Criminal Minds2005

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.