Clarice

Thanks to the Metro Police

and the ViCAP Task Force, we got the guy.

And they were not random victims of a serial killer.

We both know he was hired by someone,

but the only thing connecting him to the murders is you.

We need your testimony, Rebecca.

Those women need your testimony.

No. I can't.

If you're scared, we can put you into protective custo...

Put them in custody.

Whoever hired him.

You take your deal up your ass.

I don't need your deal.

He is not scared of us.

This is Wellig's lawyer.

I want to see him. Now.

Tell us who it was.

Who told you to do something like this?

Who told you to desecrate their bodies?

Who hired you?

It's...

Wellig?

Hulllll...

The lab found something on the can.

Methyl iodide.

Wellig was murdered

in our own home.

This is gonna get very ugly.

But you were right to stay on this conspiracy track.

Let's see where it goes.

Let me get this straight.

ViCAP brings a material witness in a serial murder

to Buzzard's Point.

Paul Krendler then lets a fake police officer

transfer a soda can laced with an unknown substance

into the interrogation room,

causing the witness to stroke and die.

The Special Agent in Charge has appointed me

to sort out what or who enabled this colossal blunder.

I'd imagine that the Office of Professional Responsibility's

lack of involvement means that the Bureau

recognizes that Karl Wellig's death was...

...unforeseen.

No one's looking to throw blame around.

I just, uh, well, have a few questions.

How does this happen?!

How does a suspect get murdered in an FBI field office?!

You gave him the soda.

The only link in the chain of custody

on that soda can is you.

A cop brought it up with lunch...

Look, he was a pro... a hitman.

And you were chasing the lawyer, not the hitman.

Why was that, exactly?

We hadn't yet identified the cop as a suspect.

I thought this ViCAP team was anointed.

You catch killers.

I thought that was your whole thing.

Tony, don't be a dick.

You and Krendler came up together.

Why are you making such a meal of it?

Murray, what is the first rule,

the rule they taught us the first day of Quantico?

"Don't embarrass the Bureau."

How well do you know Paul Krendler?

I'm told you two have some... history?

We met during the Buffalo Bill investigation.

When Ruth Martin was still a senator.

He was working in her office at the time,

assigned specifically to her.

I heard that, uh, on a search of

Catherine Martin's apartment,

you found something Krendler missed,

right in front of Ruth Martin.

And you got to Buffalo Bill first, too, didn't you?

Well, we got him, sir. That's what matters.

I'm not sure that's the way Krendler sees it.

I think that's why he holds you back.

And... the way I see it, you shouldn't be held back.

Look at that petty little bureaucrat.

Tony's so predictable.

He's trying to trip her up.

You gonna eat that?

I don't appreciate his boys going through my stuff.

Just let it play out.

Have a doughnut, Murray. This is a witch hunt.

Herman's had it out for ViCAP ever since we were announced.

So has the whole Bureau, in a way.

Nobody likes that the AG can just swoop in

and form a new team.

And cherry-pick it with "skirts" and "beaners."

Herman's white-boy mafia. It's no secret.

Herman's Bureau. We're all Bureau. Same team.

No. Herman is on Team Douche.

Five minutes into the investigation,

he's already moved in to your office.

I'm not on Team Douche. You're on Team Poetry.

Wellig died in our home, on our watch.

We've earned the heat. We can take it.

You stop making yourself nuts.

You did everything by the book.

Top of yesterday's interrogation,

Krendler seems hell-bent on getting Wellig to confess

to being a deranged serial killer.

Why was that?

There were multiple victims killed in a ritualistic manner.

But you never bought into that theory.

Wellig's background doesn't suggest it at all,

and a simple BSU analysis would have revealed that.

Were you consulted?

Yes.

Then why was the serial-killer angle pursued

and not the conspiracy angle?

I wonder if you don't feel sometimes that politics

is the only reason you're here.

I want you to know that the Bureau is proud

that you're here.

We're not gonna let you go down in flames with Krendler.

We'll protect you.

Respectfully, sir, I didn't ask for your protection.

You know, there's a version of this

where you come work with me in Violent Crimes.

You work cases the way you like, the right way, without...

Well, without being a show pony.

I protect what's valuable, Starling.

But if I'm gonna protect you, you've got to talk to me.

Is there anything in Krendler's conduct yesterday

or any time you've been working with him

that would help me in this investigation?

We haven't really found anything yet,

other than Clarke's gigantic stack of sad pornography.

Leave that be.

Should they be talking?

Learn to walk softly, Eddie.

Where's Ardelia Mapp?

Heading up, but...

I need her specifically to walk through my door.

Make sure Starling sees.

Well, he wasn't very interested

in how Karl Wellig got killed.

Are you gonna ask a question?

I'm a mutt, okay?

Cuban, Brazilian, and Italian.

Two shrugs and a eyebrow is an entire conversation.

He wants to throw you under the bus.

Son of a bitch.

What happened to Wellig happened on my watch.

This is supposed to be on me.

Cooperate, all of you.

You're all confined to desk duty.

He'll call you in for additional questions later.

Until then, cover the complaint lines.

Complaint lines? Son of a bitch.

Sir, you asked to see me?

Agent Mapp, have a seat.

Hey, I'm investigating ViCAP.

Herman ordered me to find out who authorized

the hitman's entry into the building.

Does he know we're roommates? He knew.

I told him it had to be by the book or to count me out.

Oh, thanks.

It's not for you. It's for me.

Yeah, I know. I'm sorry.

It's just... We've never been here before.

This is the first time Herman's even said my name

since I got put on cold cases

instead of field work in his division.

It's such crap. We came in at the same time.

I have to see this through.

Look, Herman did say that if...

Ladies.

...I "decide" there's anything he needs to know about Krendler,

that he'd want me to work cases in his division.

Just like that, huh?

But I don't think I should trust him

unless you think I should.

You can't talk to me about Krendler

while he's under an investi...

You're speaking to me like a roommate

about a case I'm investigating.

I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I shouldn...

That compromises me.

I would never have compromised you.

FBI. Can I help you?

My neighbor has been acting very suspicious lately.

Ma'am, can you slow down?

I'm telling you, man, it was in the news last month.

Yeah. You're not listening.

I saw something in the sky, looked like a spaceship.

It might be aliens!

Just sitting there. Is he in the mob?

Hi. Gentlemen, thank you for waiting.Agent.

Taking your personal car?

Where we sneakin' off to?

Whoever killed Wellig, they're professionals.

The only way ViCAP makes it out of this intact

is if we find them and solve the river murders.

I gave him whatever killed him, all right?

This is on me.

This is not about you.