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Zodiac · 2007 — 第 8 / 30 章 · 5'06" · C1

Police Bicker Over the Zodiac Case, Explained：skip town

Detectives from four jurisdictions trade requests for prints, handwriting and photos while the tip line is swamped, and the one witness who saw Zodiac unmasked has vanished. Told they can't treat the case the ordinary way, they chase a boot print and a witness's memory to "put out a new composite right away."

あらすじ

Police from San Francisco, Vallejo, Napa and Solano struggle to share evidence on the Zodiac case while tip lines overflow. An officer explains that the only victim who saw Zodiac without a mask has left town. Later a patrolman describes a stocky, crew-cut man he passed near the scene, and the detectives decide to release a new composite.

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narrow it downhave a word with someonegive or takeskip town

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このシーンの表現

skip town

to leave a place suddenly, often to avoid trouble

有人问能不能找某个嫌疑人谈谈，对方摊手说 He skipped town，等于线索当场断掉。

He skipped town a week before the trial.

このシーンの他の表現

  • narrow it down

    to reduce the range of possibilities

  • have a word with someone

    to speak to someone privately

  • give or take

    approximately, with a small margin

このシーンのメモ一覧

125 行のセリフに 30 件のメモ

表現 · B2get someone on the tip lineWhen they can't get anyone on the tip line
表現 · B2keep getting put throughthey call the switchboard and keep getting put through.
文法 · B2keep getting put through

keep with a participle

they call the switchboard and keep getting put through.
発音keep getting put through

weak form

they call the switchboard and keep getting put through.
表現 · B2have hard suspectsYou got any hard suspects?
スラング · B2hard suspectsYou got any hard suspects?
表現 · B2narrow something down

to reduce the range of possibilities

Well, can't you narrow it down?
表現 · B1get out of somethingI would love to, if I could get out of this...
文法 · B1if I could get out of this

conditional clause

I would love to, if I could get out of this...
発音get out of this

liaison

I would love to, if I could get out of this...
表現 · B2play catch upWe're playing catch up, Jack.
発音catch up

liaison

We're playing catch up, Jack.
表現 · B2skip town

to leave a place suddenly, often to avoid trouble

I can't. He skipped town.
スラング · B2skipped townI can't. He skipped town.
文法 · B1As soon as he got out

as soon as clause

As soon as he got out, he split.
表現 · B1have something to do with somethingI don't think he wanted to have anything to do with this.
表現 · B2lift something from somewhereNow, we need that print you lifted from the cab and we should have been in on the handwriting.
表現 · B2be in on somethingWe really should have been in on the handwriting.
文法 · B2should have been in on the handwriting

should have done

We really should have been in on the handwriting.
表現 · A2can't help someoneCan't help you.
表現 · B1have a word with someone

to speak to someone privately

Can I have a word with you?
表現 · B2give or take

approximately, with a small margin

Give or take. Yeah.
表現 · B1not in a hurryRight, not in a hurry. Kind of lumbering along like...
表現 · B1be covered in somethingHe would have been covered in blood.
表現 · B2get with someoneYou need to get with a sketch artist.
文法 · B1have to put out a new composite right away

have to for obligation

We have to put out a new composite right away.
文法 · B2think of this case in normal police terms

think of collocation

You can't think of this case in normal police terms.
表現 · B1miss the pointMaybe, maybe not. You're missing the point.
表現 · B2not for lack of trying-Not for lack of trying. -Not for lack of trying.
発音Not for lack of trying

weak form

-Not for lack of trying. -Not for lack of trying.

「Police Bicker Over the Zodiac Case」を読み解く

What's really going on

The scene is about how a sprawling investigation stalls. Nobody here is a fool, but the case spans counties, and the first instinct is turf: prints, handwriting and photos are traded like favors. "The road goes both ways," one officer says, and the line doubles as the whole problem: cooperation has become a transaction. Meanwhile the one clean lead, a survivor who could identify Zodiac, simply "skipped town." These are working cops buried in calls, and the killer's greatest advantage is not skill but the ordinary friction of institutions. Even the eyewitness is human and uncertain, remembering a dark jacket and a lumbering walk, which is all the police have to build a face from.

Theme

DutyEach department guards its own case, so the shared job of catching Zodiac stalls at every border.
TrustEvidence is traded like a favor and the road goes both ways, so cooperation never quite happens.

このチャプターで学べること

  • Hear swamped as buried in work
  • Use skip town for fleeing a city
  • Treat catch up as staying behind
  • Read catty-corner as diagonally opposite

発音のポイント

  • keep getting put through — weak form
  • get out of this — liaison
  • catch up — liaison
  • Not for lack of trying — weak form
You can't think of this case in normal police terms.

The detective's warning that ordinary procedure won't crack a killer who leaves no usable prints across four jurisdictions.

From there on out, he only manages to kill the girls.

A grim pattern spotted in the files: after the first attack, only the female victims die and the men survive.

The only guy who's seen Zodiac without a mask is missing?

Disbelief that the survivor who could identify the killer has left town and cannot be shown lineups.

I don't think he wanted to have anything to do with this.

An officer's guess that the survivor left precisely because he wanted no part of the case.

このシーンについての質問

Why does the case get stuck between departments?

The attacks cross county lines, so San Francisco, Vallejo, Napa and Solano each hold part of the evidence and want credit and control, which slows every exchange.

Why is the missing survivor such a problem?

He is the only victim who saw Zodiac without a mask, so his absence removes the one witness who could pick the killer out of a lineup.

What is the Wing Walker boot print?

It's a military-style boot sold only at PX stores, designed to walk on aircraft wings. The print ties the suspect to military access, which is why the detectives want photos of it.

Why do they rush a new composite?

A patrolman describes a stocky, crew-cut man walking near the scene, so the detectives decide to release an updated sketch before the trail cools.

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