"Beastslayer 949" is Alec Mosca. (Jane leaves the decoder, spaghetti and meatballs box!) (looks under the bed) I found the key. (opens a chest containing Noah's decoder) Premises of the CBI
(Lisbon and Tolman in an interrogation room)
Lisbon: Nice work, tailing us to the pier. Alec Mosca: From three weeks back every one of Noah's calls is a bust Guy couldn't pick a bear to crap in the woods. Alec Mosca: Who? Breakfast at my favorite strip club. But what I find is interesting, is that the chess set that your husband has set up on the table is expensive, and this one, on the other hand, is made in China, not so expensive. But when I contacted Rafe, he wanted nothing to do with it. Cho: Now the hospital security logs have you out have you out the morning of Noah's murder. Day - a street
(Lisbon and Jane stakeout in a car)
Jane (his cell in his hand): Rook to B8? Given Daphne's condition, ownership of the device goes to Noah's brother. He must have figured out where it was when he saw the locker key, would have done anything to get his hands on it. He runs a store called "The Puzzle Nook" not too far from the Valiquettes'. He was worried about the device falling into the wrong hands. I begged him, and finally he said he would do it, which was only right because it was his turn. I identified three people that I thought could pull it off, and Noah was one of them. I knew Noah hid the device there as soon as I saw that key. In the corridors of the mental hospital
(Lisbon and Jane)
Lisbon: It's funny how well you two get along. It appears Noah may have hidden the device in a locker that this key belongs to. It has to work. It was silence, days of it, and books I could never understand the title of, and no s*x when he's thinking, which, by the way, is all the time. Jane (examining his own hand): Uses for a detached index finger...
Lisbon: Sending a message? Jane (still in the room): 4 and 2. Jane arrives the Valiquette home
(he spots a kettle in the kitchen window...)
(Lisbon, Daphne in the living room)
Daphne Valiquette: You're telling me that somebody killed my husband and cut off his finger to get into some safe? Jane: 'Cause I found a locker key at Noah's house, very well-hidden, a locker 42..
Tolman Bunting: Interesting. Jane: But Noah wasn't anybody. Jane: Did the killer take the finger with him? Jane: The universal hack. Jane: Too late. Jane: Uh, it's a code-breaking device designed by Noah for Mr. Bunting, uh, in return for $2 million your $2 million. Jane: Yes, it is. Last week, Noah called me and told me that he had built the device but that he wasn't going to give it to me. Lisbon and Jane follow Oliver at a distance
(Oliver is attacked by a person wearing a cap)
Lisbon: Who was that? Lisbon and Jane in the cell with him)
Lisbon: Oliver Simon McDaniel. Lisbon: Did you know that Noah was working on one for him, too? Locker key. Make them tell you who Beastslayer is. Not in a clown suit. On the screen:
"MY WIFE KILLED ME
MY WIFE KILLED ME
MY WIFE KILLED ME"
Daphne Valiquette: What? The clown costume, the ad, sounds like the work of a man who likes to play games, doesn't it? The kitchen of her house was left unsearched because that was her domain. There's a lot of files that seem like random numbers and letters. They protect your e-mails. Tolman Bunting: A device that could decipher virtually any encrypted information. Tolman Bunting: Mm... once a month, I'd say, but we, uh, we'd play on the Internet or on the phone, and... (to Jane who plays with a Chinese puzzle) Uh, I think you'll, uh, you'll like that one. Tolman Bunting: No, no, not at... all, but, see, Noah was a bit oblivious to people's feelings, so sometimes that would come across as rude. Valiquette's apartment
(a young woman, and Lisbon on a sofa, a man on a chair)
DVD on the TV:
"Noah Valiquette: If the zeta-function is defined, for all complex numbers where "s" does not equal 1, then we can
Daphne Valiquette: To your audience, honey. Van Pelt: Well, they had a little money in the bank, but I checked his Web browser history.
Plan: A: CBI; Q: What organization does Jane work for? A: Noah Valicat; Q: Who was murdered? A: a gun-wielding clown; Q: What was the murder weapon? A: a movie audition; Q: Why were there so many clowns at the CBI? A: Rafe; Q: Who is Noah's brother? A: a mathematical genius; Q: What was Noah's profession? A: a day trader; Q: What was Noah's job? A: Daphne's waitress salary; Q: What was the only income the Valicat's had? A: Tolman Bunting; Q: Who was Noah playing chess with? A: a store selling puzzles; Q: What kind of store does Tolman Bunting run? A: a verbal chess game; Q: What kind of chess game did Jane and Bunting play? A: "BeastSlayer; Q: Who was Noah Valicat sending files to? A: a panicked Daphne; Q: Who calls Lisbon to say someone is in her house? A: The CBI team; Q: Who arrives at Daphne's house after she calls Lisbon? A: the house; Q: What was ransacked? A: the carpet; Q: What was ripped back to reveal a high-tech floor safe? A: Noah's missing finger; Q: What was found under the bed? A: 42; Q: What is the number on the locker key? A: the neatly organized kitchen; Q: Where does Jane make himself tea? A: Alec Mosca; Q: Who is BeastSlayer? A: 10 percent; Q: What percentage of the profits did Noah get for his analysis? A: debt; Q: What was Mosca in? A: computer geeks; Q: What type of people did Bunting secretly employ? A: a computer security business; Q: What kind of business does Bunting secretly run? A: three people; Q: How many people did Noah offer $2 million to build the universal hack? A: Three weeks ago; Q: When did Noah tell Bunting he had finished the universal hack? A: the wrong hands; Q: Noah was worried about the universal hack falling into what? A: Amsterdam; Q: Where is one of the people building a device? A: Oliver McDaniel; Q: Who is a patient in a secure mental hospital? A: a tin can; Q: What did McDaniel eat his spaghetti and meatballs from? A: a duplicate pass-key; Q: What did Jane use to escape from the mental hospital? A: a ruse; Q: What did Jane see McDaniel's escape to Brazil as? A: a seaside resort - McDaniel's choice; Q: Where does Jane go to find McDaniel? A: a hooded man; Q: Who knocks out McDaniel? A: a locker room; Q: Where did the CBI team chase Bunting? A: the hooded man - Bunting; Q: Who was the hooded man? A: a strip club's buffet; Q: Where was Oliver McDaniel during Noah's murder? A: his contacts; Q: What did Bunting use to get the charges dropped? A: the Attorney General; Q: Who orders Lisbon to drop the charges? A: the Valicat house; Q: Where does Jane meet Daphne, Rafe and Bunting with the universal hack machine? A: the universal hack machine - Bunting; Q: Who wanted the universal hack machine? A: Daphne flicks; Q: Who flicks the switch on the universal hack machine? A: the screen; Q: What does Jane find the message on? A: the wealth; Q: What did Daphne want? A: the (fake) break-in; Q: What was the break-in at Daphne's house? A: her domain; Q: What did Jane say the kitchen was? A: CBI headquarters Bunting; Q: Where does Bunting take possession of the device? A: legal action; Q: What does Bunting threaten to take against Jane? Summary: Jane and the CBI team investigate the death of Noah Valicat, murdered by a gun-wielding clown who cuts off the victim's right index finger. The CBI has to process scores of clowns, there for a movie audition. Lisbon and Jane interview the victim's brother Rafe and his widow Daphne. Noah was a mathematical genius, but a poor one, who had recently started using his skills to work as a day trader . He always hoped that one of his home-inventions would prove successful; meanwhile they barely survived on Daphne's waitress salary. Jane sees an unfinished chess game in progress - Noah was playing with chess with Tolman Bunting who runs a store selling puzzles. Jane and Bunting begin a verbal chess game with no board or pieces. Van Pelt finds that Noah's day-trader job was fictitious, instead finding files of seemingly random numbers and letters routinely e-mailed to "BeastSlayer". Lisbon is phoned by a panicked Daphne saying someone is in her house. The CBI team arrives. No one is inside but the house has been ransacked and the carpet in the bedroom has been ripped back to reveal a high-tech floor safe, which Daphne says she did not know about. Lisbon finds the safe's key under the bed: Noah's missing finger. Looking through the safe's contents, Jane finds a locker key marked 42. Jane makes himself tea in the neatly organized kitchen. "BeastSlayer" is Alec Mosca who says Noah offered to give analysis on his bets for a 10 percent cut which proved profitable for them both, but that lately his analyses were all wrong, angering Mosca who is now seriously in debt. Lisbon and Jane discover that Bunting is secretly employing computer geeks in a computer security business. Bunting says Noah was working on a "universal hack", a priceless device capable of decoding any encryption. He offered three people $2 million for whoever could do it first. Three weeks ago Noah called and said he'd done it but worried about it falling into the wrong hands. Bunting did not believe him. Jane tells him about the locker key. One of the other people building a device is in Amsterdam, the other is Oliver McDaniel who is a patient in a secure mental hospital. As Lisbon and Jane interview him, McDaniel eats spaghetti and meatballs from a tin can, and seems uninterested in the universal hack device and the locker key that Jane shows him. Jane learns that McDaniel's music player plays soothing ocean sounds. As soon as Lisbon and Jane leave, Noah escapes using a duplicate pass-key made long before which he has been using to come and go as he pleases. Jane spots McDaniel's escape to Brazil as a ruse and instead goes to a seaside resort - McDaniel's choice of "music" inferred it and he ordered tins of spaghetti and meatballs. As the CBI team follows McDaniel a hooded man knocks him out. The team chases him into (and out of) a locker room, McDaniel's destination. They arrest the hooded man - Bunting. Jane recovers the universal hack device from the locker that is 4 rows across and 2 down. McDaniel says that during Noah's murder he was at a strip club's buffet. Bunting uses his contacts and the Attorney General orders Lisbon to drop the charges. Jane meets Daphne, Rafe and Bunting at the Valicat house with the universal hack machine - Bunting wants it but Jane says Daphne, as the widow, is the owner. The machine does not work until Daphne flicks a switch. Text appears on the screen, scrolling: "My wife killed me." Daphne admits murdering Noah because her life was lonely and a drudge. She wanted the wealth the universal hack would provide but Noah hid it. She knew about the safe and how to open it (Noah's finger) but the device was not in there. Jane tells Lisbon he figured out it was her as the kitchen was unsearched during the (fake) break-in because it was her domain - she knew it was not in the kitchen. At CBI headquarters Bunting takes possession of the device. Jane apologises that he had "a little fiddle with it" - now it is nothing more than a collection of useless loose parts. Threatening legal action Bunting is about to stalk out when Jane finishes their chess game, by winning.