Van Allen

Detective Van Allen is a Novi, Virginia cop and the head detective in charge of a case involving of a series of fatal, meticulous skinning murders, enough the victims were alive the whole time. Each victim would see visions of others around them without their skin just before they themselves were murdered. Monica Reyes insisted on pursuing the murderer, always finding Van Allen "familiar" somehow. It's revealed the murders are uncanny to the death of a coal mine prospector in the 1860s by miners working in the area, the prospector having been skinned to death in the exact same fashion.
Four murders of the same MO would happen in each reincarnation of the prospector and the miner's as a means of endlessly repeating revenge, since the miners in their first incarnation were acquitted of the crime. The miner incarnations would be failures, and after being threatened at knifepoint while being hissed at with "You shouldn't have come." and "You always fail.", Reyes realizes Van Allen is the murderer and the latest prospector incarnation. The prospector always returns as a cop before committing suicide, to watch the pother reincarnations and ensure revenge. Reyes was threatened when she went into the mine and found the skins of all the victims, going back nearly a century and a half.
The agents realize the final incarnation of the miner is Lisa Holland, a doctor who helps rehabilitate ex-cons who was questions about the three victims, all ex-cons in her program. As Van Allen's about to kill her, the team race to Calvary Church, where she works. They save her and Reyes shoots Van Allen dead in a suicide cop. He grumbles "You always fail." at her just before she dies, making Reyes realize she's the reincarnation of someone who was aligned by fate to try and save the victims. When Van Allen flatlines on a ventilator in the hospital, a baby's heard crying in the vicinity, Adding with the scare that the cycle could start all over again decades later. (TXF: "Hellbound")
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