Zodiac (2007)

Donal Logue: Captain Ken Narlow

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• Ken Narlow : We really should have been in on the handwriting.

  Inspector William Armstrong : I apologize. You know, things have been moving fast. Listen we're gonna need your scene photos.

  Ken Narlow : Can't help you.

  Inspector William Armstrong : Ken, I don't want to get into a jurisdiciontal thing here.

  Ken Narlow : No, no, no, no, no. We didn't have a crime scene. The ranger that found the kids literally swept everything into a picnic blanket. All we have are the Wing Walker prints.

  Inspector William Armstrong : The what?

  Ken Narlow : Boot prints to and from the crime scene were made by size 10 1/2 Wing Walkers, military-style boots sold only at military PXs designed to walk on the wings of planes.

  Inspector William Armstrong : And you can't buy at a PX without a military ID, so our suspect could be military. Did you guys narrow your list off of this?

  Ken Narlow : Yeah.

  Inspector William Armstrong : Did Vallejo?

  Ken Narlow : I don't know. I don't work in Vallejo. I work here.

• Robert Graysmith : I just want to help.

  Ken Narlow : What are you, some kind of boy scout?

  Robert Graysmith : Eagle Scout, actually... First class.

• Inspector William Armstrong : I'm gonna need photos of those boot prints.

  Ken Narlow : Sure, if you send me the handwriting.

  Inspector William Armstrong : I thought Questioned Documents already did.

  Ken Narlow : Nope. Vallejo's got 'em, not us.

  Inspector William Armstrong : All right. I'll have Questioned Documents... forget it. I'll telefax it to you.

  Ken Narlow : We don't have telefax yet.

  Inspector William Armstrong : Okay, I'll put it in the mail.

  Ken Narlow : We'll mail ours, too. And call Mulanax in Vallejo. Maybe he can get you a mimeo.

• [Graysmith visits with Ken Narlow in Napa] 

  Robert Graysmith : Does the name Rick Marshall mean anything to you?

  Ken Narlow : [it does]  What are you after?

  Robert Graysmith : What have you got?

  Ken Narlow : Hypothetically, you just named my favorite suspect in the whole case. This is off the record. Couple of years back, I was trying to get Marshall's prints. I handed him a photo. He looks at it. He's about to give it back and he says, "My goodness, I got fingerprints all over this." And he wipes them off.

  Robert Graysmith : Why didn't you test him for handwriting?

  Ken Narlow : Because when they finally did run his prints... they cleared him against the one in Stine's cab.

  Robert Graysmith : So it's not him?

  Ken Narlow : Maybe yes, maybe no.

  Robert Graysmith : No? What do you mean?

  Ken Narlow : Zodiac left gloves behind at the scene. If he had the foresight to bring gloves with him, how the hell's he gonna accidentally leave a print behind?

  Robert Graysmith : But it was in the victim's blood.

  Ken Narlow : Could have been one of the bystanders, or a cop just reaches out... Boom. False print.

  Robert Graysmith : But that print disqualified 2,500 suspects.

  Ken Narlow : Which is why we used handwriting.

  Robert Graysmith : But not for Rick Marshall.

  Ken Narlow : S.F.P.D. saw a handwritten sign in the window of his house, decided it looked nothing like the Z letters, so they moved on.

  Robert Graysmith : How do they know Rick Marshall wrote the sign?

  Ken Narlow : [smiles]  My thoughts exactly. Rick Marshall was a Navy man. He received code training. He was also a projectionist at a silent film theater.

  Robert Graysmith : How do I get a copy of Rick Marshall's handwriting?

  Ken Narlow : Three ways. One, get a warrant; which you can't. Two, get him to volunteer; which he won't.

  Robert Graysmith : Yeah, and three?

  Ken Narlow : Get creative.