thought it was Sister Lucretia.
Wow. This is so beautiful.
You are such a good director.
I'll make you so happy you cast me.
I need to look at my butt again.
You'll wear out the tape, Marta.
Come on, it's just a rough cut. Come on.
You dog! I want to watch it again.
Right here,
I thought I was gonna puke.
Lew! It's your fault.
That blood tasted like soap.
- It tastes fine, baby.
- You try it, then.
- Hey!
- Taste it.
This is a new shirt.
Oh, yeah?
I'm gonna make you a star, Marta.
Give it to me, baby.
Soapy, soapy, soapy, soapy, soapy.
Come on, big-time director.
Taste it.
OK. It does taste soapy.
I'm gonna go take a shower,
while you...
go get us champagne.
Oh, it's you.
Here's to us.
Hurry back.
Lew?
Oh, God. Oh, God.
Oh, God. Oh, God. No! No!
No!
Manson, Bundy, Dahmer.
Their cases are all well known.
But the case I'm about
to describe is so horrific,
it should never be discussed
outside this room.
It challenged every preconception.
It followed no rules.
If it has a moral,
I do not know what that moral is.
This story is so bizarre, I wouldn't
believe it had I not seen it with my own eyes,
It all happened in the week
leading up to Halloween,
- Hey, Frank. It's good to see you.
- Thank you.
- Glad to have you back with us, Frank.
- Thank you.
- So, you've been here before?
- Yeah. 13 years ago.
Just about this time of year.
There were three murders a month.
It was really bad.
- The Dale Barker murders? That was you?
- Mm-hm.
They teach that case at the Academy.
Well.
They're from California, in town making
a movie. You know who Marta Danbury is?
We counted 55 stab wounds.
The other one is the director of this
here picture. Guy named Lew Carroll.
Marta was the star of this movie.
Stage blood. Tastes kinda soapy.
Human blood oxidises to a deep brown.
Mr Black, what is it?
Agent Hollis. What you learned
at the Academy won't serve you here.
What kind of movie is this?
Action!
Never before in the annals of crime
have I encountered a monster so heinous.
So deviously clever.
So hard to catch.
Kenny Neiderman, he's the producer.
Kenny, this is Special Agent Emma Hollis.
And this is Frank Black.
Hey, nice to meet you.
When the predator is so elusive,
I put myself in the madman maniac mind.
I call it profiling.
A technique I invented in the FBI.
And that is how I plan to stop
this madman maniac from murdering,
- or my name isn't Frank Black.
- What?
Cut! Magic. Fantastic.
It's based on a true case you investigated,
which makes you a public figure,
so we don't have to buy your rights.
- But if you want to sue, I understand.
- I didn't say I wanted to sue.
Who was Marta Danbury portraying? That
may inform the investigation of her murder.
- Which victim did she portray in your film?
- Eva O'Malley.
Eva O'Malley
was a 40-year-old quadriplegic.
She got strangled in her driveway.
Sure, but it's more entertaining
to see her get sliced up in a school shower.
And would you hide a tomato like that
in a wheelchair? God rest her soul.
We need to talk to everyone
who saw the victims recently.
OK. Butjust talk about the murders.
I don't need a bunch of hothead actors
thinking we don't have the rights to the story.
I knew both of them.
I mean, Lew and Marta were...
- They were my clients.
- Were you their agent?
- No. Their personal trainer.
- When did you become a director?
When Lew was pronounced dead.
Live fast, die young,
leave a pretty corpse.
I'm the star, and they don't even notice
because it's Marta Danbury's last film.
- You're the star?
- Yes, of course.
I almost get killed.
Then I help solve the mystery.
Along the way,
fall in love with the hero.
- FBI agent Frank Black.
- It didn't happen that way in real life.
What are you doing tonight?
Uh...
I
was the toast of the English stage.
And now my name is above
the title as "The Madman Maniac".
Did you study Dale Barker's
behaviour to learn your part?