Chapter three of Voyeur! I hope you guys are still reading! School has been keeping me busy for it is evil. * Twitchie *
Charity: Actually, Anna Beth Gish played the black haired woman from second season. You were close though!
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Outside the Gish Household
Day Three
Curtis breathed deep and inhaled the scent of cigarette smoke. He jumped back from the wall he had been leaning on quickly.
"Lennie!"
Lennie was trying desperately to calm a Hysterical Mrs. Gish. Her husband had shown up, staring in shock at the shambles of their lives. Lennie stood and made some bland excuse before leaving.
" Do you smell that?" Curtis raised his eyebrows, "Do you smell it!" the faint whiff of cigarette smoke hung over the plants-the entire back area was permeated with it.
"Cigarette smoke." Lennie put his hands on his hips; "Lets go talk to LT."
"Oh goddess!" Someone called, "Protect her spirit…."
"Film people." Lennie shook his head and gestured towards their waiting car. The neighborhood had collected in force now-adding to their own soundtrack, "Lets get back to the station."
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Precinct-
Ryuji and Asakawa are crouched close together in the cabin. Asakawa's
expression is dreamy, faraway.
ASAKAWA
It's funny. I'm not afraid at all.
- From the Ring. (Ringu)
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"So this makes the third death from a psychotic fan." Lt. folded her hands, " Japan called, and they want the rights to the sixth movie."
"You're not serious."
"Oh absolutely." Lt. Said monotous, " They've got some guy named Jouji that they want to play you Curtis."
Curtis's eyes narrowed, "Please tell me you aren't serious Lt."
"About the cigarette smoke chief." Lennie interrupted, trying to bring the conversation back on track, "That's a definite tie into Dr. Lawson."
"Or, it could be that our killer smokes like a Chimney" she sighed, "I still want to see motive…"
"Fixation." Lennie said, "All of the woman save Montague looked like his dead daughter. Maybe he really did kill her-and he feels the need to…" he waved his hand, "I don't know, atone for it some how."
"But basing it on the Ring?"
"The times?" Curtis frowned, "We should at least pick him up for Questioning Lt."
"Well okay, but no arrests." She pointed to the paper, "I don't want to give the reporters any more fodder?"
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Columbia University
Biochemistry Lab.
"So we begin by making the Y-incision-"
"Dr. Lawson?" Curtis pushed open the door. Seven or eight eager students in lab coats were crowded around a human cadaver, "Can we have a word with you?"
Lawson looked up, irritated- his blond hair falling into his eyes-his glasses sliding down his nose.
"I'm in the middle of-"
"This is important, can we step outside?" Curtis frowned, watching the spasm of anger flash across his face.
Lawson set the scalpel down, the students whispering amongst themselves.
"Look, this is a private laboratory-leave now before I have security throw you out!"
"I think we need to speak down at the station again." Lennie's voice was soft, "Why don't you make it easy on yourself doctor-and come with us?"
Lawson's hands went down to the scalpel again, Curtis tensed-for a moment fearing that he was going to use it on his partner-before-
"Alright." Lawson raised his hands, "Katherine-will you please inform Sadako of what's happened?" he looked at Curtis with the same eyes he'd used upon the cadaver, "Are you going to cuff me?"
"Are you going to resist?"
He sighed, sounding like a man beaten, "No."
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Interrogation
"Do you smoke Dr. Lawson?"
Lawson removed his glasses with a prim motion, placing them on the table. He then brushed the hair out of his eyes and turned to study Lennie carefully.
"What sort of question is that?"
Lennie sighed, "Oh…I don't know." He patted the table lightly, "You lit up right after killing Professor Mai didn't you?" he leaned back, "You're trying to cure us of the stuff-but you do it yourself? Ridiculous."
"That's completely-I mean-" Lawson's eyes narrowed. He glared at Lennie, " I'm trying to help cure people for Chrissake."
"What about barbiturates?" Curtis stalked closer-the good cop bad cop routine always had one of them acting like a tiger, "Drugs?"
Here Lawson dropped his head, "I don't do drugs-"
"Anymore." Curtis continued. He sat across from the man and opened a manila folder, "But isn't that why the police suspected you?" he closed the folder with a snap-dropping it onto the desk,"Isn't that why they suspected you in the death of your-"
"NO!"
The outburst from the normally timid scientist shocked the two of them. Geez. Lennie studied the man intently, trying to recognize his impressions, What the hell happened to this guy?
"I did…some stuff-In college." Lawson admitted. His face was downcast-expression unreadable. He clenched his hand into a fist and Lennie realized that the man hadn't even changed out of his lab coat. He looked like a sad little kid trying to play a big important man.
"But you went back-having an affair with a student-" Curtis pushed back the chair and stood up, prowling to the left of him, "Stealing from the college-"
"I was depressed." Lawson looked up, "After Samara died I just-I couldn't-" he hung his head, "Oh, god forgive me…"
"Look." Lennie said gently, "I know what its like to have kids-I can't even imagine loosing my daughter-"
"That's right." Lawson said coldly, looking up at Curtis, then back at Lennie, "Its every parent's worst fucking nightmare."
"What about your wife?"
Lawson laughed aloud.
"Sherry?" Lawson shook his head, "Sherry never forgave me." He leaned back now, his confidence returning somewhat, "Detective-you have to understand. My marriage to Rachel was a matter of convenience. We would have been perfectly happy living together if we hadn't had Samara-"
Warning bells went off in the aggressor and the prey's minds. Lawson waved a hand-hurriedly dismissing the tone.
"Rachel was terrified. She wasn't ready to be a mother-no more then I was ready to be a father." Lawson chuckled, smiling at some distant happy memory, "I was still working on my post-doctorate thesis-and she had just gotten an assistant producer position at Fox Studios." He sighed, "But when Samara came…she was the light of my whole world." He smiled softly, "Rachel found other things to do-but we both loved Samara more then anything."
Looks like another A-point for Lennie. Curtis thought, How come he always has these wackos pegged? Lawson did have a fixation with his daughter-but it didn't seem to be anything other then natural fatherly pride. However…
"That day…"
"The police already asked me about that." Lawson said quickly, "I think I'm done asking questions now." He stood, trying to retain whatever dignity he had left, "If you persist further in my questioning you'll-"
"Jack!"
Lennie, Curtis, and Dr. Lawson could hardly believe what walked through the door.
A woman in an ice-blue suit with short-business cut hair strode in, followed by a black man unfamiliar to the two detectives. Lt. was unsuccessfully attempting to keep them back-Abbie, the assistant DA, followed.
"Miss-I must protest-"
"And I must protest, saying that my husband is not in the right frame of mind to be questioned in this manner!" the woman pounded a fist on the table, "My lawyer will present documents that state that my husband has been declared clinically incompetent to stand in his own defense-"
"Oh please!" Abbie cried, "I've read some of his most recent reports! If he can write about the negative affects of Tobacco upon rats in clinical detail-so that I don't understand it-I think he can stand in his own defense!"
"Rachel." Jack's voice was hard, "What are you doing?"
"Saving you."
"For Chrissake Rachel!" Lawson said quickly, " I haven't been arrested yet-"
"Which is something we can dispense with right now." Lt. Said, "The report on the fingerprint at Shandra Mackenzie's apartment came back-a 5 point match which is enough for me."
"Dr. Jack Lawson you're under arrest." Curtis came foreward, the lawyer remained stationary, "You have the right to remain silent, and anything you say can and will be used against you-"
"Dammit!" Rachel stamped her foot, "Jack, I'll get you out of here-I promise!"
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Arraignment hearing.
Day Four
"Docket number 89101112. People V. Dr. Jack Lawson. Charge is three counts murder in the second degree."
Judge Hawthorne looked down his nose and frowned.
"You're the Ring killer? How do you plead?"
"Not Guilty your Honor." Jack dropped his eyes, muttering, "Again…"
"Your honor, the defendant has a history of being mentally unstable." Abbie said loudly, "People request remand of bail due to the fact that his wife has a prominent position within a major studio."
"I saw the ring." Hawthorne shook his head, "Didn't like it. Japanese mumbo-jumbo-disgusting."
"Your honor-" Jack's Lawyer-a Mr. Richard Morgan was a quiet man, "My client and his wife have not had domestic relations for several months now-it could be argued years-"
"Still council." Hawthorne said, "The People make a good point. I could just see a producer pulling him out of jail just in time to make a movie. Defendant is remanded without bail-pending a trial."
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Okay! Chapter three is completed! Inside trivia information for one/two/three:
Rachel- Shares her name with Rachel Keller of the Ring Remake. I could actually picture Naomi Watts stamping her foot and saying all the stuff that Rachel Lawson says!
Richard Morgan- Also a remake character. In this case-he's Samara's father in the movie
Docket 89101112- When you watch Ringu-the captions concern a particular week. In this case, Dr. Lawson's Docket number represents the last five days of Asakawa's little adventure with the cursed Video tape. I omitted the first two days cause it would have been waaaay too long.
Mai- Is actually the main student figure in the Ringu series. She (And Mackenzie) both have affairs with their professors-and ultimately Mai ends up watching the tape and…well you'll have to see the movie for yourself
Samara-Anybody and everybody should have gotten this. Samara=very frightening chick from the Ring Remake.
Juji- The Japanese Director of the second "Ringu" movie. My personal opinion is that this guy should rot in hell-cause Ringu 2 majorly sucked. But he's a director-not an actor.
Expect more trivia and such as the story moves along! Its far from over. Three more days until you die….
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