Penseyres quotes from Millennium

Mike

There is a deliberate error in the Great Pyramid in Giza... an architectural anomaly that some prophets have cited as an error in our calculation of the true calendar year. Some believe it sets the date of the apocalypse in 1998.

Plan your investment strategy accordingly.

Frank

A controller. Someone calling the shots. Out of caution or distaste, he's chosen to avoid direct action. Now he's found himself a new surrogate.

Someone to carry on the killing.

Frank

Someone predisposed to an alternative theory of justice. Disillusioned, credulous, naïve...

Bletcher

You mean we're looking for two guys now?

Frank

The killer's capable of a high level of violence, probably someone who's been in the justice system once or twice, done time.

Ex-con, moves in similar circles outside. Limited number of places these people go. Limited ways they socialize.

Bletcher

I think I know the kind of places you mean.

Wherein where previous findings indicate the other body parts were all sundered while the victims where alive, but I believe this tongue was removed after death. Also the instrument wasn't as sharp or as skillfully used as in previous excisions.

Bletcher

Would that point to, uh, rage, loss of control?

Doubtful. The cuts aren't unusually forceful, just imprecise. A few false starts, repetitive blade strokes.

Bletcher

Frank?

Frank

We do have a pattern change.

Unlikely to be intentional deviation from the established method.

Bletcher

So how do we account for it?

The victim died prematurely or the killer was interrupted.

The perpetrator may be getting lazy, becoming more casual as his activities lose their novelty.

Bletcher

So it really doesn't tell us much then.

Frank

Well, it tells us that he's less concerned about being discovered but no less dangerous... possibly more so. There's nothing here to indicate that this is going to stop.