Clarice

Previously on "Clarice"...

Two dead women. Somebody sliced them to ribbons.

- And you think it's a... - A serial killer.

Hell yes, I do.

Rebecca, were Angela Bird, Tess Laughty, and Sandra Bishop

gonna talk to you about the clinical trials?

You're gonna tell me who paid you

to kill those three women.

Get me a deal.

This doesn't work if you don't talk.

Okay, I'll start.

How was Tennessee?

You were raised in the Appalachian mountains,

weren't you?

Did it feel like going home?

Felt like going to work.

Your father died there when you were young.

He was killed.

In the line of duty.

He was a Marshal.

He surprised some burglars who shot him.

I'm not sure what that has to...

Were you just triggered to remember that?

Triggered? No.

Is there doctor/patient privilege here,

or does all this go straight to my boss?

That was not a formal...

Agent Krendler and I... had a conversation.

That almost cost me my job.

Clarice, you're here to keep your job,

and I'm the one who can help you.

If you'll let me.

I understand that after you got back from Tennessee,

you went to visit Rebecca Clark-Sherman

at the trauma center.

I can't even go home.

I checked myself in here because

I knew I was gonna need help... carrying this.

That's wise.

Staying ahead of it.

And if you feel unsafe, we can post guards outside the door.

What else can you tell me?

He took his mask off at one point.

I saw his face.

He didn't care.

That's how I knew he was gonna kill me.

He made me walk to my bedroom.

He drugged me.

I guess to make me more... compliant.

He took pains not to look at me.

To give me...

Modesty. Privacy.

We're interviewing your attacker tomorrow.

We both know he was hired by someone,

but the only thing connecting him to the murders

of Angela, Tess, and Sandra is you.

We need your testimony, Rebecca.

You came so far putting it together for them.

If you let them stop you, they win.

Those women need your testimony.

If you'll share your notes, what you found about...

No. I-I... I can't.

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

Put them in custody.

Whoever hired him.

Get them, and I will testify.

Sorry.

I want to help those women, I do.

I feel like I'm losing myself.

Clarice, sometimes post-traumatic stress

can color your experience.

It can significantly alter your perception of events,

both professional and personal,

confronting old familial wounds

in a highly charged work environment.

I mean, I know my father died.

It was a long time ago. It's not something I buried.

I don't need a trigger.

And what about the fresher wound of Buffalo Bill?

A wound I believe will never heal

unless you open up about it.

Clarice?

Clarice?

Where are you? Am I losing you?

Do you have trouble concentrating?

Can you stay in the moment?

Invasive thoughts or memories?

They can keep you from being fully present

and from seeing experiences for what they truly are.

They can cause you to act... impulsively.

Sir, I have to go. I have a suspect interview.

Right. The river murders.

Agent Krendler recanted your statement to the press.

- That must have been very hard. - I respect his judgment.

He was just protecting the case.

The case or you?

I need you to consider that

given everything you've been through,

maybe your perceptions aren't as solid as you think.

I know what's real and what's not, sir.

I really do have to go now.

Special delivery for Agent Mapp.

No. No more.

But you're the chain-of-custody girl, right?

Supervisor said, "Any cold case DNA requests go to Mapp."

Not there.

- Not there. - You're a Sagittarius, right?

No. No.

No, no, no. No, no, no, no, no.

- Huh? - I'm working.

You've posed a personal question that serves no one except you,

and you expect me to drop everything and answer.

And if I don't answer, you form a judgment.

And even now, as I'm taking time away from saving lives,

you're thinking, "Damn, she's so serious.

Can she just lighten up?"

Well, the answer is, "Bye."

Mnh-mnh-mnh-mnh-mnh.

Jenga.

Now, I would like to remind everyone

that Attorney General Martin has come at my invitation

to speak about the needs

the president's bill attempts to address.

To that end, I think she's doing an admirable job.

That said, this is the oversight committee,

and today we're reviewing the DOJ budget.

Madam Attorney General,

uh, your personal task force within the FBI...

can you tell us more about that?

Uh, this isn't an authoritarian state.

I don't have a personal task force.

I assume you're talking about

the Violent Criminal Apprehension Unit.

Hmm. That's right. Uh, ViCAP.

The vulnerable of our country disappear,

and no one remembers their names.

Not everyone who has been abducted by a monster

is lucky enough to be the daughter of a senator, sir.

Some are saying the ViCAP team is just drumming up headlines

to help sell your president's crime bill.

You have three daughters, Llewellyn.

Imagine someone out there field-dressing one of them

like a deer.

Do you really believe that I wouldn't,

that every mother wouldn't give everything

to spare their child that?

The monsters among us aren't aberrations.

They're a reflection of who we are.

What we do with them and how we decide to root them out

is also a reflection of who we are.

I just hope we don't become a society

that sits idly by.

We're all sorry about what happened to your daughter.

But it might take more than sympathy

to make you qualified for your office.

Sympathy and empathy for Americans under our protection

seems to be in short supply of late.

I don't know. Two-way mirror is classic.

We're basically in the same room as the guy.

Come on, live a little. Now you get a close-up.

We can see every muscle in his face twitch.

I don't need any help knowing when someone's full of it.

Suspect's here.

Baltimore PD's bringing him in.

Their homicide chief is whining to SSA Herman

that we stole their perp.

Tell them whine to the AG and her writ.

Karl Wellig. Born Prescott, Arizona.

Joined the Marines out of high school.

Gulf War and a year on the private military circuit.

We waiting on his esquire?

No, he waived his right to an attorney.

Pretty bold, considering he killed three women.

And tried to kill Rebecca Clark-Sherman.

You sure he asked for the deal?

That he said the words?

Yes, sir.

Maybe this'll go down fast.

Sir, I'm convinced Wellig was hired.

I spoke to Rebecca Clark-Sherman last night,

and she can tie all the victims to the drug clinical trial.

Will she go on record?

She will if we get more from Wellig about who hired him.

Here we go.

- Starling, you're with me. - Sir?

He asked you for the deal, and you're the one who shot him.

You told Special Agent Starling you wanted a deal.

So... go.

Talk.

I'm a handyman.

I was fixing a lady's dishwasher when a bunch of feds burst in,

no warrant, guns drawn.

I got scared.

I never told you I wanted a deal.

And I didn't kill anybody.

I know what I heard.

No one's saying any different.

Why suddenly back out of a deal

and still waive the right to see your lawyer?

I-I don't get it.