Criminal Minds

Criminal Minds

Criminal Minds is an American police procedural crime drama television series created and produced by Jeff Davis. It premiered on September 22, 2005 and has run for fourteen seasons on CBS. It tells the story of a group of behavioral profilers who work for the FBI as members of its Behavioral Analysis Unit (BAU). The team focuses on profiling criminals, called the "unsub" or "unknown subject", as well as victimology, in investigation of crimes. The show follows the team as they work various cases and tackle their personal struggles. The show has an ensemble cast, with Jason Gideon (Mandy Patinkin), Aaron Hotchner (Thomas Gibson), Elle Greenaway (Lola Glaudini), Derek Morgan (Shemar Moore), Spencer Reid (Matthew Gray Gubler), Jennifer Jareau (A. J. Cook), and Penelope Garcia (Kirsten Vangsness) as the original cast. Throughout the show's later seasons, the characters Emily Prentiss (Paget Brewster), David Rossi (Joe Mantegna), Ashley Seaver (Rachel Nichols), Alex Blake (Jeanne Tripplehorn), Kate Callahan (Jennifer Love Hewitt), Tara Lewis (Aisha Tyler), Luke Alvez (Adam Rodriguez), Stephen Walker (Damon Gupton), and Matt Simmons (Daniel Henney) were introduced. Criminal Minds has gained critical acclaim for its characterization, pacing, atmosphere, acting, directing, and writing. It has also become a ratings hit for CBS, regularly featuring as one of the network's most-watched cable shows throughout its decade-long run. The show's success has spawned a media franchise, with several spinoffs, including a South Korean adaptation and a video game. Following the conclusion of the thirteenth season, CBS renewed the show for a fourteenth season, which premiered on October 3, 2018. Every episode includes one or more quotations that are tangentially connected to the crimes under investigation, recited by a main character. Most often, one quotation is heard after the opening credits, and another at the end of the episode.

Director(s): Jennifer
Year:
2005
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Dr. Spencer Reid:
[Blake's phone beeps] You want me to...

Alex Blake:
No.

Dr. Spencer Reid:
You want to talk about what's bothering you?

Alex Blake:
No. Nothing's bothering me.

Dr. Spencer Reid:
Something's bothering you. I can always tell when you're bothered because you whisper lyrics to yourself. Hip-hop specifically. I thought it was odd at first, but then I remembered your dissertation was on the fluidity of metaphor. You seem to have a particular fondness for Nas.

Alex Blake:
Wow. How did you know?

Dr. Spencer Reid:
Morgan made me listen to him when we started working together. He said anybody that can't quote Illmatic is ignorant. So, do you want to talk about it?

Alex Blake:
Uh, the text, it's from my husband.

Dr. Spencer Reid:
Is that a bad thing?

Alex Blake:
He just wants to know if I've thought about his offer.

Dr. Spencer Reid:
What offer?

Alex Blake:
To teach with him at Harvard.

Dr. Spencer Reid:
How would you... Ah.

Alex Blake:
Yeah.

Dr. Spencer Reid:
Tough call. What do you think you're gonna do?

Alex Blake:
When we got married, part of the attraction was that we were both obsessed with our work, and for a while that was okay.

Dr. Spencer Reid:
Yeah, the last time we talked about it, you seemed to prefer it.

Alex Blake:
Oh, not anymore. I don't like going home to an empty house.

Dr. Spencer Reid:
May I offer some advice?

Alex Blake:
Sure.

Dr. Spencer Reid:
We need to turn around. You just passed the house.

Alex Blake:
Oh.

Dr. Spencer Reid:
[car arrives at the house] That's not the advice, though. Blake, for the last ten years, this job has been my life. And then, for a few months, I had a taste of what you have. So, work. There's always work, and there'll always be work. What's rare is finding someone who makes us happy.

Aaron 'Hotch' Hotchner:
[Hotch is on his way to his house after learning that Foyet has gotten to Haley and Jack... his cell phone rings, it's Haley] Foyet?

Haley Hotchner:
[Foyet is with Haley] Aaron? You're OK?

Aaron 'Hotch' Hotchner:
[stunned by the irony... pauses] I'm fine.

Haley Hotchner:
But... he said that... Oh, Aaron.

Aaron 'Hotch' Hotchner:
He can hear us, right?

Haley Hotchner:
Yes... I'm so sorry.

Aaron 'Hotch' Hotchner:
Haley... show him NO weakness... no fear.

Haley Hotchner:
I know... Sam told me all about him. Is he, um...

Aaron 'Hotch' Hotchner:
[quickly... he's lying] No... Sam is fine.

The Reaper:
Aaron, Aaron, Aaron... is that why your marriage broke up? Because you're a liar?

Aaron 'Hotch' Hotchner:
Don't listen to him, Haley!

The Reaper:
I have Sam's service phone right here. They sent out a mass text about his death. Take a look if you want.

Aaron 'Hotch' Hotchner:
He's trying to scare you!

The Reaper:
Did you even tell her what this was about? About the deal?

Aaron 'Hotch' Hotchner:
He's just trying to make you angry.

The Reaper:
Well she should be! She's gonna [covers Jack's ears and lowers his voice] D-I-E because of your inflated ego!

Aaron 'Hotch' Hotchner:
Ignore him, Haley!

The Reaper:
Oh sure, you don't want her to know this part, either. [to Haley] You know, all he had to do was stop lookin' for me and you wouldn't be in this mess.

Aaron 'Hotch' Hotchner:
Don't react!

Haley Hotchner:
What is he talking about?

Aaron 'Hotch' Hotchner:
[pauses] Tell Jack I need him working a case.

Haley Hotchner:
What?

Haley Hotchner:
Tell Jack I need him working a case!

Haley Hotchner:
Jack, did you hear that?

Jack Hotchner:
[comes to phone] Hi, Daddy.

Erin Strauss:
You want to arrest James Stanworth? Are you out of your mind?

Derek Morgan:
He's got motive. Mary Rutka had a tape. She was blackmailing him.

Erin Strauss:
It was a hooded figure. You can't prove it was him on that videotape.

David Rossi:
He fits the profile, Erin.

Erin Strauss:
Forgive me, but your profile sounds like a self-made man, not the psychopath you claim he is.

Derek Morgan:
We said he'd be destructive. In 1998 alone, he fired 6,000 people from one of his companies. Some of those employees took their own lives. That is the type of power and devastation that he enjoys.

Erin Strauss:
Hearsay. Slander if you're not careful.

Derek Morgan:
Ma'am, he got into politics to be hard on crime. He would have access to keep tabs on Don Sanderson.

Erin Strauss:
And now you're sounding as paranoid as Don Sanderson. You cannot accuse a man without a shred of physical evidence.

Derek Morgan:
Mary Rutka had skin under her nails. Maybe she left a mark.

Erin Strauss:
And you cannot arrest a man based on the possibility of a scratch.

David Rossi:
We can't arrest this man. That's what you mean. Don't pull any punches now, Erin.

Erin Strauss:
You don't understand what the politics are, do you, Dave? You never have.

David Rossi:
No, I do. I just don't care.

Derek Morgan:
Ma'am, all due respect, but we have an innocent man in our custody, and the killer is still out there. It just might be James Stanworth.

Erin Strauss:
You don't have enough proof. The BAU functions without you. Don't push it.

Derek Morgan:
[searching for a clue to indicate the unsub's next target] You know, this is a lot of boxes. How are we supposed to narrow it down?

Jason Gideon:
Check and see if it ended in acquittal. If it didn't, toss it aside.

Aaron "Hotch" Hotchner:
It has to be a capital case. He's escalating. The more brutal, the better.

Elle Greenaway:
Why not go by most recent?

Dr. Spencer Reid:
Judging by his elaborate filing system, Doyle obviously has obsessive-compulsive disorder. People with OCD often finish tasks, and then go back to the beginning and start over.

Derek Morgan:
So he continually goes through the transcripts and the first one to trigger him becomes his next victim.

Elle Greenaway:
Here's one. This is a liquor store owner who was shot with his own gun.

Aaron "Hotch" Hotchner:
Flip to when they present the defense. Did the defendant testify?

Elle Greenaway:
No.

Aaron "Hotch" Hotchner:
Stick with the ones where the accused took the stand. This is personal. He hears their voices.

Jason Gideon:
Doyle's victims all claimed to be a type of victim themselves. The first two threw themselves on the mercy of the court, pleading alcohol and drug dependency. The priest said he was a victim, victim of recent hysteria.

Aaron "Hotch" Hotchner:
Look for key phrases: victim, mercy, anything that signifies they thought their crime wasn't their fault.

Dr. Spencer Reid:
I think I might have one, guys: Ted Elmore. He shot and killed both his parents after claiming self-defense for years of physical abuse.

Jason Gideon:
Doyle lost his own parents. Hearing someone get away with killing their own, that would haunt him.

Aaron Hotchner:
We believe we're looking for a white male in his late 20s to early 30s.

Deputy:
Wait, wait, wait. I'm sorry, I thought we were looking at black gangbangers.

Derek Morgan:
The unsub has been staging the crime scenes to make it look like black gangs and undocumented immigrants were responsible.

Deputy:
Why would anyone do that?

Jennifer Jareau:
We think he's trying to create some sort of racial conflict.

Dr. Spencer Reid:
In 1969, Charles Manson orchestrated the Tate-LaBianca murders, in the hopes of creating a race war between the blacks and whites that he referred to as "Helter Skelter".

David Rossi:
A name he stole from a Beatles song.

Dr. Spencer Reid:
Members of the Manson family left watermelon rinds at the scene of the crime and also painted panther paws on the wall in blood in the hopes of convincing authorities that the Black Panther Party was responsible.

Aaron Hotchner:
Hate groups like the Aryan Nation believe that race war is not only inevitable, but necessary.

Emily Prentiss:
Our unsub may be a member of one of these groups. Aryan gangs have a strong presence in prison, so he may be an ex-con, or even possibly related to a convict.

David Rossi:
We think he may also be some kind of zealot. He believes his war is already being fought, and these murders are a mission to him.

Jennifer Jareau:
And like a solider, he is willing to put himself in harm's way.

Dr. Spencer Reid:
The unsub may also be vulnerable somehow. Weak-minded or even lonely. His cause gives him a sense of power and belonging.

Derek Morgan:
He's physically fit enough to move dead bodies, so he's probably young.

David Rossi:
But not so young as to be impulsive. These attacks took planning and focus, so he's disciplined.

Dr. Spencer Reid:
He uses Oxycodone to drug his unwilling partners. But he does so without killing them, which means he's knowledgeable about dosages.

Emily Prentiss:
And Oxy is expensive, so look at medical care professionals and caregivers, anyone with access to to prescription drugs.

Aaron Hotchner:
This unsub is dedicated and driven. Makes him especially dangerous. Surrender's not likely part of his strategy.

David Rossi:
Did I ever tell you about my Uncle Sal? He liked to fix up old cars. When my Aunt Rosie died, he bought a 1947 Buick. Well, it was a piece of junk, really, but he was obsessed with it. He'd work on it day and night, forgetting to eat, until it was a thing of beauty. Then one day, it got stolen. When the cops found it, it had been completely vandalized. Uncle Sal was devastated. Never recovered. He died about a year later.

Dr. Spencer Reid:
I'm sorry about your uncle.

David Rossi:
I'm sorry about Maeve. So, how long has it been now? Four months?

Dr. Spencer Reid:
Three months and 15 days.

David Rossi:
That's why you're not sleeping. This can't go on.

Dr. Spencer Reid:
I realize that the socially acceptable amount of time to wallow in grief is coming to an end, and...

David Rossi:
That's not what I mean. You wallow as long as you need, but talk to someone.

Dr. Spencer Reid:
I feel like there are two types of people in this world, Rossi. The ones that get over their grief and move on, and the ones that descend into some sort of endless misery.

David Rossi:
I know how you feel. Give it time.

Dr. Spencer Reid:
How much time? I thought by coming to work every day and helping other people, the pain would lessen, but it hasn't.

David Rossi:
Compartmentalization works only so long. Don't be like Uncle Sal.

Dr. Spencer Reid:
You know that I remember every single word we ever said to each other?

David Rossi:
Finally, the downside to an eidetic memory. Listen, Spencer. If you want to feel better, you can't control the process. You have to let yourself grieve.

Dr. Spencer Reid:
I'm not sleeping because when I do, I dream of Maeve. And when I see her, I feel the sweetest relief imaginable. She always asks me to dance, but I can't because I don't know how to dance, and because I never even got to touch her when she was alive. I know if I give into that fantasy, I'll be lost forever, so I force myself to wake up. Is that part of normal healing?

Derek Morgan:
We believe that the unsub that we're looking for is a woman who's trying to get pregnant. She's experiencing what we call black widow maternal desire. She has a desperate need for a child, which most likely stems from the recent loss of one.

Alex Blake:
That child may have died or been taken away in a custody situation.

Dr. Spencer Reid:
She's drugging her male victims in order to keep them under her control for forty-eight hours, and we believe she's using them as breeding partners to help replace the child that she lost.

David Rossi:
Her victims are surrogates for a male figure in her life. One she may have already killed. He could be a boyfriend or husband who most likely fathered the child she lost.

Aaron Hotchner:
And the signs of torture indicate that she may blame the child's father for this loss and is exacting her revenge on these victims.

Alex Blake:
After they're dead, she dismembers them for easier disposal.

Derek Morgan:
The strength required to do this, and transport body parts, it's likely that she's working with a submissive partner she dominates with her agenda.

David Rossi:
Based on the sophistication and patience required for these crimes, we believe this unsub is probably in her thirties and no older than her early forties, if pregnancy is her goal.

Jennifer 'JJ' Jareau:
And she works at night, luring victims from parties or bars. She may even have an illness, or feign one to gain their sympathy.

Aaron Hotchner:
Chad Dumont's been missing for almost thirty hours, and if the unsub keeps to her schedule, he may still be alive. But time is of the essence.

Dr. Spencer Reid:
Even though the first two victims are dead, we can certainly step up our game so we can give the victims' families some answers

Aaron Hotchner:
Thank you.

Dr. Spencer Reid:
The wounds on the thigh show hesitation marks. An unsub this experienced wouldn't display that.

Derek Morgan:
I don't think the unsub did. The angle indicates left-handed dominance. The file says this guy was left-handed, too.

Dr. Spencer Reid:
You know, if he'd been given trilamide, the unsub could have forced him to cut himself. It makes sense for a sadist with abandonment issues, but wouldn't he finish the job?

Derek Morgan:
The victim must have gotten a chance to escape and took it.

Dr. Spencer Reid:
But how? The trilamide kept him compliant enough to hurt himself. It overcame his self-preservation instinct.

Derek Morgan:
Well, then another instinct must have been stronger.

Dr. Spencer Reid:
Like what?

Derek Morgan:
A protective one. This guy was mentally and physically compromised, but he still went after the unsub with everything he had.

Dr. Spencer Reid:
Who would he fight that hard for?

[cut to Morgan on the phone with Garcia]

Derek Morgan:
A child, Garcia. Search nationwide missing persons reports for men traveling with their kids.

Penelope Garcia:
Am I looking for a son or daughter?

Derek Morgan:
We don't know yet.

Penelope Garcia:
No, no, I'm sorry, honey. No dice. Hey, what if they're not reported as missing yet?

Derek Morgan:
Yeah, of course not. When the unsub met them, they were starting over. All right, baby girl, new deal. USPS changes of address notices, people moving into Florida and South Carolina.

Penelope Garcia:
Done.

Derek Morgan:
All right, eliminate women, wives, couples. Narrow it down to men only.

Penelope Garcia:
So... so we're thinking divorced dad here, right?

Derek Morgan:
Yeah, but not just any divorced dad. This guy wants as much distance between his son and his ex-wife as possible. So look for custody disputes, injunctions, allegations. The messier, the better, Garcia.

Aaron Hotchner:
By now, we know the DNA found on the victims did not match anyone in the system, so we're gonna have to look beyond physical evidence to identify the killer.

Emily Prentiss:
Our unsub is a white male in his mid to late 20s, and he has money. He lives alone, in a large residence. There's enough space and ventilation to accommodate an embalming suite.

Aaron Hotchner:
He's awkward with people, especially women. An inability to relate socially is common in homicidal necrophiles.

Derek Morgan:
Because of the alterations to the bodies, we believe the unsub is attempting to recreate a woman he once loved.

Detective Duran:
Like a girlfriend?

Aaron Hotchner:
Or a wife, a mother. Someone who left or died suddenly.

Dr. Spencer Reid:
This projection of the loved one coupled with his need to preserve the victims through embalming is similar to the psychopathology of serial murderer Ed Gein. Gein had an Oedipal complex which developed in the years he nursed his paralyzed mother back from a stroke. After she died, his obsession compelled him to dig up corpses of women who resembled his mother. So persistent was his desire to resurrect his dead mother that he actually dressed in female suits fashioned from human skin. Eventually, Gein grew unhappy with the flesh of dead bodies, which had a tendency to dry and crack, so he shifted his focus to live victims, whose bodies he could better preserve.

Aaron Hotchner:
The evolution from dead to live victims will also be mirrored in our unsub's maturation.

Emily Prentiss:
We've put together a list of incident reports prior to 2006. You're gonna want to follow up on these. Uh, they are inappropriate postmortem conduct, cadaver theft, and graveyard disturbances.

Dr. Spencer Reid:
60% of necrophiles work in the death business, so be sure to canvas local cemeteries, mortuaries, and morgues.

Derek Morgan:
And since we have the killer's DNA, we're gonna be sending you out with kits to swab potential suspects.

Aaron Hotchner:
The odds of finding Brooke Lombardini alive are slim, but the quicker we identify the killer, the better her chances are. For her sake, let's work fast.

Derek Morgan:
Where are we?

David Rossi:
Honestly? Nowhere. We just watched our two most viable suspects walk out the door.

Emily Prentiss:
If Adam isn't our unsub, he has all the makings to become one someday.

Aaron 'Hotch' Hotchner:
Reid?

Dr. Spencer Reid:
Tell me the question that he spiked under in the polygraph.

Derek Morgan:
It was a control question to set the baseline.

Dr. Spencer Reid:
It was a geometric equation?

Derek Morgan:
Reid, I really think he was just intimidated. He tried, he got it wrong, but he wasn't supposed to know the answer anyway.

Dr. Spencer Reid:
What if he lied? What if... what if he knew the answer to the question but intentionally got it wrong?

Jennifer 'JJ' Jareau:
Why would he do that?

Dr. Spencer Reid:
Because he realized that he wouldn't know that answer.

Derek Morgan:
You're losing me, kid.

Dr. Spencer Reid:
Adam said he wasn't getting any rest. He takes midday naps because he's always exhausted. He has a history of blackouts, reclusive behavior, prolonged repeated abuse suffered at the hands of a dominant male who transferred abuse from his female spouse to his prepubescent child.

Aaron 'Hotch' Hotchner:
Where are you going with this?

Dr. Spencer Reid:
What if our ubsub couple isn't a couple at all?

Aaron 'Hotch' Hotchner:
Dissociative identity disorder.

David Rossi:
You think Adam's a multiple personality?

Emily Prentiss:
Well, it fits. Recurrent physical abuse, knowledge he shouldn't have. We've seen this before.

Dr. Spencer Reid:
Look at this. All right? The-the first intervention is timid. It's apprehensive, right? But then he gets knocked down... there's a moment of calm, and then his entire body language changes. I saw this exact same transformation when Adam left the station, only it wasn't rage, it was, uh... arrogance. Like... like the alter ego wanted me to know.

Aaron 'Hotch' Hotchner:
Why?

Dr. Spencer Reid:
I don't know. Power, control. All I know is the person that stared me down over there was not Adam. He's not assertive like that. He doesn't make eye contact.

Jennifer 'JJ' Jareau:
So you think the stress of the interrogation blurred the line between Adam and his alter personality?

Dr. Spencer Reid:
I think the unsub surfaced for just a moment. It-it-it knew the answer to the question, realized Adam wouldn't, and lied.

David Rossi:
I was here on a serial rapist in '88. It was pretty short work. The guy wasn't gonna win any IQ contests. The day after we, uh, collared him, a local detective was driving me to the airport, and, um, he hears a call on his walkie of kids screaming in a house not far from where we were. He asks if I mind taking the job in with him. We were first on the scene. Inside we found...

Derek Morgan:
[placing the case file on the table] Found this.

David Rossi:
The ax had been left behind, but it had been wiped clean. It turns out it belonged to the family. The, uh, oldest daughter, Connie, told me her father bought it on Christmas Eve a few months earlier, to cut down the Christmas tree. Now I, uh, always associate the whole thing with Christmas. Never been able to put a tree up myself again.

Jennifer 'JJ' Jareau:
So he... he never hurt the kids at all?

David Rossi:
Not physically.

Derek Morgan:
But he would have known that the kids were in the house.

David Rossi:
He only hurt the parents and then left.

Emily Prentiss:
Okay, so using a weapon he found at the scene and not eliminating all of the potential witnesses, that makes him disorganized.

Derek Morgan:
But he left no evidence, which suggests he's organized.

Jennifer 'JJ' Jareau:
There was a fingerprint.

David Rossi:
But it was behind the bedroom door. I don't even think he knew it was there. There should have been prints in other places, but they were wiped clean. An open back door, a... a drinking glass left in the kitchen. And that one good print... was not a match anywhere. I've been over this a million times. I... I keep thinking if there was just one more piece, one more thing to go on. The answer was right in front of me.

Emily Prentiss:
He might be dead.

David Rossi:
I have to be sure.

Derek Morgan:
Rossi, if he's dead, you may never really know.

David Rossi:
When we arrived on the scene... before any of the other units got there, I could hear them... before I even got out of the car. It was a warm morning and the, um, the windows were open in the upstairs bedroom. And their voices... floated out into the street. They were crying and calling for their mommy and daddy. Three terrified children screaming for their murdered parents. I've seen so much death and pain, but that sound... it's been twenty years and I can still hear them screaming every night... crying. If I can't tell them for sure that whoever's responsible will never do it again... that screaming might never stop.

Derek Morgan:
You said I was a high school jock. I was, but not at first. My freshman year, I was five foot three. I weighed a buck twenty soaking wet, so trust me when I tell you I got my ass kicked every day. So the following summer, I hit the weights. And I got lucky, I grew six inches. But it was never about vanity, Reid. It was about survival.

Dr. Spencer Reid:
I was in the library and, um... Harper Hillman comes up to me, and she tells me that, uh... Alexa Lisbon wants to meet me behind the field house. Alexa Lisbon's like, easily, the prettiest girl in school.

Derek Morgan:
So what happened? Alexa wasn't there?

Dr. Spencer Reid:
No, she was there. So was the entire football team. They... stripped me naked and tied me to a goalpost. So many kids were there, you know, just watching.

Derek Morgan:
Nobody tried to stop it?

Dr. Spencer Reid:
I begged... I begged them to, but they just... just watched. And... finally, they got bored and they left. It was like midnight when I finally got home. And my mom had... mom was having one of her episodes, so she didn't even realize I was late.

Derek Morgan:
You never told her what happened?

Dr. Spencer Reid:
I never told anybody. I thought... it was one of those things that I thought if I didn't talk about it, I'd just forget. But I remember it like it was yesterday.

Derek Morgan:
[sighs] Oh, Reid, you don't need an eidetic memory for that. You know, we forget half of what they teach us in school, but when it comes to the torment and the people who inflicted it, we've all got an elephant's memory.

Aaron Hotchner:
We believe the unsub resides in Seattle. All of the attacks, most of which have just involved property damage, have take place here, and the timing and location indicate knowledge of the area. Even though he escalated to a lethal bombing today, we don't believe that that was necessarily his intention.

Derek Morgan:
In fact, anyone not directly next to the device received minor injuries. So we think fear may have been the larger motive.

Special Agent Nick Casey:
So he's a terrorist, then.

Dr. Spencer Reid:
He is, but it's too vague a description for our purposes. Douglas and Olshaker categorize bombers as criminal, group cause, psychologically disorganized, and personal cause bombers. And we believe this guy to be a personal cause bomber.

Aaron Hotchner:
And personal cause bombers are motivated by an underlying emotional conflict.

Dr. Spencer Reid:
In an interview from prison, the Unabomber, Ted Kaczynski, admitted that while he was a graduate student at the University of Michigan, he started having fantasies of becoming a woman. He even got on a list to get a sex change operation, but during a mandatory psychological exam prior to his procedure, he changed his mind. He told the psychologist that he'd made a mistake.

Jason Gideon:
But from that moment, through the next three decades of his life, Ted Kaczynski carried out a campaign of isolation and murder.

Derek Morgan:
This unsub is male. He lives alone. He's possibly self-employed. He's highly organized, he's meticulous, and he's very smart.

Aaron Hotchner:
And he seems odd to those who know him. Angry, distant, prone to sudden violent rage. This is not the kind of guy whose neighbors will be surprised to find out what he's arrested for. This guy's neighbors will have no trouble believing it.

Jason Gideon:
Targets appear to be technology, but not the hi-tech variety. The kind of technology we're surrounded by.

Aaron Hotchner:
In a city the size of Seattle, we're talking... 10,000 possible targets.

Emily Prentiss:
[while walking through D.C] JJ that's not the point!

Jennifer 'JJ' Jareau:
[scoffs] Well are you gonna call him?

Emily Prentiss:
Maybe.

Jennifer 'JJ' Jareau:
[groans/while laughing] Emily!

Emily Prentiss:
Mick Rawson is an arrogant, uh oversexed, egotistical...

Jennifer 'JJ' Jareau:
Hot British dude with a sexy accent, badge and gun. Just your type.

Emily Prentiss:
[scoffs]

Jennifer 'JJ' Jareau:
[as Garcia walks towards them] Alright, you know what? I don't even get you sometimes.

Emily Prentiss:
It wouldn't go anywhere.

Jennifer 'JJ' Jareau:
You don't know that.

Emily Prentiss:
I know our *work* schedules.

Jennifer 'JJ' Jareau:
Okay, you know what, Will and I make it work. [sees Garcia coming, carrying a ton of shopping bags] Oh no.

Emily Prentiss:
[laughs]

Penelope Garcia:
I know, I know, I know, I know. Don't say it. But when you see what's in here, and - and it's not my fault. They were calling to me, I swear. And they were all on sale, so if you think about it that means I am helping the economy which is more than I can say for you guys... 'cause no one else has bags.

Jennifer 'JJ' Jareau:
Yeah, please tell me all of those aren't for my son.

Penelope Garcia:
They're not.

Jennifer 'JJ' Jareau:
Good.

Penelope Garcia:
[holds up a tiny bag] This one is for Kevin. [Prentiss laughs] What it is my duty as a fairy godmother to *spoil* the child. And Henry is finally old enough to be fun while opening presents. I am not taking them back! Give me my coffee and no one's gonna get hurt.

Aaron Hotchner:
The suspect we're looking for is a black male, statistically between the ages of 20 and 35. We know he's black because of his victims. Sexually motivated killers almost always kill within their own race.

Derek Morgan:
The victims he's chosen are good girls. They're good students. No behavioral problems. They're what we call "low-risk".

Emily Prentiss:
And the lower the risk of the victim, the higher the intelligence of the unsub.

Jason Gideon:
Guy's a smooth talker. Makes people feel at ease. Gains their confidence. You'd be amazed what these guys can talk people into.

Dr. Spencer Reid:
Jeffrey Dahmer was once pulled over by police officers for driving over the center line. He'd a garbage bag full of body parts in the back seat of his car, but he was so calm and so self-assured that he convinced the officers not to look in the bag. He then went on to kill at least fifteen more people.

Aaron Hotchner:
This guy's a hustler. He may not have a lot of education, but he knows how to trick impressionable young girls. Victor Paleologus used to trawl shopping malls pretending to be a movie producer. He told Kristi Johnson he could get her an audition for a James Bond movie. And that was the last time she was ever seen alive. We think because all these girls are singers, that the unsub may be connected in some way to the recording industry.

Derek Morgan:
We know the unsub has a vehicle. Big enough to transport a body. It's clean. It's not too old. Nice enough to make a girl feel comfortable inside, but it's not flashy. This is not a guy who wants to attract attention to himself.

Aaron Hotchner:
Probably a large, dark sedan.

Jennifer 'JJ' Jareau:
We recommend putting this profile on the news, the paper, anywhere it might be seen by the people in this county.

Derek Morgan:
This guy's ruse didn't work on everybody. Somewhere out there is at least one woman who didn't fall for his game, and... that's who we need to find.

Aaron Hotchner:
The key to this unsub's psychology is the souvenir he takes. We don't know what it is yet, but we know that once he has it, his victim then becomes disposable, and that's when he kills her.

Jason Gideon:
The unsub's ritual was interrupted when he killed Sandra Davis. We don't believe he was able to take a souvenir from her. We think he may revisit her house or any place she may have frequented.

Aaron Hotchner:
We recommend surveillance in locations where the unsub might approach young girls. Churches, high schools, libraries, coffee shops.

Jason Gideon:
Stick with the community. The people of this county should be able to offer some good leads.

Aaron Hotchner:
We're looking for a male unsub in his mid- to late twenties. Physically fit enough to subdue Marlene Smith, and carry out a vicious attack and sustained attack.

David Rossi:
We believe he sees himself as a rescuer, taking children away from unfit parents. He may very well have abandonment issues from his own childhood.

Derek Morgan:
The impulsive nature of committing the murder out in the open suggests that he's inexperienced.

Dr. Spencer Reid:
The violence on Marlene Smith went from precision to frenzy, which points to someone with classic psychopathic traits; quick to rage and quick to recover.

Emily Prentiss:
He also appears to have insider knowledge of the families in these cases, so we need to look for someone who was privy to what went on behind those closed doors.

Dr. Spencer Reid:
Emergency personnel were called to the Smith house after both suicide attempts, and once to the Tanner house after the mother overdosed on prescription drugs.

Jennifer 'JJ' Jareau:
That means first responders, Child Service workers, ambulance personnel. Both missing children apparently went without struggle or protest. That makes us think that they had prior contact with the person we're looking for.

David Rossi:
Or they inherently trust who he is by the virtue of his job. The uniform he wears; doctor, mailman, policeman.

Derek Morgan:
So far, the violence has been directed to the offending parent, but we don't know what the unsub's endgame is.

Emily Prentiss:
We have written up a media release on precautions the public needs to take.

Aaron Hotchner:
And we've taken the second mother into protective custody, thus depriving him of his target. This will increase his volatility.

David Rossi:
That's why it's critical we find these kids. If they are alive, he may turn his violence against the children themselves.

Kate Hoffer:
What is wrong with you?

Sue Walsh:
You still don't get it, do you?

Kate Hoffer:
I trusted you.

Sue Walsh:
And I trusted you.

Kate Hoffer:
What are you talking about?

Sue Walsh:
When I moved into your perfect little house, your perfect little street, everybody told me that I lucked out., that I got myself a good family. Well, I had a good family. I didn't want yours.

Kate Hoffer:
What happened to your family wasn't fair, but why would you take that out on Gabby?

Sue Walsh:
At first I thought that it wasn't only me that he touched.

Kate Hoffer:
What are you talking about? Where is Gabby?

Sue Walsh:
Gabby's gone. Now, you know how I used to feel.

Kate Hoffer:
What?

Sue Walsh:
Like there's no air left.

Kate Hoffer:
Where?

Sue Walsh:
For a really long time, I thought that's just how things worked in your family. 'Cause your dad liked me to sit on his lap, till it got more than that. I used to stay up late at night to see if he opened your door, too. But he didn't. Just mine. He always did say that I was his special little girl.

Kate Hoffer:
That's not true. My dad never touched you.

Sue Walsh:
He used to put me on the floor 'cause it was quieter. When he was done, I'd put the lightbug on and I'd go under the bed. That's where I sleep, but not you. You got all the good memories.

Kate Hoffer:
You're... you're insane.

Sue Walsh:
Maybe I am. What does that make you? You left your kid for five days. All I know is that I will never let mine out of my sight. She'll be here in the summertime.

Rodney Baderson:
Oh, my God.

Alex Blake:
She mixed her past and present tenses, which shows unconscious deception.

Aaron Hotchner:
The unsub we're looking for is a dangerous voyeur, who feeds off the thrill of knowing his victims can't see him.

Dr. Spencer Reid:
Typically, voyeurs are non-violent and content to remain bystanders. This one is different; he's on a mission that includes taking action.

Aaron Hotchner:
And in that mission, he didn't hesitate to kill a teenage boy. Anyone who stands between him and his goal is at risk.

Alex Blake:
We believe he's documenting his work. He's taking pictures and collects personal connections to his victims; their wallets and their hair.

David Rossi:
It's important to him to have proof of what he's doing.

Derek Morgan:
Voyeurs like to create fantasies in their heads of what the objects of their obsession should be like.

David Rossi:
He creates a character identity instead of a reality, and when a person steps outside of the parameters that the unsub has set for them, he strikes.

Jennifer Jareau:
This unsub appears to be triggered by males acting on what he perceives to be character flaws. Seemingly innocuous infractions to us are magnified in the unsub's psychosis.

Aaron Hotchner:
Based on the planning and sophistication of the kills, we believe that he's in his late thirties or forties.

Dr. Spencer Reid:
The geographic profile tells us this unsub is not only dumping his victims downtown, he's hunting there, too.

Derek Morgan:
So this is where we need to redouble our efforts. Go building to building, door to door. This guy's a fly on the wall; he's able to leanr secrets without anyone realizing he's there.

Alex Blake:
He'll have a job that involves very little social interaction, but that puts him in a position where he can observe others unnoticed.

Jennifer Jareau:
So we should look at service workers, groundskeepers, anyone paid to be invisible.

Aaron Hotchner:
And we need to move quickly. This unsub is approaching some sort of perceived deadline. The closer it gets, the more erratic and dangerous he'll become.

Penelope Garcia:
Beantown has turned into Chokeville. Three victims, all male, wallets stolen.

Aaron Hotchner:
The unsub uses a garrote to strangle his victims. He strikes at night, and there have been no witnesses.

David Rossi:
How much did he get?

Aaron Hotchner:
What's odd. Each of the victims' socio-economically is lower to middle class. It's doubtful there would have been much cash, and there have been no charge attempts on any of the credit cards.

Alex Blake:
So the murders might not be about money at all. Taking the wallets could be a forensic countermeasure to delay victim identification.

Penelope Garcia:
That could be the sitch with the first two victims, but the latest one, Scott Delfino, he was on the phone with his roommate when he was attacked; call cut out unexpectedly, repeated callbacks went straight to voicemail.

Aaron Hotchner:
And Delfino's body was found an hour later, indications were that he'd been blitzed.

Dr. Spencer Reid:
Which speaks to the killer's prep work, but also his desperation. He chose a location to lay in wait, but wasn't capable of adapting to a target on the phone.

Jennifer Jareau:
Well, that could be arrogance getting in the way, making his organization appear mixed. To me, that screams false confidence.

Derek Morgan:
Which means the desperation is what's driving him. It's not about the kills, it's about what the murders represent.

Jennifer Jareau:
He's mission oriented. He doesn't want to kill them, he has to.

David Rossi:
Which suggests the unsub has no personal connection to his victims.

Alex Blake:
Except choking as a kill method is extremely personal. He feels each victim take their last breath.

Derek Morgan:
What if the wallets are a form of depersonalization? He's stripping his victims of their identities.

Dr. Spencer Reid:
Which means he may feel stripped of his own. If the wallets are trophies, he could be seeking recognition for his work.

Aaron Hotchner:
And he may not stop killing until he gets that recognition. Let's go.

Dr. Spencer Reid:
Hello.

Dr. Maeve Donovan:
What's wrong?

Dr. Spencer Reid:
Nothing.

Dr. Maeve Donovan:
Well, it's not Sunday. We talk on Sunday.

Dr. Spencer Reid:
I know. I, ah, just thought I'd call.

Dr. Maeve Donovan:
Ah, you scared me.

Dr. Spencer Reid:
Sorry.

Dr. Maeve Donovan:
I thought it was an emergency.

Dr. Spencer Reid:
No, it's not an emergency.

Dr. Maeve Donovan:
Yeah? Are you sure? How are your headaches?

Dr. Spencer Reid:
Good. I mean, I mean they're gone.

Dr. Maeve Donovan:
Yeah? Are you taking your riboflavin and the magnesium?

Dr. Spencer Reid:
In equal doses and a sporadic shot of B2 like you said.

Dr. Maeve Donovan:
And sleep? Are you letting your gray matter rest?

Dr. Spencer Reid:
I'm working on it.

Dr. Maeve Donovan:
What's so funny?

Dr. Spencer Reid:
What? I didn't laugh.

Dr. Maeve Donovan:
Something's amusing you. I can hear it.

Dr. Spencer Reid:
You can hear my body language?

Dr. Maeve Donovan:
I'm a very good listener.

Dr. Spencer Reid:
I guess I just... I think it's funny how we've been doing this for six months and we've never met. You know, like one Google search of me and you'll find my FBI file photo, but I have absolutely no idea what you look like. I've shaved, by the way, since then. I used to be sort of fascinated with the yeti and I thought that maybe if I...

Dr. Maeve Donovan:
I don't know what you look like either.

Dr. Spencer Reid:
[pause] Really?

Dr. Maeve Donovan:
No. The only intimate part of you I've seen is your brain when I studied the MRI you sent me. That's when I said, this is a guy I need to get to know.

Dr. Spencer Reid:
Thanks. That's really nice of you to say. [his mobile beeps]

Aaron Hotchner:
We believe the unsub we're looking for is a white female who, based upon the organizational level of the crimes, is in her late 30s to early 40s.

Emily Prentiss:
We also believe that something in the last few days has triggered her to think that killing was the only way she was gonna be able to obtain a child. Consequently, the foster families that did not have a child in their care when she visited became her victims.

David Rossi:
Because all these families recently had children in their homes, we believe our unsub is motivated by maternal desire.

Jennifer Jareau:
Maternal desire is the profound emotional need to mother a baby. This stems from either the tragic loss of her own child, or the inability to have one at all.

Dr. Spencer Reid:
This unsub may also fantasize that someone else's baby belongs to her, and this emotion feels beyond her control. A... a woman who miscarries sometimes projects onto someone else's baby, and then sets out to take that child.

Derek Morgan:
This may cause our unsub to do something drastic, like commit a Caesarian abduction, or kidnap a random kid. The speed at which the kills are occurring suggests that our unsub is frustrated and devolving.

Jennifer Jareau:
This is causing her to go on a spree, which usually ends in a very high body count and suicide by cop.

Derek Morgan:
So we should look at anyone who was pregnant and suffering from postpartum psychosis.

David Rossi:
We also need to check those who worked for or had access to the local foster system.

Aaron Hotchner:
Thank you. Any questions?

[all of the local police officers raise their hands]

Aaron Hotchner:
We're looking for a physically fit male from his late twenties to mid-thirties.He's brazen, confident, and organized.

Derek Morgan:
This person may be a moral vigilante. Abby Stafford had drug issues, Gloria Carlyle moved in with her boyfriend, Parker Mills was a sexual deviant.

Dr. Spencer Reid:
Moral vigilantism typically has its roots in repression and guilt. This generally manifests itself in low self-esteem and self-loathing. By punishing others, the unsub may also be punishing himself.

Aaron Hotchner:
He's also literally branding his victims. We're not sure why, but he's likely marking them as his own.

Alex Blake:
His organizational skills suggest someone who can get and keep a full-time job.

David Rossi:
But the work is likely low-level. His impaired social development would not allow him to move very far in the professional world.

Jennifer Jareau:
Consequently, this is someone most comfortable working in solitude, having minimal interaction with others.

Derek Morgan:
And this makes it a challenge to determine how and where this person is choosing his victims.

Dr. Spencer Reid:
The two female victims were reserved and studious; Parker Mills lived quietly in the margins of conventional society.

Jennifer Jareau:
So the killer may frequent or work in locations that attracts this type of person. Uh, places of solitude, contemplation.

Alex Blake:
Museums, gardens and parks, bookstores.

David Rossi:
His choice of a city square, rather than a remote canyon, means he's gaining confidence.

Derek Morgan:
But the recklessness of killing in such a public space suggests that this confidence may be stemming from a delusion.

Jennifer Jareau:
He may believe he's in a place in time that makes him invulnerable.

Aaron Hotchner:
And if his delusion is gaining in strength, then his next killing may be riskier and more dramatic. Thank you.

Derek Morgan:
What'd you find, Reid?

Dr. Spencer Reid:
I went back ten years, matching reports of missing children with Daniel and Tyler's victimology, and in my estimation, this UnSub may have taken 12 victims.

David Rossi:
How can you attribute all of those to the same offender?

Dr. Spencer Reid:
The dates and locations of the abductions create an unmistakable pattern.

Emily Prentiss:
Now, if he's been abducting children for ten years, why weren't we called in before now?

Dr. Spencer Reid:
The thing is, he walks the entire trail, end to end, and each way takes approximately six months. His sixth victim was taken from Dawsonville, Georgia, in 2006. Then he walked all the way to Manchester, Vermont, and he took a seventh victim in 2007. He wasn't down south again until 2009, when James Clutter's parents woke up from a night of camping, he was gone. They just assumed he wandered off.

Aaron 'Hotch' Hotchner:
We didn't get called in because nobody knew he existed. The crimes are years apart and across state lines.

Dr. Spencer Reid:
The interesting thing is, ten years ago he was a more aggressive hunter, likely on the move hunting and killing all 365 days a year, but two years ago he stopped travelling so far.

Emily Prentiss:
He's slowing down.

Dr. Spencer Reid:
I think something's affected his mobility, or old age, or an injury from years of living on the trail. But the odd thing is, for the past two winters, he's returned to this 30 mile radius. He takes a victim with him in the fall to stay with him until spring somewhere within that area.

David Rossi:
These are harsh winters. He needs to find shelter.

Derek Morgan:
And it would have to be heavily camouflaged. Even the most experienced hikers haven't seen it.

Aaron 'Hotch' Hotchner:
We're going to provide a psychological profile of the man we're looking for. It contains some unusual, specific personality traits that someone out there is bound to recognize.

Jason Gideon:
Which will make him relatively easy to locate. Long-lasting, negative impression he leaves on anyone he might meet.

Derek Morgan:
We have a term for the killing behavior this unsub displays: cleaning house. Fixing what's wrong with the world.

Dr. Spencer Reid:
He's deeply rationalized this behavior, and while he certainly knows the killing is wrong, he truly believes that he's doing the world a great service.

Derek Morgan:
Ultimately, this type of unsub becomes a loner. There won't be too many people that can still tolerate him. Now, if he does have a relationship at all, the person will not be his equal. It'll be someone subservient to him.

Dr. Spencer Reid:
He'll be... fastidious, tending toward obsessive-compulsive disorder, and he'll have an overwhelming sense of indignation towards the things that he's judged to be wrong. He wouldn't even consider the reasons why someone might disagree with him.

Detective One:
He sounds like a real jagoff.

Derek Morgan:
Exactly. Class "A" scumbag.

Emily Prentiss:
Detective McGee started noticing the disappearances a year ago. The ubsub probably had a stressor at this time. The death of a family member, or someone who had some semblance of control over him. Right now, no one has control over him.

Dr. Spencer Reid:
It's probable that he isn't currently working after this many victims and the devolution that it brings, a job just wouldn't leave him time to practice his true calling.

Capt. Wright:
Which is...?

Aaron 'Hotch' Hotchner:
A predator. A killing machine. By now, it's become all he thinks about.

Aaron Hotchner:
With four known victims, we should start by re-interviewing friends and family. We're looking for a white male in his thirties to forties. And with his knowledge of circuitry and wiring, we think that he's either an electrician or an electrical engineer.

David Rossi:
It's a job that may give him access to a victim's home or workplace, the opportunity to observe his targets.

Emily Prentiss:
They're attractive, professional women. He sees them as strong, righteous, unobtainable. So he seeks to tear them down, to reduce them to base sexual creatures and punish them.

Aaron Hotchner:
He's a true sexual sadist. A typology we refer to as anger-excitation, meaning he becomes sexually aroused by the suffering of his victims.

David Rossi:
Killing these women is an afterthought. Their pain is what he's after. And he takes his time, to exact maximum stimulation.

Philly Agent:
What about his trophies? He keeps their clothes, right?

Emily Prentiss:
Yes. We believe he's using them for rehearsal fantasies. By dressing as his victims, he can relive the torture. It's during this time that he most likely pleasures himself in order to reinforce his association between suffering and gratification.

Aaron Hotchner:
And when he becomes dissatisfied with this, he seeks out a new victim.

David Rossi:
Keep in mind he's been this for a long time, and he's been thinking about doing it most of his life. He'll continue to evolve, finding new ways of challenging himself, increasing his stimulation threshold. There are no boundaries for this man.

Jennifer Jareau:
While we initially thought Barry Flynn might be a suspect, it turns out we're looking for one of his followers. An unsub who suffers from erotomania. He's obsessed with Flynn, his latest abductee, and he may believe that Flynn's also in love with him.

Dr. Spencer Reid:
Erotomania has very little to do with sex. It's a romantic or spiritual connection that erotomanics crave. Victims of the delusion tend to be from a higher social status and have done very little to stimulate or encourage such a belief.

David Rossi:
In fact, it's likely the unsub and Barry Flynn have had no previous contact. His infatuation probably began from afar, considering Flynn's celebrity status.

Alex Blake:
The patience required to commit his crimes makes us believe he's a male in his late thirties to forties, who is single and socially immature. He's a loner with poor social skills.

Derek Morgan:
And although he is capable of holding down a job, he most likely neglects his duties to focus on his obsession. This is a guy who spends much of his time living in his delusional fantasy world, and he may have been tracking Flynn for quite some time.

Aaron Hotchner:
And with erotomania, the most likely recipient of violence is the person standing in the way of the desired object.

Alex Blake:
It's possible the unsub witnessed an interaction between his two first victims and Flynn, killing them in a jealous rage.

Jennifer Jareau:
Another possibility is that the unsub killed them to prove his devotion.

Dr. Spencer Reid:
The weapon used had a ceremonial quality to it, which means the unsub probably views these victims as sacrifices, and the messages he is leaving may be meant for Flynn.

Derek Morgan:
In his head, he may believe that he's already involved in a personal relationship with Flynn. And now that Flynn is under his control, the situation is especially precarious.

David Rossi:
If the unsub is under the delusion that Flynn also cares about him, then any misstep by Flynn that contradicts that belief could lead to more victims, or even Flynn's own murder to prove they have a special bond.

Aaron Hotchner:
And with each passing hour, it's increasingly unlikely that Flynn will be able to match the unsub's expectations for him, so we must act quickly. Thank you.

Aaron Hotchner:
We believe that this unsub is a white male in his 20s or 30s, and he thinks of himself as a painter or an artist.

Alex Blake:
The placement of the victims tells us a lot about who he is.

Jennifer Jareau:
Pamela Hurd was found near a painting done by a little-known San Francisco artist, Henry Floyd.

Derek Morgan:
Gary Porter was posed near a piece of graffiti art by a street artist named Cypher, who is currently wanted by the police.

Aaron Hotchner:
And the third victim, Lynn Stevens, was found near a mural painted by inner-city youths.

Alex Blake:
Finally, Amy Fortner was placed near the statue of St. Luke, patron saint of the artist.

Jennifer Jareau:
This is a compulsion; it's not accidental. He is obsessed with art.

David Rossi:
All of the works of art are neglected, ignored, cast aside. It's how he feels about himself.

Aaron Hotchner:
We believe it's also the reason that he's evolved into removing the victims' eyelids. He's forcing them to see what he sees.

Jennifer Jareau:
There's no sexual component with these murders, but that's because the blood and the use of the blood is his sexual release.

Det. Lennon Miles:
So, wait. What... what is he doing with the blood?

Aaron Hotchner:
Because he's so obsessed with art, we believe he's painting with it.

David Rossi:
He has a quick kill pace. More blood means more paint. The more paintings he does, the greater the chance someone will recognize his work.

Aaron Hotchner:
We think that because of his need for acceptance, he may be trying to sell the paintings, so focus your canvassing on places that might sell this kind of fringe art.

Penelope Garcia:
Oh, Will he looks just like you.

Detective William LaMontagne Jr.:
Let's hope he grows out of that.

Emily Prentiss:
Just as long as he doesn't inherit the accent.

Dr. Spencer Reid:
[from outside the door] Is there room for one more in here?

Jennifer 'JJ' Jareau:
Spence, hi.

Aaron 'Hotch' Hotchner:
[to Reid as he enters] Welcome back.

Dr. Spencer Reid:
Thanks. [looks at Henry] Wow. [to Will, extending his hand] Congratulations.

Detective William LaMontagne Jr.:
[takes Reid's hand] Thank you.

Jennifer 'JJ' Jareau:
[to Reid] How is it that I just went through 15 hours of labor and... you look worse than I do? [laughs]

Dr. Spencer Reid:
Don't be ridiculous. You look beautiful.

Detective William LaMontagne Jr.:
Well I could sure use some coffee. Anyone else?

Aaron 'Hotch' Hotchner:
Sure.

Detective William LaMontagne Jr.:
My treat.

Jennifer 'JJ' Jareau:
[after Will, Hotch, Prentiss and Garcia leave; to Reid] You okay?

Dr. Spencer Reid:
Wow. Yeah, yeah.

Jennifer 'JJ' Jareau:
You sure? Because there's something I wanted to ask you, but, it can wait.

Dr. Spencer Reid:
What is it?

Jennifer 'JJ' Jareau:
Will and I were talking and... we want you to be Henry's Godfather.

Dr. Spencer Reid:
I don't - I mean, I don't know...

Jennifer 'JJ' Jareau:
Here. You wanna hold him. It's okay. [hands Henry to Reid] Watch his head.

Dr. Spencer Reid:
Hi. Hello Henry.

Jennifer 'JJ' Jareau:
If anything happens to us, it's up to you and Garcia to make sure this boy gets into Yale.

Dr. Spencer Reid:
Ooh. Yale. Yale! Do you wanna go to Yale, Henry? That was your Godfather's safety school. [whispers] Don't worry, I can get you into Cal Tech with one phone call.

Marvin Caul:
Thank God you showed up.

Dr. Spencer Reid:
Marvin Caul, can I just say I'm a huge fan. I saw you perform at the Lotus Inn back in 1977 when I was a little kid and I always wondered what happened to you.

Marvin Caul:
Time. Time has not been kind.

Dr. Spencer Reid:
Here, let me give you a ride to the station.

Marvin Caul:
Ah.

Dr. Spencer Reid:
I can't imagine how hard it must have been for someone of your talent to stay hidden for so long. I mean, weren't you dying to get back out there?

Marvin Caul:
Of course. And I have a plan. I am going to book a stage at the Rio.

Dr. Spencer Reid:
So, that's what the money was for. You know, I have to say, it's absolutely brilliant. You found the perfect population to steal from and someone else to do your dirty work. I tip my hat to you.

Marvin Caul:
Ha-ha. I have no idea what you're saying.

Dr. Spencer Reid:
What I'm saying is that you're going to be charged with murder, and the first one will be Carrie's. I'm assuming you killed her because your ego got in the way when she left you to work for another magician. Am I right?... Look, Marvin, there's no place to go. You're a very clever man and you know how to read a situation. Tell me where Carrie's body is and at least you'll get recognition for what you accomplished in the tunnels.

Marvin Caul:
...She's buried at the abandoned construction site. Did you really see me at the Lotus Inn?

Dr. Spencer Reid:
The truth?

Marvin Caul:
I can't abide lies.

Dr. Spencer Reid:
I wasn't even born yet.

Jason Gideon:
The unsub brought his weapons with him. Tape, glue, wire. He did not leave them at the scene. Took them when he left. He has a kind of killing kit that he carries.

Aaron "Hotch" Hotchner:
Organized killers usually have a skilled job, likely technology related, which may involve the use of the hands. The crime scenes are far enough apart that he needs a vehicle. This will be well-kept, obsessively clean, as will be his home. He's diurnal, the attacks occurred during the day, so the vehicle may be related to his work, possibly a company car or truck.

Derek Morgan:
We believe he watches the victims for a time, learns the rhythms of the home, knows his time frame.

Aaron "Hotch" Hotchner:
You're not gonna catch him accidentally.

Jason Gideon:
He destroys symbols of wealth in the victims' homes. He harbors envy of and hatred toward people of a higher social class. He feels invisible around them.

Dr. Spencer Reid:
Uh, class is the theme of the poem which he left at the various crime scenes. At one point in the poem, the woman attempts to bribe Death, but he doesn't accept it. He says this is the one moment when riches mean nothing. When Death comes, poor and the rich are exactly alike.

Captain Griffith:
So, he's poor.

Aaron "Hotch" Hotchner:
Probably middle-class. A decidedly lower-class person would stick out in a highly patrolled neighborhood. This guy appears to, uh, belong there. He blends in.

Detective Cornelius Martin:
Why does he glue the eyes open?

Elle Greenaway:
The unsub is an exploitative rapist. Most rape victims close their eyes during the attack, turn their heads. For some rapists, this ruins the fantasy. For this type of rapist, the goal is more related to the victim watching him than the act itself.

Aaron "Hotch" Hotchner:
The verses, the staging, the aggressive language, "I am death", this is a guy who, while being in control of the crime scene, almost certainly feels inadequate in the rest of his life.

Jason Gideon:
That's why he couldn't wait for you to figure out what he'd done. Why he needed to make sure all his crimes were counted. His victims, they represent whatever it is that's controlling him, and he wants that control back. He is under the thumb of a powerful woman who frightens him. And a final point: He is white.

Captain Griffith:
We have witnesses that identify him as a black male.

Jason Gideon:
The attacker was black. He is not the Tommy Killer.

Aaron "Hotch" Hotchner:
Mrs. Gordon's husband came home at the same time that he always does. The Tommy Killer would've known that.

Elle Greenaway:
And Mrs. Gordon's attacker wore a ski mask. The unsub knows when he walks into a house, he's going to kill the woman who lives there. If you're not leaving any witnesses, why wear a ski mask?

Derek Morgan:
And he wants the victims to see him anyway.

Aaron "Hotch" Hotchner:
Your attempted rapist is a garden-variety, disorganized young man.

Elle Greenaway:
As the victim's age goes up, generally the attacker's age goes down. Mrs. Gordon is about 60, which puts her rapist at about 20.

Aaron Hotchner:
We believe whoever poisoned these people was motivated by revenge.

Derek Morgan:
The randomness of the victimology, average people in an average-sized town, all points to a local resident.

Elle Greenaway:
We know that people who poison for the purpose of revenge primarily act alone.

Aaron Hotchner:
However, he may have manipulated someone close to him to assist him. The unsub usually disposes of these accomplices when they are of no further use to him.

Elle Greenaway:
The unsub is likely a cautious, deliberate, and highly functioning male between the ages of 35 and 50.

Aaron Hotchner:
He chose LSD for a reason. LSD is about altering perception. We think that this unsub is striking out because he feels that's he's been inaccurately perceived by the community, or a subset of it.

Derek Morgan:
He feels that these attacks will affect and alter a reality that he is caught in, that he perceives to be unjust.

Aaron Hotchner:
He's so self-centered, he believes his victims will know the reason for the attack and who did it.

Dr. Spencer Reid:
This individual was savvy enough to use Rohypnol to obstruct our investigation, erasing the memories of the victims of how they were poisoned.

Detective Hanover:
Hold on. If this guy believes that his victims know who he is, why is he covering his tracks?

Jason Gideon:
Because these victims aren't his primary targets.

Aaron Hotchner:
We... we know from precedent that this kind of offender, the avenger, tests his weapon first. This attack was a test run.

Detective Hanover:
A test run for what?

Aaron Hotchner:
We don't know yet. What we do know is this is not the first time he's aired his grievances. While it's not likely that he has a criminal record, it is possible that he has filed criminal charges, or pursued a civil action against his perceived adversaries. And now, to measure the results of his test, he's watching.

Jason Gideon:
And he wants to see the results of his test. Once he has them, all those years of pent-up rage will be unleashed in the form of a larger attack. Profile indicates a lot of people could die.

Aaron Hotchner:
All right; let's get started.

Jennifer 'JJ' Jareau:
Oh. [Realizes the cases are not hers and proudly hands the information over to a thankful Garcia]

Penelope Garcia:
Alright, Mes Amis. [stands to present] You are jetting to Durant, Oklahoma, because, in the last three days, two women have been found dead after being sexually tortured and then blinded with a sulfuric acid solution. Abby Elcott is our first victim; 19-year-old art student; she was heading to campus for an advanced drawing class. She'd been missing for two days. Same goes for our second victim, Beth Westerly, 17. [draws a breath] She had just finished her coffee shop shift and was on her way to a bar method class.

Emily Prentiss:
Both low-risk victims.

Derek Morgan:
And physically similar.

David Rossi:
How close are the two abduction sites?

Penelope Garcia:
[looking down at information] 5 miles apart at bus stops. Abby's cell was found near one. Beth's scarf near the other. [map illustrates her words]

Dr. Spencer Reid:
Where're the dump sites?

Penelope Garcia:
One in an alley, the other in a field.

Jennifer 'JJ' Jareau:
So he stapled their eyes open, then he blinded them. [Spencer's reaction to JJ is seen and she notices it]

Derek Morgan:
It's about power and control; maybe he didn't want them to watch while he hurt 'em.

Dr. Spencer Reid:
Or it could be about shame; perhaps the unsub is disfigured himself. Blinding the victims leaves them helpless, lost, totally dependent; it may be a manifestation of how he sees himself in this world.

Emily Prentiss:
It is a form of enucleation, just without the scalpel.

David Rossi:
His face is the last they see before darkness.

Aaron Hotchner:
Garcia, come up with a list of jobs that would give the unsub access to sulfuric acid. The rest of us, wheels up in 30 minutes. [arises from seat]

Dr. Spencer Reid:
[voiceover as plane flies] If it is a miracle, any sort of evidence will answer. But if it is a fact, proof is necessary. Mark Twain.

Aaron Hotchner:
Victimology is very similar. Blonde-haired, blue-eyed teenage girls. [looks at photos]

Jennifer 'JJ' Jareau:
We believe they were each abducted near public transportation stops.

Emily Prentiss:
[holds up photo] When was this photo taken?

Derek Morgan:
Beth was caught on a bank surveillance camera 3 hours before she disappeared; that's a recent photo of Abby.

Emily Prentiss:
So, she wasn't found in the same clothes she was abducted in.

David Rossi:
Maybe he changed them because hers were burned by the sulfuric acid.

Dr. Spencer Reid:
It's possible. Sulfuric acid can turn human flesh into soap. [JJ's face as Reid is talking is shown as affected due to their conflict]

Aaron Hotchner:
Garcia, any recent similar cases in the surrounding area?

Penelope Garcia:
[on laptop] Actually, yes. Two months ago, a prostitute and a runaway were both found raped and killed and they had stab wounds to their eyes.

Jennifer 'JJ' Jareau:
So maybe he practiced on high-risk victims first.

Derek Morgan:
And then advanced to chemical enucleation.

Jennifer 'JJ' Jareau:
Isn't that a rare paraphilia?

Emily Prentiss:
Well, the chemical part is. It would exacerbate the pain.

David Rossi:
Like Ed Kemper, he's probably practicing on surrogates, before going after the real object of his rage.

Aaron Hotchner:
Dave, you and I will talk to the parents. Morgan and Prentiss, go to the disposal sites. JJ, you and Reid to the abduction sites. [JJ and Reid's faces reflect their feelings about the orders]

Aaron Hotchner:
We suggest that you think of this unsub not as a slasher but as an arsonist. Because the gratification he's getting isn't from the physical act of murder, but from the public's reaction to it.

Emily Prentiss:
Arsonists draw attention to themselves through the fires they set. The locations they choose are highly symbolic to them. While this unsub will never set an actual fire, he has the same psychosis as one who does.

Dr. Spencer Reid:
Our unsub fits that model. His locations have been pillars of the community. The victims he picks aren't as important as the effect of killing them outside of your favorite restaurant or place of worship.

Derek Morgan:
By picking locales with the highest visibility, he's creating the highest level of fear in that neighborhood, which reinforces his feeling of power.

Detective Jake Moreland:
Yeah, but arsonists don't set out to hurt people. This guy clearly does.

Derek Morgan:
That's true. And this unsub definitely falls in the category of sociopath.

Emily Prentiss:
His victims are there only to achieve his goal. He doesn't have the ability to empathize with them. To him, they're just... tools for him to use, no different than a can of gasoline and a match.

David Rossi:
But even how he kills tells us something. Slashing a throat is a messy, visual act. It's designed to create attention, just like a fire.

Dr. Spencer Reid:
Arsonists are often mission based. They need to make sure their first fire has burnt out before they set another one. They're also highly disciplined and focused. If conditions aren't right to set a fire or, in this case, slash a throat, they'll move on.

Aaron Hotchner:
In addition to his need to kill, he has self-control. He has a short cooling off period because he's enjoying what he's doing. This in turn feeds his ego and keeps him covering his tracks.

David Rossi:
This makes him even more dangerous. If he gets frustrated, encounters too many obstacles, or suffers a blow to his narcissistic ego, he could go on an all-out rampage.

Penelope Garcia:
I got the 4-1-1 on our first victim, Melvin Lewis. Originally from The Malibu of the Midwest, Sheboygan, Wisconsin. Melvin moved to Milwaukee 12 years ago when wifey ran away with his best friend.

David Rossi:
Ouch.

Penelope Garcia:
Yeah. Luckily, they had no kids. No criminal record. Like super squeaky clean. Not even a parking ticket. He joined Facebook a year ago. He has a whopping six friends, all from work.

Derek Morgan:
He drives a truck, right?

Penelope Garcia:
Yeah. A milk truck, to be exact. But only did that for a month. Before, he worked for 10 years at an animal control center, but he was laid off due to budget cuts.

Dr. Spencer Reid:
What exactly did he do, Garcia?

Penelope Garcia:
He was a dogcatcher. But like a SWAT team of dogcatchers. He specialized in dangerous and trapped animals, including, but not limited to skunks, a raccoon, and one time a giant python.

Derek Morgan:
All right, thanks, babe.

Dr. Spencer Reid:
That could be it.

Derek Morgan:
What? The python?

Dr. Spencer Reid:
No, bite marks. Of course. That could be how he was doing it. That's why it was undetectable. Brain tissue, we need to look at brain tissue...

Derek Morgan:
Okay, Reid.

Dr. Spencer Reid:
Sorry. I don't think this is a biting fetish or cannibalism. I think it's a virus, and the biting is merely a means of transmission.

Derek Morgan:
What kind of virus?

Dr. Spencer Reid:
There are several possibilities. Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, tick-borne encephalitis, but the most likely culprit is rabies, and that wouldn't show up in an autopsy, except in brain tissue.

David Rossi:
So, since Lewis was the only victim not bitten by a human, the UnSub must have used an animal to infect him first.

Dr. Spencer Reid:
And after that, he somehow facilitated human to human transmission.

Derek Morgan:
It would explain the random victimology. It doesn't matter who he infects. All he needs is a host.

Dr. Spencer Reid:
Which also means the holding period isn't about torture, it's about incubation.

David Rossi:
I was attacked by a rabid for once. Shot the thing three times before it went down. Freakin' terrifying. It was like a horror movie.

Dr. Spencer Reid:
We need to have the M.E. test for rabies vectors in the brain samples.

Derek Morgan:
And then we need to deliver the profile.

Derek Morgan:
Guys, guys, come on. Seriously. You should have just said something. This whole fit test thing is just a formality. I could've got the whole thing waived... But since you didn't, you ready to do this?

Penelope Garcia:
Yeah, let's do this! [Garcia and Reid start running] Wow! Wow!

Derek Morgan:
Hey, hey, hey. Happy-go-luckys, where are you going?

Penelope Garcia:
To run a mile.

Derek Morgan:
No, no, no. You didn't hear? The fit test is more than just a mile. Get your little butts back over here. [to Garcia and Reid doing push-ups] Come on, let's go, all the way down, all the way up. [to Garcia and Reid doing sideways jumps] Come on! My grandmamma can do way better than that. [to Garcia and Reid doing chin-ups] Let's go! This is not your high-tech room. [to Garcia and Reid skipping rope] On our toes, right on your toes. There you go, baby girl, that's sweet. [to Garcia and Reid doing stepping exercise] Go, girl, you know it. Turn around, right back down. [to Garcia and Reid lying down] Hey, hey, hey. What are we doing? What's all this huffin' and puffin'? Come on, we still got a two mile run to go. Let's go!

Penelope Garcia:
Two miles?

Dr. Spencer Reid:
It's supposed to be one mile.

Derek Morgan:
No, no, no. Not my watch. This whole fit test is altogether different. Now suck it up!

Penelope Garcia:
Oh, my God.

Derek Morgan:
Let's go!... All right, all right, all right. Enough is enough. I guess I got to let the cat out of the bag. I kind of already had your fit test waived.

Dr. Spencer Reid:
What?

Derek Morgan:
Yeah. Baby girl, think about it. You're not even in the field. And Pretty Ricky, you already got enough case hours to qualify. This was just a good time for me.

Penelope Garcia:
I'm gonna kill him.

Dr. Spencer Reid:
If I can manage to lift my arms, I'll hold him down.

Penelope Garcia:
I'm regaining my strength.

Derek Morgan:
I told you, you should have said something. I said... Hey... Hey...

Penelope Garcia:
You're getting it now!

Derek Morgan:
Carl Buford was an expert at spotting and exploiting vulnerabilities in adolescent boys that he coached at the community center. He had the entire community thinking he was a hero. Parents, teachers, cops. I mean everyone. After my dad died, he locked onto me. And he manipulated me into compliant victimization. Now, you remember how I told you that I got into with that local gangbanger when I was younger? Well, somehow Buford got it all expunged. Now, I didn't understand why a guy who barely knew me would do that. But Buford gave me his time. He taught me how to play football. And then he took me to his cabin on the lake. I was a kid. I was a kid from the south side, I'd never been to a cabin before, much less a lake.

Aaron Hotchner:
Morgan... you don't have to do this.

Derek Morgan:
They need to know, Hotch. They need to know this guy's M.O. Buford built up my trust, and then he would lower my inhibition with Helgison wine; he called it his Jesus juice. And he would molest me. And every time he would see that dead look in my eye that said I wanted him to stop, he would just say "You better man up, boy. Look up to the sky."

Jennifer Jareau:
Did you ever tell anyone about that phrase?

Derek Morgan:
No.

David Rossi:
We're probably looking at someone Buford abused.

Aaron Hotchner:
Victim could harbor a great deal of anger if he didn't deal with his own abuse, and with the right trigger, it could develop into this kind of rage.

Alex Blake:
Where's Buford now?

Derek Morgan:
We got him locked up for homicide in 2006, but because of the statute of limitations, we never got him for molestation.

Dr. Spencer Reid:
Buford ran the community center for years. An offender like him could have hundreds of victims.

David Rossi:
As you all know, Eddie Lee Wilcox is armed and dangerous.

Jennifer Jareau:
He's also smart and criminally sophisticated. He knows police procedure and how to use it.

Dr. Spencer Reid:
He's flush with cash from his robbery in Chicago, but he'll try to maintain a low profile, so he may resort to his robbery skills at some point.

Derek Morgan:
Eddie's a car thief. And he's a good one, so he'll switch vehicles often.

Jennifer Jareau:
He was last seen in a Chevy minivan, but we do not count on him being in it for long.

Derek Morgan:
So canvass crowded parking lots and malls. That's most likely where he'll ditch cars and find new ones.

David Rossi:
We've been calling this a child abduction, but Eddie's daughter Samantha may actually be an unwitting participant.

Alex Blake:
We know she wanted to run away from home, and her father's somehow taking advantage of that.

Derek Morgan:
This guy's evolved into a sociopathic spree killer, and he's got the ego of a career criminal, so there's no telling how far he'll go to save himself.

David Rossi:
That ego may be feeding a sort of pipe dream that if he does escape, he may actually get to have a healthy relationship with his daughter.

Jennifer Jareau:
A relationship he believes was taken from him.

Alex Blake:
But when reality sets in, his dream will be shattered and that's when Samantha will be in the most danger.

Dr. Spencer Reid:
The majority of these cases end in either murder-suicide or suicide by cop.

Jennifer Jareau:
Up to this point, we've been reacting to him, but the roadblocks and the media blitz are set up to make him react to us.

Derek Morgan:
So if you spot him, call for backup and proceed with extreme caution. He's probably sleep deprived and irrational.

David Rossi:
The closer we get, the more dangerous he becomes.

Emily Prentiss:
No, it's more personal than that. It's their story.

Derek Morgan:
What?

Emily Prentiss:
All of the details are a part of their story. Their timeline suggests they were both destructive before they met.

Erin Strauss:
So, we're talking about ex-military turning on their country.

Emily Prentiss:
It's rare, but soldiers become disenfranchised no matter what the nationality. And if he met someone like-minded at that time, there'd be no stopping them.

Aaron Hotchner:
So, you're thinking they met during the civil unrest in Chad in '08.

Dr. Spencer Reid:
Yeah, and one or both of them are pilots.

Emily Prentiss:
So, if Garcia concentrates on that region, specifically weapons running in and out of Libya, there's a good chance we'll find their paths crossed.

Penelope Garcia:
Okay, multiple entries into Libya from a private pilot named Matthew Downs in '08, but I don't have her name.

Emily Prentiss:
Well, because she had aliases. It's the only way to stay a ghost. Here's the thing. They are a couple. Regardless of what we believe of them, they will celebrate themselves and their connection. Is there anything that happened on this date in Chad?

Penelope Garcia:
Oh, you are good, Emily Prentiss. But this news is not. Yes, there were multiple explosions on this date in '08.

Aaron Hotchner:
Where were the most casualties?

Penelope Garcia:
At a church. No, no, a train.

Derek Morgan:
Semtex and C-4?

Penelope Garcia:
Yep.

Aaron Hotchner:
Are trains still arriving at Union Station?

Erin Strauss:
Yes, but only the authorities are allowed in.

Emily Prentiss:
That's why they needed Will.

David Rossi:
I can't imagine why not. We're only asking for fifty thousand bucks of taxpayer money so that FBI agents can play Texas Hold 'Em.

Emily Prentiss:
Hey, what about you?

David Rossi:
What about me what?

Emily Prentiss:
You could stake us the buy-in.

Dr. Spencer Reid:
Yeah, you're a best-selling author.

David Rossi:
No!

Emily Prentiss:
Why not?

David Rossi:
One, it's against regulations, and I'd like to hold onto this job for a little while longer.

Jennifer 'JJ' Jareau:
It's a minor administrative violation.

David Rossi:
And two, I prefer to spend my money on actual things, like single-malt Scotch, a fine cigar, beautiful artwork.

Emily Prentiss:
Poker chips are things.

Dr. Spencer Reid:
Maybe just think of it as, like, a new experience. I mean, at your age, how often does that happen?

David Rossi:
At my *what*?

Jennifer 'JJ' Jareau:
Rossi, this may be our only chance to get this guy.

David Rossi:
All right, fine. I'm a decent poker player, but I can't promise that I can stay in the game long enough to...

Emily Prentiss:
You know what? I bet you're a great poker player, but what if we sent in Reid?

Dr. Spencer Reid:
I am banned from casinos in Las Vegas, Laughlin, and Pahrump because of my card-counting ability.

David Rossi:
Look, I know I'm not a genius like the boy wonder here, but poker is not blackjack. It's about bluffing, reading human nature, head games. It's not math.

Dr. Spencer Reid:
That's not entirely accurate. There actually is a mathematical equation for knowing when to raise and when to fold. If "P" represents the size of the pot at the time of play, than P x N - 1, with "N" representing the estimated number of players at the final round of betting...

David Rossi:
Okay, fine. I surrender. Just try not to lose all of my money?

Penelope Garcia:
[picks up a phone] If this is a sales call on a Sunday morning...

Jennifer 'JJ' Jareau:
Settle. It's me, JJ. I tried your cell. Listen, something's come up. You need to get down to the office pronto.

Penelope Garcia:
Oh, you are kidding.

Jennifer 'JJ' Jareau:
I know. I wish psychopathic killers would be a little more respectful of our weekends, too. But what are you gonna do? Is everything okay?

Penelope Garcia:
No. Kevin and I got in a fight last night, and to self-soothe, I drank a lot of wine. And, JJ, you know I can't drink wine. Why did I drink so much wine?

Jennifer 'JJ' Jareau:
You'll be fine.

Penelope Garcia:
No, I don't know. 'Cause right now, everything is blurring. Oh, my God. My hair hurts. How is that possible? He's coming out of the shower. I hate confrontation. It was such a fight. I hate confrontation.

Jennifer 'JJ' Jareau:
Then don't confront. Just kiss, make up, and get your butt over here.

Penelope Garcia:
[ding-dong] What is this, Grand Central Station? [knock, knock] Oh, God. [opens the door] Kevin.

Kevin Lynch:
I am so sorry about last night. I should not have stormed out like that.

Penelope Garcia:
You stormed out?

Kevin Lynch:
Yeah.

Penelope Garcia:
You stormed out all last night?

Kevin Lynch:
Yeah. What's... [Garcia closes the door and finds Morgan]

Derek Morgan:
Hey. You see we gotta go in, right?

Penelope Garcia:
Yes. Yes. JJ just called me, too. Let's go. My things. This is mine and this is mine and this is yours. This is mine. See you there. [opens the door, to Kevin] Hey, let's go.

[last lines]

Derek Morgan:
Hi, Miss thing. Enough is enough. It's time for you and me to have a little sit-down. What's going on with you? Half the time I call, I get your voicemail. When I do get you, I don't get even a little bit of sass coming my way. Now, what's the deal? Hello!

Penelope Garcia:
Okay. Look. I get it that men and women are different and Venus and Mars and all that stuff, but I do not understand how you...

Derek Morgan:
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, pump your brakes. What is this about?

Penelope Garcia:
You were in my shower at 7:00 in the morning.

Derek Morgan:
Because I shower at 7:00 in the morning. Baby, you had a little too much to drink the other night. You called me to come over and keep you company.

Penelope Garcia:
I know. I remember that, but...

Derek Morgan:
Okay, what happened between us was popcorn. And a movie on TV. Which you fell asleep in the middle of, by the way.

Penelope Garcia:
So, you slept on the...

Derek Morgan:
Couch.

Penelope Garcia:
Yes, you did. Oh, thank you. Oh, thank you, God, for maintaining the integrity of my most beloved of friendships, and from now on, I promise only mostly the purest of mineral water will cross these lips.

Kevin Lynch:
[comes in] Hey, plum sauce, are you coming?

Penelope Garcia:
Yes. I'll be right there.

Kevin Lynch:
Hey, Derek.

Derek Morgan:
Hey, what's up, man?

Penelope Garcia:
Since the fight, we have decided to have a standing date every Tuesday night.

Derek Morgan:
Good luck with that with this job. You got a great guy out there. You know that, right?

Penelope Garcia:
I know. What does a girl do when she has two great guys?

Derek Morgan:
She doesn't pour that extra glass of wine.

Penelope Garcia:
Yeah. Okay, love you, bye.

Derek Morgan:
Plum sauce?

Aaron Hotchner:
With this unsub, we're looking at a compound profile: a Type-4 delusional assassin with an erotomanic fixation on the actress Lila Archer.

Derek Morgan:
Erotomanics are a form of stalker who possess the delusional belief that another person, usually of a higher social status, is in love with them.

Elle Greenaway:
In the United States, at any given time, there are over 200,000 people being stalked. Our unsub is having a fantasy love affair with Lila Archer, the way John Hinckley did with Jodie Foster.

Aaron Hotchner:
Ms. Archer was not aware of her stalker until yesterday. He wasn't trying to impress her. He was more likely an unwanted, very violent guardian angel.

Jason Gideon:
When the stalker feels as if they've been in some way betrayed by their love object, this often leads to violence against the target.

Dr. Spencer Reid:
In the case of John Robert Bardo, when actress Rebecca Schaeffer took a role where she had to have a sexual relationship with another character, it was enough to force him to snap and seek her out to kill her.

Aaron Hotchner:
Though stalkers can be either male or female, it's most likely we're looking for a single male, a loner, in his late twenties to early forties, very intelligent, with ample time to follow his victim and study her habits.

Dr. Spencer Reid:
As of yet, the unsub has not directed any violence towards Ms. Archer. But he has shifted his focus from those around her to her directly.

Jason Gideon:
This doesn't preclude the fact that anyone who has the vaguest association with Ms. Archer is a potential target.

Charles Johnson:
Where you from, Dave?

David Rossi:
Long Island.

Charles Johnson:
You know, an I-talian from Long Island can be as cold-blooded as a... a Klansman... from Virginia... You ever used the n-word, Dave?

David Rossi:
I'm sure I did. The same guys who called me wop and dago. Everyone I knew back then used that language. So what?

Charles Johnson:
Maybe one day some black people sit in the front of the bus in Floral Park and you start throwing some punches.

David Rossi:
We've already found three bodies, Charles.

Charles Johnson:
Maybe some colored folks sit next to you at Stango's back in the day, and, you know, you get pissed off, you start throwing punches at 'em.

David Rossi:
You're evading, Charles, and that suggests guilt.

Charles Johnson:
You go by that logic, you ain't too innocent your damn self.

David Rossi:
[pause] There was this one time.

Charles Johnson:
Here we go.

David Rossi:
I was in the ninth grade, and there was this black kid on the baseball team with me.

Charles Johnson:
I knew it. Break out the peanuts.

David Rossi:
He was the runt and I was the second-smallest. You get the picture?

Charles Johnson:
I got it. Come on.

David Rossi:
One day the other guys get mad because he's playing with us...

Charles Johnson:
Nm.

David Rossi:
And they force me to shove him into a locker and keep him there overnight.

Charles Johnson:
Did you do it?

David Rossi:
Sure I did. If not, they would have done it to me.

Charles Johnson:
Call him names?

David Rossi:
We called him every name in the book... And then they made me pee on him in the locker.

Charles Johnson:
You peed on him?

David Rossi:
They made me.

[Hotch is on the stand being questioned by the defense attorney, Lester Serling]

Lester Serling:
Fact is, behavioral analysis is really just intellectual guesswork. You probably couldn't tell me the color of my socks with any greater accuracy than a carnival psychic.

Cece Hillenbrand:
[standing] Objection.

Lester Serling:
Withdrawn.

[Not expecting an answer, Serling turns away from Hotch to head back to his seat]

Aaron 'Hotch' Hotchner:
Charcoal gray.

[Serling, surprised that Hotch provided an answer, turns around and lifts his pants to reveal his socks, at which he points]

Lester Serling:
[sarcastically] Well look at that. He got one right.

Aaron 'Hotch' Hotchner:
You match them to the color of your suit to appear taller. You also wear lifts, and you've had the soles of your shoes replaced. One might think you're frugal, but in fact you're having financial difficulties. You wear a fake Rolex because you pawned the real one to pay your debts, my guess is to a bookie.

Lester Serling:
I took this case pro bono. I am one of the most successful criminal attorneys in the state.

Aaron 'Hotch' Hotchner:
Your vice is horses. Your BlackBerry's been buzzing on the table every twenty minutes, which happens to be the average time between posts from Colonial Downs. You're getting race results, and every time you do it affects your mood in court, and you're not having a very good day. That's because you pick horses the same way you practice law: by always taking the long shot.

Lester Serling:
Well, you spin a very good yarn, agent, but as usual you've proven nothing.

Aaron 'Hotch' Hotchner:
[looking at his watch] If I'm not mistaken, the results from the fifth race should be coming through any minute.

[Serling's BlackBerry on the table starts to buzz]

Aaron 'Hotch' Hotchner:
Why don't you tell us if your luck has changed?

Lester Serling:
Your Honor, this is...

Judge:
What do you want me to do? Either show us your BlackBerry or cut him loose, counselor.

[Serling ponders the question for a second]

Lester Serling:
Nothing further.

Judge:
Wise decision.

Jennifer 'JJ' Jareau:
This is Delilah Grennan. She was bludgeoned and raped during the night at her home in Lower Canaan, Ohio.

Emily Prentiss:
Lower where?

Jennifer 'JJ' Jareau:
Small town forty miles outside of Cincinnati.

Dr. Spencer Reid:
Staging the body face up with the arms across the chest like that.

Derek Morgan:
Ritual. Nice hair, by the way.

[Morgan flips a lock of Reid's hair into his face]

Dr. Spencer Reid:
[brushing his hair back] Thanks.

Jennifer 'JJ' Jareau:
Uh, there's more. Small puncture wounds on her stomach. Note the lack of blood.

Emily Prentiss:
They were inflicted postmortem. Were there any other victims?

Jennifer 'JJ' Jareau:
Kind of. Victimology and signature match a serial killer from the same town ten years ago. Six victims spanning over ten months. He called himself...

Aaron Hotchner:
The Angel Maker. I remember the case.

Dr. Spencer Reid:
They caught that guy.

David Rossi:
And executed him.

Jennifer 'JJ' Jareau:
That's right. He was put to death by lethal injection a year ago yesterday.

Emily Prentiss:
Yesterday.

Derek Morgan:
So we're looking for a copycat.

David Rossi:
Honoring the anniversary of his hero's death.

Dr. Spencer Reid:
It says here they found semen at the crime scene. Perhaps locals will get a DNA match when they run it through VICAP?

Jennifer 'JJ' Jareau:
Well, that's where it gets weird. They ran it already and they got a match, too.

Emily Prentiss:
Well, if they already have a name, why'd they call us?

David Rossi:
[reading the report] They've got to be kidding. The match they got back on the DNA is to a Cortland Bryce Ryan. Otherwise known as... the Angel Maker.

Dr. Spencer Reid:
This is where a pimp works?

Alex Blake:
According to our local source, of all the pimps in town, this is the guy known for imported girls. [Blake and Reid come into the shop and Blake plays the recorded voice] Do you know who she is?

Dr. Spencer Reid:
She's speaking Brazilian Portuguese if that helps jog your memory.

Leon Burns:
What am I, Rosetta Stone?

Alex Blake:
Well, we have reason to believe she's a prostitute. Any of your girls, maybe from 15 years back, speak Portuguese?

Leon Burns:
I don't know who sent you guys, but you obviously got the wrong idea about me. As you can plainly see, I'm a... purveyor of fine meats.

Dr. Spencer Reid:
No, Leon, we were told that you run a pretty lucrative business on the side.

Leon Burns:
Now you're flattering me. I make a mean barbecue sauce, but I don't make much money on it.

Alex Blake:
You know, I find it interesting you haven't asked what any of this is about.

Leon Burns:
I have a dreadful lack of curiosity.

Alex Blake:
Well, let me fill you in. A child was murdered yesterday and at his home they found blood on his front door. Pig's blood.

Dr. Spencer Reid:
You know what? It actually just occurred to me, but I feel like this is the sort of shop you could find a lot of pig's blood.

Leon Burns:
Ah, you're right.

Dr. Spencer Reid:
We're not saying you had anything to do with this, Leon. But we are saying that the FBI is desperate for any leads, and it would be a shame if we had to shut your shop down to collect DNA samples to try to identify the source of that pig's blood.

Leon Burns:
Now, look, I don't know nothin' about blood on a door. But I think I do remember something about a couple of Brazilian girls who used to work for a... an acquaintance of mine.

Dr. Spencer Reid:
What were their names?

Leon Burns:
Raquel Castro and Luisa Gomez. Raquel moved back to Brazil in '95.

Alex Blake:
What about Luisa?

Leon Burns:
That b*tch? She totally betrayed my buddy.

Alex Blake:
Did she walk out on him?

Leon Burns:
No. She married his best customer.

Dr. Spencer Reid:
The Hollow Man uses simple statements, all first person. Uh, for example, "I won't be ignored." He's obviously tired of feeling this way. It's quite possible he has a job in solitude or one that he feels strips him of his identity. His job might require him to wear a uniform, something that shows absolutely no individuality. Or he may be overqualified for his menial job and feels like he doesn't get the respect that he necessarily deserves.

Aaron Hotchner:
But today, he's killed two women, which tells us he's growing confident. This makes him unpredictable and dangerous. And because he has no physical contact with his victims, it's going to make him that much harder to catch.

Derek Morgan:
We have more information on the Mill Creek killer, because he spends a lot of time with his victims before and after his kills.

Jason Gideon:
Because his victims willingly follow him in broad daylight, he appears harmless. He's most likely handsome.

Agent James Sheridan:
Handsome?

Jason Gideon:
Yes. These women wouldn't follow an unattractive man. They just wouldn't.

Derek Morgan:
He's handsome, and he's got the social skills to trick his victims. Those who know him well, they'd be shocked to learn that he's the man that we're after.

Jason Gideon:
He's been able to get his victims away from family, friends. Obviously, this makes him feel powerful.

Agent James Sheridan:
If this guy is so smart, why would he risk driving his victims from the abduction site to the woods?

Jason Gideon:
Because of the ritual. It's become the most important thing to him. Dominates his thoughts. Woods provide the privacy he needs.

Derek Morgan:
The Hollow Man is motivated by external pressures. This is a guy who simply wants attention. The Mill Creek killer, on the other hand, he's driven by internal forces. He's a sexually motivated offender. Now, this makes him a lot more predictable, but don't think for a second it makes him any easier to catch.

Dr. Spencer Reid:
What chapter are you on?

Dr. Maeve Donovan:
The part where she's at the coal mines.

Dr. Spencer Reid:
Say what you will about his writing, Maeve, it's fascinating the way he weaves characters into situations, right?

Dr. Maeve Donovan:
Yeah, I mean, I'm not sure what I think of it. It's slightly obtuse.

Dr. Spencer Reid:
Yeah, he tends to be that way. I probably should have warned you. He's not really anything like Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

Dr. Maeve Donovan:
Still my favorite. Uh , guess what.

Dr. Spencer Reid:
What?

Dr. Maeve Donovan:
I think the stalker's gone. The e-mails have stopped.

Dr. Spencer Reid:
Really? Since when?

Dr. Maeve Donovan:
Two weeks ago.

Dr. Spencer Reid:
Why didn't you tell me?

Dr. Maeve Donovan:
I wanted to make sure.

Dr. Spencer Reid:
What about the phone calls?

Dr. Maeve Donovan:
No, I haven't gotten any. No more heavy breathing on the machine, no more hang-ups.

Dr. Spencer Reid:
You know, oftentimes when a stalker's advances are completely ignored, their erotomanic fantasies will be diverted to a more receptive target.

Dr. Maeve Donovan:
I went to the store yesterday. I even sat in a caf? and had coffee without my disguise on. Something deep inside my gut tells me he's gone. I think it's over, Spencer.

Dr. Spencer Reid:
Well, our instincts exist for a reason. They're definitely a response to specific...

Dr. Maeve Donovan:
I want to meet you.

Dr. Spencer Reid:
...environmental stimuli. [pause]

Dr. Maeve Donovan:
Did you hear me, Spence?

Dr. Spencer Reid:
Yeah, I... No, I heard you.

Dr. Maeve Donovan:
Well, what do you think? I think it's time.

Jennifer 'JJ' Jareau:
Billy? Billy Flynn? Mr. Flynn, I don't know for sure if you can hear me. My name is Jennifer Jareau. I... I work for the FBI as a Communications Liaison for the... the Behavioral... uh... okay Mr. Flynn, I... I want to talk you about letting Ellie Spicer go. I mean, I want to ask you to. See uh, I'm not a hostage negotiator. I've never done anything like this at all ever... but um... sometimes circumstances its... Look. You can tell, I'm not a hostage negotiator, but I am a mother. I know what your mother did to you when you were little, what she was, what she made you watch, what she let men do to you and it makes me so... it's just not fair. And no one can make that better, I wish I could, I do, but if I could somehow go back there, you know, and make what was happening to you stop, I could just pick you up and just tell you it'll all be okay. That's what moms are supposed to do. They're not supposed to be the cause of your pain, they're supposed to make it go away. They're supposed to hold you and tell you everything is going to be alright. They're supposed to tell you that thunder is angels bowling. And that it's okay to be afraid of the dark, and it isn't silly to think there might be monsters in your closet. And that it's okay if you want to climb into bed with them just this once because it's scary in the room all alone... They're supposed to say it's okay to be afraid, and not be the thing you're afraid of. But most importantly, they're supposed to love you no matter what. What happened to you it isn't fair, it isn't right. I'm supposed to empathize with you... sympathize... understand... but I can't. That... that would be a lie. The truth is I don't understand what you've done, I don't sympathize with you killing people all these years, and I especially don't understand you taking Ellie. What I can do is tell you what a mother should tell you, that you can't take away your pain by hurting someone else, that it doesn't make all the nights you had to hide scared and alone any better if you scare someone the way you're scaring Ellie. What happened to you... it isn't fair, but what you're doing to her isn't fair either. And if anyone should understand what that feels like it's you. You have the power, you can do what you want to do, but for once you can chose to use that power to do for Ellie what should have been done for you. You can chose letting her go. You can chose teaching her that, yes, there are monsters, and it's okay to be afraid of them. But it's not okay to let them win, and it's not okay to be one.

Elle Greenaway:
Dominant one is the mastermind. That's not to say that the submissive partner is in any way pure or innocent in this exchange.

Jason Gideon:
If their criminal desire wasn't present, their partnership wouldn't work.

Derek Morgan:
The offenders share a common delusion. It's one that you and I would never accept, but it's this bond that justifies their actions.

Detective Robert Portillo:
So we're looking for two sick minds who complete each other.

Dr. Spencer Reid:
It's kind of like the perfect storm. Once these deviant personalities collide, they're deadly and unstoppable.

Aaron "Hotch" Hotchner:
Like the D.C. snipers or the Columbine assassins. Sometimes they've met in childhood. Other times, they can be related, like the Hillside Stranglers, Angelo Buono and Kenneth Bianchi, psychopathic cousins who terrorized women in Los Angeles. The dominant partner makes the submissive one feel invincible. That's his reward for doing as he's told. Unfortunately, there are countless opportunities for these twisted minds to meet. And once they've pulled off their vicious acts, the two accept this as common behavior and become bored with normal activity. They live only for their new reality. They're obsessed with it, addicted to it. And there's a fierce loyalty between the two. The submissive one, however, is usually less intelligent and easier to catch, and once caught, he is easier to turn.

Jason Gideon:
Lack of remorse increases their aggressiveness. Sexual sadists will stop when they're caught.

Aaron Hotchner:
Contrary to popular belief, there has never been a proven case of satanic ritual killing. Never a verified human sacrifice. Having said that, there have been isolated cases of animal sacrifice... and many, many cases of vandalism in the name of Satan.

Derek Morgan:
Now, that doesn't mean that ritual satanism is impossible. And more importantly, for our purposes, there have been cults that killed, just not in ritual fashion.

Dr. Spencer Reid:
The reverend Jim Jones and the Peoples Temple... his followers killed a U.S. Congressman and three people before committing mass suicide, leaving over nine hundred people dead. And, perhaps, the most widely-known of the killer cults: the Manson Family, under the direction of Charles Manson, killed nine people in a four day period in an attempt to initiate a race war.

Elle Greenaway:
Killer cults do exist, and they all have one thing in common: invariably, they're headed by charismatic megalomaniacs.

Dr. Spencer Reid:
You're looking for that leader. He's who will stand out. He'll be memorable to somebody; people who aren't in his group will see him as strange, weird, scary.

Aaron Hotchner:
Since we're dealing with professed satanists, which is often practiced by younger males, we may be looking for teenagers. Heavy metal music is often associated with satanism, and these kids and their leader may reflect that in their look.

Derek Morgan:
Most likely, there'll be sex, drugs, and alcohol. Now, the leader, he'll be older. It's part of his charm.

Aaron Hotchner:
And he is from this area. He's definitely local.

Elle Greenaway:
These woods are too thick and confusing for a visitor to get around in.

Sheriff Bridges:
You think one of our own people is doing this?

Aaron Hotchner:
We're sure of it.

Dr. Spencer Reid:
Morgan. You knew I didn't want you to tell Hotch about my nightmares.

Derek Morgan:
Reid, that's something they need to know about.

Dr. Spencer Reid:
What do you mean "they"?

Derek Morgan:
Hotch and Gideon.

Dr. Spencer Reid:
You told Gideon, too?

Derek Morgan:
Yeah. And it's okay, kid.

Dr. Spencer Reid:
Well, wh... what if they think I can't do my job? What if... what if they want to pull me off the team?

Derek Morgan:
They won't.

Dr. Spencer Reid:
Oh, yeah? How do you know that?

Derek Morgan:
[frustrated sigh] I just do.

Dr. Spencer Reid:
You had no right, man. I... I confided in you. This is... you know, this is exactly what I get when I trust someone. It gets thrown back in my face.

Derek Morgan:
Mine started six months after I got into the BAU. Yeah. Mine. We were working a strangler case in Montana. Four victims. Me, I was still pretty young at the time, so, you know, I was feeling myself. I was cocky, I was arrogant. The locals, they didn't have anything, so I stepped up. I said 'I can nail down a profile for you just as soon as I get what I need.'

Dr. Spencer Reid:
More victims.

Derek Morgan:
Mm-hmm. She was found the next day. So I went down to the scene to do my thing. And I was looking over the body, that's when I saw them. Her eyes, Reid. They were wide open. And there was something different about them, it was like they were looking right at *me*. Like she knew. I asked for a victim; well, here she was. That's when they started for me. Night after night, I would fall asleep, and I would see those eyes. They were dead eyes. Accusing eyes. And it got to the point where it was happening even when I wasn't asleep. Reid, everywhere I went, I saw those eyes.

Dr. Spencer Reid:
What'd you do?

Derek Morgan:
Gideon. He knew. I didn't tell him. I was like you, I didn't want anybody to know. He just... he knew. And he sat me down and he... he just kind of talked me through it. I still have the nightmares to this day, just not nearly as often. But when they come back, I know how to handle them better.

Aaron Hotchner:
It's possible we're dealing with a terrorist organization with one man at the center. We're basing our profile on his motivation.

Derek Morgan:
We believe these children were abducted by a preferential offender who targets pre-pubescent boys.

Alex Blake:
Our unsub is likely a male in his forties, with some military or law enforcement training.

Jennifer Jareau:
We think he has a secluded location that provides enough privacy to hold his victims captive for several years.

David Rossi:
In that time, he breaks these kids down, rebuilds them to be hardened soldiers.

Dr. Spencer Reid:
We believe they're suffering from an extreme case of Stockholm syndrome. Much like Patty Hearst, who came to view the SLA as her new family and the rest of the world as adversaries, we believe he's attempting to instill this same feeling within his army.

Derek Morgan:
He likely uses military torture techniques to get his victims to see his enemies as their own.

Dr. Spencer Reid:
He puts them through a rigorous and punishing military training regimen in order to prepare them mentally and physically for his war.

Derek Morgan:
And once this happens, the physical threats stop and the reprogramming begins.

Jennifer Jareau:
And now that he has their trust, he maintains this connection by bolstering them with love and affection.

David Rossi:
His connection to them is important. It ensures once they're released, they will not deviate from their orders.

Alex Blake:
His ultimate target has yet to be determined, but it could be as broad as American citizens.

Dr. Spencer Reid:
These attacks have been well orchestrated, methodical, and extremely violent in order to maximize destruction and panic.

Aaron Hotchner:
Which is why we need to get ahead of him in order to prevent more bloodshed. But in order to do that, we need to identify the source of his rage.

David Rossi:
We believe our unsub is already with his next victim. If he matches pattern, she'll be a successful woman, probably brunette, early 30s to mid-40s. She'll be at home in Nashville's upper echelon.

Dr. Spencer Reid:
This means that he fits in. He drives the right car, he wears the right clothes, he's highly intelligent, and probably comes from a place of status.

Derek Morgan:
This guy's sociable, and he's endearing. You would never suspect that this man is capable of murder. But he will do whatever it takes to protect the fantasy that he's trying to relive.

David Rossi:
It's this fantasy which fuels his drive. He's recreating a romantic evening, repeating it with each of his victims.

Derek Morgan:
He most likely recently had a relationship taken away from him. So look at men who have lost loved ones or gone through a messy divorce.

Dr. Spencer Reid:
Like Bundy, these women are representations of that first loss. Uh... Bundy picked victims who had similar features to the woman that abandoned him, and we believe that our unsub is doing the exact same thing.

Emily Prentiss:
These women were confident, successful, and strong, and they fought back. Which means he has the ability to overpower them fairly easily.

David Rossi:
He believes, or fantasizes, he's in a relationship with these women. No matter how fleeting the initial interaction is, it's everything to him, an invitation.

Dr. Spencer Reid:
Our technical analyst has compiled a list of locations that the victims visited prior to their death. These are high-class establishments. We're going to want to visit the same places.

Derek Morgan:
So look for men who fit the profile, but also women who match victimology. If somebody's been paying a little too much attention to them, talk to them. Get a read, then jot their name down so that we can check them out.

Det. Landon Kaminski:
All right, folks, pick up your canvassing assignments and get to work.

Aaron 'Hotch' Hotchner:
[beginning lines, voiceover which leads into view of funeral attendants and Aaron speaking] W.S. Gilbert wrote: "It's love that makes the world go round." And if that's true, then the world spun a little faster with Haley in it. Haley was my best friend since we were in high school. We certainly had our struggles, but if there's one thing we agreed on unconditionally, it was our love and commitment to our son, Jack. Haley's love for Jack was joyous, and fierce. That fierceness is why she isn't here today. A mother's love is an unrivaled force of nature, and we can all learn much from the way Haley lived her life. Haley's death causes each of us to stop and take stock of our lives; to measure who we are and what we've become. I don't have all those answers for myself, but I know who Haley was. She was the woman who died protecting the child we brought into this world together and I will make sure that Jack grows up knowing who his mother was and how she loved and protected him. And how much I loved her. If Haley were with us today, she would ask us not to mourn her death, but to celebrate her life. She would tell us - she would tell us to love our families unconditionally and to hold them close because in the end, they are all that matter. I met Haley at the tryouts of our high school's production of The Pirates of Penzance." I found our copy of the play and I was looking through it the other night, and I... came upon a passage that seemed appropriate for this moment. "Oh, dry the glistening tear that dews that martial cheek. Thy loving children hear, in them thy comfort seek. With sympathetic care, their arms around thee creep, for oh, they cannot bear to see their father weep." [people begin leaving and putting white roses on Haley's casket; alone, Aaron carries Jack above Haley's grave] Okay, you can go ahead. Blow Mommy a kiss. [Jack does so and Aaron, still carrying Jack, gets off the covered platform and walks away]

Aaron Hotchner:
The unsub we're looking for is a woman. She's a collector. It's a psychopathology similar to hoarding.

David Rossi:
So when we say "collector", we're not talking about stamps or baseball cards. It's not what your kids, or even you, might pursue as a normal hobby.

Aaron Hotchner:
This is an attachment to objects that's become obsessive, by someone who is antisocial and extremely introverted.

Emily Prentiss:
These people attach a part of themselves to their collection. If you try to separate them from it or take it away from them, they will react violently, even psychotically.

Dr. Spencer Reid:
They've suffered damage to their prefrontal cortex. That's the part of the brain that regulates basic Freudian fantasy/reality. They can still function, like drive a car or go to work, even do their taxes.

Derek Morgan:
In fact, she excels at goal-oriented jobs, like the precision of sewing, or the details of abduction.

Dr. Spencer Reid:
But they've lost their ability to categorize the difference between living and dead, uh, belonging and loss. That has been irreparably destroyed.

Detective Marty Cotrone:
So what's she collecting, women?

David Rossi:
Actually, we think she's collecting dolls.

Dr. Spencer Reid:
Technically, replacing them. Uh, we believe that she lost the originals sometime within the last three months, and this is what served as her stressor.

David Rossi:
She searched for a replacement, and when she couldn't find them, she started abducting the closest possible surrogate.

Emily Prentiss:
Women of different ethnicities but a similar physicality.

Derek Morgan:
The drug-induced paralysis is part of the fantasy. She puts her victims in a position where they can't talk back so she can fetishize them like the objects she's lost.

Detective Marty Cotrone:
Um... look. I respect your analysis, but this woman kidnapped six women and killed three of them. And you're telling us this is about dolls?

Emily Prentiss:
This unsub stitched a wig onto the scalp of her latest victim. It's a technique used to attach hair to porcelain dolls.

Dr. Spencer Reid:
And keep in mind, collectors and serial killers do share certain traits. Uh... a lot of serial killers take trophies, attaching the same significance to them that this collector does to objects.

David Rossi:
But this unsub's intent isn't violence. She needs this collection to be complete so she can feel in control of her life, probably to overcome some trauma she experienced.

Dr. Spencer Reid:
She really only feels that control when the collection is complete, which is why she's repeating an abduction pattern with living victims. If she loses a doll, or in this case, if she loses a woman who represents a doll, she has to replace it.

Aaron Hotchner:
This woman works alone. We know she has medical training. Look for nurse's aides or orderlies who were fired for a lack of social graces. She can't fake a bedside manner.

Emily Prentiss:
We believe she's currently working as a tailor or a seamstress, and we're following those leads now. But do let us know if you notice any overlap in your suspect pools. Thank you.

[last lines]

Section Chief Mateo Cruz:
You always here this late?

Jennifer Jareau:
Pretty much, yeah. Every time your name was mentioned today and every time I didn't say, "Hey, yeah, I know him," I'm lying.

Section Chief Mateo Cruz:
I know it's not easy. I don't like it either.

Jennifer Jareau:
We're surrounded by profilers, Matt. One side glance and they're gonna figure it all out.

Section Chief Mateo Cruz:
Separating us in the field was smart.

Jennifer Jareau:
It was the only way. Look, I... I know why we can't tell them. I get that, but... We can't have too many of these conversations either.

Section Chief Mateo Cruz:
That case could stay open for a couple years.

Jennifer Jareau:
It's already been almost three. [pause] Did you take this position because of me?

Section Chief Mateo Cruz:
No, no. Trust me, I walked into the Hoover Building this morning and was told drive out to Quantico immediately. So, someone put this transfer on the fast track.

Jennifer Jareau:
State?

Section Chief Mateo Cruz:
They wouldn't admit it if they did.

Jennifer Jareau:
True.

Section Chief Mateo Cruz:
This... us... We're good, right?

Jennifer Jareau:
Yeah.

Section Chief Mateo Cruz:
Okay. You want to meet at the Air and Space in the morning? Run some sprints?

Jennifer Jareau:
I'm going to make breakfast for my boys.

Section Chief Mateo Cruz:
Great plan.

David Rossi:
[walks to them and pushes the elevator button] Going home?

Jennifer Jareau:
Yeah.

David Rossi:
Cruz?

Section Chief Mateo Cruz:
I've got some work to do. Good night.

Jennifer Jareau:
Good night.

David Rossi:
Good night. [getting in the elevator after JJ] You good?

Jennifer Jareau:
Yeah. All good.

Aaron Hotchner:
[quotes the evaluation report] Patient shows no hesitation tackling difficult goals as part of reintegrating into her life. She has reached out to her mother.

Emily Prentiss:
I'm going to.

Aaron Hotchner:
And has started a romantic relationship with a man named Sergio. Now, I don't care if you lie to your therapist. All I care about is how your behavior affects your job.

Emily Prentiss:
I don't think it has.

Aaron Hotchner:
You've been over-compensating.

Emily Prentiss:
How have I...

Aaron Hotchner:
You rushed to repair your relationship with Morgan. You've become an emotional sounding board for Reid and Rossi.

Emily Prentiss:
That's being a good friend.

Aaron Hotchner:
You offered me parenting advice.

Emily Prentiss:
Okay, so maybe I have been working a little bit harder to regain people's trust. Is that such a bad thing?

Aaron Hotchner:
No. It only is if you use it to avoid dealing with what you went through.

Emily Prentiss:
But I'm not. I chose to come back here. Why? Because I care about the people I work with? Yes. But also because it's clean. I know who the good guys and the bad guys are. I don't have to worry about screwing someone over to make a case.

Aaron Hotchner:
Okay, I want you to make a deal with me. You're gonna go weeks, months even, feeling fine. And then you're gonna have a bad day. Just let me know when you do

Emily Prentiss:
And that's it?

Aaron Hotchner:
That's it.

Emily Prentiss:
Deal.

Aaron Hotchner:
Sergio?

Emily Prentiss:
He is the perfect man. He doesn't hog the covers, and he poops in a box.

Dr. Spencer Reid:
You know, that profile kind of makes it sound like schizophrenia leads to serial killing.

Derek Morgan:
That's not what we said at all, Reid.

Dr. Spencer Reid:
You know, my mom has schizophrenia. There are many different types.

Derek Morgan:
I know that.

Dr. Spencer Reid:
Catatonic, disorganized... Just because someone suffers from an inability to organize their thoughts, or they can't bathe or dress themselves, it doesn't mean they'd stab someone in the chest 30 times postmortem.

Derek Morgan:
Reid, what's really going on?

Dr. Spencer Reid:
Our UnSub's hallucinations aren't fractured like a typical schizophrenic. They're vivid and clear, leading me to believe that we're missing an important variable. Rather than making crazy conjectures, I think we should be trying to figure out what it is.

Derek Morgan:
Okay, listen to me. I know this is a scary age for you. It's when schizophrenic breaks happen. Have you talked to anybody about this?

Dr. Spencer Reid:
Emily.

Derek Morgan:
Have you seen a doctor?

Dr. Spencer Reid:
They all say I'm fine.

Derek Morgan:
Then why don't you believe them?

Dr. Spencer Reid:
Because predicting one's chances of developing a genetic condition are like finding a penny in an ocean. I have terrible headaches. I can't sleep at night. I can't focus on our cases. I only read five books last week.

Derek Morgan:
Come on, kid, you gotta cut yourself some slack. You're also depressed about Prentiss, and I get it. We all are. Reid, I miss her every day. But if your mind was splitting, do you really think you'd be able to figure out that this team is missing a variable?

Dr. Spencer Reid:
I'm just speculating that we are. I need to prove it.

Derek Morgan:
Okay, then, you do that. The moment you are wandering around the streets aimlessly, that's when I'll be concerned about you. Come on, pretty boy. Let's get to work.

Jason Gideon:
When we're dealing with a bomber, we're talking about someone who's non-confrontational. If you bumped into him at a cafe, he'd apologize; even if it wasn't his fault.

Aaron "Hotch" Hotchner:
We would classify this bomber as highly organized, based on the meticulous design of his bombs. It means above average intelligence. He probably has a skilled job, a trade, one that allows him to work alone. That's how he was able to make a sophisticated device without raising suspicion. Furniture maker, jeweler, et cetera.

Detective Morrison:
Background in explosives?

Jason Gideon:
No, not necessarily. You're thinking about a type who likes to blow things up. Gives them an emotional or sexual release. Death? Secondary.

Officer Worthy:
Then what's this guy doing?

Jason Gideon:
Murdering. Bombs? Just weapons. And these attacks, they are not random.

Officer Worthy:
Well, how do you know that?

Aaron "Hotch" Hotchner:
By process of elimination. We know bombers fall into a discreet number of categories according to motive. There's the terrorist, whose aim is to spread fear; we expect him to strike in a populous area like a subway. There's the politically motivated bomber; he makes a statement by choosing a symbolic target like an abortion clinic. Then there's our unsub. He made bombs designed to kill and he chose his victims specifically by placing the bombs at their stoops. That tells us he has a direct motive. Statistically, he bombs for profit or to conceal a crime. And it tells us how we're going to find him - through the people he killed.

Jason Gideon:
Somewhere among the three victims there is a direct motive. Keep digging.

Jennifer 'JJ' Jareau:
Victim one, Travis Bartlett, was last seen at a gay bar. He was shot at night in a park. Victim two, Lily Nicks, a thirty-four year old prostitute, her throat was slashed. Victims three and four, June Appleby and Troy Wertsler, were shot in their car at a parking lot outside of a movie theater. And victim five was a twenty-eight year old single woman, Kayla James, killed in her home. She was bound, suffocated with a bag over her head, evidence of rape.

Emily Prentiss:
And then the sixth victim was Zoe.

Dr. Spencer Reid:
Victimology, weapons used, and C.O.D. are all different. I mean, it's hard to imagine it's even the same unsub.

David Rossi:
It can't be a coincidence that Zoe goes to Kayla James' house and gets murdered.

Aaron Hotchner:
All right, let's say it is the same killer. Does anybody see a pattern?

Emily Prentiss:
Well, maybe. Okay, in the first crime, he shoots the victim. The second crime, he rapes a woman and slashes her throat; that's more personal. And the third crime, he escalates to killing two people, and the fourth, he escalates even more by raping a woman, binding her, and suffocating her.

Aaron Hotchner:
So if it is the same unsub, you could argue that there's a progression of violence with every kill.

Dr. Spencer Reid:
It could be an anger excitation offender getting more daring with each crime.

Derek Morgan:
I think I got something here. Look at this. The slashes in the prostitute's throat, they're all shallow, unsure cuts. The Kayla James crime scene, telephone cord, rope, and duct tape were used. It's like he couldn't decide how to bind her.

Aaron Hotchner:
So without a gun, he's sloppy, inexperienced.

Derek Morgan:
The young couple shot in the car... that crime scene remind you of anything?

Dr. Spencer Reid:
Yeah, they were shot with a .44 Bulldog, just like the Son of Sam used on his victims, which were also young couples in parked cars. It might be nothing, but you're right, there is a parallel there.

Emily Prentiss:
With the second victim, it's hard not to think of Jack the Ripper. The obvious similarity being it's a prostitute whose throat was slashed.

Aaron Hotchner:
Kayla James was bound, tortured, raped, with a plastic bag over her head, like BTK.

Derek Morgan:
What about victim number one?

David Rossi:
Garcia, what neighborhood was he found in?

Penelope Garcia:
At a park in the Kingsbury Run area.

David Rossi:
Zoe reminded me last night that Cleveland's most famous serial killer was the Butcher of Kingsbury Run. He found his victims in gay bars, shot them, and dumped their body there. Travis Bartlett was last seen at a gay bar, and his body was found in Kingsbury Park.

Jennifer 'JJ' Jareau:
So these are copycats of famous serial killers?

David Rossi:
He's a serial killer studying serial killers.

Aaron Hotchner:
See you in Cleveland, Dave.

Diane Turner:
I was hoping you'd figure out my riddle. I mean, I knew you would. The fun was just how fast you'd do it. All this and brains, too.

Dr. Spencer Reid:
It took me a long time. To be honest, I was distracted by your thesis.

Diane Turner:
You read my thesis?

Dr. Spencer Reid:
I did. You know, I think your writing could put you on the same plane as Jonas Salk. I've already sent it to the NIH.

Diane Turner:
Flattery is not gonna get you out of this. I know what's waiting for me outsides.

Dr. Spencer Reid:
I've arranged for your freedom.

Diane Turner:
The federal government doesn't make deals with people like me.

Dr. Spencer Reid:
Not true. Nazi scientists were recruited for the Manhattan Project. Mafia Bosses are regularly put into witness protection. If what you have is valuable enough, the federal government will work with you. And what you have is very valuable.

Diane Turner:
And what do I have, Doctor?

Dr. Spencer Reid:
You have a brain that doesn't play by normal societal rules. And I know that all your life the people you care about the most keep leaving. There's a part of you that thinks it's because of that brain. I'm here because I'm not going to leave you. I'm here because... I just hope that I get the chance.

Diane Turner:
Chance at what?

Dr. Spencer Reid:
To be with you. Me for her. That was the deal, right?

Diane Turner:
You're choosing me over her?

Dr. Spencer Reid:
Diane, how could it be anyone else?

Diane Turner:
Prove it.

Dr. Spencer Reid:
All right. How?

Diane Turner:
Say it again. This time say it to her face. [takes blindfold off]

Dr. Spencer Reid:
I don't love you. Sorry.

Dr. Maeve Donovan:
I understand.


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