Tom Beecher

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- Previously on "The Hunting Party"...

- Dr. Dulles, you have a visitor.

- Your father is the only one who can tell me

who my biological parents really are.

- There was a breach at Silo 12.

We need to see Silo 12.

I know this drug--it's the same one they gave Richard Harris.

- We found the name of the biotech firm

that made the IV bag-- Whitmore Sciences.

That is Whitmore.

And that is AG Mallory.

- Your job is to ensure the recapture

of any and all escaped inmates from the Pit.

- I know something about the blast.

Shh.

Don't look away.

This is important.

Our time together is almost over.

So tell me something.

If you could see your family one last time...

what would you say?

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Go on, answer me. -

I would tell-- tell my parents

how much I love them.

- What else? -

That I'll miss them...

And not to be sad because...

because I know they love me, too.

Pay close attention now.

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No! No!

No, please, please!

Aah! Please!

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Hello, students.

The Casper Community College Library is now closing.

Please return any borrowed material before you leave.

Thank you.

- Burning that midnight oil again, huh, Lily.

- Uh, sorry, Mrs. Flannery, I have a big exam coming up,

and I lost track of time...again.

Uh, I'll see you tomorrow.

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[engine revving, tires squealing]

Aah!

Shane, nice to see you again.

- Hi. - What are you drawing?

- Do you remember these sessions?

Not when I was this young.

I remember a different office that my parents made me go to,

but...

I was a teenager, not a little kid.

- I'm going to show you some pictures,

and you tell me what you see, okay?

- That one is a bird. - A bird.

- Shane, my father was a lot of things,

but he was not a child psychologist, so...

- Why was he so interested in me?

How about this one?

- James Whitmore sent this statement

out to Corporate last week.

- Good morning, friends and esteemed colleagues.

Yesterday we lost one of our own,

one of this company's most brilliant minds.

Dr. Michelle Elliott died in a car accident.

I don't have the words

to convey how much Michelle meant to this company

or to me personally.

- Michelle Elliott was the head of Research and Development

for Whitmore Sciences.

As we know, Whitmore supplied the Pit with medications

being used on the inmates.

- So less than a week after the blast,

Whitmore's head of R&D was killed in a freak car accident.

- That's a bit of a coincidence, don't you think?

My wife likes to say

"coincidence is when you can't see who's pulling the strings."

She was four times over the legal limit.

Problem is, Michelle Elliott was 14 years sober.

- So Whitmore knows that there's a possibility

of them being exposed for human experimentation.

You don't think that James Whitmore

might consider the head of R&D a bit of a loose end, huh?

- I have a friend in the Sheriff's Office.

I'll see if I can get more details on her crash.

In the meantime,

we need to know more about James Whitmore.

- Let us remember Michelle's light.

And carry on in her spirit.

Time to go to work.

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Morales just filled me in.

Witnesses in Casper, Wyoming, spotted a man running

a cyclist off the road.

Pulled her into his white-panel van before speeding away.

- White-panel van-- how original.

- Hey, so the victim's name is Lily Jacobs.

Okay, we have anything else?

- Casper PD ran some prints they pulled off the bicycle.

- Luckily, we have an algorithm running interference,

so the locals came up empty-handed.

All hits on escapees come straight to us.

The prints belong to Tom Beecher.

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- What is it? What am I missing?

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Um...

Tom Beecher was an old case file of mine.

He killed over a dozen women before he was finally caught.

Beecher had a highly defined behavioral pattern

structured around maximizing

his victims' psychological suffering.

He would bask in their powerlessness.

He targeted girls in their early to mid-20s.

He would, uh, keep a girl alive for days at a time

while he searched for a second victim.

Then when he finally had two women under his control,

he would torture and kill the first

in front of the second, forcing her to watch

as he suffocated her with a plastic bag.

- That's pure evil. - During their captivity,

he would call the parents of his victims.

Like the Golden State Killer, he enjoyed taunting them.

- Eh, it went further than taunting.

He would describe in detail

all the ways he was going to torture their children.

There's something else.

This is Beecher's inmate file.

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- Why is it so much lighter than the other ones?

- He spent the last seven years in the medical ward,

so he wasn't receiving psychiatric treatment,

nor was he part of any studies.

- Inmates down there were usually

in end-of-life-type situations, like hospice care.

So what was wrong with him?

- File says he had a series of strokes

shortly after his arrival to the Pit.

- How does a guy in that condition escape from the Pit

after the blast? - I don't know.

As far as we know, he's the only inmate

from the medical ward who did.

I'm going to keep digging.

- We're going to go to Lily's parents' house.

Beecher is still Beecher--he's going to contact them soon.

[indistinct chatter, telephones ringing]

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Hey, if, uh-- if I remember correctly,

Casper, Wyoming, is your hometown, too.

- Well, everyone's from somewhere.

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Uh, I'm good, Bex, really.

Yeah...

because we're going to bring Lily Jacobs home, okay?

Yeah.

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Don't worry.

I'm going to find you a friend very soon.

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Mr. and Mrs. Jacobs...

I can't begin to imagine what you guys must be feeling.

I have a daughter, too.

She's a little younger than Lily.

All we want is to bring your daughter home safely.

- Yesterday morning, I was in the shower when Lily left.

I didn't get a chance to say I love you.

I always make a point of giving her a kiss

and a hug every morning.

- I'm sure Lily knows how much you love her.

- You said the FBI had a lead on a suspect.

So what does this person want?

A ransom? - No.

- We don't have money. - No, no, I need to be clear.

This is not about money.

This is about power and control.

This man wants you two to feel powerless.

We already do.

How much more powerless can we feel?

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- This man is going to call you,

and he's going to say some very awful things.

Things that might be painful to hear.

- If it isn't about money, why is he going to call?

Because he's a monster.

Sorry.

I'm gonna have to ask you

to do the hardest thing possible,

and when he calls, I need you to answer and talk to him

and keep him on the phone as long as you possibly can.

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