FBI

Here.

You can slide in. Thank you.

Sendak.

"Where the Wild Things Are" author.

S-E-N-D-A-K?

"Let the wild rumpus start."

I should've known that.

My dad read it to me when I was little.

Next stop, 12th Street.

This is my stop. Okay.

Down, down. More to your left.

Apparent breach.

Stand by.

Go, go, go, go, go.

In three... The short door.

Two...

FBI! Bravo, split left!

Shots fired!

Contact, Tango!

Contact, Alpha!

Ah!

All right, stop. Hold!

Agent Chazal, what was that?

I'm sorry, I thought I saw--

You left your partner uncovered.

Look, read off the man in front of you.

He goes left, you go right. No surprises.

Understood? Yes, sir.

You cannot afford to make that mistake in the field.

Reset.

I'm sorry. It--it won't happen again.

Don't worry about it.

You're fine.

New case. They want us in the JOC.

Victim's name is Hannah Bloom--25 years old.

Her body was found in the Hudson River near Chelsea Pier.

She was strangled with some kind of garrote.

Her wrists and ankles were bound with ratchet straps.

We don't usually take the lead on murder cases.

Yeah, NYPD asked us to step in.

This one's personal for them.

They want to make sure there's no interference

that could jeopardize a conviction down the line.

It's Harry Bloom's daughter.

Who's Harry Bloom?

The sex crimes detective with the NYPD.

Worked a huge trafficking case with him last year.

Homicide detectives just notified him an hour ago.

Yeah, we'll let him process a bit,

and then Maggie'll check in.

There was a missing person report filed three days ago,

but no one has seen Hannah since she left work

on Thursday.

Well, where's work?

Family services center. Lower East Side.

She was a social worker. We just tracked her Metrocard.

She got on a westbound bus near Essex and Houston after work.

Yeah, we can't tell where she got off,

so we're checking surveillance cameras along her route,

but she's not popping up.

Okay, go to her office, talk to her boss, colleagues.

See if anybody noticed anything unusual

the day she went missing.

You two head down to the ME's office.

The marks on her neck match the ones

on her wrists and ankles.

So he probably strangled her with the same ratchet straps

he used to bind her.

Looks like it. You see this V here?

It means that strap was wrapped around

the back of her neck--she was attacked from the front.

Well, that's unusual isn't it?

More of a chance to fight. Typically, yes,

but we found Rohypnol in her system.

Date rape drug. Likely incapacitated her.

Any sign of sexual assault?

No, actually.

Salt water would have washed away any DNA evidence,

but there's no physical trauma or tearing either.

Silver lining, I guess.

Any idea how long she was in the water for?

About three days. We're estimating time of death

around 7:00 PM the night she went missing.

So I'm guessing physical evidence is minimal then.

We're still looking,

but it's unlikely we'll find anything at this point.

Okay. Keep us posted.

It's Detective Bloom. He wants to come in.

To see his daughter.

Hannah was a dream employee.

Patient, intuitive, reliable.

How long had she worked for you?

About a year.

She was fresh out of grad school, but steady.

That's why I got worried when she missed work a few days ago.

Can you think of anyone who would wanna to hurt Hannah?

No.

So she didn't have problems with anyone

who came through the center?

No, Hannah mostly worked with children.

Counseling them through their parent's divorces.

That kind of thing.

She ever tell you about her personal life?

Any boyfriends? Oh, no.

But there was an older man.

Hannah said that he'd been loitering around her apartment

in the mornings. Hitting on her.

I tried to find out more,

but she didn't want to talk about it.

This someone she knew?

I'm not sure.

This is from outside Hannah's apartment

the morning she went missing.

This guy is hovering. He's waiting for her.

And then there's the altercation

that her boss told us about.

Okay, that's not so harmless.

Our guy's definitely a creep. Question is who is he?

We don't know.

The camera only catches him in profile.

I can't get a hit off a facial rec.

Call Maggie in OA. Maybe Bloom can ID him.

I hadn't, uh, spoken to her for days.

I was so...

Wrapped up in the case I was working.

I didn't even know she was missing

until her boss called me yesterday.

That's normal, Harry. She was an adult.

If I had known she was gone sooner--

There's nothing you could have done.

We have our best team on this.

We will catch the guy responsible.

Yeah.

But, look.

You know who this person is?

Yeah, it's, uh, Lyle Manning.

Is that Hannah's building? He went to her apartment?

Who's Lyle Manning? He's a rapist.

Yeah, acquitted, but he...

I investigated him for a series of violent rapes.

Last year, awful crimes. The women were beaten and...

You're positive Hannah wasn't--

There's no evidence of sexual assault.

You said Manning was acquitted.

Yeah, he, uh-- Rookie cop jumped the gun,

conducted an unlawful search.

Defense got the evidence suppressed.

We couldn't make the case in court, but the prick did it.

I swore I'd put him away someday, and he...

He threatened retaliation.

But I never dreamed he'd go after Hannah.

Our suspect's name is Lyle Manning.

He's 41 years old, accused of over a dozen rapes

done around the city. Never convicted.

He has a vendetta against our victim's father,

and we have him on camera harassing Hannah

as recently as last week.

We figure out where he is now?

Living and working in Hell's Kitchen.

He's the custodian at a neighborhood gym.

Uh-huh.

We find any evidence tying him to this?

We're checking surveillance cams near Chelsea Pier,

up and down the Westside Highway.

So far nothing. And no DNA either.

The body was in the water too long.

So we have nothing.

Bring him in anyway.

So you stalk this girl?

Later that same day she goes missing.

Turns up murdered. That doesn't look good.

I wasn't stalking her.

Then what were you doing at her apartment?

I was just visiting.

I thought she was cute and wanted to ask her out.

Is that a crime?

You went there every morning for a week.

She didn't seem interested. You didn't take that as a sign?

I was being persistent.

Some people would call that romantic.

Well, most people would call that harassment.

Or assault. Maybe.

Doesn't mean I killed her.

Where were you Thursday night?

Atlantic City. Had money on the Duke game.

We won, then blew it all at Cheetah's.

Well, didn't actually blow it.

Worth every penny.

Why? That when that girl got killed?

Why don't you sit tight, Lyle.

We'll let you know if and when you can get out of here.

Manning's alibi checks out.

Yeah, he's on camera at a half a dozen casinos

and strip clubs the night Hannah was killed.

So he's not our guy.

Hey, guys, we have a bigger problem.

I ran the details of Hannah's murder through VICAP.

M.O. matches four other murder cases across New York State.

It's all women in their 20s and 30s, drugged,

strangled, hands and feet bound with ratchet straps,