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No direct survivors.|No criminal record.

He liked his drugs. He liked his girls.|He liked his rock and roll.

He liked the mayor too, right?

What about his girlfriend?

- Is she relevant here? Is she a suspect?|- She's a suspect.

On what basis?

"Girlfriend:
Catherine Tramell. Age 30.|No priors. No convictions.

Magna cum laude at Berkeley, 1983.

Double major:
|Literature and psychology.

Daughter, sole survivor,|Marvin and Elaine Tramell...

killed in a boating accident, 1979.

Catherine Tramell, sole heir.|Estimated assets: $110 million."

You're shitting me.

"Formerly engaged|to Manuel Vasquez, deceased."

Whoa, whoa! Manny Vasquez?

Former middleweight contender.|Killed in the ring, Atlantic City, 1984.

I love it.|She's got 100 million bucks.

She fucks fighters|and rock and roll stars...

and she's got a degree|in screwing with people's heads.

You forgot about her degree|in literature. She's a writer.

She published a novel under a pen name.|Want to know what it's about?

It's about a retired rock and roll star|who gets murdered by his girlfriend.

Page 67, cowboy.

You know how she does the boyfriend?

With an ice pick, in bed...

his hands tied|with a white silk scarf.

Dr. Garner.

I've asked Dr. Lamont to consult|with us. This isn't really my turf.

Dr. Lamont teaches the pathology|of psychopathic behavior at Stanford...

and also on the Justice Department|Psychological Profile Team.

Dr. Lamont.

I see two possibilities.

One:
The person who wrote this book|is your murderer...

and acted out the killing described|in ritualistic, literal detail.

Two:
Someone who wants|to harm the writer...

read the book and enacted the killing|described to incriminate her.

What if the writer did it?|Then what are we dealing with?

You're dealing with|a devious, diabolical mind.

You see, this book had to have been|written at least six months...

maybe even years...|before it was published...

which means the writer must have planned|the crime in the subconscious back then.

Now, the fact|that she carried it out...

indicates psychopathic|obsessive behavior...

in terms not only|of the killing itself...

but also in terms of the applied|advance defense mechanism.

Sometimes I can't tell|sh*t from shinola, Doc.

What was all that you just said?

- She intended the book to be her alibi.|- Correct.

She's going to say, "Do you think|I'd be dumb enough to kill anyone...

in the exact way|I described in my book?"

I wouldn't do that because|I know I'd be the suspect.

So, what if it's not the writer?|What if it's someone who read the book?

You're dealing, then,|with someone so obsessed...

that he or she is willing to kill|an irrelevant and innocent victim...

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