The Troll Hunter

You guys didn't even say "Dead Girl Walking"

like they do in the movies.

Okay, so you're fucking lame.

I don't know if you guys have seen the

news, but I've got somewhere pretty

important to be at midnight.

So I hope this isn't

going to take too long.

I don't know why I'm doing this.

Do you think she'll tell

us what we want to know?

She's got no reason not to.

Yeah, well she's got no

incentive to help us either.

I don't know. It was her idea to do this.

She wanted to do this. Tonight of all

nights. I don't know.

She's probably just messing with us.

I'll tell you one thing. I didn't work

with Department of Corrections all last

month, cutting through all

this red tape to get nothing.

That psycho's going to tell us something.

Is Russell coming tonight?

He said he can't make it.

Well, I hope it was something important.

We could really use him.

Tonight is our last chance.

Assuming, of course, the governor doesn't

call within the next couple of hours.

In an election year? In this state?

Yeah, right.

Alright, let's do this.

Let's stick to our plan.

Alright.

You can go.

Amelia Marie Singleton.

Friends call me Mia. The prison calls me

inmate number 278965.

I'll just stick with Mia.

I'm Detective Andrea Cooper.

This is Detective JT Phillips. We've been

assigned to follow up on this case.

What exactly are you following up on?

I pled guilty. The case is closed.

We still have some questions.

Well, I have a question.

Where'd you get that tie?

Did you lose a bet or something?

You agreed to talk to us. Doing it

tonight was your idea.

We agreed to all of your conditions.

No guards in the room,

no handcuffs, everything.

Maybe I'm regretting that now.

Especially getting this little guy.

This is an official

procedure. This has to be recorded.

And after reading your

statement at sentencing,

I don't think you've

ever regretted anything.

Hilarious.

What's that? My resume?

That's one way of looking at it.

The official term would be evidence.

Evidence that's going to put that needle in

your arm in a couple of hours.

Unless...

Unless what?

Nothing can stop that now.

I withdrew my clemency applications and

fired my ultra-high-powered

taxpayer-supplied

public defender attorney.

It doesn't have to be that way.

We know that anti-death

penalty advocates in the state

have already filed for emergency

injunctions to get you a stay.

If a judge hears that you've

told us what we want to know.

Really? Oh, golly gee,

maybe there's hope after all.

Listen, good cop, bad

cop, doesn't work on me.

So, since we're short on time,

let's just move on to the.

Kinect Interrogation Method

and get that one over with too.

Been studying your police methods, huh?

All there is to read in the prison

library. Since my arrest,

they don't let me have

access to the computer

to research anything

actually interesting.

Like how to track down people who make

comments on the internet. Trolls!

I track down trolls.

People I'm rather okay with.

Even cops?

Ugh. You're just doing your job.

A bad one, but it's just your job.

If we're so bad at our jobs...

So you're the one who gets three knocks

when the boss wants to talk to you.

Russell, I didn't think you were coming.

Yeah, well, you know,

figured one more missed

ballgame wouldn't make a difference.

Maybe, I'll buy him a nicer car when he

turns 16 to make it up to him.

So, question. Why are

you two arguing with her?

What's that going to accomplish?

Well, JT and I decided that

based on the time constraint,

we would just come right at her.

How's that working out so

far? She seems pretty defiant.

We have a plan.

Yeah, I can see that.

So far, it's one fucked up plan.

Plus, she's seeing right through your

academy by the book techniques.

It won't work. This

one's too smart for that.

Yeah, well, what should we

do? The clock is ticking here.

Stop treating it like an interrogation.

It is an interrogation, Russell.

No, it isn't. Treat it

like an initial interview.

We're after information

here, not a confession.

She's already done that. Mostly.

What we want is to get her

talking, keep her talking.

Yeah, well, what if she doesn't tell us

what we came here for?

We know that she doesn't have the

tech-savvy or skills to have pulled all

of this off all by herself.

Worse, she knows that we know that.

She's not just going to give up this

mystery accomplice to you willingly.

She didn't do it when she was arrested.

She didn't do it when she was sentenced.

She's not going to do

it now, not willingly.

What are we doing here, then?

Besides wasting our time and

alienating you from your son?

The more she tells us about

what she did and how she did it,

the more we have a chance to figure out

who helped her to do it.

We take everything that

she says here tonight,

and we give that information to the

profilers, the forensic psychologists.

They do their job.

Something that might seem trivial to us.

Something we don't even notice.

That might be the key piece of the puzzle

that tells us who helped her.

Alright, so how do we do that?

She's a diva.

She thinks she's a

serial killer superstar.

She wants to be one of the big names.

She wants to be up there

with Bundy, Dahmer, Son of Sam.

Appeal to her ego.

She's got a massive ego.

You get her talking?

See if that ego will keep her talking.

Alright, well, where do we start?

Where else?

The beginning.

So it's your turn to

get chewed out by the boss?

I know you'll be disappointed to hear,

but he's not here tonight.

Turns out he had more important things to

do, and they didn't concern you.

No, he's here.

Should I be flattered?

Four knocks.

Must be your turn.

Let's start over.

Oh, I wouldn't even if I could.

I meant for tonight.

I know, I just have a

flare for the dramatic.

Tell me about Bryce Matthews.

Is he the one that used

the Excaliber357 handle?

Excaliber spelled