Resurrection

25.000 English

RESURRECTION by Russell Mulcahy

- Prudhomme. - John, sorry to call you so early.

- I was up. - We got a problem.

What time is it?

Is early.

Ok. I make you some breakfast.

I don't have time. Go back to sleep.

Yeah. The old man says, I get a hard-on once a week...

but I fart at least ten times a day

- Good morning, John. - Keep them away, Mac.

Ok. Stay back!

- You've been inside? - No, I just got here.

Hey how does a blonde turn on the lights after sex?

She opens the car door.

- I don't know why I'm wasting my good jokes on you? - I don't know either.

Prudhomme. What are you doing here?

- I got the call. - Bullshit. We run at the scene first.

- I got the call! - What's the deal, man?

You don't have enough cases that you need more?

- Where's the body? - I asked you a question.

Hey! He just doing what they told him to do.

Hollinsworth, I'm not talking to you.

Oh, you're not talking to me, Scholfield. Yeah, well... I'm talking to you.

So what is it? Are you better than everybody else?

Nobody can do it as good as you do? We're all idiots here?

I don't see the point of this conversation.

The point is the reason why nobody likes you.

I like you.

He's a little ripe, but a... He's been dead for four days.

- Who is he? - Peter Balcour. He owned the place.

Who found him?

Contractor who had an appoinment with him.

It seems Balcour's old man was a little bit reckless

Owned a large fleet of fishing boats...

He died a couple of months ago and left everything to his son...

Balcour had an appointment to the contractor...

...to fix the place up to sale it.

Any other family?

Contractor said the kid was end of the line.

- Anything taken? - You mean besides his arm?

No. We did find his wallet in his jacket pocket with 112 dollars in.

Was he alive when he lost the arm?

Yeah. If you check out the blood splatter.

Take a look at this.

He has some kind of strange burn effect here.

And the back of his head is all singed.

- What is it? - I don't know.

I have to verify all that when I get him back to the shop.

Any more light in here?

No, that's it. I didn't wanna touch anything so I left the curtains closed.

- Open them. - Sure.

- Do you finished that report? - Yeah.

- Thanks. - OK.

Do you think this guy is somewhere in New York city?

I'll get in touch with NYPD and when they get him, I'll get his ass!

Hey Jack, can I get one of those papers?

Prudhomme, Hollinsworth. In my office.

Rousch and Scholfield were just in here preaching about you stealing their case.

They can have it if they want it.

This is not a democracy, Prudhomme. It's your case.

- I gave it to you. - Then what's the problem?

The problem is you pissed 'em off.

Hollinsworth is the only one in the entire department who wants to work with you.

I don't know how would it like in New Orleans...

but since you came here you got through one partner after another.

Did you bring me in here to talk about my social skills?

Talking to you is like pissing into the wind.

I bet you should know better by now.

What do you got?

Peter Balcour, 33 year old, male.

Owner of a fleet of fishing boats.

And his right arm cut off up his shoulder.

The killer, we presume, took it with him when he left.

Took it where? Like a souvenir?

That's somethin' new. Witnesses?

No, but the killer left us a message...

...written in blood.

- Prints? - Forensic is cheking.

- We won't find any prints. - How the hell do you know that?

Because he doesn't want us to.

- And also there be more bodies. - You don't know that.

- For all you know, this... What's his name? - Balcour

Balcour sort out a customer on a case of tuna.

The guy cut his arm off and pull out this bullshit to throw us track.

The killer wrote "He is coming on the window.

That signifies a future event that isn't taking place yet.

This guy has something worked out and today was just his first move.

If this is all planned, what's the motive?

Whe already know the motive. The killer wanted his arm.

That's a motive.

Would it be to much of asking to have a cheeseburguer any once in a while?

Why do you think he took the arm for?

Do we have to talk about this over lunch?

I don't know. Obviously we're not dealing with someone who is paying food back here.

God only knows what is doing.

Maybe we got another Jeffrey Dhammer.

Why don't take the whole body?

Maybe he only wanted a snack.

Jenny call today. She's coming to visit us.

Again?

Yes, again. What? Is there a problem?

No but the last time she came for a weekend...

...she stayed two weeks.

She's my best friend. What I'm supossed to tell her? Stay in a hotel?

Hey, are you OK?

Yeah. Just... Thinking.

About that case? I saw it on the news.

This world just keep getting sicker and sicker everyday.

Why would someone do such a thing?

I don't want to talk about it.

Well, I'm not asking details. I'm just asking your opinion.

I said I don't want to talk about it!

And the fat guy said: I though I was gonna scream when I came out of the closet.

Prudhomme.

Do you know the exact cause of death?

Yeah. Exanguination. That means he bleed to death.

He also has some burns on the right side of his parietal region.

Looks like he was tortured with a taser or some kind of cattle prod.

It didn't kill him but probably knocked him out.

So he was unconcious when his arm was taken?

No, unfortunaley he was.

His endorphine and adrenaline were incredible high in his blood.

Which means he was wide awake. He...

He experienced a severe trauma just before he died.

You tell me that he waited for him to wake up before cut his arm off?

- Yeah, that's what I'm telling you. - How sick is that?

I can also tell you that whoever this guy is...

...he knows what he is doing...

...because he removed that arm with almost surgical precision.

This guy is no Jack the Ripper. You might be interested in this.

- Roman numerals. - What's that?

Oh, yeah. Is a keymark and is tinted permanently.

Let me check the neck.

Bismark Locker Services.

Over there.

Bingo!

Can you identify it?

Brachiate Serafolios.

Is a flower from the Bonewood tree.

Where I can find it around here?

- You cant. Is indigenous to Australia. - We're not in Australia.

I can see why they made you detective.

- What about the Botanical Museum? - I don't think so.

This flower was picked only a few days ago.

There is one however at the Botanical Gardens.

There's your flower.

- Billy? - Got it.

Hey Prudhomme...

This whole area was being cut out and made back in.

- Spread out. - Why not?

Oh, my God...

Jesus!

Call Chibley and call this place down.

How difficult could be for someone afor get in here at night?

Not very difficult. All we have is a wall around the property.

No security?

This isn't a bank. All we have are plants here.

Prudhomme?

Andy...

His arm is been removed.

What's that?

This guy likes to play with numbers. Doesn't he?

Prints identify him as Matthew Leesan, age 33.

He works for the I.R.S.

It seems our killer's taste in victims is improving.

To be exact he was killed before Balcour and at different location.

The killer moved this body to the Gardens.

Why go into all that trouble? First being in scene.

What about the numbers on the victims?

- Actually, they're numerals. - What?

- They're roman numerals. - And numerals aren't numbers?

All I'm saying is I think the killer choose numerals for a reason.

119...

2427.

Numbers, numerals

So far, we're only found what he wants us to find.

No prints. No trace evidence. Nothing.

What we got here is a very clever serial killer.

Guys, the lab just called down.

The blood on the window wasn't Balcour's.

- From whom it was, then? Killer's? - It wasn't anybody's.

Lab says it wasn't human.

Says it was lamb's blood.

Do you wanna play?

That's it, my baby.

You wanna play?.

No!

- Who called it in? - I did.

- Where is it? - Over here.

Right down here, getleman.

Watch your steps is a mess down here.

Transients, druggies, whatever...

All kinds of shit happens to live down here.

Fuck! It stinks!

Yeah, is too easy to go outside and relieved themselves.

- How do you come across in? - One of the bodies slided down.

Lots of rats in this city!

Here is something you don't see every day.

It's in there.