Millennium Season 3 Episode 21

Frank investigates a series of murders that replicate a serial killer case from his past while Emma moves closer to the Millennium Group.

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FRANK PURSUES A SERIAL KILLER WHOSE MODUS OPERANDI IS IDENTICAL TO THAT OF A MURDERER WHO DIED IN THE ELECTRIC CHAIR; WATTS OFFERS TO AID EMMA’S AILING FATHER.

A frantic Frank rushes inside Jordan’s classroom and tells his daughter that they are leaving at once. Jordan calmly retrieves her backpack and, acting as though the summons has been long expected, leaves the room. Frank and Jordan run to the car and eventually begin a journey into the mountains.

Three weeks earlier… Frank and a group of onlookers observe as convicted serial killer Edward Cuffle is strapped into an electric chair. Moments before a black leather mask is placed over Cuffle’s face, his eyes lock with someone sitting in the group. He mouths the word, “yes.” The executioner then flips the fatal switch, electrocuting Cuffle.

An intruder wearing a night vision device enters the home of John and Cyndie Dryden. As the man, who we will come to know as Lucas Francis Barr, makes his way through the living room, he carves the Roman numeral “II” into a wall. He makes his way upstairs, as the sounds of the couple making love filter through the house. Barr enters the bedroom, his night vision apparatus recording the proceedings. The following day, a cleaning lady finds John and Cyndie’s bodies lashed to dining room chairs with barbed wire.

Frank and other investigators comb through the Dryden household, looking for clues. Frank notices a small-bore hole in John’s temple. Though Baldwin concludes the injury was the result of a bullet, Frank later explains that the couple died when holes were drilled into their skulls. He tells Baldwin he knows this because the killer is Ed Cuffle… a man who died in the electric chair three days earlier.

Frank tells Baldwin and Emma that Cuffle, the son of a cleaning woman, resented the upper class. As a young boy, Cuffle overheard his mother