Anamorph

They were pulling her out of the river when I got there.

There was more water than blood in her at that point.

- Was she able to speak? - No.

She stopped breathing.

OK, that should be enough.

Detective Aubray, despite some irregularities...

with regards to proper Police procedures,

We will not be proceeding any further with our inquiry.

Six weeks have elapsed...

since the last Uncle Eddie murder.

In and of itself, this suggests that the public interest has been served.

Congratulations on your promotion to Detective First Grade.

This afternoon Detective Stan Aubray,

lead investigator in the Uncle Eddie's case...

The death of primary suspect in the Uncle Eddie murders...

ended this morning.

...these horrible murders.

The exact circumstances surrounding the shooting...

remain as yet unclear.

Linked by their gruesome art...

while presenting the award... as a model Officer,

responsible for bringing one of the City's

most disturbing case...

Come on.

Wait, wait, wait.

- Wait, my hat. - Pick it up.

Hey, OK?

Don't be seduced.

Avoid psychological speculation

related to the killer's intent

We may never know why he did what he did.

He may never know.

Treat the boundaries of the crime scene like a frame,

and limit your analysis to what is presented within it.

Sit with it, don't rush things,

and above all, in your initial encounter with the crime scene,

trust your own eye.

Remember, all you really have is what the killer left behind

His work is aesthetic, if you will.

OK, we'll pick up there next week.

Ninety-three.

Yup.

Well you better get him out out of here. 'Cos north of the lamp post is ours.

Do us all a favor and walk away from this one?

Walk away and take him.

I wanna ask them a few questions.

We already got a preliminary statement.

Stan, didn't recognize you. How've you been?

Good, I'm good.

Action's in there.

Chew a little easier on the protocol, eh pal?

Brainard called me in.

He said, Brainard called him, eh?

Stan...

You comin' tomorrow night, right?

See, I'm getting promoted. You and I going to be peers.

No.

You know, I got to tell you I had a bad case of deja vu, and I didn't even work the caper.

- What caper? - What caper?

The caper. Uncle Eddie.

Isn't that why Brainard brought you in?

No, no, no, you're cold.

We held off tearing it down till you got here.

Yeah, that's the kind of smell that gets inside you, doesn't it?

Billy, be a dear.

I call that a conversation piece.

It's ahh... camera obscura.

A device used in the Renaissance...

to draw in perspective.

May I?

Hey, Hey! You want to hold off on that until I mark the aperture?

The pinhole focuses the light.

- May I have that flashlight? - Yah.

Take it down

I would love to get up there.

I do not know, man. I could smell it down the hallway.

Did you see they called Stan Aubray in?

Nope. Hey, he's on one of my classes.

I thought they retired him already.

God...

- Wanna buy you breakfast. - No, I'm going straight to bed.

I think I'm getting a cold.

OK.

What are you doing, Stan?

Worrying.

- About what? - "Worrying the fabric."

That's what my mom used to say.

is to touch things all the time wear them down.

That's why you're good at what you do.

You never mentioned your mother before.

She live in the City?

Staying sober?

Four years and three months.

You're gonna ask me that every time?

I guess this isn't the best place to get to know someone.

Or maybe that's the idea.

You probably keep a girl like me...

at every donation center.

It's so weird to think of my blood in someone else's body.

You know, if you'd run into me a couple of months later, then you did.

They wouldn't be accepting my blood right now.

Naw, you would of have straightened yourself out sooner or later.

- Can I pick who it goes to? - No.

It's my blood.

That is the trouble with transfusions.

You have to replace like with like.

It's not true.

If you are 'O' you can give to anybody.

You know Crystal was 'O.'

When I used to tease her that she had to be...

because she'd give it up for anybody.

She give it up for you?

Did she say something?

I don't know, between dates, yeah.

You have a lot of time to get to know someone.

I knew things about her that nobody else would.

Like, she had this birthmark...

under his left arm.

She always used to say that no matter how many guys she was with,

no man would ever find it.

Think about her, too.

Sorry.

Let's go to somewhere away from here.

Above ground, maybe...

Like hiking.

I'm going with some friends this weekend.

You could come.

I'd love to but uhh, I got to work.

- That's shocking. - Another time.

Probably.

Probably not.

I got to go.

Looks like an egg.

Sometimes a circle is just a circle, Chief.

Building management got back to us this morning.

The hanging man was identified as Martin Calderon.

Works as a day trader, never left his apartment.

I thought that you might want to take a look at the report Carl put together.

He was up all night.

He has a theory it was a ritual killing,

some kind of a copycat imitating Uncle Eddie.

No, this is different.

It's less spontaneous.

It don't seem so different to me.

Look, hard as the Uncle Eddie case was

you're still a Detective

I'd appreciate it if you'd give this one your full attention.

I will.

Thank you.

Based on decomposition of the body,

victim's been dead at least a week.

- Now, the cause of death. - Hanging by your fuckin' ankles.

But he was probably dead before he got that far... yeah?

Yeah. You see the sutured wound?

Intestines had been removed.

The killer went to the trouble of... removing them

and closing the incision before he strung him up.

I would have cleaned the body completely but I want to show you...

The blue is not just discoloration.

The body was painted before the dust was applied.

It's all over him.

I don't see it here.

Just the front of his body.

The side that faced the aperture.

Like a stage set, seen from one side.

What, the human slide show...

wasn't kinky enough?

He had to paint the body?

Maybe tried to pretty it up.

Excuse me...

Are you the owner?

Yeah.

You can't put a painting like that in the window.

Why?

It is irresponsible.

I don't have to look at that every time I leave my apartment.

So, buy it and burn it.

Don't get fresh with me. You take it down, right now.

- How much is this? - Fifty dollars.

Why not have more of those? Pictures of butterflies.

When was the last time you've seen a butterfly?

- Where did you get this? - I don't know, estate lot.

- I may need to call you. - You're a Cop?

You think it's stolen?

Hey listen, I just I found this out on the street,

right in front of my shop.

Thanks.

Nice painting. We analyzed the paints.

These aren't commercial pigments.

Pull samples from this Case Number,

and have the lab run a comparison.

There is something else.

We did an X-ray to look for underpaintings.

This is pretty wild.

Look like there was a bird in the chair in the original image.

I wonder why he painted over it.

Do you have anything to wrap this up?

I want to take it over there myself

You've been shopping, Stan?

"Mr. Aubray, Let's talk"