Catch Me a Killer

Boys, come here!

You see these bottles in the back here?

I need help taking them to my warehouse,

and unloading them when we get there.

I'll pay you three rand a box.

12 rand, uncle.

Yeah, and I'll give you

a four rand bonus just for your trouble.

Come, you!

Here, get in.

Alright, Tino.

See you later then.

Control.

Power.

These two go hand in hand,

but power over life and death?

Now, that's the ultimate control.

Close your eyes.

Now, imagine.

You're standing over another person,

your hands around their neck.

You have their life in your hands.

How does that make you feel?

Powerful, omnipotent?

Now imagine being in that position,

but your whole life you felt powerless,

abused, frightened,

and now you've turned the tables.

You're the one in control now.

You get to decide, do they live or do they die?

So you are the previously powerless

killer who wants to reverse that?

How do you choose your victim?

Okay, you can all open your eyes again now.

In this type of case, our killer selects

victims who represent himself.

And symbolically when he kills,

he's committing a kind of suicide,

but he's also able to split the two parts of himself.

Aggressor, victim.

And so feelings of guilt continue to operate.

You think he has a conscience?

Some do, some don't.

It's not clear cut.

There is no such thing as a person

who at the age of 35 suddenly changes

from perfectly normal to totally evil.

FBI criminologist, Robert Ressler.

Now, he's interviewed hundreds of killers in his career,

so I trust when he says killers are created.

This man is a murderer.

A monster, you might say.

But he is also an abused child, a bullied teenager,

a victimised, angry adult.

We all contain shadows of our former selves.

We carry them within us.

You need to look at a killer and try and

see these other selves, understand them.

You look into their soul.

You don't catch a killer by simply

looking at their most recent act.

Remember what I said to you

when you first started that training?

You said, I'd get older and the students will stay young.

Well, that's true. That still applies.

What else did I say?

Micki, don't put a cushion on your chair.

Exactly.

I have a feeling you're about to tell me

I'm destined for greater things.

Watching you convince students

like that boy to look deeper,

you want a chance at convincing the real world?

The police are looking.

They need someone like you.

For what?

Police don't use psychologists, and I'm no counsellor.

There's a task team looking into

those killing fields in Mitchell's Plain.

21 boys gone since '86.

That case?

But it ran cold in '92, didn't it?

It did.

Another boy's gone missing?

They suspect the killer started up again.

The community's volatile, they need results.

They want to try out something new.

They need a forensic profiler.

We don't have profilers in this country.

No, you'll be the first.

I'm not a detective.

You don't have to be.

You could teach the detectives.

Think of them as those kids in there.

I'm not qualified.

You have a gift, Micki.

You're overqualified.

That fear inside of you, you need to let it go.

Those boys in Mitchell's Plain need you to let it go.

In Mitchell's Plain this morning,

thousands of police and locals resumed a dual hunt.

On the one hand, the gruesome search for more bodies,

on the other, the increasingly desperate tracking down

of the psychotic killer responsible,

as the man known as the Station Strangler

threatened to become South Africa's

most notorious serial killer in history.

Local residents laid siege to

the local police station this morning,

venting their anger on senior officers who they say have

adopted a lazy approach to the devastating murders.

Much of the anger is over the way the police

have handled the investigation into these sadistic killings.

One community leader said this morning

that if the victims had been white children,

the killer would've been arrested days ago.

There's teargas going all around, hey.

Caspers coming in from the left and the right.

I told Louis, "Man, drop to the frikken deck, man."

He didn't listen to me.

Didn't pay any attention to the draw, you know?

What's so funny, man?

Why are you guys drinking at nine o'clock in the morning?

There's our girl.

Miss. Pistorius?

Lieutenant Eksteen, welcome to Cape Town.

Have you been to Cape Town before?

A long time ago, just for holidays.

Pretoria girl.

More an every place girl.

Pretoria, grew up in London,

then Paris, but all over really.

I'm sorry to ask,

but how exactly are you gonna help the case?

Well, if you'll let me, I'm gonna help you understand

the motivations of your killer.

Their origin story.

Know their why.

We need to catch him, not feel sorry for him.

This is your first time?

First time in the field, yeah.

Joey Adamse went missing on Friday afternoon.

Still stays with his grandmother,

bounces between parents, family's a mess.

And why do you think Joey's disappearance

is connected to the serial murders?

MO's match, and we have an eyewitness this time.

Joey's best friend, Tino,

He saw him take him?

He couldn't remember much of the day.

He said the man promised them money.

That's what got Joey into the car,

very similar to the previous cases.

Okay, so he's talking to the boys,

gaining their trust.

Could be.

Is there a description?

No, the boy's traumatised.

Well, can I talk to him?

I don't think that's a good idea.

I need all the information you have.

I need to know everything.

We have transcripts from our previous interview.

You can read those.

Search parties.

Out every day.

You think the boy might still be alive?

Were any of the previous victims held?

We keep hoping until we know better.

Joey is the 22nd.

Things are volatile.

Do not leave the compound without an escort.

Colonel Venter's your unit commander.

You'll report to him?

Where can I work?

I'll need to get started on the profile.

Your office is this way.

Detectives work in this main building.

Task team out in this cooler box.

Welcome.

And here you go.

Your official appointment certificates.

Congratulations, you're a police officer.

That's it, no parade?

Find the guy taking these boys,

and I'll throw you a parade myself.

I know it's a lot.

I'll be up to date by this afternoon.

That's good.

We can visit the crime scenes together

if that helps your process,

and maybe wear something more comfortable, if you have it.

It'll be a long day.

Welcome to the force.