The Inside

The Inside is a 2005 television series on the FOX Network. It stars Peter Coyote, Rachel Nichols, Jay Harrington, Adam Baldwin, Katie Finneran, and Nelsan Ellis.

Episodes

1. "New Girl In Town" (6/8/2005) Written & directed by Tim Minear

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Los Angeles. Two electricians find a body in an abandoned house. Virgil Webster and his Violent Crimes Unit report to the scene. A detective informs Virgil that the victim?s hands have been stripped of skin and muscle and half of her face has been peeled away. The team thinks that this indicates the work of a serial killer they?ve been tracking. Inspecting the body, Webster realizes that the victim is Margaret Alvarez, one of his special agents.

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Back at the office, a new recruit, Rebecca Locke, shows up for her first day. While Rebecca discusses the case with Virgil in his office, the other agents, Danny Love, Paul Ryan and Melody Sim, look up Rebecca on their FBI compute. Surprisingly, there?s no record of Rebecca before she enrolled in Quantico. Rebecca tells Virgil that she?s noticed that all of the victims were new in town. She?s developing a theory.

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Rebecca views Alvarez?s body in the morgue and makes an interesting discovery. She thinks that Alvarez snapped and did this to herself. Agent Love finds it impossible to believe that somebody peeled off their own face, but Rebecca explains that Alvarez was bipolar. And no medication was found in her body. The killer drove her to this, without actually doing it himself.

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Elsewhere, a young blonde who is new in town comes home. A man in a hooded sweatshirt is waiting for her and attacks. The next day, Rebecca tells Agent Ryan that the killer is past due. They need to assume that he?s already snatched his next victim. They should be looking for signs. Rebecca tells him about a young tenant whose landlord has reported that she skipped town with rent owed. Searching the apartment in question, Rebecca and Love find a laptop with video feed on it. The video shows a young blonde woman tied to a chair. Back at HQ, Carter tracks the video feed source to an abandoned hotel.

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The FBI storms the building. They hear screams, but all they find is the victim?s dead body next to a video setup. The video is playing on delay. Later that night, Agent Ryan tells Virgil that he figured out Rebecca?s past. Her real name is Becky George. She was kidnapped as a young girl, but escaped. That same night, Rebecca returns to the victim?s apartment. Virgil also happens to be there. While talking about the case and victim profiles, Rebecca notices a subway schedule. A breakthrough. She quickly notices that most, if not all, victims were snatched near subway stations.

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Back at HQ, the team reviews security camera footage from subway stations. They notice a man, Gareth Hoth. He has a previous record, petty stuff. Virgil suggests putting Rebecca on the trains as bait. The plan is put into action. But they don?t draw the killer out. Virgil radios to Rebecca to get off the train, but when she sees Hoth approaching the train, she defies his order and stays on. The train takes off before Agent Love can board. The team rushes to the next station to meet the train. At the station, the suspect disembarks, following a young woman. Rebecca trails him, ignoring Virgil?s orders. The suspect is apprehended in the station.

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In the aftermath of the arrest, Virgil publicly fires Rebecca for disobeying orders and tells her to catch the train to LAX. As she?s sitting on the train, she?s approached by Simon, who runs the security cameras for the subway. As the team is leading Hoth away, he?s mumbling about ?The Skyman.? Seeing a security camera, Agent Ryan realizes who the real killer is: Simon. On the subway, Simon starts taunting Rebecca about his killings. At the next station, Simon forces Rebecca off the train. Virgil is waiting for him on the platform and shoots Simon in the head, killing him.

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