Criminal Minds s18e08 Episode Script
Tara
1
Previously on Criminal
Minds: Evolution
Becca.
- Evan. Hi.
- Hi.
Law School Evan.
I think you are trying
to reignite the flame
between you and Rebecca.
I asked you two to dinner to
introduce you to my fiancée.
You're engaged.
PRENTISS: The unsubs
in this revised network
are coming fast and furious.
ROSSI: We've been
profiling the followers.
We need to profile the leader.
Voit's disciple.
Voit insists he'd never
had a second-in-command,
someone to take over in his absence.
How you doing there, Lee?
What's the matter, boy?
You look like you seen a ghost.
LEWIS: That is a next-level deepfake.
Same kind used on BAU-Gate.
VOIT: If you were my
uncle, you'd have nothing
to do with running a network of killers.
DELRAY: Jeff Darcy says there's an
issue that's come up in the case.
Wants to meet at his
office as soon as possible.
- Get down!
- (DELRAY GRUNTS)
(GASPS)
(EXHALES)
Man, I just had the weirdest dream.
It was terrible, actually.
We were driving and
Oh, no, no, w-we had parked.
And I got shot.
Twice.
(GROANS SOFTLY)
(SIGHS)
Uh, hello?
Love of your life just had a nightmare.
I could use a cuddle, hon.
Babe?
Hmm.
Ah, it's freezing in here.
Uh, babe, can you get
me a cup of coffee?
♪
Rebecca?
Rebecca, where are you?
Your brain is misfiring,
that's all this is.
It's just a misfire. You just
You need to pull yourself out
of this or you're gonna spiral,
so just snap out of
it, all right? Just
(EXHALES)
Oh, just wake up, okay?
Just wake up.
(SOFT EXHALE)
(CHUCKLING): All right.
If anyone's listening
here's the thing, I'm good.
I swear, I-I don't need the
light or whatever this is.
Not now, not yet.
I have plenty of stuff to do still.
If you know me even a little bit,
you'd know I'm good, I've got it.
And here's the thing, I
have lived a good life.
A great life. I have no regrets.
I have nothing to work out.
(QUIETLY): Nothing to fucking work out.
(SOBS)
Oh, God.
That wasn't a dream.
I'm not ready for
this. I don't want this.
I don't want to die by myself.
(SHAKY INHALE, DEEP EXHALE)
(MEASURED BREATH)
- (SIREN WAILING)
- (VENTILATOR HISSING)
- (SIREN WAILING)
- (VENTILATOR HISSING)
(MONITORS BEEPING STEADILY)
- She's in V fib.
- Charging at 200.
- Clear.
- Clear.
(ZAPS)
(MONITOR BEEPING)
- (PADDLES POWERING UP)
- No change, let's go again.
- 300. Clear.
- Clear.
(ZAPS)
♪
LEWIS: "If most of us
remain ignorant of ourselves,
"it is because
self-knowledge is painful
and we prefer the
pleasures of illusion."
Aldous Huxley.
- Have you seen Penelope?
- I assumed she went home.
Well, she's not answering her phone.
- Well, she needs time.
- (SIGHS) I know.
- How you holding up?
- I'm not.
I'm heading home, too.
Unless you've got something?
Not really.
Oh, it sounds like I'm about
to put on a pot of coffee.
Well, he said it himself:
T-The show that the
Disciple put on today
was about trying to reawaken Voit,
the killer.
Yeah, he was trying to stir up
all those old feelings inside of him
by pretending to be his uncle
and then killing a man with spiders
right in front of him.
- Fortunately, it didn't work.
- Not yet.
We will be ready next time.
Yeah, but there's something
about how this was staged
that-that suggests that the Disciple
knows more about Voit and his condition
than Orlov could've ever told him.
What are you getting at?
The Disciple knows that Voit's memory
is triggered by being
face to face with somebody.
This AI Cyrus is a pretty
damn good imitation.
So, what? Someone in the hospital is
Let's just lock everything
down. That's all I'm saying.
Let's review background
checks. The works.
Well, we could have Voit transferred.
Or we keep him right where he is.
M-Maybe the Disciple comes to him.
But we'll be ready next time.
Okay. I'll go check in with Dr. Ochoa.
(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
Elias? It's late, why are you
Shh, shh.
People always looks so peaceful
when they're like that, don't they?
(WHISPERING): Yes, they do.
I remember when my girls were babies,
someone told us that they, um,
they need skin-to-skin contact.
So, after I fed them,
I'd take my shirt off
and just wrap a blanket around us.
Never gonna have that again, am I?
You know, it's probably time
we start talking about next steps.
What do you mean?
I know the BAU doesn't want
you thinking about this,
they want you focused on
their investigation, but
Elias, at some point,
you're going to prison.
So, it's important that
you work on accepting that.
Preparing for that.
I know, I understand why, I just
Just don't want to.
I know.
You believe I can be different, right?
I believe you are different.
So does she.
PRENTISS: Dr. Ochoa.
Uh, I need to speak with you,
but let me take care of this first.
- Penelope.
- W-What?
- (VOIT CHUCKLES)
- PRENTISS: Wake up.
Oh. Wow. Um
- May I walk you out?
- Sure.
- Sorry.
- Oh, don't Don't be.
And thank you.
I know it probably sounds crazy
- PRENTISS: It doesn't.
- But it's like
Voit is the only one who
can possibly understand
- what's going on inside my head right now.
- (PHONE RINGING)
Okay, Penelope, you don't need to
- Rebecca.
- WILSON: Emily?
- Rebecca, what's wrong?
- Uh, it's Tara.
She's been shot.
And Evan, too.
- Wh A-Are you
- I-I'm all right.
I'm fine. Um
We were fucking ambushed.
Okay, where are you?
(SIGHS) St. Colette's Hospital.
And, um, Evan looks as if
he's going to be all right.
They said t-the bullet just
passed through his shoulder.
But, uh, Tara, sh-she was
she was shot twice.
- And she's still in surgery.
- We're on our way.
Okay, what?
DR. BADAL: Forceps.
ASSISTANT: Yes.
DR. BADAL: Let's try
a little exploratory.
Sponge stick.
- (INDISTINCT CHATTER)
- (MONITORS BEEPING)
♪
(MONITORS BEEPING DISTANTLY)
(SHAKY BREATH)
(MONITORS BEEPING)
(ECHOING): Mom?
You didn't think I'd let you
go through this alone, did you?
Come. Sit.
You know, I'd ask you
how you're doing, but
I already know the answer.
(UNSTEADY INHALE)
I'm dying.
We don't have much time.
But first, I
I do need to ask a favor.
Can we go somewhere else?
Anywhere.
Just as long as it's
not so
sad.
Thank you. This is much better.
Y-You know why I'm here, right?
Apparently, most people
experience something like this.
Wait, did you?
Well, my mother helped me, too, but
maybe it's a mother/daughter tradition.
Wow. Don't get much of it in real life,
and then right before
you die, bonus round.
- There it is.
- What?
You making a joke out of everything.
I I wasn't being funny.
You also weren't being honest.
You made a lot of memories, Tara.
Not enough, but
Have you forgotten all of the good?
It's pretty hard, Mom,
when the bad was so incredibly bad.
Have you forgotten that?
Something happens on this side.
You figure out all of the mistakes,
the big ones, the little ones.
They're part of being human.
It's how you handle them that matters.
So, what, you think
you took responsibility
for your behavior?
Maybe I didn't give you every reason
for every decision that I made,
for every mistake, but
I owned them,
and I moved on.
Or else I'd get stuck.
Like you.
(CHUCKLES)
Okay, I-I I'm I'm not stuck.
All right? In case you
haven't been watching lately,
my life is great.
I love my job, I have a girlfriend
- Rebecca?
- Yeah.
Does she love you, too?
Yes, she does.
Really? It doesn't look like it.
See, that's what I mean.
You're still having a
hard time with commitment.
What part of "we live
together" is confusing to you?
Month-to-month lease?
- It's practical.
- It's noncommittal.
Okay, I-I-I do not want to do this.
Yeah. You do.
No, I don't. I do not want to fight
with my dead mother.
Yes, you do.
You have to fight.
You have to fight!
DR. BADAL: Two projectiles
causing open pneumothoraxes.
- ASSISTANT: Yes, Doctor.
- First projectile exited
left of the thoracic spine,
but the second is lodged
in the abdominal aorta.
We have intravascular
bullet embolization.
We're gonna have to
move on this quickly.
Forceps.
(INDISTINCT ANNOUNCEMENT OVER PA)
- GARCIA: Thank you.
- PRENTISS: Yeah, of course.
(SIGHING): Hey.
- I haven't heard anything new.
- Okay, what happened?
(SIGHS) Voit's lawyer, Jeff Darcy,
asked Tara, me and
Evan to go to his office
to talk about something
that came up new in the case.
- PRENTISS: What?
- I have no fucking idea.
A-And then we got there,
and we were walking toward the elevator,
and then this man just
came out of nowhere
And Tara saw him first, and then
she pushed me out of the way.
Okay, we're here for
you. We're here for you.
Thank you. (SNIFFLES)
And, um Oh, God.
The man with the gun.
He was wearing a Yase-Otoko mask.
ROSSI: Goddamn.
- Shooter was lying in wait.
- (INHALES)
Why would I trust anybody
willing to represent Voit?
What the fuck do we know
about this Jeff Darcy?
We know that he's dead.
D.C. Metro had a warrant
to enter his office,
and they found him
sitting there at his desk.
Bullet hole, point-blank
to the back of his head.
Wearing a Yase-Otoko mask.
Staged just like Orlov. And
his office was ransacked.
Ransacked?
That's a bit off, isn't it?
Our profile suggests the violence
the Disciple is willing
to commit is meant
to provoke a response from Voit.
It's not cover for some
kind of smash-and-grab.
(APPROACHING FOOTSTEPS)
Uh, tonight, uh, this
so-called "Disciple"
staged an attack on one of our own.
So, now, we should
assume we're all targets.
Accordingly, I have
assigned protective details
to all of your homes, and the hospital.
Question. Who's tired?
(PRENTISS SIGHS)
Nobody's tired?
(CHUCKLES) We've been up all night.
We haven't showered or
changed. I'm starting to stink.
But nobody wants to go home? Go to bed?
Fine. I'll say it.
I'm tired.
I'm tired of this group of assholes
coordinating in ways we can't predict.
Because it makes a mockery of our skills
as law enforcement agents.
But you know what I'm tired of the most?
I'm tired of him.
However, given the circumstances
we need every resource at our disposal.
Even if we don't like them.
I'm too tired to be polite.
Which means I can't tell any of you
that this will work.
I can't tell you we're
going to catch the bad guy,
or the good guy's gonna
make it out of surgery.
We can't afford to have
that kind of wishful thinking right now.
So, I'm gonna ask you again.
Who's tired?
Okay. That's more like it.
So here's what we're gonna do.
We are going to acknowledge
our collective exhaustion.
And then we're gonna think of Tara.
And every time we feel tired,
we are gonna remember where she is
and what she's going through.
And then we're going
to get back to work.
Any questions?
Good. Now let's do our fucking jobs.
(SIGHS)
♪
Rebecca?
Yes?
I'm Michelle, Evan's fiancée.
- Oh
- I got here as soon as I could.
- Evan's gonna be all right.
- (MICHELLE SIGHS)
Dr. Weisberg said they may even
be able to release him tonight.
- Oh, thank God.
- Yeah.
Wait, h-how's Tara?
Uh I don't know.
They haven't given me
an update in a while.
- (SNIFFLES)
- I can't believe this.
Do you have any idea
who would hurt them?
Oh, God, I wish I knew.
Would it be
Would it be all right if, um
Can I Can I hug you?
Oh, yeah.
♪
(CLICKS MOUSE)
(TYPING)
(CLICKS)
JJ: Okay, now maybe it's nothing,
but the unsub shoots
Tara twice, center mass.
- You see that?
- Yeah, unfortunately, I do.
JJ: Okay, and then he turns to Evan.
And right right there,
he hesitates.
Then re-aims,
and shoots Evan in the shoulder.
Why why stop, why
not take the kill shot?
Wait, can we just
To right before he shoots him?
Yeah. Yeah
It's weird, it seems like
they make eye contact.
Yeah.
Almost like they
know each other.
Um, how is Agent Lewis?
(CLEARS THROAT) Uh
Last I heard, she was
still in surgery, so
That's not fair. She's
such a good person.
Yeah. She is.
I know what you're thinking, it's
it's weird that we're sitting here
talking like old friends
after all the shit I put you through.
(MONITORS BEEPING)
(VENTILATOR HISSING)
(SURGEONS CHATTING INDISTINCTLY)
DR. BADAL: Okay.
- All right, where are those blood bags?
- ASSISTANT: Coming right up.
DR. BADAL: Okay, let's go
inspect a little bit more.
- I'm sure there's
- CAROLINE: Look at you.
You not only work for the FBI,
you're in its most elite unit.
Ever wonder why?
I don't know.
Because I'm driven, ambitious?
- Formidable.
- (CHUCKLES SOFTLY)
I'll take it.
- A workaholic.
- Hey.
But, also, completely accurate.
(LEWIS SIGHS)
I love this.
We're not fighting.
Did I just jinx it?
I know you're all these things,
but I don't know if you understand why.
What, you want me to
break down my origin story?
No, I was there, remember?
I helped write it.
It's everything that's
happened since I left.
That's what we need to talk about.
You're a high-functioning overachiever
who became a fixer to avoid grief.
But unprocessed heartbreak like yours?
It weighs you down.
Yeah, okay, but it
also m-made me who I am.
So, honestly, I wouldn't change a thing.
Really? Nothing?
Well, it would've been great
if you'd told me you
were dying of cancer
a hell of a lot sooner.
I was trying to protect you
because you'd have left school.
Mom, I needed more time with you.
Yes, and that made you angry.
Of course it did.
- But you didn't get angry.
- (SCOFFS)
What was I supposed to do?
I couldn't get angry
at you, you were dying.
You couldn't back then,
but you have to now.
You have to let it all out.
- (SHAKY BREATH)
- (MONITORS BEEPING DISTANTLY)
DR. BADAL: We got a bleeder.
- Suction.
- SURGEON: Not ready.
- (HISSING)
- DR. BADAL: Clamp.
Come on
- We're losing her.
- (FLATLINE SOUNDING)
(KNOCKING AT DOOR)
- You wanted to see me?
- I did. Please.
Uh, I wanted to let you
know that we are going to be
reviewing the background
checks on your staff.
And I'm going to recommend
that your nursing staff
be completely turned
over every two weeks.
A new nursing staff every two weeks?
(STAMMERS) That's impossible.
Unfortunately, it has become an
unavoidable security precaution.
Okay. Well, what about me?
Your reputation precedes you.
Still, has anyone approached you?
No. Agent Prentiss, even if someone did,
I swore an oath to protect my patients.
I would never talk
about Elias with anyone.
I want to trust you, Doctor.
But I can't take any chances
when the lives of my team are at stake.
- I do understand.
- Thank you.
I also wanted to ask you something.
Sure.
Based on the progress Voit made,
when he worked with Penelope Garcia
building the computer,
and given Agent Green's
personal history with Voit,
I was wondering what you thought
What I thought about Elias
continuing to work with Agent Green?
Took the words right out of my mouth.
(SIGHING): Well
from what Elias has
shared with me, I think
I think it just might be the
best thing for both of them.
Anything popping out at you?
No, just a bunch of people who died
because they crossed paths with me.
All these people. My lawyer.
Now maybe Lewis.
It's like I'm a serial killer again,
only my MO is twisted collateral damage.
Yeah, you're like a disease.
You said it yourself, actually.
"A social contagion."
Y-you probably don't
remember that, right?
No, I do not.
But, um, when I told you about Alison,
- there was something else that
- Just
Told me all I need.
- Okay.
- (PHONE BUZZES)
Analysis came back on the spent casings
we recovered from the
garage where Tara was shot.
- You want to take a look?
- Sure.
- Oof.
- What's that look like to you?
Looks like Mr. Lonelyheart.
Who?
It's this guy, he called
himself Mr. Lonelyheart.
He wanted to leave these
casings at murder scenes
as, like, little love notes.
He was an incel, I had to
kick him off the network.
Why? Killing's fun, misogyny isn't?
No.
Because he posted a rant on the network
and then posted the exact same rant
on a public forum, verbatim.
Sort of digital footprint
would've crippled the network,
so h-he had to go.
What's the public forum?
It's one of those pickup artist websites
where they give you great advice
on how to "pick up chicks."
- GARCIA: Hey.
- Any news?
Well, they're letting Evan
out tonight, thankfully.
Uh, still working on Tara.
But Rebecca is talking to a doctor,
so fingers crossed, good news.
- I hope so.
- (NOTIFICATION CHIRPS)
Listen, I, uh, I thought I
could handle this on my own,
but I'm in your office
trying to run a search.
- You're in my office?
- Yeah, I didn't want to bother you.
Yeah, I-I get that,
but y-you don't have
access to my computer.
Yeah, well, I know that now.
Oh, mere mortal, did you
think you could hack it?
I thought it wouldn't be locked.
Anyway, uh, hold on.
He thought it wouldn't be locked?
He thought it wouldn't
All right, what are we looking for?
Um, I think I may have
a lead on Tara's shooter.
And it all comes down to a
posting by a Mr. Lonelyheart
on a website called nowshesyours.com
- I'm texting you the link now.
- (OUTGOING TEXT WHOOSH)
- (RECEIVED TEXT WHOOSH)
- Oh
Men are pigs.
That's true.
Uh, still though, can I get a IP trace?
'Kay. Let's find us this piglet.
(DOLL SQUEAKS)
Are you touching my stuff?
Nope. Nope.
Nope.
PRENTISS: This is the
man you think shot Tara?
Maybe. His name's Robert Kinney.
And Voit remembered him?
Voit remembered the hearts he
likes to carve into his bullets.
And his misogynist rantings
on a pickup artist website.
And since this guy spent
last year behind bars
for assaulting a woman,
his DNA's in the system.
So, I'm having that run against
the two DNA samples we
recovered from the mask.
You seem hesitant.
Is there a reason why we shouldn't be
bringing him in for questioning?
First, he's got no
address. Just a P.O. Box.
But the other thing is,
the DA who put Bob Kinney
away the first time
was this guy.
- Huh.
- Could be why they targeted him.
Could be.
But didn't you think
the shooter and Evan
shared this kind of curious moment?
I did.
And didn't Tara think that Evan
was interested in Rebecca again?
Yeah, she thought it was peacocking.
Yeah. It's a classic
pickup artist technique.
Same kind you'd find on
that very same website
Kinney posted on.
Again, coincidence.
Plus, Evan's engaged.
Right. But some guys can't
get out of their own way.
He might be one of them.
So, I pulled his records,
and he filed a request
to work at Quantico,
where an old flame of his works.
And where he gets access to
everything he needs to know
about this new serial killer network.
How they operate, the masks they wear.
Tyler, are-are you really
trying to convince us
that Evan Delray is part
of the Sicarius network?
No. I'm suggesting
that Evan may have helped
stage Tara's shooting
to look like the
Sicarius network did it.
So, you think he hired Kinney
to shoot Tara twice and shoot him,
then frame the network?
- That's a hell of a story.
- Uh-huh.
It is, but are you familiar with
the Stuart case up in Boston?
Husband kills wife in what looks
like an attempted carjacking.
But he really just shot his wife
and himself to make it look good.
And in this case, you think Evan
wants to get Tara out of the way
so he can have Rebecca
all to himself ?
PRENTISS: Yeah, Tyler, I'm not
inclined to accuse a DOJ lawyer
of conspiracy to commit murder
without some irrefutable evidence.
You mean like Evan's DNA?
On what?
The mask, on Jeff Darcy.
I'm running it now.
How did you get Evan's DNA?
Touch DNA, on Voit's paperwork.
Jesus.
But if you're right
Thank you.
(SHAKY BREATH)
Becca
Evan, my God.
All right. Ooh, ooh, careful.
These drugs aren't that good.
(SIGHS) Sorry. Um, here, come.
You know, Michelle is here.
She just went to go get us some coffee,
but she'll be right back. (SNIFFLES)
- Hey.
- (GROANS)
It's okay.
(SIGHS)
Yours was the first
face I wanted to see.
I am so sorry.
Oh, my God, no. No, no, no.
It's not your fault.
I'm just so glad you're okay.
How's Tara?
(SIGHS) Um
They got the bullets out.
But, uh, still
I mean
What if, you know
- Hey.
- (SNIFFLES)
No matter what happens next,
we're gonna get through it together.
Okay?
You're safe.
I'm not going anywhere.
(SHAKY BREATH, INHALES DEEPLY)
Yeah.
Promise.
DR. BADAL: Uh, forceps, please.
- (MEDICAL TOOLS RATTLING)
- Trying to find the
Here we go, to me.
- Can I get more suction?
- ASSISTANT: Yes, Doctor.
DR. BADAL: Okay, here,
remove the hemostats,
but maintain compression there.
ASSISTANT: Okay.
DR. BADAL: I see the bleeding point.
ASSISTANT: I see that, too.
DR. BADAL: I'm going to tether
it with a Prolene stitch.
(MONITORS BEEPING, ECHOING)
How does all of this make you feel?
Numb.
You're not angry?
What is it with you and anger?
You skipped that stage of grief.
- (MONITORS BEEPING STEADILY)
- (VENTILATOR HISSING)
I did not want to come back here.
CAROLINE: And yet, you brought us back.
LEWIS: This is the last
day that I saw you alive.
It was even worse than when you died.
But you didn't cry.
You didn't yell, or
scream into a pillow.
Well, I I didn't know how to process
any of it, I-I still don't.
But I hated that you weren't here.
For so many reasons.
I You never got to see who I became.
I couldn't come to you
for advice, or a hug.
But you know what really pissed me off?
Was what happened to Dad and Gabriel.
They were lost without you.
And so they drank.
They drank until they didn't
feel that loss anymore.
And I tried, Mom, but I could
not fill the void that you left.
I couldn't save them.
I am so sorry.
(TRAUMA TEAM CHATTING INDISTINCTLY)
(MONITOR BEEPING STEADILY)
DR. BADAL: All right.
Blood loss contained. (SIGHS)
Now let's close up this hole.
(GROANS) You know, that is
cruel and unusual punishment
for you guys to be drinking
that in front of a guy
who can only have, like, ice chips.
- (LAUGHTER)
- Well, the punishment's on us.
- This isn't great.
- (PHONE RINGS)
Oh.
Oh, my sister. Sorry.
Hey, Meg.
Yeah, yeah, he's okay.
Well, he'll be in a sling for a while,
but they're telling us that he should be
discharged any minute now, so, yeah.
She seems great.
- She is.
- (CHUCKLES SOFTLY)
She reminds me of you.
So, talk to me, tell me, uh
all the dark places that your
mind is taking you tonight.
Just how can I forgive myself?
For what?
The last words I said
to Tara were a dig.
You know, I was teasing
her about how she can't
- Let her guard down.
- Yeah.
But now, it's
I don't care about any of that,
I just want her to be all right.
You know, Becca, you
really should go home.
No. How could I leave?
Tara is gonna take time to heal.
I'm about to get discharged,
so we could go back to your house,
you can rest and I
can keep my eye on you.
No, I can't.
Hey.
You got to take care of yourself, too.
Hey.
Oh, thank you for coming.
Yeah, yeah. We had to
make sure you were okay.
JJ: Hey.
WILSON: Hey.
Also, there's been a
development in the case.
So, we need to take Evan and have him
review some photo evidence.
Yeah. Sure, a-any way I can help.
ALVEZ: Great.
ALVEZ: You recognize this guy?
Yeah. Yeah, Bob Kinney.
- Uh, total whackjob.
- (ALVEZ CHUCKLES)
You think he's the shooter?
We do.
So I was the target?
Certainly a possibility.
(GROANS)
You seriously can't be thinking
(SIGHS)
All right.
Jesus.
I know this game. All right?
I got a history with the shooter,
so y-you're trying to figure out
whether I was in on
it, or if I'm a victim.
Your DNA is on the mask
that was left on Jeff Darcy's dead body.
What the fuck?
Oh, Luke, come on.
T-There's no way that
It's obviously been planted.
How?
Well, I don't fucking know.
Look, I-I (SIGHS)
I get how this sounds.
I-I can hear myself saying it.
How a guy I arrested shot
me through the shoulder
after he shot Tara twice
And Rebecca, not even once.
Yeah, I-I can't I
I cannot explain it.
And I don't need to.
I need to talk to my lawyer.
♪
JJ showed you the surveillance
tape of the shooting?
Yeah, she did.
We suspect that the look between the
The masked man and Evan was more
- than just recognition?
- Mm.
We believe that Evan
Delray hired Robert Kinney
to kill Tara.
M-Motive?
Romantic rivalry.
Well, there's easier ways to
get rid of a romantic rival.
There are.
And that's what's bugging you.
I'll bet you found some of Evan's DNA
where you didn't expect it.
On a mask.
Planted on your dead lawyer's body.
(CHUCKLES SOFTLY)
Well
that is what I would do.
That's why I'm here.
I'm worried that the Disciple
is using all of this to, uh,
twist us into knots,
uh, distract us from
what's really going on here.
Well, what was going on in that garage?
Darcy called a meeting
at 10:30 at night?
He did. He said he-he found something
related to both Tara
and Rebecca and that
it was important enough
they should meet ASAP.
Darcy's place was tossed, wasn't it?
You think Darcy found something?
Something the Disciple
needed time to catch and kill.
But what about Evan's DNA?
I-I don't know.
Does he have a wife? A girlfriend?
If it were me, I'd start there.
No. Evan's DNA must have been planted.
There's no other explanation.
Okay, so how would someone
- have
- Well, how should I know?
I mean, we've never done any
of those DNA sites
or anything like that.
We're super cautious.
- Let me show you something.
- (SIGHS)
Have you seen this man before?
I have.
He
he came to the house the other day.
He was wearing a uniform.
He said that there was
a gas leak next door
and he needed to
double-check our place.
So you let him in?
Yes.
And I was on a Zoom.
He went into the laundry room
And took some of Evan's clothing.
Wouldn't he need spit
or something like that?
No.
One touch is all he'd need.
(ELEVATOR BELL DINGS)
JJ: Dave.
Garcia found security
footage of Bob Kinney's car
right outside of Evan
and Michelle's home.
- She run the plates?
- She did.
Put out an APB.
They found him.
Casing was found at the scene.
Anybody want to wager whose
DNA gets planted on that one?
You were right.
The Disciple really had us
me, really chasing our tails.
But it means that
whatever Darcy found buried
in Voit's case file,
it was important enough
that the Disciple staged
this scavenger hunt.
It's got to be a clue to his identity.
I'd say it's got to be the clue.
There are duplicate copies
of Voit's case files.
We just have to start
going over them again.
But what are we looking for?
Something in Voit's past
that ties him together
with Tara and Rebecca.
- This whole thing is insane.
- GARCIA: Won't get
no argument from us.
Rebecca, do you recall
anything in Voit's past
that may have overlapped
with yours in any
Ugh, no, I'm sorry.
Emily, I just I'm too
- Tired?
- Oh, God,
that's not even a big enough word.
Can you ask me again, um
maybe when Tara's
- Yes. Of course.
- (DOOR OPENS)
Uh, it looks like we're
gonna get an update.
(REBECCA SIGHS)
Agent Lewis is out of surgery.
- Oh! - Oh, thank God.
- However,
she remains in critical condition.
So, for now, we're
keeping her in the ICU.
- (SOFTLY): 'Kay.
- (SIGHS)
Now, to be quite honest with you,
Agent Lewis's prognosis is
not what we might've hoped for.
And I think it would be for the best
to let her immediate family know,
so that they may be able to
see her as soon as possible.
What are her chances?
It's
- truly so difficult to quantify.
- (SNIFFLES)
But, I'd say, uh,
over the next few hours,
it's all going to come
down to how strong she is.
- GARCIA: Thank you.
- Yeah.
Okay.
Okay.
(SIGHS, SHUDDERS)
- (MONITOR BEEPING STEADILY)
- (VENTILATOR HISSING)
♪
(SIGHS)
You know, this, um
this weird thing happens
when someone dies.
When the-the life that
you had with them
the only life you'd ever known
(SNIFFLES)
ends.
It's, uh
It-It's the little things,
you know? Like, um
Like the phone rings or
someone honks their
horn and you're like
(SHUDDERING)
"H-How
how can you all just go on?"
(SHUDDERING)
The world needs to stop
and-and feel what I'm feeling.
The world needs to know I'm not okay.
But it (SNIFFLES)
it doesn't. It doesn't stop.
(SIGHS) It just goes on, and
eventually, people stop
asking how you're doing.
Especially if you're not
crying or talking about it.
They just
They don't want to bring it up.
They don't want to know
what it was like for me.
A motherless daughter.
(SIGHS)
(SHUDDERS)
So I just
(SIGHS) I pushed it all down.
Because the only person
who could've helped me
through all that grief was you.
(BREATHING SHAKILY)
Before I died,
I worried that this loss
would affect how you loved.
I knew it would set the stage
for every other relationship to follow.
But I didn't know it would
close you off to love.
To that falling.
Not stumbling.
That losing control
and choosing of true commitment.
REBECCA: I don't know
if you can hear me.
But I'm here.
(SIGHS) So
(BREATHING SHAKILY)
no matter how scared you are
no matter how hurt you are
I'm here.
Do you understand?
And I'll be here
until you open your eyes.
Tara?
♪
(SIGHS)
(INHALES DEEPLY)
(EXHALES, SNIFFLES)
♪
I-I poisoned Cyrus with naproxen.
I watched him die.
His body was found as you'd hoped.
Dead. From kidney failure.
PRENTISS: Captain Ballard told me
when they luminol'd Cyrus' cabin,
it lit up "like the 4th of July."
Yeah, but they only identified one body.
Maria Jones?
PRENTISS: That's right.
(GRUNTING)
(YELLS)
(PANTS)
She's the connection.
- Maria?
- Yeah.
She's the one person that
connects me to Rebecca.
(SIGHS)
Rebecca prosecuted the wrong
man for her death, right?
Silvio Herrera's not the Disciple.
Okay, that's not what I'm saying.
He now speaks on behalf of
a victims' advocacy group.
Okay. Great.
All I'm saying is,
if Jeff found something that ties back
to me, Rebecca, and Tara,
it has to do with that case.
Look, we've been all over those records.
Darcy must've found something out there.
PRENTISS: All right.
I'll check in with Captain Ballard,
and maybe he can help us.
(MONITOR BEEPING STEADILY)
(VENTILATOR HISSING)
(MUFFLED BEEPING)
This is where you gather the evidence
and build a profile.
(SIGHS) That's right.
♪
Caroline Lewis was
a loving mother,
a devoted wife
in a miserable marriage.
And despite a fierce
and prolonged battle
died way too soon.
She left behind her husband,
a son,
and a devoted daughter.
Tara.
A young woman
smarter than she ever was.
Who is full of life and love
and loyalty.
A strong woman
who has dedicated her life
to helping those around her.
To fighting the wrongs
of the world and
to holding those
responsible accountable.
To being fierce.
My hero.
♪
Just so you know,
don't worry so much
about making mistakes.
(STAMMERS) Like what?
While Rebecca is
telling you who you are,
she's also telling you who she is,
what it is she wants.
You're not the only
one who wants to feel
protected in a relationship.
Yeah.
Look, I know your dad and I
weren't the picture-perfect marriage.
But we loved one another.
In our own way.
Just don't spend your life alone
because you're looking for perfection
or because you're afraid
to do the hard work.
You've been alive longer
than I've been dead,
and it's time for you to help you.
You hear me?
I do.
(INHALES)
(SIGHS)
I love you, Mommy.
I love you, too, sweetheart.
♪
♪
♪
So, your Captain Ballard and I
have double- and triple-checked
the records for the Silvio Herrera case.
Nothing is missing.
Meaning there's no lead out there
that has not been followed up on.
- But?
- But I did send your request
to the sheriff's departments in Durham,
Wade, and Granville Counties,
asking for anything that they
might have on this Cyrus LeBrun.
No stone unturned.
DELRAY: It's gonna be a waste of time.
We're talking about, what, uh,
a traffic violation
or a welfare check from 20 years ago?
Things get missed.
Yeah.
- Tell me about it.
- PRENTISS: (GROANS) Evan,
we-we can't apologize enough
- for putting you through
- It-It's Emily.
Jesus, I get it.
If I'm honest with myself,
given what-what you guys had to go on,
I would've done the same thing to me.
Still, we owe you one.
I'll hold you to it.
(DOOR OPENS)
They'll be here any second.
- Oh!
- GARCIA: Come on!
Very exciting.
♪
ROSSI: There she is!
- Tara!
- Oh!
Oh, welcome! Welcome back!
So happy to see you.
It is not the same without you.
PRENTISS: Y-Yes, but
don't you even think about
coming back to work yet.
Oh, I-I wouldn't dream of it.
Although, since you brought it
up, have you gotten any leads
- on the
- What did I just say?
- (CHUCKLES) I'm-I'm sorry.
- (CHUCKLES SOFTLY)
DELRAY: All right, tell us,
how's your patient doing?
Oh, she's running errands
every time I look away.
Uh, if there is one thing
that we all know about Tara Lewis,
it is that she's physically incapable
- of sitting still.
- PRENTISS: Mm-hmm.
LEWIS: Yeah, well, um,
there's a-a reason for that.
Oh.
God, it's hot in here. Are you guys hot?
- (EXHALES)
- I think you
just overexerted yourself
getting in and out of the car.
- (EXHALES)
- That's what happened.
No, I-I don't I
don't think that's it.
Uh, Dave, can-can you help me up?
ROSSI: Mm. Mm.
Thank you.
(LEWIS SUCKS AIR THROUGH TEETH, EXHALES)
(GRUNTS) Thanks.
(SNIFFS)
Um
I-I wanted to see everyone
because I-I have an announcement.
Uh
when I was recuperating, I
had a lot of time to think.
You know? And it's amazing
how a near-death experience
can really-really focus in
on what you're missing
in life, you know?
And I realized what I'm missing
is you.
What?
Rebecca, this team
they're my family.
They're my chosen family.
And
that's why I needed to ask
you this in front of them.
- Oh.
- (CHUCKLING, GASPING)
REBECCA: Hold on.
(ROSSI CHUCKLES)
- Hold on. (STAMMERS)
- (CHUCKLES)
Rebecca
will you marry me?
("STAND BY ME" BY
DENMARK + WINTER PLAYING)
Are you sure?
I'm not afraid anymore.
(CHUCKLES): Then yes.
Oh! Oh!
- Oh!
- (LAUGHTER)
Is the only light we'll see ♪
- (LAUGHS)
- No, I won't ♪
Be afraid ♪
No, I won't be afraid ♪
(CHUCKLES)
(EXCLAIMS IN ITALIAN)
(CHEERING)
- GARCIA: What he said!
- (LAUGHING)
Okay, yeah.
So, darling ♪
Stand ♪
By me ♪
Stand ♪
By me ♪
Stand ♪
By me ♪
Stand ♪
By me ♪
When the night has come ♪
And the land is dark ♪
And the moon ♪
Is the only light we'll see ♪
No, I won't ♪
Be afraid ♪
No, I won't be afraid ♪
Just as long ♪
As you stand ♪
By me. ♪
Previously on Criminal
Minds: Evolution
Becca.
- Evan. Hi.
- Hi.
Law School Evan.
I think you are trying
to reignite the flame
between you and Rebecca.
I asked you two to dinner to
introduce you to my fiancée.
You're engaged.
PRENTISS: The unsubs
in this revised network
are coming fast and furious.
ROSSI: We've been
profiling the followers.
We need to profile the leader.
Voit's disciple.
Voit insists he'd never
had a second-in-command,
someone to take over in his absence.
How you doing there, Lee?
What's the matter, boy?
You look like you seen a ghost.
LEWIS: That is a next-level deepfake.
Same kind used on BAU-Gate.
VOIT: If you were my
uncle, you'd have nothing
to do with running a network of killers.
DELRAY: Jeff Darcy says there's an
issue that's come up in the case.
Wants to meet at his
office as soon as possible.
- Get down!
- (DELRAY GRUNTS)
(GASPS)
(EXHALES)
Man, I just had the weirdest dream.
It was terrible, actually.
We were driving and
Oh, no, no, w-we had parked.
And I got shot.
Twice.
(GROANS SOFTLY)
(SIGHS)
Uh, hello?
Love of your life just had a nightmare.
I could use a cuddle, hon.
Babe?
Hmm.
Ah, it's freezing in here.
Uh, babe, can you get
me a cup of coffee?
♪
Rebecca?
Rebecca, where are you?
Your brain is misfiring,
that's all this is.
It's just a misfire. You just
You need to pull yourself out
of this or you're gonna spiral,
so just snap out of
it, all right? Just
(EXHALES)
Oh, just wake up, okay?
Just wake up.
(SOFT EXHALE)
(CHUCKLING): All right.
If anyone's listening
here's the thing, I'm good.
I swear, I-I don't need the
light or whatever this is.
Not now, not yet.
I have plenty of stuff to do still.
If you know me even a little bit,
you'd know I'm good, I've got it.
And here's the thing, I
have lived a good life.
A great life. I have no regrets.
I have nothing to work out.
(QUIETLY): Nothing to fucking work out.
(SOBS)
Oh, God.
That wasn't a dream.
I'm not ready for
this. I don't want this.
I don't want to die by myself.
(SHAKY INHALE, DEEP EXHALE)
(MEASURED BREATH)
- (SIREN WAILING)
- (VENTILATOR HISSING)
- (SIREN WAILING)
- (VENTILATOR HISSING)
(MONITORS BEEPING STEADILY)
- She's in V fib.
- Charging at 200.
- Clear.
- Clear.
(ZAPS)
(MONITOR BEEPING)
- (PADDLES POWERING UP)
- No change, let's go again.
- 300. Clear.
- Clear.
(ZAPS)
♪
LEWIS: "If most of us
remain ignorant of ourselves,
"it is because
self-knowledge is painful
and we prefer the
pleasures of illusion."
Aldous Huxley.
- Have you seen Penelope?
- I assumed she went home.
Well, she's not answering her phone.
- Well, she needs time.
- (SIGHS) I know.
- How you holding up?
- I'm not.
I'm heading home, too.
Unless you've got something?
Not really.
Oh, it sounds like I'm about
to put on a pot of coffee.
Well, he said it himself:
T-The show that the
Disciple put on today
was about trying to reawaken Voit,
the killer.
Yeah, he was trying to stir up
all those old feelings inside of him
by pretending to be his uncle
and then killing a man with spiders
right in front of him.
- Fortunately, it didn't work.
- Not yet.
We will be ready next time.
Yeah, but there's something
about how this was staged
that-that suggests that the Disciple
knows more about Voit and his condition
than Orlov could've ever told him.
What are you getting at?
The Disciple knows that Voit's memory
is triggered by being
face to face with somebody.
This AI Cyrus is a pretty
damn good imitation.
So, what? Someone in the hospital is
Let's just lock everything
down. That's all I'm saying.
Let's review background
checks. The works.
Well, we could have Voit transferred.
Or we keep him right where he is.
M-Maybe the Disciple comes to him.
But we'll be ready next time.
Okay. I'll go check in with Dr. Ochoa.
(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
Elias? It's late, why are you
Shh, shh.
People always looks so peaceful
when they're like that, don't they?
(WHISPERING): Yes, they do.
I remember when my girls were babies,
someone told us that they, um,
they need skin-to-skin contact.
So, after I fed them,
I'd take my shirt off
and just wrap a blanket around us.
Never gonna have that again, am I?
You know, it's probably time
we start talking about next steps.
What do you mean?
I know the BAU doesn't want
you thinking about this,
they want you focused on
their investigation, but
Elias, at some point,
you're going to prison.
So, it's important that
you work on accepting that.
Preparing for that.
I know, I understand why, I just
Just don't want to.
I know.
You believe I can be different, right?
I believe you are different.
So does she.
PRENTISS: Dr. Ochoa.
Uh, I need to speak with you,
but let me take care of this first.
- Penelope.
- W-What?
- (VOIT CHUCKLES)
- PRENTISS: Wake up.
Oh. Wow. Um
- May I walk you out?
- Sure.
- Sorry.
- Oh, don't Don't be.
And thank you.
I know it probably sounds crazy
- PRENTISS: It doesn't.
- But it's like
Voit is the only one who
can possibly understand
- what's going on inside my head right now.
- (PHONE RINGING)
Okay, Penelope, you don't need to
- Rebecca.
- WILSON: Emily?
- Rebecca, what's wrong?
- Uh, it's Tara.
She's been shot.
And Evan, too.
- Wh A-Are you
- I-I'm all right.
I'm fine. Um
We were fucking ambushed.
Okay, where are you?
(SIGHS) St. Colette's Hospital.
And, um, Evan looks as if
he's going to be all right.
They said t-the bullet just
passed through his shoulder.
But, uh, Tara, sh-she was
she was shot twice.
- And she's still in surgery.
- We're on our way.
Okay, what?
DR. BADAL: Forceps.
ASSISTANT: Yes.
DR. BADAL: Let's try
a little exploratory.
Sponge stick.
- (INDISTINCT CHATTER)
- (MONITORS BEEPING)
♪
(MONITORS BEEPING DISTANTLY)
(SHAKY BREATH)
(MONITORS BEEPING)
(ECHOING): Mom?
You didn't think I'd let you
go through this alone, did you?
Come. Sit.
You know, I'd ask you
how you're doing, but
I already know the answer.
(UNSTEADY INHALE)
I'm dying.
We don't have much time.
But first, I
I do need to ask a favor.
Can we go somewhere else?
Anywhere.
Just as long as it's
not so
sad.
Thank you. This is much better.
Y-You know why I'm here, right?
Apparently, most people
experience something like this.
Wait, did you?
Well, my mother helped me, too, but
maybe it's a mother/daughter tradition.
Wow. Don't get much of it in real life,
and then right before
you die, bonus round.
- There it is.
- What?
You making a joke out of everything.
I I wasn't being funny.
You also weren't being honest.
You made a lot of memories, Tara.
Not enough, but
Have you forgotten all of the good?
It's pretty hard, Mom,
when the bad was so incredibly bad.
Have you forgotten that?
Something happens on this side.
You figure out all of the mistakes,
the big ones, the little ones.
They're part of being human.
It's how you handle them that matters.
So, what, you think
you took responsibility
for your behavior?
Maybe I didn't give you every reason
for every decision that I made,
for every mistake, but
I owned them,
and I moved on.
Or else I'd get stuck.
Like you.
(CHUCKLES)
Okay, I-I I'm I'm not stuck.
All right? In case you
haven't been watching lately,
my life is great.
I love my job, I have a girlfriend
- Rebecca?
- Yeah.
Does she love you, too?
Yes, she does.
Really? It doesn't look like it.
See, that's what I mean.
You're still having a
hard time with commitment.
What part of "we live
together" is confusing to you?
Month-to-month lease?
- It's practical.
- It's noncommittal.
Okay, I-I-I do not want to do this.
Yeah. You do.
No, I don't. I do not want to fight
with my dead mother.
Yes, you do.
You have to fight.
You have to fight!
DR. BADAL: Two projectiles
causing open pneumothoraxes.
- ASSISTANT: Yes, Doctor.
- First projectile exited
left of the thoracic spine,
but the second is lodged
in the abdominal aorta.
We have intravascular
bullet embolization.
We're gonna have to
move on this quickly.
Forceps.
(INDISTINCT ANNOUNCEMENT OVER PA)
- GARCIA: Thank you.
- PRENTISS: Yeah, of course.
(SIGHING): Hey.
- I haven't heard anything new.
- Okay, what happened?
(SIGHS) Voit's lawyer, Jeff Darcy,
asked Tara, me and
Evan to go to his office
to talk about something
that came up new in the case.
- PRENTISS: What?
- I have no fucking idea.
A-And then we got there,
and we were walking toward the elevator,
and then this man just
came out of nowhere
And Tara saw him first, and then
she pushed me out of the way.
Okay, we're here for
you. We're here for you.
Thank you. (SNIFFLES)
And, um Oh, God.
The man with the gun.
He was wearing a Yase-Otoko mask.
ROSSI: Goddamn.
- Shooter was lying in wait.
- (INHALES)
Why would I trust anybody
willing to represent Voit?
What the fuck do we know
about this Jeff Darcy?
We know that he's dead.
D.C. Metro had a warrant
to enter his office,
and they found him
sitting there at his desk.
Bullet hole, point-blank
to the back of his head.
Wearing a Yase-Otoko mask.
Staged just like Orlov. And
his office was ransacked.
Ransacked?
That's a bit off, isn't it?
Our profile suggests the violence
the Disciple is willing
to commit is meant
to provoke a response from Voit.
It's not cover for some
kind of smash-and-grab.
(APPROACHING FOOTSTEPS)
Uh, tonight, uh, this
so-called "Disciple"
staged an attack on one of our own.
So, now, we should
assume we're all targets.
Accordingly, I have
assigned protective details
to all of your homes, and the hospital.
Question. Who's tired?
(PRENTISS SIGHS)
Nobody's tired?
(CHUCKLES) We've been up all night.
We haven't showered or
changed. I'm starting to stink.
But nobody wants to go home? Go to bed?
Fine. I'll say it.
I'm tired.
I'm tired of this group of assholes
coordinating in ways we can't predict.
Because it makes a mockery of our skills
as law enforcement agents.
But you know what I'm tired of the most?
I'm tired of him.
However, given the circumstances
we need every resource at our disposal.
Even if we don't like them.
I'm too tired to be polite.
Which means I can't tell any of you
that this will work.
I can't tell you we're
going to catch the bad guy,
or the good guy's gonna
make it out of surgery.
We can't afford to have
that kind of wishful thinking right now.
So, I'm gonna ask you again.
Who's tired?
Okay. That's more like it.
So here's what we're gonna do.
We are going to acknowledge
our collective exhaustion.
And then we're gonna think of Tara.
And every time we feel tired,
we are gonna remember where she is
and what she's going through.
And then we're going
to get back to work.
Any questions?
Good. Now let's do our fucking jobs.
(SIGHS)
♪
Rebecca?
Yes?
I'm Michelle, Evan's fiancée.
- Oh
- I got here as soon as I could.
- Evan's gonna be all right.
- (MICHELLE SIGHS)
Dr. Weisberg said they may even
be able to release him tonight.
- Oh, thank God.
- Yeah.
Wait, h-how's Tara?
Uh I don't know.
They haven't given me
an update in a while.
- (SNIFFLES)
- I can't believe this.
Do you have any idea
who would hurt them?
Oh, God, I wish I knew.
Would it be
Would it be all right if, um
Can I Can I hug you?
Oh, yeah.
♪
(CLICKS MOUSE)
(TYPING)
(CLICKS)
JJ: Okay, now maybe it's nothing,
but the unsub shoots
Tara twice, center mass.
- You see that?
- Yeah, unfortunately, I do.
JJ: Okay, and then he turns to Evan.
And right right there,
he hesitates.
Then re-aims,
and shoots Evan in the shoulder.
Why why stop, why
not take the kill shot?
Wait, can we just
To right before he shoots him?
Yeah. Yeah
It's weird, it seems like
they make eye contact.
Yeah.
Almost like they
know each other.
Um, how is Agent Lewis?
(CLEARS THROAT) Uh
Last I heard, she was
still in surgery, so
That's not fair. She's
such a good person.
Yeah. She is.
I know what you're thinking, it's
it's weird that we're sitting here
talking like old friends
after all the shit I put you through.
(MONITORS BEEPING)
(VENTILATOR HISSING)
(SURGEONS CHATTING INDISTINCTLY)
DR. BADAL: Okay.
- All right, where are those blood bags?
- ASSISTANT: Coming right up.
DR. BADAL: Okay, let's go
inspect a little bit more.
- I'm sure there's
- CAROLINE: Look at you.
You not only work for the FBI,
you're in its most elite unit.
Ever wonder why?
I don't know.
Because I'm driven, ambitious?
- Formidable.
- (CHUCKLES SOFTLY)
I'll take it.
- A workaholic.
- Hey.
But, also, completely accurate.
(LEWIS SIGHS)
I love this.
We're not fighting.
Did I just jinx it?
I know you're all these things,
but I don't know if you understand why.
What, you want me to
break down my origin story?
No, I was there, remember?
I helped write it.
It's everything that's
happened since I left.
That's what we need to talk about.
You're a high-functioning overachiever
who became a fixer to avoid grief.
But unprocessed heartbreak like yours?
It weighs you down.
Yeah, okay, but it
also m-made me who I am.
So, honestly, I wouldn't change a thing.
Really? Nothing?
Well, it would've been great
if you'd told me you
were dying of cancer
a hell of a lot sooner.
I was trying to protect you
because you'd have left school.
Mom, I needed more time with you.
Yes, and that made you angry.
Of course it did.
- But you didn't get angry.
- (SCOFFS)
What was I supposed to do?
I couldn't get angry
at you, you were dying.
You couldn't back then,
but you have to now.
You have to let it all out.
- (SHAKY BREATH)
- (MONITORS BEEPING DISTANTLY)
DR. BADAL: We got a bleeder.
- Suction.
- SURGEON: Not ready.
- (HISSING)
- DR. BADAL: Clamp.
Come on
- We're losing her.
- (FLATLINE SOUNDING)
(KNOCKING AT DOOR)
- You wanted to see me?
- I did. Please.
Uh, I wanted to let you
know that we are going to be
reviewing the background
checks on your staff.
And I'm going to recommend
that your nursing staff
be completely turned
over every two weeks.
A new nursing staff every two weeks?
(STAMMERS) That's impossible.
Unfortunately, it has become an
unavoidable security precaution.
Okay. Well, what about me?
Your reputation precedes you.
Still, has anyone approached you?
No. Agent Prentiss, even if someone did,
I swore an oath to protect my patients.
I would never talk
about Elias with anyone.
I want to trust you, Doctor.
But I can't take any chances
when the lives of my team are at stake.
- I do understand.
- Thank you.
I also wanted to ask you something.
Sure.
Based on the progress Voit made,
when he worked with Penelope Garcia
building the computer,
and given Agent Green's
personal history with Voit,
I was wondering what you thought
What I thought about Elias
continuing to work with Agent Green?
Took the words right out of my mouth.
(SIGHING): Well
from what Elias has
shared with me, I think
I think it just might be the
best thing for both of them.
Anything popping out at you?
No, just a bunch of people who died
because they crossed paths with me.
All these people. My lawyer.
Now maybe Lewis.
It's like I'm a serial killer again,
only my MO is twisted collateral damage.
Yeah, you're like a disease.
You said it yourself, actually.
"A social contagion."
Y-you probably don't
remember that, right?
No, I do not.
But, um, when I told you about Alison,
- there was something else that
- Just
Told me all I need.
- Okay.
- (PHONE BUZZES)
Analysis came back on the spent casings
we recovered from the
garage where Tara was shot.
- You want to take a look?
- Sure.
- Oof.
- What's that look like to you?
Looks like Mr. Lonelyheart.
Who?
It's this guy, he called
himself Mr. Lonelyheart.
He wanted to leave these
casings at murder scenes
as, like, little love notes.
He was an incel, I had to
kick him off the network.
Why? Killing's fun, misogyny isn't?
No.
Because he posted a rant on the network
and then posted the exact same rant
on a public forum, verbatim.
Sort of digital footprint
would've crippled the network,
so h-he had to go.
What's the public forum?
It's one of those pickup artist websites
where they give you great advice
on how to "pick up chicks."
- GARCIA: Hey.
- Any news?
Well, they're letting Evan
out tonight, thankfully.
Uh, still working on Tara.
But Rebecca is talking to a doctor,
so fingers crossed, good news.
- I hope so.
- (NOTIFICATION CHIRPS)
Listen, I, uh, I thought I
could handle this on my own,
but I'm in your office
trying to run a search.
- You're in my office?
- Yeah, I didn't want to bother you.
Yeah, I-I get that,
but y-you don't have
access to my computer.
Yeah, well, I know that now.
Oh, mere mortal, did you
think you could hack it?
I thought it wouldn't be locked.
Anyway, uh, hold on.
He thought it wouldn't be locked?
He thought it wouldn't
All right, what are we looking for?
Um, I think I may have
a lead on Tara's shooter.
And it all comes down to a
posting by a Mr. Lonelyheart
on a website called nowshesyours.com
- I'm texting you the link now.
- (OUTGOING TEXT WHOOSH)
- (RECEIVED TEXT WHOOSH)
- Oh
Men are pigs.
That's true.
Uh, still though, can I get a IP trace?
'Kay. Let's find us this piglet.
(DOLL SQUEAKS)
Are you touching my stuff?
Nope. Nope.
Nope.
PRENTISS: This is the
man you think shot Tara?
Maybe. His name's Robert Kinney.
And Voit remembered him?
Voit remembered the hearts he
likes to carve into his bullets.
And his misogynist rantings
on a pickup artist website.
And since this guy spent
last year behind bars
for assaulting a woman,
his DNA's in the system.
So, I'm having that run against
the two DNA samples we
recovered from the mask.
You seem hesitant.
Is there a reason why we shouldn't be
bringing him in for questioning?
First, he's got no
address. Just a P.O. Box.
But the other thing is,
the DA who put Bob Kinney
away the first time
was this guy.
- Huh.
- Could be why they targeted him.
Could be.
But didn't you think
the shooter and Evan
shared this kind of curious moment?
I did.
And didn't Tara think that Evan
was interested in Rebecca again?
Yeah, she thought it was peacocking.
Yeah. It's a classic
pickup artist technique.
Same kind you'd find on
that very same website
Kinney posted on.
Again, coincidence.
Plus, Evan's engaged.
Right. But some guys can't
get out of their own way.
He might be one of them.
So, I pulled his records,
and he filed a request
to work at Quantico,
where an old flame of his works.
And where he gets access to
everything he needs to know
about this new serial killer network.
How they operate, the masks they wear.
Tyler, are-are you really
trying to convince us
that Evan Delray is part
of the Sicarius network?
No. I'm suggesting
that Evan may have helped
stage Tara's shooting
to look like the
Sicarius network did it.
So, you think he hired Kinney
to shoot Tara twice and shoot him,
then frame the network?
- That's a hell of a story.
- Uh-huh.
It is, but are you familiar with
the Stuart case up in Boston?
Husband kills wife in what looks
like an attempted carjacking.
But he really just shot his wife
and himself to make it look good.
And in this case, you think Evan
wants to get Tara out of the way
so he can have Rebecca
all to himself ?
PRENTISS: Yeah, Tyler, I'm not
inclined to accuse a DOJ lawyer
of conspiracy to commit murder
without some irrefutable evidence.
You mean like Evan's DNA?
On what?
The mask, on Jeff Darcy.
I'm running it now.
How did you get Evan's DNA?
Touch DNA, on Voit's paperwork.
Jesus.
But if you're right
Thank you.
(SHAKY BREATH)
Becca
Evan, my God.
All right. Ooh, ooh, careful.
These drugs aren't that good.
(SIGHS) Sorry. Um, here, come.
You know, Michelle is here.
She just went to go get us some coffee,
but she'll be right back. (SNIFFLES)
- Hey.
- (GROANS)
It's okay.
(SIGHS)
Yours was the first
face I wanted to see.
I am so sorry.
Oh, my God, no. No, no, no.
It's not your fault.
I'm just so glad you're okay.
How's Tara?
(SIGHS) Um
They got the bullets out.
But, uh, still
I mean
What if, you know
- Hey.
- (SNIFFLES)
No matter what happens next,
we're gonna get through it together.
Okay?
You're safe.
I'm not going anywhere.
(SHAKY BREATH, INHALES DEEPLY)
Yeah.
Promise.
DR. BADAL: Uh, forceps, please.
- (MEDICAL TOOLS RATTLING)
- Trying to find the
Here we go, to me.
- Can I get more suction?
- ASSISTANT: Yes, Doctor.
DR. BADAL: Okay, here,
remove the hemostats,
but maintain compression there.
ASSISTANT: Okay.
DR. BADAL: I see the bleeding point.
ASSISTANT: I see that, too.
DR. BADAL: I'm going to tether
it with a Prolene stitch.
(MONITORS BEEPING, ECHOING)
How does all of this make you feel?
Numb.
You're not angry?
What is it with you and anger?
You skipped that stage of grief.
- (MONITORS BEEPING STEADILY)
- (VENTILATOR HISSING)
I did not want to come back here.
CAROLINE: And yet, you brought us back.
LEWIS: This is the last
day that I saw you alive.
It was even worse than when you died.
But you didn't cry.
You didn't yell, or
scream into a pillow.
Well, I I didn't know how to process
any of it, I-I still don't.
But I hated that you weren't here.
For so many reasons.
I You never got to see who I became.
I couldn't come to you
for advice, or a hug.
But you know what really pissed me off?
Was what happened to Dad and Gabriel.
They were lost without you.
And so they drank.
They drank until they didn't
feel that loss anymore.
And I tried, Mom, but I could
not fill the void that you left.
I couldn't save them.
I am so sorry.
(TRAUMA TEAM CHATTING INDISTINCTLY)
(MONITOR BEEPING STEADILY)
DR. BADAL: All right.
Blood loss contained. (SIGHS)
Now let's close up this hole.
(GROANS) You know, that is
cruel and unusual punishment
for you guys to be drinking
that in front of a guy
who can only have, like, ice chips.
- (LAUGHTER)
- Well, the punishment's on us.
- This isn't great.
- (PHONE RINGS)
Oh.
Oh, my sister. Sorry.
Hey, Meg.
Yeah, yeah, he's okay.
Well, he'll be in a sling for a while,
but they're telling us that he should be
discharged any minute now, so, yeah.
She seems great.
- She is.
- (CHUCKLES SOFTLY)
She reminds me of you.
So, talk to me, tell me, uh
all the dark places that your
mind is taking you tonight.
Just how can I forgive myself?
For what?
The last words I said
to Tara were a dig.
You know, I was teasing
her about how she can't
- Let her guard down.
- Yeah.
But now, it's
I don't care about any of that,
I just want her to be all right.
You know, Becca, you
really should go home.
No. How could I leave?
Tara is gonna take time to heal.
I'm about to get discharged,
so we could go back to your house,
you can rest and I
can keep my eye on you.
No, I can't.
Hey.
You got to take care of yourself, too.
Hey.
Oh, thank you for coming.
Yeah, yeah. We had to
make sure you were okay.
JJ: Hey.
WILSON: Hey.
Also, there's been a
development in the case.
So, we need to take Evan and have him
review some photo evidence.
Yeah. Sure, a-any way I can help.
ALVEZ: Great.
ALVEZ: You recognize this guy?
Yeah. Yeah, Bob Kinney.
- Uh, total whackjob.
- (ALVEZ CHUCKLES)
You think he's the shooter?
We do.
So I was the target?
Certainly a possibility.
(GROANS)
You seriously can't be thinking
(SIGHS)
All right.
Jesus.
I know this game. All right?
I got a history with the shooter,
so y-you're trying to figure out
whether I was in on
it, or if I'm a victim.
Your DNA is on the mask
that was left on Jeff Darcy's dead body.
What the fuck?
Oh, Luke, come on.
T-There's no way that
It's obviously been planted.
How?
Well, I don't fucking know.
Look, I-I (SIGHS)
I get how this sounds.
I-I can hear myself saying it.
How a guy I arrested shot
me through the shoulder
after he shot Tara twice
And Rebecca, not even once.
Yeah, I-I can't I
I cannot explain it.
And I don't need to.
I need to talk to my lawyer.
♪
JJ showed you the surveillance
tape of the shooting?
Yeah, she did.
We suspect that the look between the
The masked man and Evan was more
- than just recognition?
- Mm.
We believe that Evan
Delray hired Robert Kinney
to kill Tara.
M-Motive?
Romantic rivalry.
Well, there's easier ways to
get rid of a romantic rival.
There are.
And that's what's bugging you.
I'll bet you found some of Evan's DNA
where you didn't expect it.
On a mask.
Planted on your dead lawyer's body.
(CHUCKLES SOFTLY)
Well
that is what I would do.
That's why I'm here.
I'm worried that the Disciple
is using all of this to, uh,
twist us into knots,
uh, distract us from
what's really going on here.
Well, what was going on in that garage?
Darcy called a meeting
at 10:30 at night?
He did. He said he-he found something
related to both Tara
and Rebecca and that
it was important enough
they should meet ASAP.
Darcy's place was tossed, wasn't it?
You think Darcy found something?
Something the Disciple
needed time to catch and kill.
But what about Evan's DNA?
I-I don't know.
Does he have a wife? A girlfriend?
If it were me, I'd start there.
No. Evan's DNA must have been planted.
There's no other explanation.
Okay, so how would someone
- have
- Well, how should I know?
I mean, we've never done any
of those DNA sites
or anything like that.
We're super cautious.
- Let me show you something.
- (SIGHS)
Have you seen this man before?
I have.
He
he came to the house the other day.
He was wearing a uniform.
He said that there was
a gas leak next door
and he needed to
double-check our place.
So you let him in?
Yes.
And I was on a Zoom.
He went into the laundry room
And took some of Evan's clothing.
Wouldn't he need spit
or something like that?
No.
One touch is all he'd need.
(ELEVATOR BELL DINGS)
JJ: Dave.
Garcia found security
footage of Bob Kinney's car
right outside of Evan
and Michelle's home.
- She run the plates?
- She did.
Put out an APB.
They found him.
Casing was found at the scene.
Anybody want to wager whose
DNA gets planted on that one?
You were right.
The Disciple really had us
me, really chasing our tails.
But it means that
whatever Darcy found buried
in Voit's case file,
it was important enough
that the Disciple staged
this scavenger hunt.
It's got to be a clue to his identity.
I'd say it's got to be the clue.
There are duplicate copies
of Voit's case files.
We just have to start
going over them again.
But what are we looking for?
Something in Voit's past
that ties him together
with Tara and Rebecca.
- This whole thing is insane.
- GARCIA: Won't get
no argument from us.
Rebecca, do you recall
anything in Voit's past
that may have overlapped
with yours in any
Ugh, no, I'm sorry.
Emily, I just I'm too
- Tired?
- Oh, God,
that's not even a big enough word.
Can you ask me again, um
maybe when Tara's
- Yes. Of course.
- (DOOR OPENS)
Uh, it looks like we're
gonna get an update.
(REBECCA SIGHS)
Agent Lewis is out of surgery.
- Oh! - Oh, thank God.
- However,
she remains in critical condition.
So, for now, we're
keeping her in the ICU.
- (SOFTLY): 'Kay.
- (SIGHS)
Now, to be quite honest with you,
Agent Lewis's prognosis is
not what we might've hoped for.
And I think it would be for the best
to let her immediate family know,
so that they may be able to
see her as soon as possible.
What are her chances?
It's
- truly so difficult to quantify.
- (SNIFFLES)
But, I'd say, uh,
over the next few hours,
it's all going to come
down to how strong she is.
- GARCIA: Thank you.
- Yeah.
Okay.
Okay.
(SIGHS, SHUDDERS)
- (MONITOR BEEPING STEADILY)
- (VENTILATOR HISSING)
♪
(SIGHS)
You know, this, um
this weird thing happens
when someone dies.
When the-the life that
you had with them
the only life you'd ever known
(SNIFFLES)
ends.
It's, uh
It-It's the little things,
you know? Like, um
Like the phone rings or
someone honks their
horn and you're like
(SHUDDERING)
"H-How
how can you all just go on?"
(SHUDDERING)
The world needs to stop
and-and feel what I'm feeling.
The world needs to know I'm not okay.
But it (SNIFFLES)
it doesn't. It doesn't stop.
(SIGHS) It just goes on, and
eventually, people stop
asking how you're doing.
Especially if you're not
crying or talking about it.
They just
They don't want to bring it up.
They don't want to know
what it was like for me.
A motherless daughter.
(SIGHS)
(SHUDDERS)
So I just
(SIGHS) I pushed it all down.
Because the only person
who could've helped me
through all that grief was you.
(BREATHING SHAKILY)
Before I died,
I worried that this loss
would affect how you loved.
I knew it would set the stage
for every other relationship to follow.
But I didn't know it would
close you off to love.
To that falling.
Not stumbling.
That losing control
and choosing of true commitment.
REBECCA: I don't know
if you can hear me.
But I'm here.
(SIGHS) So
(BREATHING SHAKILY)
no matter how scared you are
no matter how hurt you are
I'm here.
Do you understand?
And I'll be here
until you open your eyes.
Tara?
♪
(SIGHS)
(INHALES DEEPLY)
(EXHALES, SNIFFLES)
♪
I-I poisoned Cyrus with naproxen.
I watched him die.
His body was found as you'd hoped.
Dead. From kidney failure.
PRENTISS: Captain Ballard told me
when they luminol'd Cyrus' cabin,
it lit up "like the 4th of July."
Yeah, but they only identified one body.
Maria Jones?
PRENTISS: That's right.
(GRUNTING)
(YELLS)
(PANTS)
She's the connection.
- Maria?
- Yeah.
She's the one person that
connects me to Rebecca.
(SIGHS)
Rebecca prosecuted the wrong
man for her death, right?
Silvio Herrera's not the Disciple.
Okay, that's not what I'm saying.
He now speaks on behalf of
a victims' advocacy group.
Okay. Great.
All I'm saying is,
if Jeff found something that ties back
to me, Rebecca, and Tara,
it has to do with that case.
Look, we've been all over those records.
Darcy must've found something out there.
PRENTISS: All right.
I'll check in with Captain Ballard,
and maybe he can help us.
(MONITOR BEEPING STEADILY)
(VENTILATOR HISSING)
(MUFFLED BEEPING)
This is where you gather the evidence
and build a profile.
(SIGHS) That's right.
♪
Caroline Lewis was
a loving mother,
a devoted wife
in a miserable marriage.
And despite a fierce
and prolonged battle
died way too soon.
She left behind her husband,
a son,
and a devoted daughter.
Tara.
A young woman
smarter than she ever was.
Who is full of life and love
and loyalty.
A strong woman
who has dedicated her life
to helping those around her.
To fighting the wrongs
of the world and
to holding those
responsible accountable.
To being fierce.
My hero.
♪
Just so you know,
don't worry so much
about making mistakes.
(STAMMERS) Like what?
While Rebecca is
telling you who you are,
she's also telling you who she is,
what it is she wants.
You're not the only
one who wants to feel
protected in a relationship.
Yeah.
Look, I know your dad and I
weren't the picture-perfect marriage.
But we loved one another.
In our own way.
Just don't spend your life alone
because you're looking for perfection
or because you're afraid
to do the hard work.
You've been alive longer
than I've been dead,
and it's time for you to help you.
You hear me?
I do.
(INHALES)
(SIGHS)
I love you, Mommy.
I love you, too, sweetheart.
♪
♪
♪
So, your Captain Ballard and I
have double- and triple-checked
the records for the Silvio Herrera case.
Nothing is missing.
Meaning there's no lead out there
that has not been followed up on.
- But?
- But I did send your request
to the sheriff's departments in Durham,
Wade, and Granville Counties,
asking for anything that they
might have on this Cyrus LeBrun.
No stone unturned.
DELRAY: It's gonna be a waste of time.
We're talking about, what, uh,
a traffic violation
or a welfare check from 20 years ago?
Things get missed.
Yeah.
- Tell me about it.
- PRENTISS: (GROANS) Evan,
we-we can't apologize enough
- for putting you through
- It-It's Emily.
Jesus, I get it.
If I'm honest with myself,
given what-what you guys had to go on,
I would've done the same thing to me.
Still, we owe you one.
I'll hold you to it.
(DOOR OPENS)
They'll be here any second.
- Oh!
- GARCIA: Come on!
Very exciting.
♪
ROSSI: There she is!
- Tara!
- Oh!
Oh, welcome! Welcome back!
So happy to see you.
It is not the same without you.
PRENTISS: Y-Yes, but
don't you even think about
coming back to work yet.
Oh, I-I wouldn't dream of it.
Although, since you brought it
up, have you gotten any leads
- on the
- What did I just say?
- (CHUCKLES) I'm-I'm sorry.
- (CHUCKLES SOFTLY)
DELRAY: All right, tell us,
how's your patient doing?
Oh, she's running errands
every time I look away.
Uh, if there is one thing
that we all know about Tara Lewis,
it is that she's physically incapable
- of sitting still.
- PRENTISS: Mm-hmm.
LEWIS: Yeah, well, um,
there's a-a reason for that.
Oh.
God, it's hot in here. Are you guys hot?
- (EXHALES)
- I think you
just overexerted yourself
getting in and out of the car.
- (EXHALES)
- That's what happened.
No, I-I don't I
don't think that's it.
Uh, Dave, can-can you help me up?
ROSSI: Mm. Mm.
Thank you.
(LEWIS SUCKS AIR THROUGH TEETH, EXHALES)
(GRUNTS) Thanks.
(SNIFFS)
Um
I-I wanted to see everyone
because I-I have an announcement.
Uh
when I was recuperating, I
had a lot of time to think.
You know? And it's amazing
how a near-death experience
can really-really focus in
on what you're missing
in life, you know?
And I realized what I'm missing
is you.
What?
Rebecca, this team
they're my family.
They're my chosen family.
And
that's why I needed to ask
you this in front of them.
- Oh.
- (CHUCKLING, GASPING)
REBECCA: Hold on.
(ROSSI CHUCKLES)
- Hold on. (STAMMERS)
- (CHUCKLES)
Rebecca
will you marry me?
("STAND BY ME" BY
DENMARK + WINTER PLAYING)
Are you sure?
I'm not afraid anymore.
(CHUCKLES): Then yes.
Oh! Oh!
- Oh!
- (LAUGHTER)
Is the only light we'll see ♪
- (LAUGHS)
- No, I won't ♪
Be afraid ♪
No, I won't be afraid ♪
(CHUCKLES)
(EXCLAIMS IN ITALIAN)
(CHEERING)
- GARCIA: What he said!
- (LAUGHING)
Okay, yeah.
So, darling ♪
Stand ♪
By me ♪
Stand ♪
By me ♪
Stand ♪
By me ♪
Stand ♪
By me ♪
When the night has come ♪
And the land is dark ♪
And the moon ♪
Is the only light we'll see ♪
No, I won't ♪
Be afraid ♪
No, I won't be afraid ♪
Just as long ♪
As you stand ♪
By me. ♪