Capítulo 10 de 30 · 5'06"
On the surface it is a sting: a lawyer and the police set up a secret meeting and wait for a call. Underneath, the killer toys with them, complaining of headaches and saying, "I kill, I don't get them," before they rule him out because the voice is too young.
Waiting for the Killer's Call
❝ Monólogo · 15 frases New rules, then the blue pigs
He writes murder as office hours, then baby-talks the cops about buses and booboos.
A lawyer arranges a secret meeting with the police, hoping a caller will give himself up as the Zodiac. On the phone the man complains of headaches and insists he does not want the gas chamber. The police record it, play it back, and decide the voice is too young to be their suspect.
The scene turns on a question that never gets a clean answer: is this the killer or just a disturbed man? The caller borrows the Zodiac's language—headaches, the gas chamber, the promise that talking keeps him safe—and even offers a chilling trade, "I kill, I don't get them." It is exactly the kind of detail that would fit, and exactly the kind a lonely attention-seeker might invent. The police hedge, noting the voice is too high and too young, and let him go. Around that call sit letters and ciphers, and a quiet bar conversation about who really cracked the code, which keeps the hunt going long after the meeting ends.
A1–C2 es la escala MCER. Las tarjetas por encima del nivel elegido se atenúan y la reproducción no se pausa en ellas.
“You won't get hurt if you talk to me.”
A soothing promise that is really a bargain: talk, and you stay safe.
Neutral
“"The rest of the time I look entirely different.”
A killer calmly admits to a second face, and the calm is what makes it terrifying.
literary
“You fellows certainly know how to put on a secret meeting.”
A backhanded compliment that praises the staging and mocks the fuss.
Informal
“You wouldn't make fun of it if you tried it.”
A gentle defense: the mockery only comes from never having tried it.
Informal
"So I shall change my way of collecting slaves. "I shall no longer announce to anyone when I commit my murders. "They shall look like routine robberies, killings of anger "and a few fake accidents, et cetera. "The police shall never catch me "because I have been too clever for them. "I look like the description passed out only when I do my thing. "The rest of the time I look entirely different. "I shall not tell you what my disguise consists of when I kill. "As of yet I have left no fingerprints behind me, "contrary to what the police say. "I wear transparent fingertips. "All it is is two coats of airplane cement coated on my fingertips. "I enjoy needling the blue pigs. Hey, blue pig, I was in the park. "You were using fire trucks to mask the sound of your cruising prowl cars. "Hey, pig, doesn't it rile you up "to have your nose rubbed in your booboos? "If you cops think I am going to take on a bus the way I stated I was, "you deserve to have holes in your heads."
Siguiente · 11What's your angle?La escena: Graysmith Cracks the Zodiac CipherThey hope the caller who claims to be the Zodiac will show up and identify himself, using the promise of safety to draw him in.
The police don't think so. When they play back the call, they say the voice is too high and too young to match the suspect.
It claims he looks like the description only while committing a crime, and that the rest of the time his appearance is completely different.
A married couple who enjoy puzzles solved it, which then raised the question of what that actually tells them about the killer.
