Ceremonies of the Horsemen

 
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2009
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Sean, let's go.

Sean, come downstairs.

Hi there.

- How long has this been here?

- Tuesday.

Yeah. Detective. we got

a possible 187 out on Route 59...

south of Washington Township.

Detective Breslin.

Right this way.

- Has anybody moved the body?

- No.

- But...

- You got a cause of death?

Well, officially...

we haven't determined death...

sir.

What the f*** is that?

We thought we should call you

because of your background...

in the oral...

Forensic Odontology.

- That's someone's real bad day.

- Yeah. No kidding.

The victim is male.

Early to mid-30s. Moderate smoker.

Less moderate drinker.

Upper middle to upper class.

Lives in the city.

- And definitely not a vegetarian.

- You're sure of all that?

Well, the root transparency

and the enamel wear...

put the age at about 32,

plus or minus four.

Acid racemization

will be more precise.

I'm waiting on the results of that.

But you see this right here?

That is lateral striated trauma.

It's where the pliers slipped.

The victim, he was struggling

during the extraction.

He could still be alive?

Yeah.

Be on a liquid diet, but yeah.

"Come and see".

It was written on four trees

around the pond.

North, south, east and west.

Any idea what it means?

It means they brought a compass.

How are the kids holdin' up?

Fine.

Imagine it's been

a tough week for 'em...

Karen's birthday and all.

Yeah.

It's late, Bres.

Why don't we get out of here?

I'm almost done here, so...

Come on. I'll walk with you.

Earthling. no one can help you now.

- What do you want from me?

- Not much.

Merely your help in arranging...

If you cooperate.

I may let you live.

I'll die before helping you!

Brave words indeed.

But we shall see.

"What is my strength

that I should hope?

Is my strength

the strength of stones...

or is my flesh of brass?

Wherefore then hast thou

brought me forth out of the womb?

O, that I had given up the ghost

to know I had seen me.

I should've been as though

I had not been.

I should've been carried

from the womb...

to the grave.

Are not my days few?

A land of darkness,

as darkness itself...

and to the shadow of death...

without any order...

and where light is as darkness.

God hath delivered me...

to the ungodly...

and turned me over

into the hands of the wicked".

Jesus Christ.

- Is that blood?

- No, it's paint.

She's been dead about 12 hours.

Don't know how long

she was hangin' up there alive.

How'd she get in that thing?

- Drug injection, probably...

- No, that's not what I mean.

It takes more

than one person to do this.

Make sure we get a report

from Footprint Morphology.

Then there's this.

Looks like they stood right here

and watched.

That's a tripod.

They videoed the entire thing.

- How many kids does she have?

- Three, and they're downstairs.

Let me do it.

I'll do it.

Who found her?

The daughter.

- Which one?

- The oldest one.

You're gonna have all the support

that you need.

She's adopted.

He'll be here any minute.

Thanks for the hot tip.

Hello.

I'm Detective Breslin.

I'm gonna be heading up

the investigation.

Get out of my way!

And I just wanted

you girls to know that...

Where are they?

Daddy!

- Daddy!

- Daddy!

It's gonna be all right.

You need to double-check that

before we do anything with it.

Yeah, will do.

What's up?

They took something.

They took what?

They took something

from inside of her.

She was pregnant.

Detective?

I didn't mean to interrupt you.

No... no.

It's... it's all right.

Is there anything

that I can do for you?

Are you going to catch

the person that did this?

I'm going to try.

Kristin.

If you need anything...

if you need to talk...

or if you have

any questions at all...

just call that number.

Anything at all.

Thank you.

What have you got for me?

Heavy gauge fishing hooks.

Ankles, backs of knees.

She had two in the back

of each thigh...

one behind each elbow,

three up each side of the back.

And then there's this.

She was stabbed in the chest

with an unidentified...

very sharp,

very long foreign object.

Punctured her lung.

The object lacerated one of the

bronchial arteries and the bronchus...

which is one of the major

air passages into the lungs.

So blood starts flowing out

of the severed artery...

into the severed air passage,

the lungs fill.

You ever accidentally

drank water down your air pipe?

Imagine doing it continuously

for an hour.

So are we looking at

a torture kill here?

Well, if it was done intentionally,

yeah, we would call it torture.

But it wasn't. I mean, to skewer both

of those spots in just the right way...

that's basically impossible

to do deliberately.

They probably just wanted

to bleed her out.

- What is that?

- Etomidate injection.

- She was drugged?

- Yeah.

So she could be hung up

by the fishhooks.

I understand things I see

less every year, buddy.

Sh*t.

Roger that. 14. Confirmed.

There's the Metropolitan Theater.

That's where I met your mother.

I know. You tell me that

every single time you pass it.

Yeah. Yeah, right.

Do you maybe wanna go

to the game tonight?

What game?

Well, it's just that a friend of mine

has these season tickets...

and I thought you might wanna go,

so I gave him some money for 'em.

Where'd you get

that kinda money, Alex?

It was from you...

every time you ditch us.

Oh, yeah.

Right.

What game is this?

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Peter Biegen

Peter Biegen is an award-winning screenwriter, playwright and film maker. He co-wrote the screenplay The Last Lullaby (with Max Allan Collins) and wrote and directed the short film Ceremonies of the Horsemen (starring Richard Schiff and Josh Zuckerman). The short was selected to be part of the permanent archive at the Visual Center of Yad Vashem in Jerusalem. Biegen has written for Lifetime television, ghost written on several projects, is a member of both the Writers Guild of America and the Writers Guild of Canada, and a 2014 fellow of the Sundance Institute. He has developed film projects with Michael Apted, Eric Stoltz, Don Was and others. Biegen is also an executive of Parrot Dice Pictures in Los Angeles, and was the host of the internet radio show "The Parrot Dice Pictures Radio Program" from 2009 through 2011 which garnered an international fan base. more…

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