"A hundred and fifty thousand people leave Russia... and come to Brighton Beach." " Reminds them of Odessa." " What a dump that place must be." " One thing these people got in common is... a big, hairy eyeball towards law enforcement." " Understandable after all those years in the evil empire." " I mean, you make a few rubles selling oranges, you're a criminal." " Go to church, you're a criminal." " It's gotta warp your thinking." " Anyway, that's the way Community Relations says to look at it." "  Third mutilated body left in public." "  And no I.D..." " due to method of execution." "  Obviously a terror tactic." " well, it's working." " None of the usual suspects have anything to say." " A thousand people pass the body and no one picks up a phone." " Welcome to the global village." " There's Yura, guy from Moscow P.D." "He's got three dead bodies over there cooling in the morgue." " Same M.O." " And no suspects?" "  None he's telling us about." " You know what he makes?" " $167 a month, man." " One, six, seven." " You think you could stay honest on that?" " Maybe he's not in it for the money." " Frank Black, meet Yura Surova." " This is Frank, I told you about." " Look, I got a meeting on this downtown..." " so, uh, you'll clue him in?" "  Yeah." " Frank Black." " The Millennium Group." " I'd think you'd clue me." " He was propped right here." " Face removed point-blank by shotgun blast." " Fingertips cut off to prevent I.D. Just like the others." "  Classic mob M.O." " Except that one of the victims was a woman." " That's an unusual target for a mob hit." " In Russia, everyone is a target." " From the dispersal, the weapon had to be short, pistol size." " From the force, 12-gauge or better." " Looks like glass." " This is hand loads." " It's designed to obliterate a face." " The man who died here, he stood still." " He didn't try to escape." " So, we know one thing about him... he's definitely Russian." " See, an American, when faced with an overwhelming force, he digs in and fights." " A Russian crosses himself... and accepts the inevitable, unfortunately." " I'd like to see the other bodies." " The blast erased the epidermis and cartilage, caused severe cranial fracture." " Rearranged enough orthodontia to make a dental match unlikely." " Kind of a collector." " Took the fingerprints with him." " Cut off their fingers here at the third distal joint." " Neat job, maybe two, 10 snips most likely." "  Game shears." "  we found you." " Andrei, meet Frank Black from Millennium." "  Hello." "  My pleasure." " Yura from Moscow P.D." "Andrei's undercover for us." " He's working the clubs in Brighton Beach." " Moscow." " You have Zvedas?" " Wow." " I meant for tonight, but..." "Whoa!" " I got flammable stuff here." " Excuse me." " One second." " Are we finding any pattern yet?" " Victim number one over here has the body art of a family man." " Russian mob guy." " Judging from the quality of the tattoos..." "I'd say he was a real hotshot in his organization." " Though whoever pulled the trigger didn't think much of him." " These others..." "You ask me, the only thing they got in common is the way the way they met their Maker." " They sure look like ordinary citizens to me." " That's a surgical scar there." " Something removed." "  There are flecks in her hair." "  Amazing." " Flecks of gold leaf." "  Gilding?" "  Could well be." " I'm just getting going with that guy." " But, I can tell you right now, we got thyroid damage." "  Radiation?" "  Something environmental." " Could be anything." " There are toxins all over Mother Russia." " Those two fingers were blown off." " Never found the pieces." " Cross yourself in submission." " Boom." " You were right." "  Definitely postmortem." "  It's a smear in the powder burn." "  What do you make out of it?" "  It's a mob sign." " Frank, the killer is not in your computer." " The marks on the man's head, they're no mob signs." " When you find out what it is, let me know, all right?" " I'll be out there looking." " We're staking this out, and you'll blow our cover." " Or else you will." " You have a problem with me being here?" " You can't help here, Frank." " You don't speak the language." " You don't know what to look for." " Yaponchik!" " Who's Yaponchik?" " Who's Yaponchik?" " This is the man you say is the shooter, right?" " Well, do you recognize this man?" " Your buddy says he looks like this." " You identified this man." " Is that correct?" " The man at the club said the name "Yaponchik"." " You moved in the second he did." " I moved in when things got bad." "  Who is Yaponchik?" "  Who is Dracula?" " Who is Frankenstein?" " He's the Russian bogeyman." "  Witnesses say he was there." "  Frank, Russia is crazy now." " Old superstitions coming back." " Priests and tea-readers preying on people's fears better than the Communists did." " See, to a Russian, everything must be magic." " It's not enough that a man commits these murders." " No." " It must be Yaponchik walks the earth." " Ooh." " True evil." "  You believed he was there." "  No." " But if these witnesses did, good." " Look at their drawings." " These people are afraid for their lives." " These composites are worthless." " But you trust them with this name that they gave you, right?" " You gotta make these people understand." " We're not playing games here." " You don't pull this crap." " Not in Brooklyn." " I will talk to them." " When you said New York, I was hoping for closer to midtown." " Thanks for coming, Peter." " I was a little concerned at the tone of your call." " You find anything?" " Nothing I'd call clarity, but I did get a few answers." "  That symbol that you found?" "  The monogram of Christ." " Yes." " My guess is that someone blessed the body secretly." " The Russian cop must have known that symbol." " It's tough to say." " But I agree that he's been holding out on you." " Before the Soviet Union broke up, Yura worked for the state security forces at Chernobyl." "  Chernobyl?" "  Somehow, it's the common thread here." " The physical deformities of the congregation caused by Chernobyl... this guy Yura, a guard there..." "even the name Yaponchik's connected." " According to Yura, Yaponchik's a myth." " There's no photo of him, so he is a myth." " He seems to be vor v zakone." " It's a criminal leader respected enough by others to decide disputes." " This isn't mob violence." " It's not that." " It's not about business." " Are you familiar with Revelation, chapter eight, verse 10?" " John talking about the Apocalypse." " A bright star falling- Brilliant, like a torch." " The name of the star was Wormwood." "" One-third of the waters became Wormwood... and many men died because the water was made bitter. "" "" Chernobyl" is Ukrainian for Wormwood." " The nuclear accident predicted in the Bible." " Only many people in Russia believe it wasn't an accident." " One of the most persistent rumors about Yaponchik... is that he was responsible for Chernobyl." " Andrei, the undercover cop." " He's there with Yura." " Yaponchik, Chernobyl, Wormwood." " They believe it, both of them." " That's why they're searching for Yaponchik." " That's why Yura's here." " You weren't honest with me." " I don't talk about Chernobyl, Frank, and neither did Andrei." "  Would you?" "  What about Yaponchik?" "  I told you." " He's a myth." "  Responsible for Chernobyl." "  Another myth." "  What about Wormwood?" " If Andrei were American..." "If Americans were slaughtered on the streets every day... would you come to me with these "grandmother" superstitions?" " You believe Yaponchik is responsible." "  Others believe it." "  You bolted when you heard his name." " Your rampage was not about the loss of your friend." " You didn't check to see if he was alive or dead." " You were furious you missed Yaponchik." " You didn't go in there as a police officer." " You went in there to assassinate Yaponchik." " No indictment, no trial." " Just kill him." " There is no Yaponchik, Frank." " Chernobyl was not an accident." " It was a reactor-shutdown experiment that became a disaster... when two diesel backup generators failed to come online." " In Russia, it is widely thought this was an act of sabotage by a man named Yaponchik." " We believe that this same man, Yaponchik, committed the homicides... that we're investigating, and he'll continue killing until his task is complete." "  And the task is?" "  Terror." " Yaponchik is a myth." " The violence is perpetrated against people who believe otherwise." " People determined to make Yaponchik's identity public." " To make him pay." "  What people?" "  Ask Yura, he's one of them." " Yeah, sure." " Tell him about Wormwood too." " This is a really good one, Lieutenant." " Look, I understand there's been some disagreement over tactics on this case." " You think I've been holding out on you?" " I haven't." " I think your judgment is warped by your desire to see Yaponchik dead." " He killed a New York City detective." "  I mean, am I being too aggressive here?" "  I wouldn't put it that way, no." " I don't work with assassins." " Look, I'm gonna ask you to give these guys 48 more hours, all right?" " We'll see where we are then." " And we better not be where we are right now." " We don't expect to be." " We have a lead." " The priest at the church helped I.D. another victim." " The woman." " She restores artwork..." "religious relics." " Icons." " Russian icons." " Galina was missing one week before her family contacted me." " Told me their fears." " The words spoken at the church door." "" I am coming soon." " Come, Lord Jesus"." " The last words in the Bible." " Gold leaf." " Same as you found on her body." " The flecks in her hair." "  Icons." "  An icon is a window into the kingdom of God." " Galina restored several for the church before she was murdered." " From the size of this collection she must have been trafficking in these for years." " Not trafficking, protecting." " Before, from Communists who would destroy them." " Now, from criminals who sell to the highest bidder." " What's this?" "  To the Russian consulate." "  No." " Galina would never do this." " After protecting something for so long, why would somebody give this up?" " Maybe she knew what was coming." " She faltered." " She was sending these as an offering to save herself." "  He killed her anyway." "  Yaponchik." " She discovered who he was." " Rather than cease to be a myth, he killed her like the others." " Their deaths created an even greater terror among the believers." " Greater silence." " Feeding the myth." "" Sergei Stepanovich Senin"." " I doubt that's his real name, any more than Yaponchik." " This way." " Wait here." "  Sergei Stepanovich?" "  I'm Sergei Stepanovich." " This is for you." " Give them something for their trouble." " Why did Galina Lanskoy send you this?" " My job is to recover icons." " Treasures looted from my country." "  Maybe her conscience got to her." "  She's dead." "  Any suspects?" "  Turn it over." " $48 at the museum store." " It's a reproduction of the Kazan Theotokos." " No." " It's real." " The label was added." " What do you think you're doing?" "  She sent you these to save herself." "  Frank." "  You killed her anyway." "  You don't know what you're saying." " Mutilated her." " Why?" " To show you can." "  You cannot talk to me this way." "  Yaponchik." " Who tells you that?" " Crazy Yura?" " Six months in mental hospital." " You make a fool of yourself coming here." " They will escort you out." " You were a myth." " No more." " Frank, this guy has diplomatic immunity." " You don't go poking him in the face." "  He's responsible for these murders." "  Says who?" " It was Yaponchik." " We don't go near these people without an indictment." " In fact, we don't go near them at all." " The secretary of state called the commissioner." " I'm getting reamed from both ends over this." " Yaponchik is a murderer and a terrorist." " He'll vanish soon." " He's with the consulate, so steer clear." " Even if we caught him in the act, he would still have immunity." " A monogram of Christ." " It's a shield, protection... against evil." " Against Yaponchik?" "  I think the priest sees something different." "  We know he does." " He sees the Second Coming, preceded by Wormwood, Chernobyl." " In the last days, the Antichrist appears and slaughters the faithful." " The Bible doesn't say he has horns and a tail." " He's an evil man, not supernatural." " He can't walk on water." " But according to the Bible, he miraculously survives a fatal head wound... and unites the 10 nations of Europe in a war on Israel." "  That's not gonna happen." "  Maybe it's not the 10 nations of Europe." " Maybe it's the 10 nations of Russia." " Uzbekistan, Ukraine, the former Soviet Republics." " Those are the same people that made Ivan the Terrible a saint." " For six centuries, they haven't lived without a dictator." "  You don't honestly believe this." "  Doesn't matter what I believe." "  They believe it." "  The priest?" " And Yura." " And Andrei." " Stalking the Antichrist in the final days." "  What do you got?" "  We got three more." " Too late on all of'em." " Hope they won't be needing faces in the next world." "  Anyone seen Yaponchik?" "  Per usual, nobody sees anything." " Attendant said two of the casualties were Russian." "  What about the third?" "  Don't know yet." " We're working on it." " We got three bodies." " Here." " Here." " That one over by the steam vent was pretty well poached when we got here." " Yaponchik must have left in a hurry." " No, I think he was the third victim." " We have to go to the hospital to see if he's still alive." " We're talking serious gunshots to the head here." " These guys are very D.O.A." " The mortal head wound." "  Wait." " You think the wound has healed?" " Rescue 51, respond to overdose, unknown substance, 84th Street." " This is Rescue 51, responding to 7-5-8-2" "This guy's alive!" "  He's postictal." " B.P. 70 over 50." "  Sir, can you hear me?" " Squeeze my hand." " He's Russian." " Zero vitals for 20 minutes." " Woke up in a grand mal." "  Respirations?" "  Eight and shallow pulse, 120 and thready." " Bag him." " Get another line in." " Who's the neurosurgeon on call?" " McGreavy answered his page." " We're gonna need history besides coming back to life after having his brains blown out." "  I'm telling you." " This guy was gone." "  Yeah." " We'll take it from here." " Hospital says he has vital signs." " The police and paramedics said he didn't." " A hollow point went in the back of his skull, missed his brain somehow." " Frank, he was gone." " The bullet didn't expand until it hit his faceplate on the way out." " Do you believe that?" " What about Yura?" " I don't know how, but everythings stable." " How we doing in O.R.?" "  They're estimating 15 minutes." "  Get Netton to scrub in for the reconstruction." " This guy's a special case." "  The head wound, where is he?" "  He's down here, queued for O.R." "Never seen anything like it." " This guy's one tough S.O.B." "Yeah, that's one theory." "  What happened here?" "  They'll move him to the consulate." " No." " There's no way off the floor." "  He just vanished into thin air?" "  You have a medevac pad?" " Yura!" " Yura, you know who he is!" " Deceiver of all mankind." " Whatever he says to you, he's lying." " Yura!" " He's getting away!" " That dirt bag's getting away!" "  It is decided!" "  Come on!" " Come on!" " Yura!" " It's not decided!" " No!" " Frank!" " No, let me go!" "  Come on!" "  Don't make it happen." " Frank!" " Don't let it happen!" " This man is a Russian citizen." " Do not interfere." " What have I done?" " Revision:" "Thor"