Criminal Minds s18e06 Episode Script
Hell is Empty…
1
Previously on Criminal
Minds: Evolution
VOIT: I don't want to do this anymore.
I don't want to live like this.
Parts of your brain are
talking to each other
that didn't talk before.
I need you to go and get your gun
and put it on this table
- over here.
- No.
I'm a fucking monster,
David. Don't you understand?
JJ: So Ronald Graber
is a family annihilator?
LEWIS: He told them he
wanted to play a game.
They had to choose
one family member to sacrifice,
and the he would leave.
OCHOA: JJ, I sincerely believe
that in your situation,
- if you can't help
- Help yourself
help someone else.
Like you.
What do you want me to do?
JJ: We think you'll remember
once you're face to face.
GRABER: I have a message for Sicarius
from his disciple.
Doesn't Elias need
some sort of safe word?
VOIT: I'll say "monster" if I need help.
I am Sicarius.
You have a message for me?
Did you watch my videos?
I did.
You saw what I did to those families?
Yes.
Then you know what they call me.
I know what you call yourself.
I want to hear you say it.
The Brutal Man.
Huh.
I asked for Sicarius.
And here you are.
In the flesh.
So you say.
VOIT: Do you have a message?
GRABER: I would've thought
you'd have figured it out by now.
Look, I'll, um
I'll make it easy for you.
I'll give you the message
if you can answer
this one question correctly.
Why am I here?
Why am I here,
in custody,
and not in the morgue
like everyone else?
VOIT: I'll make it easy for you.
GRABER: Let me make it easy
for you. The Brutal Man.
Gas N' Gulp.
Beavercreek, Ohio. 2007.
Your family stopped there.
- Ronnie?
- VOIT: Your mom needed
to use the restroom.
Do you need to go?
Ronnie? Go now or forever hold your pee.
Pick out some candy.
Get something for your sister, too.
Be back in a jiffy.
VOIT: And then,
while you were waiting
(GASPS)
- Sorry.
- What's your name?
Ronnie.
Ronnie.
Mm
pick a hand.
I'm not supposed to talk to strangers.
My name is Lee, your name's Ronnie,
so we're not strangers.
Pick a hand.
Look, I'll make it easy for you.
(CLICKS TONGUE)
Life's too short to skip dessert.
♪
It was you.
Picture perfect nuclear family.
You even had the bumper sticker
with the stick figures on
it. I couldn't help myself.
It wasn't hard to corral them
once I had a gun to your sister's head.
You always thought they abandoned you.
Thought it was your fault.
Wondered what you ever did wrong.
Never understood.
You must be such a bad boy
if your family's just gonna leave you.
No grandparents to take you in.
You have been searching for answers.
I kept my eye on you
through foster care, juvie.
You were, you were a lost soul.
But then I recruited you, RG07.
So, when you said you
killed those families
because you wanted to
that was bullshit.
You didn't have a choice.
Because, you see,
Ronnie,
I'm the one who made you.
So give me
your goddamn message.
"Hell is empty
" and all the devils
are here."
You're gonna want to grab him.
Monster.
♪
VOIT: "Misery acquaints a
man with strange bedfellows."
William Shakespeare.
Everything Voit said is a match.
Ronald Graber was abandoned
in Beavercreek, Ohio.
He bounced around the state system
until he made juvie his home.
Can't believe Voit killed
Graber's entire family.
It was that intense connection
that made him remember everything.
Just like when he sat down across from
Ramona. All the good came flooding back.
Yeah, and now it's all the bad.
GREEN: He sounded like his old self.
Do you think it was an act?
No, I think he knew he had to
tap into that side of himself.
His purpose was to go in that
room and get us the message.
He did that, and then some.
Yeah, but at what cost?
I'm gonna check your heart rate, okay?
Elias?
Is that okay?
His heart rate is through the roof.
He's still in shock.
Is it okay if we stay here for a while?
Whatever you need.
Elias,
we're not gonna travel
until you're stable, okay?
Okay.
Did you hear what Agent Rossi said?
Graber isn't dead.
He's gonna wish he was.
"Hell is empty "
What was the rest of it?
"And all the devils are here."
I don't know that. What's it from?
Is it from the Bible?
GARCIA: It's Shakespeare.
The Tempest. Act one, scene two.
LEWIS: Yes, first uttered by Ferdinand
during the shipwreck and
then repeated by Ariel
when they tell Prospero
what happened to the royals.
Scene two. This is round two
- with the network.
- PRENTISS: I'm not convinced
it's that deep. It could just
be a very bold statement.
And the only thing we know
is that Voit has some
dark shit locked up in that head of his.
LEWIS: Mm. And that he knows
all the devils we're looking for.
Now we just need him
to remember all of them.
It's weird seeing him like this.
- Almost helpless.
- ROSSI: Yeah.
He's drained and it's late.
Been a while since
I've pulled an all-nighter,
but if there ever was a time
You want him to lay down somewhere?
OCHOA: Well, it's simple
for me to run a brain scan.
Can tell us if he's
his old self or his new self.
You can do that from here?
I knew what he'd be up against in there,
so I brought it along.
I'll send the feed to your monitor
so you can see what I see.
Dave.
Don't leave, please.
OCHOA: Okay.
You know the drill.
Focus on the images
we flash in front of you.
- All right?
- Mm-hmm.
You think our monster's back?
Look at the anterior insular cortex.
Rainbows.
The empathy center in
his brain is still firing.
JJ: How can that be? We all saw
how he talked to Graber.
He knew exactly what to say.
Test will come when she shows him
the crime scene photos.
LEWIS: Look at the
dorsolateral prefrontal cortex.
There's no dopamine release.
So he's not okay with seeing violence.
Hmm. Welcome to my club.
He hasn't switched.
The killer isn't back.
GARCIA: Well, I think folks
can fake a lot of things,
but Voit
(SIGHS) I-I think he's far too broken
to be anything but himself.
It's I c
I can't. I need a break, please.
Okay, Elias. Not a problem.
Okay.
Ochoa's taking him back.
He's calmed down and exhausted.
We won't get anywhere with him tonight.
So, that means we
will all get some sleep
and we will hit this first thing.
Flag on the play.
Uh, turns out Voit's
lawyer is no slouch.
He heard about the
confrontation with Graber
and filed a motion
for a protective order,
citing legal precedent that says
someone with retrograde amnesia
can't incriminate himself.
So where does that leave us?
Look, we don't have time
to go 12 rounds with a public defender.
I say let the legal fallout
be tomorrow's battle.
DOJ is willing
to offer a plea agreement
that establishes Voit
is not the focus of this investigation.
Voit's lawyers also requested
he's back to marshal-only security
while he recovers at Melgren.
No cuffs.
Cuffs or no cuffs, we just
need to keep him talking.
Look, we can't forget where
Voit was a week ago: Suicidal.
Any reminder of his past crimes
sent him to the edge
of a psychotic break.
LEWIS: And yet he remembered
killing Graber's family.
Voit didn't bat an eyelash.
What's been our guiding
rule since Voit woke up?
Being physically confronted by his past
is clearly painful for
him, but it's grounding.
ALVEZ: So how do we maintain that
along with his memories of the network?
Find another grounding element.
I'll talk to him.
When he saw me earlier,
he immediately remembered Alison.
O Can we have a
brake-pump here for a minute?
We've all had all
these dustups with Voit.
We can't also have you
opening up painful wounds
just to grease Voit's memories.
Yes, we can.
I was on the outer ring of his network.
- Outer ring?
- Voit had a vetting process
for bringing people onto the network.
And if you really impressed him,
you'd be part of the inner circle.
These three Ronald Graber,
Clyde Smets and Franklin Fowler
made it onto the network,
but they never got
coordinates to a kill kit.
- But you did.
- GREEN: Only because
I hacked Voit's transceiver codes.
It's got to be me.
Well, we can't take any
chances. You're not going alone.
Yeah. I'll do it.
- Penelope, you don't have to
- Oh, I know I don't have to.
I have a choice here.
Uh, and just to rectify history,
you found the receiver
codes, but I hacked them.
So, sorry, not sorry, you need me.
And as boss lady said,
why don't we all get some sleep, huh?
VOIT (OVER VIDEO): So give
me your goddamn message.
GRABER: "Hell is empty. And
all the devils are here."
Shakespeare certainly fits this guy's
- flair for the dramatic.
- JJ: It also fits
his flair for a mask.
In Japanese Noh theater,
it represents a ghost
being tormented in hell.
Yeah, but this isn't about just one.
It's all the devils.
PRENTISS: The unsubs
in this revised network
are coming fast and furious,
but we can't catch
them if we're exhausted.
Even Voit knows that.
So we all need to get some rest.
Yes?
Yes. (LAUGHS SOFTLY)
You okay, kid?
Yes, we all need some sleep.
And even though we got
three unsubs off the streets,
I-I can't help
but feel that this new network
they're just waking up.
(ELECTRICITY BUZZING)
(INHALES)
(THUMPING)
(PANTING)
(WHISPERS): What the fuck?
Hey.
Let me out!
(PHONE DIALING)
(LINE RINGING)
OPERATOR: 911. What's your emergency?
My name is Claire Thatcher,
and I have been kidnapped.
Can you tell me where you're located?
I-I don't I-I don't know.
I'm I just know I'm in some
kind of weird box and I'm stuck.
- I'm stuck.
- Claire, I'm gonna need you to calm down.
- We'll track your GPS.
- (STRAINS, COUGHS)
- Oh, God. Oh, God.
- Claire, tell me what's happening.
(CRYING): Oh, God. Oh, God. Oh, God.
I
I know where I am.
- I know where I am.
- Stay calm,
give me as much detail as you can.
I, I-I think I'm underground.
I'm in a coffin underground.
- You're, you're what?
- (COUGHING)
- (WOOD CREAKING)
- Fuck, fuck, fuck.
It's collapsing. It's collapsing.
Claire, we have your
location. Help is on the way.
- You're not gonna make it.
- Yes, we will.
You just have to stay
on the line with me.
Keep talking to me,
Claire. Can you hear me?
- Claire
- (PHONE BEEPS)
(PHONE DIALING)
(LINE RINGING)
- HAROLD (OVER PHONE): Claire.
- Please,
- Harold, put Hailey on the line.
- You know the drill.
She's doing her homework,
I've got her phone.
We talked about this.
I need to talk to her.
We wouldn't have to take her phone
if she wasn't falling behind.
Harold, it's an emergency.
Yeah, well, always is with you.
Please, I don't want to fight.
I just want to hear her voice.
Call her in an hour. Boundaries, Claire.
- No. No, no, no, d-don't
- (DISCONNECT TONE BEEPS)
(GASPS)
- (WOOD CRACKS)
- (SCREAMING)
(COUGHING)
(SIRENS WAILING)
Hey, uh, thanks for coming in so early.
So, I couldn't stop thinking about
how the timeline tells the story.
First up, Franklin Fowler.
Uploaded videos of his
kill to the network.
Cornered by us. Suicide.
Next, Clyde Smets.
- Same deal.
- ROSSI: The zookeeper
engaged with Voit on the network
since its initial run.
ALVEZ: But Smets
didn't post an actual video
until after Fowler killed himself.
Once Smets committed suicide,
Graber posted on BAU-Gate.
If I didn't know better,
I'd say the next unsub starts
once the previous one is off the board.
That means these guys are in
close contact with one another,
and they probably already
know of Graber's arrest.
Which means our next
unsub just got activated.
(SIGHS)
(PHONE CHIMING)
Oh, that was fast.
Voit's plea agreement went through.
Well, my guess is that his new lawyer
shit a brick when he found
out that Voit confessed
to killing Graber's family
while actually in FBI custody.
Yeah, but still, Voit
must have strong-armed him.
I mean, the language
doesn't legally preclude us
from using his words against him.
By any measure, Voit
is sticking his neck out
- to help us.
- Well, that is a lawyer's worst nightmare,
- a client with a leaky conscience.
- (LAUGHS): Yeah.
Becca.
(CHUCKLES): Evan.
- Hi. Hi. Hi.
- Oh, my God oh, wow. Hi.
- Hi.
- I-I heard you were in Chicago.
I've been here two
years now. Turns out, uh,
corporate mergers get
to be a bit soul-sucking.
- Oh, yeah, you thought D.C. would be better?
- I'm an optimist.
Uh, you're looking at,
uh, one of D.C.'s AUSAs.
Uh, hi. Evan Delray.
Hi. Tara Lewis.
Um, how do you guys know each other?
We went to law school together.
Oh. Oh!
Hey. Law School Evan.
- Oh, God. What did she tell you?
- Oh, um,
only that you wouldn't have
made it to 2L without her.
(REBECCA AND EVAN LAUGH)
- What are you doing in Quantico?
- Uh
this, uh, Ronald Graber
suicide attempt's got
the whole DOJ into cover-your-ass mode.
The-the D.A. in Cleveland wants
me to transfer him back there,
but I can't do that until
he's out of the hospital.
- Uh, the fractured skull, right?
- Uh, yeah.
Y-You need the AG's
signature to confirm.
Well, you got a
shorthand with her, right?
- Ah.
- Clock's ticking.
Uh, we'll get this back to you soon.
Wow. It was good to see you.
- You, too.
- (LAUGHS): Yeah.
Let me know if there's
anything I can do to help.
- Yeah.
- Bye.
So, Becca
- Becca.
- Mm. Don't start. I mean it.
See, you hate being called that name,
but somehow Law School Evan gets a pass?
It was a long time ago.
And you neglected to tell
me that, uh, your study buddy
is a big, tall drink of water.
- Okay. Yep.
- I'm parched, Becks.
- I'll kill you, I mean it.
- Oh,
- like a, just, snack.
- Oh okay, yeah, yeah.
Um, hey,
f-for my own peace
of mind, can you and I
get some grounding, you
know, on-on the history
that we have before
we're walking in there?
'Cause your last run-in with Voit
was when he asked for you
to be his security detail,
and that was an attempt to
get a reaction out of you,
and there were some
understandable reactions.
We're not dealing with the same Voit.
And we're not dealing
with the same Tyler.
- One with a badge.
- I know what you're thinking.
That I see this as my
chance to spar with the man
who killed my sister and who shot me.
That's not what this is about.
What's it about?
Being an asset to this
team, however I can.
- Let's do this.
- Okay.
Okay, uh, you, I know why you're here,
but you, you don't have to be here.
Oh, I will happily enlighten you
why my presence here is pertinent.
Let's do a guilt trip speed round, okay?
Did you compromise SOAR,
my gorgeous app I spent
years building? Yeah.
Did you plant kill kits
all over the country,
which forced me to go
back to work at the FBI,
completely trashing
my self-care routine?
Yeah. Did you absolutely
funkify my workspace
at Quantico, so hard, in fact,
that I set off the fire
alarm at the FBI twice
just trying to sage away
your olfactory evils?
Uh, yes, to all of that?
But I-I know why he's here.
We're not having that
conversation. Not yet.
I think maybe you need to.
- What we need
- Mm.
is for you to tell
us everything you remember
about the players on your network.
(SIGHS) I don't
GARCIA: Okay, I'm gonna
I'm gonna translate.
A little gentler, with more metaphor.
There are these little
demon-horn people
that are, that are
popping up, one by one,
and then they're talking
to each other in cyber land,
and we need to figure out who they are
- and what they're saying.
- I can't magically remember
names and IP addresses.
- You remembered Graber.
- Well, he was right there
in front of me. I-I
Look, I I don't know how it works.
Yeah, that sounds like muscle memory.
Who else can you remember?
I talked to dozens of them,
hundreds, uh
through different channels, um,
the dark web, encrypted messages.
- I I wouldn't even know where to start.
- Yeah.
I-I don't think any of
us know where to start.
No.
We are faced with an overwhelming task.
When I am faced with
an overwhelming task,
I try to think of something
that, you know, whelms me.
- "Whelms me"? Is that a word?
- I don't know.
GARCIA: You know, like, gets you
very present,
an activity that gets
you really present.
All right, now's not
the time for a scone.
Please, you've never
sconed a day in your life.
- Oh, my God.
- But
I do know something that could
get us presently together.
I think so. I think so.
- Excuse me!
- (DOOR OPENS)
- (DOOR CLOSES)
- (SIGHS)
JJ: Hey, uh, just got a report
on a local woman Claire Thatcher.
She called 911 in distress,
they got disconnected.
EMTs raced to her, but it was too late.
Network unsub or regular unsub?
- She was buried alive.
- She also called home.
Seemingly to say goodbye.
Sounds like a signature Voit move.
Dave, take Alvez with
you to the crime scene.
- You guys look into that phone call.
- Yeah.
(ELEVATOR BELL DINGS)
Well, the AG works fast.
Not always. When it comes
to this case, she does.
Graber's that much of a badass?
Well, he's a lot, but it's his associate
who has been DOJ's nightmare.
Well, I read what I could,
but most of these files are redacted.
(SIGHS) It's complicated.
Uh, I'm sure nothing's changed
and you still live at the office,
but, um girl's got to eat.
You up for dinner? I
still make a terrific
You know, I live with Tara.
Yeah?
Living together.
That is a big step for you, Becca.
- That's great.
- (CHUCKLES)
Well, then, whatever night
works for both you and Tara.
- Yeah?
- Yeah.
I'll ask her.
- This is gonna be a night.
- (GIGGLES)
- That sounds perfect.
- That's great.
- (DOOR OPENS)
- GARCIA: Look at us.
Some build snowmen, we build computers.
- (CHUCKLES)
- And today's surprise ingredient
Ronald Graber's hard drive.
If we're gonna find
how they're talking to each other,
this will have the answers.
If we connect the block cipher module
- to the motherboard, then we'll be able to get
- Ah.
I'll do the soldering.
Yeah. You solder, I screw.
So, you didn't give Graber a kill kit.
There weren't enough to go around.
I know the hoops I jumped through.
Was it like that for everyone else?
A lot of people found a lot of comfort
in that lonely corner of the dark web,
but I only buried a dozen kits.
It was before the pandemic.
So they were for you?
Yeah, they were.
Why did you do it? Why did you ?
Connect like-minded people?
Yeah. Let's start there.
We were all locked inside
our houses for weeks,
which turned into months.
Work shifted from travel
to home, so anyone with
urges couldn't really release them
with their routine upended.
That got me thinking, "Well,
there's got to be others.
What are they doing right now?"
So I started the network,
and it just kind of turned
into, like, a support group.
You'd be surprised what
people will tell you
when there's a promise of anonymity.
Then Tyler went looking
for answers and found you.
Yeah, a lot of people did.
Within weeks, there were new servers,
new encryptions.
That's why I had to start
the inner and outer ring
to kind of manage the traffic.
How did you vet them?
There's some things you can't fake.
Not even on a platform like that.
Like ?
Inner darkness.
Like you, Tyler.
It's a darkness you put there.
H-Hey. Voilà. Look what teamwork did.
Now all we have to do
is get this in there
and-and-and-and-and we can walk a mile
in Graber's digital
loafers and see if there's
any encrypted messages.
We did this. Together. All of us.
ROSSI: Buried alive
in a wooden coffin.
Yeah. And he rigged
it with overhead lights
and live stream cameras.
Fits the network.
Each of them recorded their murders.
It's not six feet under,
but digging a hole this size
it's gonna take some time.
Yeah. He plans in advance.
Well, if he's so careful,
why would he let Claire have a phone?
Seems like a big risk.
Well, he took risk out of the equation.
Take a look.
She didn't die from lack of oxygen.
Soil filled her lungs.
- Coffin collapsed around her.
- Yeah.
Thanks to these.
It's, uh
These are breaching charges.
The unsub can detonate
them whenever he wants,
so when the first
responders were on their way,
boom, boom, boom,
roof caves in.
So he never intended
for Claire to be rescued.
No, he didn't.
This
this is a short-range IoT receiver.
- IoT?
- Yeah.
You know the apps on your phone
that allow you to control
household appliances?
They use IoT signals
to remotely trigger a
mechanism on any given device.
So this is a smart coffin.
Yeah. With end-to-end encryption
so the signal couldn't be blocked.
He doesn't get off on
burying Claire alive,
he gets off on deciding
the moment she dies.
Then he and his network
sickos watch over and over.
VOIT: All right, searching
Graber's hard drive
for any polyglot files
that could hide the
BOTH: encryption key in plain sight.
(BOTH CHUCKLE)
We're a regular Goofus
and Gallant, yeah?
(BOTH CHUCKLE)
You okay?
Uh, yeah, I just haven't done
anything like this since I got hurt.
Must make you feel a
little back to yourself?
Yeah, I guess that's it.
Whoa, whoa. Whoa, wait. Did
you add something to this?
Mm-mm. Why?
VOIT: This isn't mine.
I mean, it's similar
but way more advanced.
What do you mean?
I mean, someone else
is taking the reins.
In order to break
through this encryption,
we'd need a chip capable
of quantum resistance.
You-you mean like my
high-capacity SOAR chip
that you are guessing
correctly is in my laptop?
Yeah, if this is the new line
of communication for the network,
then this is our chance to tap in.
No, no, we can't do
Like, we're juicing up
a mystery dark web cipher
with a weapons-grade quantum chip?
You know that's the
digital equivalent of, like,
playing Red Rover with nuclear warheads.
All right, let's do it.
Come over, Red Rover.
- But we can't just
- Did you ever bury someone alive?
- Uh
- In a small space,
like a coffin?
No.
What about anyone on the network?
No, they were more hands-on. Why?
They've found another killer.
Buries them alive
Uh, no, no, no one ever pulled it off.
Anybody talk about
having their victim call
a family member as they were dying?
You had Alison call me the
night she died, didn't you?
Penelope
can you give us a second?
I'll be okay.
Okay.
Gonna be
right out here.
What was it
about Alison?
She reminded me of my mother.
You killed her because
she reminded you ?
No, no. That's why I asked her out.
She was my waitress at
the diner on Second Street.
She used to always keep your
nephew behind the counter.
- Blake.
- Yeah, Blake. She would just
she would kind of rock him
in between taking orders.
She had this calmness about her.
I guess I just thought
if she could fall in love with me,
then maybe I wouldn't have
to be like this anymore.
She was kind and patient.
We-we only went out a few times
before
before the demons
started getting louder,
and then I saw you at the apartment
and I got paranoid and so I had to
- I just
- How?
How'd you do it?
No, no, I don't Can
we not do this, please?
You owe me this.
I drugged her.
I took her to a motel.
When she woke up, she was tied up.
She knew what was going on,
and she only wanted one thing.
She wanted to hear your voice
because then she knew
that Blake would be okay.
(SHUDDERING)
Are you okay?
We need the chat logs
for Franklin Fowler
and Clyde Smets.
I think Voit knows the unsub.
I know how to get him to remember.
Okay.
(DOOR OPENS)
(WOOD SLIDING)
OPERATOR: Yes, we will.
You just have to stay
on the line with me.
- Keep talking to me, Claire.
- (CRYING)
(PHONE BEEPS)
(PHONE DIALING)
- (LINE RINGING)
- HAROLD (OVER PHONE): Claire.
CLAIRE: Please, Harold,
put Hailey on the line.
- I need to talk to her.
- HAROLD: You know the drill.
She's doing her homework,
I've got her phone.
We talked about this.
We wouldn't have to take her phone
if she wasn't falling behind.
CLAIRE: Harold, it's an emergency.
- Daddy?
- KYLE: Hey.
Hey, you can't be down here, remember?
I'm hungry.
(SIGHS)
Mommy always gives me
a snack before practice.
(SIGHS) Right.
Mommy's working now instead.
Isn't she?
Did Hailey know her mom called?
I haven't told her.
I don't want to fight.
I just want to hear her voice.
HAROLD: Call her in an hour.
- Boundaries, Claire.
- No. No, no, no, d-don't
You and Claire were divorced.
We read the record.
It sounds like the split was
acrimonious.
Claire wanted sole custody.
It made things toxic.
JJ: How toxic?
I went over this with the police.
I was helping Hailey with her homework
when the phone call came in.
- Yeah, we know.
- HAROLD: I see my daughter two days a week.
Okay? I wouldn't do
anything to threaten that.
LEWIS: We understand.
What we want to know is,
who else might have known
that things had become toxic?
- Did-did Hailey know?
- HAROLD: Of course.
I mean, kids always know. You try and
keep it from 'em, but
they can always tell.
Okay, who else?
I don't know. My coworkers,
Hailey's friends from school,
uh, whoever Claire talked to.
It's not fair.
What's not?
What happened to Claire.
You know, we weren't good together,
but she was such a good mom.
I was such a bastard.
I kept her from saying
goodbye to our daughter.
(CHUCKLES)
I don't know how I'm gonna
tell Hailey I denied her that.
I don't know if she'd ever forgive me.
How could she?
Do you have any other, um, questions?
JJ: Uh, I think that's all for now.
Thank you.
(JJ SIGHS)
(LEWIS SIGHS)
LEWIS: What do you think?
Well, he's not our unsub. Question is,
did the unsub know what
was going on in the family,
- and if so, how?
- Right, you think he
recognized himself
in the family dynamic?
He wanted to punish them?
Divorce, losing your
kids. I mean, that's
massive stressors.
But burying your ex alive?
I mean, there are easier
ways to kill your ex.
I mean, hell, there are easier
ways to get your kids back.
Unless
it's not about the kids.
It's about revenge.
- What are you doing here, Kyle?
- I tried calling you.
It went straight to voicemail.
The judge said you were supposed to keep
150 feet away at all times.
Just listen to me.
- It's Ava.
- What?
(SIGHS) She got a ride
to soccer practice.
The car she was in got T-boned.
What? Is she okay?
They said she's got a concussion.
Why couldn't you just drive her, Kyle?
Can we talk about this
at St. Elizabeth's?
You have her for one
weekend out of the month,
and you couldn't just drive her?
I-I'm just I'm parked right here.
I will drive myself.
- (MUFFLED SCREAMING)
- (SHUSHING)
(SCREAMING STOPS)
(GRUNTS)
Evan still here?
Uh, in the building? Doubt it.
You're buzzing.
Yeah, just, like, weight of
the world lifted, you know?
Weight of the world how?
(SIGHS): Okay, well, I-I
haven't told you everything
about how it all went down.
Um, last time I saw Evan was, well,
a while ago, and I don't know,
I wanted to make amends for
how things ended with us,
and (STAMMERS) I
didn't want to be alone
with him because I was afraid he
was either gonna be angry at me
or ask me out.
Like on a date?
Yeah because
yeah, we slept together.
- Mm-hmm.
- (STAMMERS) That's what the amends was about.
I was at a low point, and
I cried on his shoulder.
Or his pillow or
Don't be mad.
I'm not mad. We're grown-ass women.
We're gonna have body counts.
All right? Trust me. I'm
completely cool with it.
The thing is, though,
I think that he might
still be interested in you.
- Actually, he's not.
- Hmm.
He is happy and wants to
invite us over for dinner.
Mm-hmm
Okay, spill it. What?
Did you see how he
kept smoothing his tie?
Kinda like this?
Yeah, I actually did notice that.
I just thought he might be nervous.
(LAUGHS) Look, I'm just saying,
after we catch this unsub,
you and I and he should
have a little talk.
Should I be worried?
No. No. He should.
GARCIA: So, since your arrest,
your network has been real quiet.
Like, crickets. And
then, two months ago,
all this comes out of the woodwork.
When I shut the network down,
there were zero contingencies.
- Uh, if I knew something, I would tell you.
- These three
were on your network but
didn't get a kill kit.
- How come?
- There's no one reason.
GREEN: Bullshit.
It's for the same reason you
didn't want me to have one.
Because you knew that
being handed a kill kit
meant your days were numbered.
It was just a matter of time
before law enforcement caught up.
GARCIA: So maybe, in that
supposedly cold-blooded
reptilian heart of yours,
you weren't ready to say goodbye.
- Okay.
- GREEN: Let's go down the line.
Ronald Graber and me.
You killed his parents and my sister.
Franklin Fowler killed
his family and made it
look like an accident
when he was ten years old.
GARCIA: Which is the exact age
you were when you killed your parents.
Clyde Smets was locked
in a cage as a kid.
W-Wait, wait, my-my
uncle used to lock me
in a closet for days at a time.
Everyone you kept in your outer ring
was someone you had a
personal connection with.
So what is it, Elias? What is it about
this guy who's burying people alive?
I-I don't Maybe it's
something else in his M.O.
We do think that they were
going through a messy divorce.
Is that something you and
Sydney ever considered?
Yeah, we contacted a divorce attorney.
Things were getting bad,
and she had to go back
to work as a Realtor.
When the pandemic hit, we
burned through our savings.
When? When was this?
July 2020.
That's when you started your network.
Yeah.
I needed an outlet 'cause
I was worried that I might
hurt my family.
JJ: Go ahead, Penelope.
We have the court records up.
What do you got on your end?
GARCIA: I need some guidance.
I'm going through chat logs between Voit
and network people on
or around July of 2020.
I'm searching for all things
divorce. I am getting bupkes.
Try "wife."
- (LAPTOP CHIMES)
- Hmm. That's better. I got ten.
Okay, now
search within those
conversations "kill."
Uh still ten.
Uh, killing your wife is apparently
a popular topic of discussion.
JJ: And Voit would tell them
not to do it because they
would be suspect number one.
Yeah, if they didn't
talk about burying alive,
what about, uh, making sure the body
was never found?
"No body, no crime"
is how Voit would
tell his unsub to avoid suspicion.
- (LAPTOP CHIMES)
- GARCIA: Okay, that's better.
We've got six now,
but "no body, no crime"
is a popular refrain in Voit's world.
Alimony.
(LAPTOP CHIMES)
GARCIA: Money talks, lady.
I think I got him.
Garcia found chat logs between
Voit and one of his followers.
He rants about having to pay
alimony to his wife Lainey.
Any divorce records that
match the name and timeline?
A handful, but only
one was scorched Earth.
Lainey Torres v. Kyle Mackey.
Lainey got custody of their daughter Ava
and recently reduced Kyle's
visitation to once a month.
ROSSI: Claire Thatcher
had a custody battle.
Burying her must have
been a dress rehearsal
for what he wants to do to Lainey.
JJ: That's our guess, and right now
he's the closest match to our profile.
- He's in Warrenton, Virginia.
- ALVEZ: If this is him,
he's got a signal to a
coffin somewhere in the forest
that he can blow anytime he wants.
I'll get a search warrant
for all IP addresses
in and out of that house.
(LAINEY GROANS)
What the hell?
(KYLE WHISTLES)
What the hell are you doing, Kyle?
Untie me.
Now!
(SIGHS)
What, are you gonna kill me?
Everyone knows if I die, you did it.
What, are you gonna
run off? Hide forever?
- (KYLE GRUNTS)
- (GASPS)
You remember when you said
- you were gonna bury me in the divorce?
- (GASPS)
That was three years ago.
Well
you did it.
You took everything from me.
(GASPS)
(PANTING)
(KYLE SIGHS)
I want you to call your daughter.
- Hmm?
- (WHIMPERS)
- Call her!
- Okay.
(PHONE BEEPS)
(LINE RINGS)
AVA (OVER PHONE): Mom?
Ava?
(CRYING): Mom, you got to help me.
I'm gonna help you,
honey. I'm gonna help you.
(CRYING): What did you do to her?
It's Dad. He brought me to the woods.
(CRIES OUT)
Where is she?
Mom, help!
No
- Mom?
- Ava.
- Ava.
- Mom, help, please!
Lainey Torres's mother said
she never came home from work.
Kyle must have her already.
Claire Thatcher was found in
a wooded area about five miles
- from where Kyle lives.
- (PHONE BUZZING)
That's likely the range
of his remote detonator,
- so he'll have to bury her somewhere nearby.
- (PHONE BEEPS)
- Go, Garcia.
- GARCIA: Okay, I'm poking around
Kyle's network routers,
and there's an IoT signal
coming from his house.
That's got to be the remote detonator.
GARCIA: That is not all.
There's an HTTP stream
that's going to the exact same server.
I am sending this to
the Round Table now.
(BEEPS)
(AVA CRYING)
- Oh, God.
- He buried his own daughter.
Garcia, are you able to cut the signal
- and stop him from detonating?
- I'm working on it.
I'm working on it. I do have a location.
I'm sending that to you right now.
(AVA SOBBING)
Help! Please!
(SIREN WAILING)
No.
No, no, no, no, no, no, no.
The SOAR chip.
Son of a bees' nest.
Sorry, Francesca.
I will try to make this
as painless as possible.
(EXHALES SLOWLY)
Let's do it. Let's take
Oh, Francha.
Look! Look at what
you made me do, Lainey!
This is your fault.
- AVA: Hello?
- Please, Kyle.
- Is anyone there?
- Don't.
Or what? What are you gonna do, huh?
You gonna call the cops?
Run to your mom's?
Take Ava away from me?
Break up our family?!
(INDISTINCT RADIO CHATTER)
I won't do any of
that, I promise I won't.
You begging me, Lainey?
AVA: Can anyone hear me?
It sounds like you are.
- (SOBBING)
- (ZIP TIE SNAPS)
Maybe you want to get
on your knees and do it?
- (SOBBING)
- (AVA SOBBING)
Please, Kyle, I'm sorry.
Just let her go.
- (BEEPING)
- What do you got?
- Here.
- Yeah?
Here!
All right, let's go.
- (SLAMMING AT DOOR)
- LAINEY: Just let her go.
AVA: Can anybody hear me? Mom?
Kyle Mackey. FBI.
Put the knife down.
I press this, she dies.
All right, come on.
Let's take a breath here, all right?
Let's think this through.
Oh, I've thought it through.
(LAUGHING): I've waited for this.
Luke?
We've got Ava's location.
We're digging her up now.
Garcia?
Yeah, boss, I'm working on it.
- (MUTTERS)
- Here.
She made me do this.
Don't you understand that?
Kyle, we know about the network.
We know you got pointers.
ALVEZ: Come on! Let's go!
(TYPING RAPIDLY)
We know the price you'll
pay is your own life.
Nobody needs that to happen.
- Oh, I do.
- AVA: Mom!
It's decrypting now.
I want her to watch what she's done.
And I want her to live with it.
(AVA SOBBING)
ALVEZ: We got to be
getting close! Let's go!
Can anybody hear me? Mom?
- (AVA SOBS)
- (WHIMPERS)
GARCIA: Come on, come on, come on.
ALVEZ: Yes, that's it!
- You hit it! Get it open!
- GREEN: All right, let's go.
AVA: Mom?
- Help, please.
- (DETONATOR BEEPS)
No!
- (GRUNTING)
- Come on, get it open.
(OVERLAPPING CHATTER)
- Yeah. You're safe, okay?
- All right. Okay.
Hey, you're safe.
(CRYING)
Status?
Ava's safe.
We got her.
(SHAKY BREATH)
It's over, Kyle.
Drop the weapon.
Drop it now.
(KNIFE CLATTERS)
(KICKS KNIFE)
It's okay.
I'm gonna help you.
(PAINED GRUNT)
(HANDCUFFS CLICKING)
This isn't over.
(SOBBING QUIETLY)
We have your daughter.
She's safe.
Thank you.
(LAINEY SIGHS)
(ELEVATOR BELL DINGS)
- (GASPS)
- AVA: Mom!
(BOTH SOBBING)
I got so scared.
I'm so sorry.
Ah, you got to love
working on a Marine base.
The commissary here is amazing.
Ms. Helen makes all these
desserts from scratch.
Today's masterpiece
Look at that latticework.
Oh, apple pie.
How American is that, right?
REBECCA: It looks delicious.
It really is. I got that for you, too.
REBECCA: Thanks.
Uh, so what's up? Any news on Graber?
Uh, no, but
Okay, please don't get weird.
Tara wanted to ask you something.
Uh yeah.
(CHUCKLES) Um
Have you ever heard of peacocking, Evan?
Are you kidding?
You know, in just about
every men's magazine
since I was in college, yeah.
You can't blame a guy
for wanting to make a great
first impression, right?
No, no, absolutely. Of course not.
It's just that, um
I mean, you know, you
don't need to do that.
Right? 'Cause Rebecca's
known you forever.
So there is no first
impression at this point.
O-Okay. Um
Wha-What am I missing here?
Oh, it
I-I just I think you
are consciously peacocking
and that you're trying
to reignite the flame
between you and Rebecca, and
you know, it's-it's not gonna happen.
Uh-huh.
No, I-I
apologize if that's
the way that I came off.
You know, I'm just trying
to save you the heartbreak.
Sure, sure.
You know, I-I guess
I should have been more
clear from the jump.
Um, the reason that I
asked you two to dinner
was to, um introduce
you to my fiancée.
Uh, name's Michelle.
(LAUGHS)
Okay. (CHUCKLES) You're engaged.
Yeah, I-I met her the
first week I got to D.C.
Uh, she was on a different floor
but in the same building, and, well
(STAMMERS)
She's incredible.
I-I really think you're
gonna like her, Becca.
Oh, oh, that's-that's
Oh, I'm so excited for you.
- That's sweet. There's a
- Oh, my gosh.
- there's a puppy.
- A puppy.
Yeah, that's Oscar.
- Oscar. Ooh. My goodness.
- Very cute.
- The whole package. Wow.
- Very cute.
Um, I'll, uh
I'll Yeah, I'll-I'll carry the pie.
I got it.
- You buried the lede, dum-dum.
- Yeah.
Well, you didn't even
exactly give me a chance.
I mean, y-you basically kicked me out
as soon as I said hello yesterday.
REBECCA: That is not true.
EVAN: It's very true.
Listen, Evan
- Yeah, I'm sorry.
- (EVAN CHUCKLES)
That That was way out of line.
It was all good, I'm just glad
she ended up with
somebody so protective.
You deserve the best.
- Thanks.
- So, throw out some days,
and, uh, we'll get our schedules sorted.
I'll call Michelle now.
- Yeah.
- Great.
- See you soon.
- REBECCA: See you soon. Bye.
Oh
- "Peacocking"? Really?
- (LEWIS GROANS)
I can't believe it.
That you were so off about him?
I just I'm usually much
more accurate than that.
Oh, think about it.
You know, I've known him a long time,
but he doesn't know you.
He was probably just being guarded.
That's bound to, you know,
throw off your profiling antenna.
Yeah, you're right.
Presentational behavior
in an unfamiliar situation
is something everybody does.
- So
- Mm-hmm.
I'm gonna chalk it up to that.
Yeah.
All right. Um, will I see you at home?
Quick trip to the ninth
floor, and then yes.
And, um
you getting in Evan's face
- was the sexiest thing you've ever done.
- Huh.
No one's ever fought for me like that.
Well, you know
got some pointers from all the
GQ magazines I've been reading.
Uh-huh, was wondering
what those were doing
lying around the house, okay, got it.
(LEWIS CHUCKLES)
- See you at home.
- Yeah.
PRENTISS: You said this isn't over.
What did you mean by that?
- Come on, Kyle
- Another one of Voit's minions in bracelets.
Let's hope he's as
talkative as the last one.
- All we want to know is who's next.
- (DOOR OPENS)
What?
Who's the next one on the
network to be activated?
Next one? (CHUCKLES SOFTLY)
Whoever said it was just one?
(ALARM RINGING)
(INDISTINCT SHOUTING)
We're on lockdown!
- What is it?
- I don't know.
- Something about a package.
- (BEEPS)
♪
Previously on Criminal
Minds: Evolution
VOIT: I don't want to do this anymore.
I don't want to live like this.
Parts of your brain are
talking to each other
that didn't talk before.
I need you to go and get your gun
and put it on this table
- over here.
- No.
I'm a fucking monster,
David. Don't you understand?
JJ: So Ronald Graber
is a family annihilator?
LEWIS: He told them he
wanted to play a game.
They had to choose
one family member to sacrifice,
and the he would leave.
OCHOA: JJ, I sincerely believe
that in your situation,
- if you can't help
- Help yourself
help someone else.
Like you.
What do you want me to do?
JJ: We think you'll remember
once you're face to face.
GRABER: I have a message for Sicarius
from his disciple.
Doesn't Elias need
some sort of safe word?
VOIT: I'll say "monster" if I need help.
I am Sicarius.
You have a message for me?
Did you watch my videos?
I did.
You saw what I did to those families?
Yes.
Then you know what they call me.
I know what you call yourself.
I want to hear you say it.
The Brutal Man.
Huh.
I asked for Sicarius.
And here you are.
In the flesh.
So you say.
VOIT: Do you have a message?
GRABER: I would've thought
you'd have figured it out by now.
Look, I'll, um
I'll make it easy for you.
I'll give you the message
if you can answer
this one question correctly.
Why am I here?
Why am I here,
in custody,
and not in the morgue
like everyone else?
VOIT: I'll make it easy for you.
GRABER: Let me make it easy
for you. The Brutal Man.
Gas N' Gulp.
Beavercreek, Ohio. 2007.
Your family stopped there.
- Ronnie?
- VOIT: Your mom needed
to use the restroom.
Do you need to go?
Ronnie? Go now or forever hold your pee.
Pick out some candy.
Get something for your sister, too.
Be back in a jiffy.
VOIT: And then,
while you were waiting
(GASPS)
- Sorry.
- What's your name?
Ronnie.
Ronnie.
Mm
pick a hand.
I'm not supposed to talk to strangers.
My name is Lee, your name's Ronnie,
so we're not strangers.
Pick a hand.
Look, I'll make it easy for you.
(CLICKS TONGUE)
Life's too short to skip dessert.
♪
It was you.
Picture perfect nuclear family.
You even had the bumper sticker
with the stick figures on
it. I couldn't help myself.
It wasn't hard to corral them
once I had a gun to your sister's head.
You always thought they abandoned you.
Thought it was your fault.
Wondered what you ever did wrong.
Never understood.
You must be such a bad boy
if your family's just gonna leave you.
No grandparents to take you in.
You have been searching for answers.
I kept my eye on you
through foster care, juvie.
You were, you were a lost soul.
But then I recruited you, RG07.
So, when you said you
killed those families
because you wanted to
that was bullshit.
You didn't have a choice.
Because, you see,
Ronnie,
I'm the one who made you.
So give me
your goddamn message.
"Hell is empty
" and all the devils
are here."
You're gonna want to grab him.
Monster.
♪
VOIT: "Misery acquaints a
man with strange bedfellows."
William Shakespeare.
Everything Voit said is a match.
Ronald Graber was abandoned
in Beavercreek, Ohio.
He bounced around the state system
until he made juvie his home.
Can't believe Voit killed
Graber's entire family.
It was that intense connection
that made him remember everything.
Just like when he sat down across from
Ramona. All the good came flooding back.
Yeah, and now it's all the bad.
GREEN: He sounded like his old self.
Do you think it was an act?
No, I think he knew he had to
tap into that side of himself.
His purpose was to go in that
room and get us the message.
He did that, and then some.
Yeah, but at what cost?
I'm gonna check your heart rate, okay?
Elias?
Is that okay?
His heart rate is through the roof.
He's still in shock.
Is it okay if we stay here for a while?
Whatever you need.
Elias,
we're not gonna travel
until you're stable, okay?
Okay.
Did you hear what Agent Rossi said?
Graber isn't dead.
He's gonna wish he was.
"Hell is empty "
What was the rest of it?
"And all the devils are here."
I don't know that. What's it from?
Is it from the Bible?
GARCIA: It's Shakespeare.
The Tempest. Act one, scene two.
LEWIS: Yes, first uttered by Ferdinand
during the shipwreck and
then repeated by Ariel
when they tell Prospero
what happened to the royals.
Scene two. This is round two
- with the network.
- PRENTISS: I'm not convinced
it's that deep. It could just
be a very bold statement.
And the only thing we know
is that Voit has some
dark shit locked up in that head of his.
LEWIS: Mm. And that he knows
all the devils we're looking for.
Now we just need him
to remember all of them.
It's weird seeing him like this.
- Almost helpless.
- ROSSI: Yeah.
He's drained and it's late.
Been a while since
I've pulled an all-nighter,
but if there ever was a time
You want him to lay down somewhere?
OCHOA: Well, it's simple
for me to run a brain scan.
Can tell us if he's
his old self or his new self.
You can do that from here?
I knew what he'd be up against in there,
so I brought it along.
I'll send the feed to your monitor
so you can see what I see.
Dave.
Don't leave, please.
OCHOA: Okay.
You know the drill.
Focus on the images
we flash in front of you.
- All right?
- Mm-hmm.
You think our monster's back?
Look at the anterior insular cortex.
Rainbows.
The empathy center in
his brain is still firing.
JJ: How can that be? We all saw
how he talked to Graber.
He knew exactly what to say.
Test will come when she shows him
the crime scene photos.
LEWIS: Look at the
dorsolateral prefrontal cortex.
There's no dopamine release.
So he's not okay with seeing violence.
Hmm. Welcome to my club.
He hasn't switched.
The killer isn't back.
GARCIA: Well, I think folks
can fake a lot of things,
but Voit
(SIGHS) I-I think he's far too broken
to be anything but himself.
It's I c
I can't. I need a break, please.
Okay, Elias. Not a problem.
Okay.
Ochoa's taking him back.
He's calmed down and exhausted.
We won't get anywhere with him tonight.
So, that means we
will all get some sleep
and we will hit this first thing.
Flag on the play.
Uh, turns out Voit's
lawyer is no slouch.
He heard about the
confrontation with Graber
and filed a motion
for a protective order,
citing legal precedent that says
someone with retrograde amnesia
can't incriminate himself.
So where does that leave us?
Look, we don't have time
to go 12 rounds with a public defender.
I say let the legal fallout
be tomorrow's battle.
DOJ is willing
to offer a plea agreement
that establishes Voit
is not the focus of this investigation.
Voit's lawyers also requested
he's back to marshal-only security
while he recovers at Melgren.
No cuffs.
Cuffs or no cuffs, we just
need to keep him talking.
Look, we can't forget where
Voit was a week ago: Suicidal.
Any reminder of his past crimes
sent him to the edge
of a psychotic break.
LEWIS: And yet he remembered
killing Graber's family.
Voit didn't bat an eyelash.
What's been our guiding
rule since Voit woke up?
Being physically confronted by his past
is clearly painful for
him, but it's grounding.
ALVEZ: So how do we maintain that
along with his memories of the network?
Find another grounding element.
I'll talk to him.
When he saw me earlier,
he immediately remembered Alison.
O Can we have a
brake-pump here for a minute?
We've all had all
these dustups with Voit.
We can't also have you
opening up painful wounds
just to grease Voit's memories.
Yes, we can.
I was on the outer ring of his network.
- Outer ring?
- Voit had a vetting process
for bringing people onto the network.
And if you really impressed him,
you'd be part of the inner circle.
These three Ronald Graber,
Clyde Smets and Franklin Fowler
made it onto the network,
but they never got
coordinates to a kill kit.
- But you did.
- GREEN: Only because
I hacked Voit's transceiver codes.
It's got to be me.
Well, we can't take any
chances. You're not going alone.
Yeah. I'll do it.
- Penelope, you don't have to
- Oh, I know I don't have to.
I have a choice here.
Uh, and just to rectify history,
you found the receiver
codes, but I hacked them.
So, sorry, not sorry, you need me.
And as boss lady said,
why don't we all get some sleep, huh?
VOIT (OVER VIDEO): So give
me your goddamn message.
GRABER: "Hell is empty. And
all the devils are here."
Shakespeare certainly fits this guy's
- flair for the dramatic.
- JJ: It also fits
his flair for a mask.
In Japanese Noh theater,
it represents a ghost
being tormented in hell.
Yeah, but this isn't about just one.
It's all the devils.
PRENTISS: The unsubs
in this revised network
are coming fast and furious,
but we can't catch
them if we're exhausted.
Even Voit knows that.
So we all need to get some rest.
Yes?
Yes. (LAUGHS SOFTLY)
You okay, kid?
Yes, we all need some sleep.
And even though we got
three unsubs off the streets,
I-I can't help
but feel that this new network
they're just waking up.
(ELECTRICITY BUZZING)
(INHALES)
(THUMPING)
(PANTING)
(WHISPERS): What the fuck?
Hey.
Let me out!
(PHONE DIALING)
(LINE RINGING)
OPERATOR: 911. What's your emergency?
My name is Claire Thatcher,
and I have been kidnapped.
Can you tell me where you're located?
I-I don't I-I don't know.
I'm I just know I'm in some
kind of weird box and I'm stuck.
- I'm stuck.
- Claire, I'm gonna need you to calm down.
- We'll track your GPS.
- (STRAINS, COUGHS)
- Oh, God. Oh, God.
- Claire, tell me what's happening.
(CRYING): Oh, God. Oh, God. Oh, God.
I
I know where I am.
- I know where I am.
- Stay calm,
give me as much detail as you can.
I, I-I think I'm underground.
I'm in a coffin underground.
- You're, you're what?
- (COUGHING)
- (WOOD CREAKING)
- Fuck, fuck, fuck.
It's collapsing. It's collapsing.
Claire, we have your
location. Help is on the way.
- You're not gonna make it.
- Yes, we will.
You just have to stay
on the line with me.
Keep talking to me,
Claire. Can you hear me?
- Claire
- (PHONE BEEPS)
(PHONE DIALING)
(LINE RINGING)
- HAROLD (OVER PHONE): Claire.
- Please,
- Harold, put Hailey on the line.
- You know the drill.
She's doing her homework,
I've got her phone.
We talked about this.
I need to talk to her.
We wouldn't have to take her phone
if she wasn't falling behind.
Harold, it's an emergency.
Yeah, well, always is with you.
Please, I don't want to fight.
I just want to hear her voice.
Call her in an hour. Boundaries, Claire.
- No. No, no, no, d-don't
- (DISCONNECT TONE BEEPS)
(GASPS)
- (WOOD CRACKS)
- (SCREAMING)
(COUGHING)
(SIRENS WAILING)
Hey, uh, thanks for coming in so early.
So, I couldn't stop thinking about
how the timeline tells the story.
First up, Franklin Fowler.
Uploaded videos of his
kill to the network.
Cornered by us. Suicide.
Next, Clyde Smets.
- Same deal.
- ROSSI: The zookeeper
engaged with Voit on the network
since its initial run.
ALVEZ: But Smets
didn't post an actual video
until after Fowler killed himself.
Once Smets committed suicide,
Graber posted on BAU-Gate.
If I didn't know better,
I'd say the next unsub starts
once the previous one is off the board.
That means these guys are in
close contact with one another,
and they probably already
know of Graber's arrest.
Which means our next
unsub just got activated.
(SIGHS)
(PHONE CHIMING)
Oh, that was fast.
Voit's plea agreement went through.
Well, my guess is that his new lawyer
shit a brick when he found
out that Voit confessed
to killing Graber's family
while actually in FBI custody.
Yeah, but still, Voit
must have strong-armed him.
I mean, the language
doesn't legally preclude us
from using his words against him.
By any measure, Voit
is sticking his neck out
- to help us.
- Well, that is a lawyer's worst nightmare,
- a client with a leaky conscience.
- (LAUGHS): Yeah.
Becca.
(CHUCKLES): Evan.
- Hi. Hi. Hi.
- Oh, my God oh, wow. Hi.
- Hi.
- I-I heard you were in Chicago.
I've been here two
years now. Turns out, uh,
corporate mergers get
to be a bit soul-sucking.
- Oh, yeah, you thought D.C. would be better?
- I'm an optimist.
Uh, you're looking at,
uh, one of D.C.'s AUSAs.
Uh, hi. Evan Delray.
Hi. Tara Lewis.
Um, how do you guys know each other?
We went to law school together.
Oh. Oh!
Hey. Law School Evan.
- Oh, God. What did she tell you?
- Oh, um,
only that you wouldn't have
made it to 2L without her.
(REBECCA AND EVAN LAUGH)
- What are you doing in Quantico?
- Uh
this, uh, Ronald Graber
suicide attempt's got
the whole DOJ into cover-your-ass mode.
The-the D.A. in Cleveland wants
me to transfer him back there,
but I can't do that until
he's out of the hospital.
- Uh, the fractured skull, right?
- Uh, yeah.
Y-You need the AG's
signature to confirm.
Well, you got a
shorthand with her, right?
- Ah.
- Clock's ticking.
Uh, we'll get this back to you soon.
Wow. It was good to see you.
- You, too.
- (LAUGHS): Yeah.
Let me know if there's
anything I can do to help.
- Yeah.
- Bye.
So, Becca
- Becca.
- Mm. Don't start. I mean it.
See, you hate being called that name,
but somehow Law School Evan gets a pass?
It was a long time ago.
And you neglected to tell
me that, uh, your study buddy
is a big, tall drink of water.
- Okay. Yep.
- I'm parched, Becks.
- I'll kill you, I mean it.
- Oh,
- like a, just, snack.
- Oh okay, yeah, yeah.
Um, hey,
f-for my own peace
of mind, can you and I
get some grounding, you
know, on-on the history
that we have before
we're walking in there?
'Cause your last run-in with Voit
was when he asked for you
to be his security detail,
and that was an attempt to
get a reaction out of you,
and there were some
understandable reactions.
We're not dealing with the same Voit.
And we're not dealing
with the same Tyler.
- One with a badge.
- I know what you're thinking.
That I see this as my
chance to spar with the man
who killed my sister and who shot me.
That's not what this is about.
What's it about?
Being an asset to this
team, however I can.
- Let's do this.
- Okay.
Okay, uh, you, I know why you're here,
but you, you don't have to be here.
Oh, I will happily enlighten you
why my presence here is pertinent.
Let's do a guilt trip speed round, okay?
Did you compromise SOAR,
my gorgeous app I spent
years building? Yeah.
Did you plant kill kits
all over the country,
which forced me to go
back to work at the FBI,
completely trashing
my self-care routine?
Yeah. Did you absolutely
funkify my workspace
at Quantico, so hard, in fact,
that I set off the fire
alarm at the FBI twice
just trying to sage away
your olfactory evils?
Uh, yes, to all of that?
But I-I know why he's here.
We're not having that
conversation. Not yet.
I think maybe you need to.
- What we need
- Mm.
is for you to tell
us everything you remember
about the players on your network.
(SIGHS) I don't
GARCIA: Okay, I'm gonna
I'm gonna translate.
A little gentler, with more metaphor.
There are these little
demon-horn people
that are, that are
popping up, one by one,
and then they're talking
to each other in cyber land,
and we need to figure out who they are
- and what they're saying.
- I can't magically remember
names and IP addresses.
- You remembered Graber.
- Well, he was right there
in front of me. I-I
Look, I I don't know how it works.
Yeah, that sounds like muscle memory.
Who else can you remember?
I talked to dozens of them,
hundreds, uh
through different channels, um,
the dark web, encrypted messages.
- I I wouldn't even know where to start.
- Yeah.
I-I don't think any of
us know where to start.
No.
We are faced with an overwhelming task.
When I am faced with
an overwhelming task,
I try to think of something
that, you know, whelms me.
- "Whelms me"? Is that a word?
- I don't know.
GARCIA: You know, like, gets you
very present,
an activity that gets
you really present.
All right, now's not
the time for a scone.
Please, you've never
sconed a day in your life.
- Oh, my God.
- But
I do know something that could
get us presently together.
I think so. I think so.
- Excuse me!
- (DOOR OPENS)
- (DOOR CLOSES)
- (SIGHS)
JJ: Hey, uh, just got a report
on a local woman Claire Thatcher.
She called 911 in distress,
they got disconnected.
EMTs raced to her, but it was too late.
Network unsub or regular unsub?
- She was buried alive.
- She also called home.
Seemingly to say goodbye.
Sounds like a signature Voit move.
Dave, take Alvez with
you to the crime scene.
- You guys look into that phone call.
- Yeah.
(ELEVATOR BELL DINGS)
Well, the AG works fast.
Not always. When it comes
to this case, she does.
Graber's that much of a badass?
Well, he's a lot, but it's his associate
who has been DOJ's nightmare.
Well, I read what I could,
but most of these files are redacted.
(SIGHS) It's complicated.
Uh, I'm sure nothing's changed
and you still live at the office,
but, um girl's got to eat.
You up for dinner? I
still make a terrific
You know, I live with Tara.
Yeah?
Living together.
That is a big step for you, Becca.
- That's great.
- (CHUCKLES)
Well, then, whatever night
works for both you and Tara.
- Yeah?
- Yeah.
I'll ask her.
- This is gonna be a night.
- (GIGGLES)
- That sounds perfect.
- That's great.
- (DOOR OPENS)
- GARCIA: Look at us.
Some build snowmen, we build computers.
- (CHUCKLES)
- And today's surprise ingredient
Ronald Graber's hard drive.
If we're gonna find
how they're talking to each other,
this will have the answers.
If we connect the block cipher module
- to the motherboard, then we'll be able to get
- Ah.
I'll do the soldering.
Yeah. You solder, I screw.
So, you didn't give Graber a kill kit.
There weren't enough to go around.
I know the hoops I jumped through.
Was it like that for everyone else?
A lot of people found a lot of comfort
in that lonely corner of the dark web,
but I only buried a dozen kits.
It was before the pandemic.
So they were for you?
Yeah, they were.
Why did you do it? Why did you ?
Connect like-minded people?
Yeah. Let's start there.
We were all locked inside
our houses for weeks,
which turned into months.
Work shifted from travel
to home, so anyone with
urges couldn't really release them
with their routine upended.
That got me thinking, "Well,
there's got to be others.
What are they doing right now?"
So I started the network,
and it just kind of turned
into, like, a support group.
You'd be surprised what
people will tell you
when there's a promise of anonymity.
Then Tyler went looking
for answers and found you.
Yeah, a lot of people did.
Within weeks, there were new servers,
new encryptions.
That's why I had to start
the inner and outer ring
to kind of manage the traffic.
How did you vet them?
There's some things you can't fake.
Not even on a platform like that.
Like ?
Inner darkness.
Like you, Tyler.
It's a darkness you put there.
H-Hey. Voilà. Look what teamwork did.
Now all we have to do
is get this in there
and-and-and-and-and we can walk a mile
in Graber's digital
loafers and see if there's
any encrypted messages.
We did this. Together. All of us.
ROSSI: Buried alive
in a wooden coffin.
Yeah. And he rigged
it with overhead lights
and live stream cameras.
Fits the network.
Each of them recorded their murders.
It's not six feet under,
but digging a hole this size
it's gonna take some time.
Yeah. He plans in advance.
Well, if he's so careful,
why would he let Claire have a phone?
Seems like a big risk.
Well, he took risk out of the equation.
Take a look.
She didn't die from lack of oxygen.
Soil filled her lungs.
- Coffin collapsed around her.
- Yeah.
Thanks to these.
It's, uh
These are breaching charges.
The unsub can detonate
them whenever he wants,
so when the first
responders were on their way,
boom, boom, boom,
roof caves in.
So he never intended
for Claire to be rescued.
No, he didn't.
This
this is a short-range IoT receiver.
- IoT?
- Yeah.
You know the apps on your phone
that allow you to control
household appliances?
They use IoT signals
to remotely trigger a
mechanism on any given device.
So this is a smart coffin.
Yeah. With end-to-end encryption
so the signal couldn't be blocked.
He doesn't get off on
burying Claire alive,
he gets off on deciding
the moment she dies.
Then he and his network
sickos watch over and over.
VOIT: All right, searching
Graber's hard drive
for any polyglot files
that could hide the
BOTH: encryption key in plain sight.
(BOTH CHUCKLE)
We're a regular Goofus
and Gallant, yeah?
(BOTH CHUCKLE)
You okay?
Uh, yeah, I just haven't done
anything like this since I got hurt.
Must make you feel a
little back to yourself?
Yeah, I guess that's it.
Whoa, whoa. Whoa, wait. Did
you add something to this?
Mm-mm. Why?
VOIT: This isn't mine.
I mean, it's similar
but way more advanced.
What do you mean?
I mean, someone else
is taking the reins.
In order to break
through this encryption,
we'd need a chip capable
of quantum resistance.
You-you mean like my
high-capacity SOAR chip
that you are guessing
correctly is in my laptop?
Yeah, if this is the new line
of communication for the network,
then this is our chance to tap in.
No, no, we can't do
Like, we're juicing up
a mystery dark web cipher
with a weapons-grade quantum chip?
You know that's the
digital equivalent of, like,
playing Red Rover with nuclear warheads.
All right, let's do it.
Come over, Red Rover.
- But we can't just
- Did you ever bury someone alive?
- Uh
- In a small space,
like a coffin?
No.
What about anyone on the network?
No, they were more hands-on. Why?
They've found another killer.
Buries them alive
Uh, no, no, no one ever pulled it off.
Anybody talk about
having their victim call
a family member as they were dying?
You had Alison call me the
night she died, didn't you?
Penelope
can you give us a second?
I'll be okay.
Okay.
Gonna be
right out here.
What was it
about Alison?
She reminded me of my mother.
You killed her because
she reminded you ?
No, no. That's why I asked her out.
She was my waitress at
the diner on Second Street.
She used to always keep your
nephew behind the counter.
- Blake.
- Yeah, Blake. She would just
she would kind of rock him
in between taking orders.
She had this calmness about her.
I guess I just thought
if she could fall in love with me,
then maybe I wouldn't have
to be like this anymore.
She was kind and patient.
We-we only went out a few times
before
before the demons
started getting louder,
and then I saw you at the apartment
and I got paranoid and so I had to
- I just
- How?
How'd you do it?
No, no, I don't Can
we not do this, please?
You owe me this.
I drugged her.
I took her to a motel.
When she woke up, she was tied up.
She knew what was going on,
and she only wanted one thing.
She wanted to hear your voice
because then she knew
that Blake would be okay.
(SHUDDERING)
Are you okay?
We need the chat logs
for Franklin Fowler
and Clyde Smets.
I think Voit knows the unsub.
I know how to get him to remember.
Okay.
(DOOR OPENS)
(WOOD SLIDING)
OPERATOR: Yes, we will.
You just have to stay
on the line with me.
- Keep talking to me, Claire.
- (CRYING)
(PHONE BEEPS)
(PHONE DIALING)
- (LINE RINGING)
- HAROLD (OVER PHONE): Claire.
CLAIRE: Please, Harold,
put Hailey on the line.
- I need to talk to her.
- HAROLD: You know the drill.
She's doing her homework,
I've got her phone.
We talked about this.
We wouldn't have to take her phone
if she wasn't falling behind.
CLAIRE: Harold, it's an emergency.
- Daddy?
- KYLE: Hey.
Hey, you can't be down here, remember?
I'm hungry.
(SIGHS)
Mommy always gives me
a snack before practice.
(SIGHS) Right.
Mommy's working now instead.
Isn't she?
Did Hailey know her mom called?
I haven't told her.
I don't want to fight.
I just want to hear her voice.
HAROLD: Call her in an hour.
- Boundaries, Claire.
- No. No, no, no, d-don't
You and Claire were divorced.
We read the record.
It sounds like the split was
acrimonious.
Claire wanted sole custody.
It made things toxic.
JJ: How toxic?
I went over this with the police.
I was helping Hailey with her homework
when the phone call came in.
- Yeah, we know.
- HAROLD: I see my daughter two days a week.
Okay? I wouldn't do
anything to threaten that.
LEWIS: We understand.
What we want to know is,
who else might have known
that things had become toxic?
- Did-did Hailey know?
- HAROLD: Of course.
I mean, kids always know. You try and
keep it from 'em, but
they can always tell.
Okay, who else?
I don't know. My coworkers,
Hailey's friends from school,
uh, whoever Claire talked to.
It's not fair.
What's not?
What happened to Claire.
You know, we weren't good together,
but she was such a good mom.
I was such a bastard.
I kept her from saying
goodbye to our daughter.
(CHUCKLES)
I don't know how I'm gonna
tell Hailey I denied her that.
I don't know if she'd ever forgive me.
How could she?
Do you have any other, um, questions?
JJ: Uh, I think that's all for now.
Thank you.
(JJ SIGHS)
(LEWIS SIGHS)
LEWIS: What do you think?
Well, he's not our unsub. Question is,
did the unsub know what
was going on in the family,
- and if so, how?
- Right, you think he
recognized himself
in the family dynamic?
He wanted to punish them?
Divorce, losing your
kids. I mean, that's
massive stressors.
But burying your ex alive?
I mean, there are easier
ways to kill your ex.
I mean, hell, there are easier
ways to get your kids back.
Unless
it's not about the kids.
It's about revenge.
- What are you doing here, Kyle?
- I tried calling you.
It went straight to voicemail.
The judge said you were supposed to keep
150 feet away at all times.
Just listen to me.
- It's Ava.
- What?
(SIGHS) She got a ride
to soccer practice.
The car she was in got T-boned.
What? Is she okay?
They said she's got a concussion.
Why couldn't you just drive her, Kyle?
Can we talk about this
at St. Elizabeth's?
You have her for one
weekend out of the month,
and you couldn't just drive her?
I-I'm just I'm parked right here.
I will drive myself.
- (MUFFLED SCREAMING)
- (SHUSHING)
(SCREAMING STOPS)
(GRUNTS)
Evan still here?
Uh, in the building? Doubt it.
You're buzzing.
Yeah, just, like, weight of
the world lifted, you know?
Weight of the world how?
(SIGHS): Okay, well, I-I
haven't told you everything
about how it all went down.
Um, last time I saw Evan was, well,
a while ago, and I don't know,
I wanted to make amends for
how things ended with us,
and (STAMMERS) I
didn't want to be alone
with him because I was afraid he
was either gonna be angry at me
or ask me out.
Like on a date?
Yeah because
yeah, we slept together.
- Mm-hmm.
- (STAMMERS) That's what the amends was about.
I was at a low point, and
I cried on his shoulder.
Or his pillow or
Don't be mad.
I'm not mad. We're grown-ass women.
We're gonna have body counts.
All right? Trust me. I'm
completely cool with it.
The thing is, though,
I think that he might
still be interested in you.
- Actually, he's not.
- Hmm.
He is happy and wants to
invite us over for dinner.
Mm-hmm
Okay, spill it. What?
Did you see how he
kept smoothing his tie?
Kinda like this?
Yeah, I actually did notice that.
I just thought he might be nervous.
(LAUGHS) Look, I'm just saying,
after we catch this unsub,
you and I and he should
have a little talk.
Should I be worried?
No. No. He should.
GARCIA: So, since your arrest,
your network has been real quiet.
Like, crickets. And
then, two months ago,
all this comes out of the woodwork.
When I shut the network down,
there were zero contingencies.
- Uh, if I knew something, I would tell you.
- These three
were on your network but
didn't get a kill kit.
- How come?
- There's no one reason.
GREEN: Bullshit.
It's for the same reason you
didn't want me to have one.
Because you knew that
being handed a kill kit
meant your days were numbered.
It was just a matter of time
before law enforcement caught up.
GARCIA: So maybe, in that
supposedly cold-blooded
reptilian heart of yours,
you weren't ready to say goodbye.
- Okay.
- GREEN: Let's go down the line.
Ronald Graber and me.
You killed his parents and my sister.
Franklin Fowler killed
his family and made it
look like an accident
when he was ten years old.
GARCIA: Which is the exact age
you were when you killed your parents.
Clyde Smets was locked
in a cage as a kid.
W-Wait, wait, my-my
uncle used to lock me
in a closet for days at a time.
Everyone you kept in your outer ring
was someone you had a
personal connection with.
So what is it, Elias? What is it about
this guy who's burying people alive?
I-I don't Maybe it's
something else in his M.O.
We do think that they were
going through a messy divorce.
Is that something you and
Sydney ever considered?
Yeah, we contacted a divorce attorney.
Things were getting bad,
and she had to go back
to work as a Realtor.
When the pandemic hit, we
burned through our savings.
When? When was this?
July 2020.
That's when you started your network.
Yeah.
I needed an outlet 'cause
I was worried that I might
hurt my family.
JJ: Go ahead, Penelope.
We have the court records up.
What do you got on your end?
GARCIA: I need some guidance.
I'm going through chat logs between Voit
and network people on
or around July of 2020.
I'm searching for all things
divorce. I am getting bupkes.
Try "wife."
- (LAPTOP CHIMES)
- Hmm. That's better. I got ten.
Okay, now
search within those
conversations "kill."
Uh still ten.
Uh, killing your wife is apparently
a popular topic of discussion.
JJ: And Voit would tell them
not to do it because they
would be suspect number one.
Yeah, if they didn't
talk about burying alive,
what about, uh, making sure the body
was never found?
"No body, no crime"
is how Voit would
tell his unsub to avoid suspicion.
- (LAPTOP CHIMES)
- GARCIA: Okay, that's better.
We've got six now,
but "no body, no crime"
is a popular refrain in Voit's world.
Alimony.
(LAPTOP CHIMES)
GARCIA: Money talks, lady.
I think I got him.
Garcia found chat logs between
Voit and one of his followers.
He rants about having to pay
alimony to his wife Lainey.
Any divorce records that
match the name and timeline?
A handful, but only
one was scorched Earth.
Lainey Torres v. Kyle Mackey.
Lainey got custody of their daughter Ava
and recently reduced Kyle's
visitation to once a month.
ROSSI: Claire Thatcher
had a custody battle.
Burying her must have
been a dress rehearsal
for what he wants to do to Lainey.
JJ: That's our guess, and right now
he's the closest match to our profile.
- He's in Warrenton, Virginia.
- ALVEZ: If this is him,
he's got a signal to a
coffin somewhere in the forest
that he can blow anytime he wants.
I'll get a search warrant
for all IP addresses
in and out of that house.
(LAINEY GROANS)
What the hell?
(KYLE WHISTLES)
What the hell are you doing, Kyle?
Untie me.
Now!
(SIGHS)
What, are you gonna kill me?
Everyone knows if I die, you did it.
What, are you gonna
run off? Hide forever?
- (KYLE GRUNTS)
- (GASPS)
You remember when you said
- you were gonna bury me in the divorce?
- (GASPS)
That was three years ago.
Well
you did it.
You took everything from me.
(GASPS)
(PANTING)
(KYLE SIGHS)
I want you to call your daughter.
- Hmm?
- (WHIMPERS)
- Call her!
- Okay.
(PHONE BEEPS)
(LINE RINGS)
AVA (OVER PHONE): Mom?
Ava?
(CRYING): Mom, you got to help me.
I'm gonna help you,
honey. I'm gonna help you.
(CRYING): What did you do to her?
It's Dad. He brought me to the woods.
(CRIES OUT)
Where is she?
Mom, help!
No
- Mom?
- Ava.
- Ava.
- Mom, help, please!
Lainey Torres's mother said
she never came home from work.
Kyle must have her already.
Claire Thatcher was found in
a wooded area about five miles
- from where Kyle lives.
- (PHONE BUZZING)
That's likely the range
of his remote detonator,
- so he'll have to bury her somewhere nearby.
- (PHONE BEEPS)
- Go, Garcia.
- GARCIA: Okay, I'm poking around
Kyle's network routers,
and there's an IoT signal
coming from his house.
That's got to be the remote detonator.
GARCIA: That is not all.
There's an HTTP stream
that's going to the exact same server.
I am sending this to
the Round Table now.
(BEEPS)
(AVA CRYING)
- Oh, God.
- He buried his own daughter.
Garcia, are you able to cut the signal
- and stop him from detonating?
- I'm working on it.
I'm working on it. I do have a location.
I'm sending that to you right now.
(AVA SOBBING)
Help! Please!
(SIREN WAILING)
No.
No, no, no, no, no, no, no.
The SOAR chip.
Son of a bees' nest.
Sorry, Francesca.
I will try to make this
as painless as possible.
(EXHALES SLOWLY)
Let's do it. Let's take
Oh, Francha.
Look! Look at what
you made me do, Lainey!
This is your fault.
- AVA: Hello?
- Please, Kyle.
- Is anyone there?
- Don't.
Or what? What are you gonna do, huh?
You gonna call the cops?
Run to your mom's?
Take Ava away from me?
Break up our family?!
(INDISTINCT RADIO CHATTER)
I won't do any of
that, I promise I won't.
You begging me, Lainey?
AVA: Can anyone hear me?
It sounds like you are.
- (SOBBING)
- (ZIP TIE SNAPS)
Maybe you want to get
on your knees and do it?
- (SOBBING)
- (AVA SOBBING)
Please, Kyle, I'm sorry.
Just let her go.
- (BEEPING)
- What do you got?
- Here.
- Yeah?
Here!
All right, let's go.
- (SLAMMING AT DOOR)
- LAINEY: Just let her go.
AVA: Can anybody hear me? Mom?
Kyle Mackey. FBI.
Put the knife down.
I press this, she dies.
All right, come on.
Let's take a breath here, all right?
Let's think this through.
Oh, I've thought it through.
(LAUGHING): I've waited for this.
Luke?
We've got Ava's location.
We're digging her up now.
Garcia?
Yeah, boss, I'm working on it.
- (MUTTERS)
- Here.
She made me do this.
Don't you understand that?
Kyle, we know about the network.
We know you got pointers.
ALVEZ: Come on! Let's go!
(TYPING RAPIDLY)
We know the price you'll
pay is your own life.
Nobody needs that to happen.
- Oh, I do.
- AVA: Mom!
It's decrypting now.
I want her to watch what she's done.
And I want her to live with it.
(AVA SOBBING)
ALVEZ: We got to be
getting close! Let's go!
Can anybody hear me? Mom?
- (AVA SOBS)
- (WHIMPERS)
GARCIA: Come on, come on, come on.
ALVEZ: Yes, that's it!
- You hit it! Get it open!
- GREEN: All right, let's go.
AVA: Mom?
- Help, please.
- (DETONATOR BEEPS)
No!
- (GRUNTING)
- Come on, get it open.
(OVERLAPPING CHATTER)
- Yeah. You're safe, okay?
- All right. Okay.
Hey, you're safe.
(CRYING)
Status?
Ava's safe.
We got her.
(SHAKY BREATH)
It's over, Kyle.
Drop the weapon.
Drop it now.
(KNIFE CLATTERS)
(KICKS KNIFE)
It's okay.
I'm gonna help you.
(PAINED GRUNT)
(HANDCUFFS CLICKING)
This isn't over.
(SOBBING QUIETLY)
We have your daughter.
She's safe.
Thank you.
(LAINEY SIGHS)
(ELEVATOR BELL DINGS)
- (GASPS)
- AVA: Mom!
(BOTH SOBBING)
I got so scared.
I'm so sorry.
Ah, you got to love
working on a Marine base.
The commissary here is amazing.
Ms. Helen makes all these
desserts from scratch.
Today's masterpiece
Look at that latticework.
Oh, apple pie.
How American is that, right?
REBECCA: It looks delicious.
It really is. I got that for you, too.
REBECCA: Thanks.
Uh, so what's up? Any news on Graber?
Uh, no, but
Okay, please don't get weird.
Tara wanted to ask you something.
Uh yeah.
(CHUCKLES) Um
Have you ever heard of peacocking, Evan?
Are you kidding?
You know, in just about
every men's magazine
since I was in college, yeah.
You can't blame a guy
for wanting to make a great
first impression, right?
No, no, absolutely. Of course not.
It's just that, um
I mean, you know, you
don't need to do that.
Right? 'Cause Rebecca's
known you forever.
So there is no first
impression at this point.
O-Okay. Um
Wha-What am I missing here?
Oh, it
I-I just I think you
are consciously peacocking
and that you're trying
to reignite the flame
between you and Rebecca, and
you know, it's-it's not gonna happen.
Uh-huh.
No, I-I
apologize if that's
the way that I came off.
You know, I'm just trying
to save you the heartbreak.
Sure, sure.
You know, I-I guess
I should have been more
clear from the jump.
Um, the reason that I
asked you two to dinner
was to, um introduce
you to my fiancée.
Uh, name's Michelle.
(LAUGHS)
Okay. (CHUCKLES) You're engaged.
Yeah, I-I met her the
first week I got to D.C.
Uh, she was on a different floor
but in the same building, and, well
(STAMMERS)
She's incredible.
I-I really think you're
gonna like her, Becca.
Oh, oh, that's-that's
Oh, I'm so excited for you.
- That's sweet. There's a
- Oh, my gosh.
- there's a puppy.
- A puppy.
Yeah, that's Oscar.
- Oscar. Ooh. My goodness.
- Very cute.
- The whole package. Wow.
- Very cute.
Um, I'll, uh
I'll Yeah, I'll-I'll carry the pie.
I got it.
- You buried the lede, dum-dum.
- Yeah.
Well, you didn't even
exactly give me a chance.
I mean, y-you basically kicked me out
as soon as I said hello yesterday.
REBECCA: That is not true.
EVAN: It's very true.
Listen, Evan
- Yeah, I'm sorry.
- (EVAN CHUCKLES)
That That was way out of line.
It was all good, I'm just glad
she ended up with
somebody so protective.
You deserve the best.
- Thanks.
- So, throw out some days,
and, uh, we'll get our schedules sorted.
I'll call Michelle now.
- Yeah.
- Great.
- See you soon.
- REBECCA: See you soon. Bye.
Oh
- "Peacocking"? Really?
- (LEWIS GROANS)
I can't believe it.
That you were so off about him?
I just I'm usually much
more accurate than that.
Oh, think about it.
You know, I've known him a long time,
but he doesn't know you.
He was probably just being guarded.
That's bound to, you know,
throw off your profiling antenna.
Yeah, you're right.
Presentational behavior
in an unfamiliar situation
is something everybody does.
- So
- Mm-hmm.
I'm gonna chalk it up to that.
Yeah.
All right. Um, will I see you at home?
Quick trip to the ninth
floor, and then yes.
And, um
you getting in Evan's face
- was the sexiest thing you've ever done.
- Huh.
No one's ever fought for me like that.
Well, you know
got some pointers from all the
GQ magazines I've been reading.
Uh-huh, was wondering
what those were doing
lying around the house, okay, got it.
(LEWIS CHUCKLES)
- See you at home.
- Yeah.
PRENTISS: You said this isn't over.
What did you mean by that?
- Come on, Kyle
- Another one of Voit's minions in bracelets.
Let's hope he's as
talkative as the last one.
- All we want to know is who's next.
- (DOOR OPENS)
What?
Who's the next one on the
network to be activated?
Next one? (CHUCKLES SOFTLY)
Whoever said it was just one?
(ALARM RINGING)
(INDISTINCT SHOUTING)
We're on lockdown!
- What is it?
- I don't know.
- Something about a package.
- (BEEPS)
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