Jay O. Sanders credited as playing...
Kyle Craig
- Det. Davey Skes: Sure picks lookers, doesn't he?
- Alex Cross: Yeah, he does. But you know these women are more than just attractive. They're all extraodinary in some way. Smart, talented.
- Det. Davey Skes: He ain't choosing them just for their congeniality.
- Alex Cross: Ordinarily, they don't, but I think our guy is a little different.
- Detective Nick Ruskin: How so?
- Alex Cross: I think killing's not his ulterior motive. This guy's a collector. I bet these women are alive.
- Det. Davey Skes: Come on, doc. Our boy's brain is soft as a two-minute egg and nothing personal, but I figure every one of them gals is tied to a tree just waiting to get found.
- Alex Cross: Think about it, Sikes. The three you found were killed out of sequence. They weren't even among the first abducted.
- Det. Davey Skes: That's right.
- Detective Nick Ruskin: That don't mean they're not still out there.
- Alex Cross: But you would have found them by now. He makes absolutely no attempt to hide 'em and the way they were killed, very revealing. That last long walk through the woods.
- Kyle Craig: Marching to their fate.
- Alex Cross: Exactly. The rape, cutting off their hair.
- Kyle Craig: It's punishment.
- Alex Cross: Maybe for violating some trust.
- Alex Cross: How long has this been on the Bureau's wish list?
- Kyle Craig: A while.
- Alex Cross: Were the other two tied up so extravagantly?
- Kyle Craig: Yeah. The guy seems to find square knots tedious. You saw it's Dayton cordage, 7 gauge.
- Alex Cross: Yeah. America's favorite. I suppose everything else was too prolific to trace.
- Kyle Craig: Guy's a pro. A real student of the game, and an enthusiastic rapist. First two postmortems indicate vaginal tears like I've seldom seen, inflicted hours before death. And then that's it. No prints or fibers. No semen or hair.
- Alex Cross: Except what he cut off her.
- Alex Cross: What about cause of death?
- Kyle Craig: There are no signs of torture, no weight loss, no drugging. He just ties 'em up and leaves 'em for the critters.
- Alex Cross: A real student of the game.
- Kyle Craig: And he likes to play.