh it doesn't bother me Albert I

accept it I wish you could too

you're gonna be fine you oh god stop doing this to yourself

it's not your fault I'm not doing anything to myself I'm just trying to make you feel better

Grampa mom me only fight the big sea so

long not your fault it didn't get you

Albert it's not your fault you were smart instead of sitting here at home

every night you'd be out right now with some broad you're hardly new spending

way too much money oh for God's sake life is too short fast

my smokes

oh you know you shouldn't what else have

I got to do I got something here it'll make you feel better nothing in that bag

is gonna make me feel any better

Paul when I think of you lying here like this I having a good time has no meaning

for me can't make this disappear you can't make

this you feel good you know it hurts I

know

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can I help you phone I wanted to use the phone there over there

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when Krista looked in the mirror she saw her sister Clara looking back at her

from the other side Uncle Tony hey sweetie I missed you I

miss you too Uncle Tony would you read the bear part I'm not very good at this

please cover me if I start making a fool

of myself there's something wrong with the men's room there's water coming out

the door Thanks [Music]

water running in men's room confirms gender obsession with cleanliness you

knew the nightclubs started at 10 the b*mb went off a few minutes after 7:00 why what was he thinking is he thinking

how are you the hospital how we should

she's gonna be alright

of a couple of hours this place would have been packed University kids mostly

anybody hurt employees

was in good time

[Applause] nobody else was hurt yes I wouldn't know

about that I don't deal in miracles I usually got a lot of folks gonna ask you something weird you ever think about

having kids sure all the time the lifestyle doesn't really want to hear

about that right now how's Gina she's okay she needs to get her strength back I

read to her you know oh yeah mr. tough guy hey hey I'm pretty good I might add

I need a couple encores to get out of it is this guy know what he's doing does he

know how close he gets today yeah I think he's starting to I think he

intends to get much closer [Music]

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this guy thinks he has access to this whole town right well he doesn't have access to Gina hey guys you don't even

know it was him it was him I know this guy do you let me do my job please you're doing your job Tony you're just

doing a little loud look it was bad enough you guys how to x-ray the bear like it was some a b*mb but now you want

her to look at pictures she saw the guy she might be able to point him out I don't want her to point about Tony I

want her to forget it no just stop it Tony okay you're scaring her you're

scaring Gina himself to this place

Hospital sickness the smell of disease the arrogant b*stards pointless maybe

maybe I don't think so I don't think so maybe the b*mb going off prematurely in

the disco was not an accident maybe he's starting to understand he doesn't want to hurt anyone but himself the gift of

Gina was an apology Tony maybe even his cry for help he's crying to the wrong guy

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I'm sorry Paul it's getting a lot harder for me

you know filth [Music]

it's harder for me to understand what I'm doing with scars

there's so many scars [Music]

all everybody walks in the city so do

you what do you see when you walk other people

you don't like that do you what else

perfume woman's body seductive terrifying what

do you see when you're walking do you look at their faces do you talk to them

no no you turn away from the you turn away from when you look away do you take

the bus is that you bus stop up there

did you pass a candy store everyday it's pretty

pretty tempting yeah that's it tempting

perfume company pawnshop candy store a

nightclub tempting desire the body why Street nice tree not a street soon

the body a sewer a pawn shop filled stop the filth you say

candy sweet temptations but disco lots of bodies we don't like that the b*mb

the b*mb was in the speaker stop the noise stop the bodies the filth stop the

desire the temptation stop it stop it from coming in

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the b*mber hates the body his own body hates its needs hates its desires hates

everything that comes in through the senses he's trying to destroy the entry points porn shop for the genitals sewer

for the rectum candy for the mouth perfume for the nose

loud music for the ears what's left

the eyes

three of Tama Tris for our gallery six thinners running out of time here we go

it's good let's get the hell out of here

check for mercury before you touch it

no mercury later some guys put in a mercury switch cells at the b*mb off of

it hold it there Alan you see this yeah

could be to thin layer as a foil separated by one a paper cuts through the foil completes the circuit b*mb

could explode to possibility if you got a plastic hole punch good

let's peel the paper back before

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very simple by-the-book supposed to contain in the thermos thermos wired to

a six volt battery in to model airplane glow plugs used for a detonator and the

battery is connected to the alarm clock which is set to detonate in less than two hours before the first show very

carefully remove the lens make a large

cut careful I hope this guy's wiring isn't shaky sorry bad joke

square it off

that's it pull back [Music]

wire cutters

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the way this thing was made the only signature to this device is that there is no signature this was done strictly

by the book it'd be nice to know what book anti insurgent strategies for domestic law enforcement vol 2 oil plug

is a giveaway to now I didn't know what to use for a detonator this whole thing is diagrammed right out of a book I had in college college Allen

Norman you guys said the wires used in this b*mb could have come from the University in less than two hours if

he's not gratified he's gonna plan another one and fast I know the campuses let's go

well who checked the book out last there's a poli-sci student the spring of 84 our b*mber must have Xerox the

diagrams that's why we're running these prints okay Eric level SDS activist

busted for public disturbance and resisting arrest 71 he's had enough time to work up a

full head of steam all right just likes to fantasize got oily skin this print is 20 years old on

Albert Bentham picked up once when he was 14 for setting fire to a field

fingerprinted and released to his parents address 386 south Wasson Lane

driver's license 386 South wasn't Lee

used to live sit the same Empress firestarter never moved out of his parents house it all fits the profile

let's pick him up where's Tony never even saw him leave we'll never get there before he does

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he's gone he never even said goodbye

who's gone Albert yes who

Albert's gone I'm Paul oh it was such a waste anyway

you know he never did anything he never felt anything did albert leave that for

you and every time I tried to stop him I

tried to make him more except he hurt a little girl you know he put a lot of

people in pain little girl's gonna be alright Albert we're gonna be alright

you really care about her you must have

been really concerned to go to her like that

she was sleeping we can go see her would

you like to see her huh here let me hold

that for you and then we can go no maybe

you better go now you never meant to hurt any of them Albert they were all

accidents I told you

my name is Paul and you won't hurt

anyone now will you Paul you really

cared about your brother you took good care of didn't you I took good care of

all and now everybody's God it's okay go

on Albert it's okay to live

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I know I know

all right I've got an imposition around the sides in the back I'm ready to move just give him another 30 seconds Wes

it's okay Wes T everything's okay

you better get your b*mb squad in there it's okay I got it away from it's not gonna go off we're gonna need a vehicle

there's a body inside whose body his brother his twin from what I could tell

he died of natural causes well that explains a few things man did you get a look in that guy's eyes he is out there

well good work kid now let's take a look

thanks for asking I'm okay what okay

fine I'm fine [Music]

don't be such a stranger cuz I already made reservations for President's Day

st. Ambrose's fees and the anniversary of the invention of the cotton gin you

can't tell me I'm neglecting my godchild yes we can oh yeah well then maybe I

want to take you with me yeah gee now mom don't tempt me

hey kiss I love you

thank you bye honey Fred

get a minute I think government knows that spending

this kind of money on a guy who goes soft case I hardly think you ain't soft

Tony you talked that guy down like a cop talks down a jumper I wanted him to jump in the b*stard k*lled a cop he hurt Gina

I wasn't trying to save him I was trying to save me you could have left that room any time you wanted no I couldn't

I wanted a throttle the guy when I saw the b*mb I froze I couldn't move I was

scared maybe but you held it together and you got both of you out of the room alive maybe your fear trip to switch and you

went directly from anger to survival or compassion do they know I was scared

they Westie well he knows the danger you're in I think he's smart enough to

fill in the rest how come he hasn't said anything to me he didn't follow procedure you went out on your own and

you got in trouble but you came back in here

if you want a pat on the back Tony go ask for one

yeah

listen yeah yeah I just want to tell you

I'll have my report on your desk in the morning

good hard reading

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