Criminal Minds s18e09 Episode Script
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Previously on Criminal
Minds: Evolution
- Get down!
- (GRUNTS)
Agent Lewis's prognosis it
not what we might've hoped for.
REBECCA: No matter how scared you
are, no matter how hurt you are,
- I'm here.
- LEWIS: Rebecca, this team,
they're my chosen family.
That's why I needed to ask
you this in front of them.
Will you marry me?
Darcy's place was tossed, wasn't it?
You think Darcy found something?
Something the Disciple
needed time to catch and kill.
How you doing there?
What's the matter, boy?
You look like you seen a ghost.
ROSSI: The Disciple
knows more about Voit
and his condition than
Orlov could've ever told him.
So, what, someone in the
hospital is part of this?
Let's just lock everything down.
PRENTISS: I'm going to
recommend that your nursing staff
be completely turned
over every two weeks.
That's impossible.
Unfortunately, it has become an
unavoidable security precaution.
(INDISTINCT ANNOUNCEMENT OVER P.A.)
Perry? John Perry?
- Hi. I'm Dr. Julia Ochoa.
- Hi.
So it says here you've been an orderly
- at Melgren for 11 months?
- Yep.
No criminal record.
No disciplinary issues.
- Occasionally tardy.
- (CHUCKLES) I can
I'm working on that.
So, what have you heard
about this position?
Uh, I know it's a two-week gig.
Then I rotate back downstairs.
And I know it involves a VIP.
Well, he's actually not a VIP.
We're treating a high-value
informant for the FBI.
So we have to go above and beyond
our usual HIPAA security standards.
Every record gets submitted twice.
Every syringe gets accounted for.
And your phone stays in
your pocket at all times.
Got it.
I mean it about the phone thing.
We've already had to let some people go.
This job pays double-time, right?
That's right.
Well, my wife has instructed
me to tell you that,
in this economy, I will
suck dick for double-time.
So I can keep my phone in my locker.
Okay, thank you. Well,
we'll be in touch.
Despite his social graces,
his supervisor says he's solid.
Not straight A. But solid.
All right, well, put
him on the short list.
Who's next?
JJ: Simple question.
If the Disciple can talk
to you like he's Cyrus,
who else knew about you and Cyrus?
No one.
When I was in Cyrus's
house, it was just him and I.
Then how did he become a person
of interest in a local case?
Wait, he was? When?
No, I was gone by then.
Wh-Wh-What was the case?
Silvio Herrera.
Silvio
Never heard of that guy, but
(INDISTINCT P.A. ANNOUNCEMENT)
(PHONE VIBRATES)
Mm-hmm. I saw that.
(CHUCKLES) Hey.
Give me a break?
M-My kid, he woke up with a 103 fever.
(SIGHS) Want to bring him in?
No.
But my wife, she's
working nights all weekend.
- I'm not on call, am I?
- (TABLET CHIRPS)
You're good.
Keep it in your locker.
♪
(SETS DOWN GUN)
♪
(ANDREW WHIMPERS)
(GASPS)
(SCREAMING)
(PANTING)
♪
Hey, how's that little boy doing?
Well, the fever broke, thank God.
But only after I drugged
him to get him to sleep.
What's going on here?
Strap yourself in for ten
hours of watching paint dry.
(PERRY CHUCKLES)
It's a waste of our goddamn time.
We're never finding
the Disciple this way.
Maybe not, but we have guys
from the network in custody.
One of them will start talking to us.
We're closer than you think.
♪
- (KNOCKING AT DOOR)
- VOIT: Hey.
Oh, hey. How you feeling today?
Uh, good, good.
Good.
Is there something else
I can help you with?
Oh, yeah, um, do you, do
you like dark chocolate?
I love dark chocolate. Why?
Oh. Good, then
maybe you'll like this.
Oh. Well
First of all, thank you very much.
- Very welcome.
- And secondly,
Elias, I'm your doctor.
- Yeah Oh.
- And that means
No, I-I know. I just I-I
don't even like that brand.
- I thought maybe
- I don't need gifts.
- Okay? This is my job.
- Yeah, I-I know.
I was just thinking I
Look, I don't know what I was thinking.
- I'll-I'll just take it back.
- Oh, whoa, get out of here.
You're not taking back my chocolate.
(CHUCKLES SOFTLY)
(PHONE CHIMES, VIBRATES)
(TYPING RAPIDLY)
GARCIA: What?
Huh? What?
(GASPS SOFTLY)
Oh, no.
Oh, no.
No.
Oh.
(BREATH TREMBLES)
I know. Assemble the team.
- Is this
- We're gonna find out, all of us.
- The team. Now.
- (STAMMERS) Yeah.
Yes, this is SSA Prentiss for
the Deputy Attorney General.
I understand.
Please pull him from the meeting.
- What do we have?
- Go ahead, Penelope.
Last night, Kathy Wolner was shot
point-blank in her home
with a nine millimeter.
Based on the irregular muzzle imprints,
Manasses PD believe that
the unsub used a suppressor.
- Kathy Wolner?
- Who's Kathy Wolner?
She's the wife of Trevor Wolner.
GREEN: One of the guys on the network
we arrested before they
could kill themselves.
- They have a son.
- Yes. Andrew.
He wasn't on the scene.
The locals believe he was abducted.
And they also found this.
Signing their work like they always do.
Yeah, but what they don't
do is take a hostage.
So why start now?
Continued leverage.
What is the one consistent element
of Voit's old network and this new one?
Suicide pact. You kill
yourself before you get caught
so you don't bring down
everyone else with you.
JJ: So the Disciple
is sending a message:
This is what will happen to
you if you don't follow through.
The network is closing ranks
and eliminating any lead we have.
Then Voit's a target, too.
Dr. Ochoa has him on lockdown,
and I've doubled the number
of marshals covering him.
We need to secure
everyone we have in custody
and their families
and the victims we saved
in the Tate Andrews case,
just to be safe.
Rebecca's coordinating
with the Bureau of Prisons.
We are going to divide
and conquer everyone else.
Shit.
What happened?
Trevor Wolner hung himself
in his cell this morning.
And as for his partner, Steve Morris,
yes, he was in a different facility,
but two hours ago,
he jabbed a sharpened pencil in
his carotid artery and bled out.
The network must have gotten to him,
so he took himself off the table.
That leaves two suspects
for us to worry about.
Uh, Ronald Graber's brain-dead,
and, um, Voit already killed his family.
Which leaves Kyle
Mackey, the Undertaker.
I have a call in to FCI Petersburg
to have him put in solitary.
Okay. I will have Garcia follow up.
- Can you have his ex-wife and daughter brought here?
- Yeah.
We are in a race with the network,
and we're already behind.
(LINE RINGING)
This is Rebecca Wilson with the DOJ.
I need to put in a WITSEC
order for Torres, comma, Lainey
and Mackey, comma, Ava to MCB Quantico.
CARD Team has us on their
notify list for the boy.
If they have a lead,
we'll be the first to know.
Work this out with me.
The network shoots the wife
to show they're not kidding
and then keeps the boy
to make sure Trevor Wolner
goes through with his suicide.
- Yeah.
- Wolner and Morris are off the table.
It's mission accomplished.
So what's the Disciple gonna
do with a ten-year-old boy?
Let's go find out.
To gain access to my
network, I needed collateral
so that I could scorch the earth.
Scorch the earth meaning, if
they don't kill themselves,
you kill their whole family?
Yeah.
Did you learn that after
killing Ronald Graber's family?
Maybe.
Inspired by.
But after Graber, I never
actually went through with it.
(GREEN SIGHS)
I think he might be
holding back because of me.
- Should I step out?
- No.
We want him on his back foot.
Let's say you did do it.
Would you ever take a hostage?
Or spare a child to make sure
that they went through with it?
No. That's not how you scorch the earth.
(WATER RUNNING)
JJ: Okay, then why
why would this unsub
abduct a ten-year-old
- and not kill him?
- (FAUCET TURNS OFF)
OCHOA: What? (STAMMERS)
What am I missing here?
Elias?
(DOOR CLOSES)
Hey. Guys. Wait.
What was that all about?
The unsub didn't take
Andrew as collateral.
He took him because he's a pedophile.
Hey, hey, hey.
Were you able to secure the
survivors with the Disciple?
You know, the truck and
the spiders and the
We did. They're safe. Why?
Well, I'm on Undertaker duty,
which is a phrase I hate saying,
and it turns out that Mr. Kyle Mackey,
although remanded to
FCI Petersburg last week,
they have no record of
actually receiving him.
This isn't over.
How is that possible?
A great question great
as my outfit today
that has baffled both me
and the intake officer.
Well, it looks like
you're not the only one.
- More bad news?
- What else?
Lainey Torres and Ava Mackey
disappeared this morning.
GARCIA: No. No.
That means we've lost our
bad guy and his whole family.
Lainey told her detail she
was dropping Ava off at school.
They never came home.
Cell phones are off.
No credit card usage.
No sign of her car.
Just poof, gone.
So we're oh-for-three with the network?
No bodies yet, but based on
the pattern, it would seem so.
Okay, I need a pick-me-up.
Can I see your engagement ring?
Oh. (CHUCKLES)
Uh, actually, there-there was something
- that we wanted to talk to you about.
- (PHONE CHIMES)
LEWIS: Uh, yeah.
Maybe-maybe not now. Emily
needs me on the second floor.
No. No, that's not fair.
You can't say there's
something to talk about
in a happy way and then
drop it because duty calls.
Okay. Walk with me.
GARCIA: Okay.
(GASPS) Oh, I totally forgot to ask.
How are you doing with the ?
Uh, better, yeah.
I mean, still moving slowly.
Rebecca won't let me
lift anything heavy,
which is very sweet,
but I had to draw the
line when she told me
(RAISES VOICE): I was
brushing my teeth too hard.
REBECCA: Well, you do.
- Gingivitis kills, Becs.
- REBECCA: Uh-huh.
Okay, in-in regards to this
news you're gonna tell me,
is it lawful good or chaotic good?
I don't know what that is.
- What? Are you kidding?
- (ELEVATOR BELL DINGS)
You've never played Dungeons & Dragons
in your entire
Never mind. All right.
Boiling it down,
- lawful good means doing good within the system.
- Mm-hmm.
Chaotic good means you're a rebel
with a conscience and a cause.
Will you marry us?
What?
Rebecca and me. Will you marry us?
Yes.
Of course, yes. A thousand times, yes.
I can't believe you're asking me.
- LEWIS: But not so tight.
- Oh, God, I'm so sorry.
I forgot that you got, um
Ooh, wait, why are you asking me?
Well, because I'm chaotic good
and Rebecca is lawful good,
and you're the best parts of both of us.
That's the loveliest
thing anyone's ever said.
Look, I'll let you know the date, okay?
- (ELEVATOR BELL DINGS)
- When we set it.
- Yes. You better. Okay.
- Okay.
- All right.
- Oh.
(PAINED SIGH)
Hey. What do we got?
Another package was delivered to us
with the same handwriting on it
as the box with the Yase-Otoko mask.
- Is it another mask?
- I don't think so.
Why not?
This time, they sent
us something bigger.
(BEEPING RAPIDLY)
- (HAMMER POUNDING)
- (WOOD CRACKING)
(HAMMER POUNDING)
Notify the CARD Team.
(DOOR OPENS)
(DOOR CLOSES)
Where's my mom?
- JJ: Hey.
- Hey.
How's he doing?
His aunt and uncle are on the way.
Pediatrician says that
he's completely unharmed.
Physically, anyway.
But there's s-something else.
What is it?
When I told him that he was at the FBI,
he asked to speak to "Agent JJ".
We're recording?
Thank you.
(DOOR CLOSES)
Hi, Andrew.
Who are you?
I'm JJ.
- Were you guys playing Rat Slap?
- You know how to play?
Are you serious?
I crush at Rat Slap.
Can we? Yeah?
Okay.
(SIGHS)
Let's see. Got to make sure
they're shuffled really good
so you don't cheat.
All right. There we go.
(PLACES DECK ON TABLE)
So
I heard you wanted to
talk to me about something?
There's a prayer.
I'm supposed to say it to you.
A prayer?
(GASPS) Mm.
Yeah. They made me memorize it.
They did?
There's more than one?
Did you see their faces?
No.
They wore these weird masks.
Okay, what about their voices?
Were their voices deep or
- (ANDREW PLACES CARD)
- Ah.
They sounded like the girl on TikTok.
You know, that fake voice.
Oh.
Were they
nice to you?
The first guy,
he wasn't nice when he came to my house.
After that, they were very nice.
Then one of them told
me I had to go to sleep.
That's when they told me the prayer.
Do you want to hear it?
I do.
Okay, it goes,
"Now I lay me down to sleep.
Your husband's soul is God's to keep.
Lainey and Ava will be safe
if you release the
man who dug their graves."
That's it. That's the prayer.
Andrew, you're a very brave boy.
And you are also kicking my butt,
so I am gonna go
get Agent Stacey to come
in and play with you.
- Okay?
- Okay.
Take it easy on her?
(JJ CHUCKLES)
Bye.
- Those motherfuckers.
- Just hang on.
They threw my dead husband in my face.
Yeah, they did, okay?
But Emily thinks that
they overplayed their hand.
What?
JJ, the network has
made a critical error.
But to understand it, we need
to go over Andrew's prayer.
ANDREW: "Lainey and Ava will be safe
if you release the man
who dug their graves."
- Who are they talking about?
- It's a ransom demand.
They have Lainey and Ava.
They're willing to trade them
for Kyle Mackey, the Undertaker.
- The one who dug their graves.
- But why give us this message?
They got to the other two
without making demands.
Because they couldn't find him
- in the prison system either.
- ALVEZ: Exactly.
They assume we already
released Mackey to protective custody,
so they're trying to trade for him.
Except the collateral they're offering?
- They don't have it.
- They don't?
No, they don't.
I had Tyler talk to the
marshal in charge of their case.
He told us something
critical to our investigation.
GREEN: We are on the record
with U.S. Marshal Andy Murray.
- Thank you for coming in.
- Any news on Lainey or Ava?
Not yet. That's what we're
hoping you can help us with.
Can you walk me through how
you learned they were missing?
Lainey didn't return
from school drop-off.
After 30 minutes, I initiated
witness recovery protocol.
But when I searched the apartment,
I saw that their closets were empty.
- Empty?
- Yeah.
Fucking bone dry.
Our concern was that
they were kidnapped.
But they're on the run.
Someone tipped off Lainey and Ava.
Told them they were in danger.
So the network tried to bluff.
And trick us into releasing Mackey.
ROSSI: Yeah, but they wouldn't go
this big unless they
were this desperate.
Which means we're not out of the race.
There are suspects and survivors
who I think can help us
crack open the whole network.
We have to find them, all of them.
Garcia is looking for Kyle Mackey.
Luke, I want you helping her.
Dave and I will stay on
wife and daughter detail.
JJ, I need a word.
We haven't talked about the
first line of the prayer.
Why would they bring up Will?
To dysregulate me.
To push my buttons. To
make me make a mistake.
That has been the pattern, hasn't it?
They push our buttons, we screw up.
But the buttons
are getting more and more precise,
to the point where a little
boy used your nickname that
Who else knows about
that outside of this team?
Not a lot of people.
Shit.
This case has a leak.
I have Garcia running a systems analysis
in case they hacked us.
Who else should we be looking at?
Uh, the survivors from
the back of the truck.
Tara's covering that.
I'm covering everyone
under our roof. Who else?
Uh, Ochoa's staff at Melgren.
- Can you
- I'm on it.
(EXHALES)
♪
- (KNOCK ON DOOR)
- Uh, uh, just a minute.
- Dave, you wanted to see me?
- (STAMMERS) Oh, hang on!
What the fuck?
(CLOSES DRAWER)
Okay, now, when does
"hang on" mean "come in"?
What's wrong with you?
What's wrong with me?
What are you hiding?
What the hell is that?
Ozempic.
Ozempic is administered
by injection, Dave.
(SIGHS, MUTTERS)
Look, I I took your advice.
I've been seeing a psychologist,
who referred me to a psychiatrist,
who's put me on a low dose of
(MUMBLES): Well-bu-bur-ten.
Never heard of that drug.
Wellbutrin.
Okay?
As it turns out, the
combination of the therapy
and the antidepressants actually have
made a difference in
on my whole seeing weird stuff.
I love it!
- Oh, come on!
- I know.
- Get it together!
- Okay. Yes
We love to hear it!
- Very, very nice.
- Ah.
- Now, okay.
- Oh, God.
Now, good. Now that your
end zone dance is over,
I have this hunch about the Disciple
that is a waste of my time.
But since I can't make you
write on the chalkboard
that "I will not come in
before David Rossi says 'come in, '"
I will waste your time instead.
So, please, sit down.
(CHANTING): David Rossi. David
(IMITATES CROWD CHEERING)
There you are.
What are you doing?
GARCIA: Oh, no, no, no.
Don't even try to be
charming. You will fail.
I am at the red line,
and the red line says, "She has had it".
And that "she" is me.
Emily asked me to check to see
if we've been hacked, and
Oh. It looks like we're clear.
And meanwhile, I'm still trying
to find this Kyle Mackey person
somewhere in the prison
system we've lost.
And I have told you not to chat
with your fantasy
football buddies on here.
(SCOFFS) All right, look,
if I help you find this
certain lost inmate,
can you keep the football
thing under your hat?
Oh, that entirely depends
upon how helpful you are.
When I was on the Fugitive Task Force,
I got an education in how
the prison system works.
Inmates go missing because
their names get misspelled
or Social Security numbers
get written down the wrong way.
Sometimes they get
sent to the wrong prison
because people get their wires crossed.
Okay, so, to not go down the
rabbit hole of the complicated,
I'm gonna start with
simple clerical errors
and look up Kyle Mackey's name
in prison requisition forms.
Uh, respectfully, I have a better idea.
Why don't you pull the
paperwork that his lawyer filed?
(SIGHS) Fine.
I still get a little mad
when you have a good idea.
Wait, there it is.
"Kyle McKay". His lawyer typed
it wrong on his admission form.
Looks like he got sent
to Devens Prison Camp
instead of FCI Petersburg.
Mackey planned this all along.
He knew that once we arrested him,
the network was going to
put a target on his back.
But thanks to you
We got our last bad guy back.
ALVEZ: You're a hard guy to find, Kyle.
You want to know how we did it?
No?
Well, I'm gonna tell you anyway.
See, here's the thing about collateral.
It has to hurt to lose it.
But Lainey and Ava, you
you didn't care if they died.
Hell, you buried your daughter alive
and then asked the network for
tips on how to get away with it.
And you gave them two family members
you didn't really give a
shit about as collateral.
But you were never gonna
off yourself, were you?
No.
Guy like you always has
one last move to make.
Indeed I do.
Well, we're here now.
You better take your shot.
On the network, there was a discussion
about something called
"Project Checkmate".
As in, the last move.
The one that wins the game.
And I'll be happy to tell you
all about their little plan.
But you got to let me walk.
You're a murderer, Kyle.
We don't let murderers go.
Well, you might.
If you get to catch
all the other murderers.
- We can't.
- No, we're not going to.
"A", it would be stupid.
"B", this could just be another
head fake from the network.
Get us to look right
while they move left.
We either got to trick him or coerce him
into giving us Project Checkmate,
- but how do we do that?
- (SIGHS)
He wants another shot
at his wife and daughter.
He's nursing a narcissistic wound
that they got away the first time.
What if we pour some salt in that wound?
If we find them, we could taunt him
that they're beyond his control.
Yeah, we got to find them first.
And I don't understand
how they've been so good
at staying off the grid this long.
Uh, maybe they had help?
Yeah, but who would want to help them?
And be that good at it?
Elias told me that you'd promise me
a new life, but it wouldn't matter.
And he's right.
- JJ, what?
- (CHUCKLES)
I know exactly who helped them.
Who?
Are we sure about this?
We will be in about 30 seconds.
Let's go.
Hands behind your back.
- What?
- Behind your back.
What's going on? Ow.
(GRUNTS)
Fuck. Easy.
Is it you? Huh?
Where is it?
Are you the one that's been
leaking information about this case?
VOIT: What? No.
- You're not gonna find anything.
- You sure about that?
(SIGHS): Oh, Jesus.
Elias, where did you get this?
I can't tell you that.
You told Lainey and Ava to run.
Hey, where are they?
I can't tell you that either.
Jesus. Let's go.
Elias Voit, you're under arrest
for obstruction of justice
- and conspiracy to commit murder.
- Elias, think about this.
- I did.
- You have the right to remain silent.
- I'm sorry if I disappointed you.
- Anything you say can
and will be used against
you in a court of law.
You have the right to talk to a lawyer.
If you cannot afford a lawyer,
one will be appointed to you.
With these rights in mind
do you wish to speak to me?
I'm glad that it's you doing this.
You deserve it.
Yeah.
I have no idea how this
happened. (STAMMERS)
Call Metro Police. Have
them sweep the room.
I-I guess, bring in the
crime scene tech team,
and they have to be thorough now.
(SIGHS SOFTLY)
(EXHALES)
(SIGHS HEAVILY)
Um
I invoked.
I thought you might be lonely.
(SIGHS) All right, w-wait.
Do you have a piece of paper?
(ROSSI SIGHS)
♪
For you.
(SNICKERS)
Any luck unlocking Voit's phone?
GREEN: I.T. has it now.
Here's what they can tell.
Voit wiped it and reprogrammed it.
But the passcode on it,
it's got a "one strike
and you're out" protocol.
So if we guess once and we're wrong?
The phone is bricked. Total garbage.
(SIGHS) Well, one thing
we know Voit's good at,
it's blowing up evidence
he doesn't want us to have.
Yeah, looks like we're stuck
until he decides to cooperate.
- Not quite.
- No?
No, there's still the question of how
he got the phone in the first place.
JJ and I think there's a leak.
But this phone cements our suspicion
that it's someone on Ochoa's staff.
So he's been in front
of us the whole time.
Yeah. Well, not for much longer.
(COMPUTER TRILLING)
And
You're clear.
OCHOA: Gracias, Teresa.
Next staff member, please.
- Hey, John.
- What's all this about?
Elias Voit, our high-value informant,
he got his hands on a
phone he shouldn't have.
JJ: We need to see if it was
a careless error or if
someone slipped it to him.
- Uh, can we check yours?
- Look, I did take it out,
- but it was just the one time.
- GARCIA: That's not what we're looking for.
We need to see your SIM card,
'cause it has identifying
keys that might be
a match to the phone we recovered,
so fork it over, please.
Thank you.
(COMPUTER TRILLING)
And you're clear.
OCHOA: Thanks, John.
Next.
- Hey.
- Hey, Monica.
I'm so sorry about
this, but we need to
I know the drill.
Thanks, Monica.
- All right.
- (COMPUTER TRILLING)
(HUMMING)
ICCID and credit card are a match.
What? A match?
- What does that mean?
- You need to come with me.
(STAMMERS) Wait a minute.
Wait a minute. What did that thing say?
JJ: We are gonna go talk about that.
If you refuse to answer questions,
- we will have to place you under arrest.
- But what did I do?
That's what we're gonna go talk about.
Julia, you know me. It wasn't me.
- It wasn't me.
- Okay. This way. Come on.
I can't believe this. Do
you think I would destroy
my career over Elias Voit?
Are you kidding me?
So, Dave had a waste-of-time hunch
that wasn't a waste of time at all.
Oh. Which was?
What if the Disciple is a woman?
Based on what?
Voit used collateral
to scorch the earth,
but the Disciple
didn't scorch the earth.
- Instead, he
- Or she.
or she sent us back a little boy.
- Not only that, he
- Or she.
or she took pains
to make sure that the
little boy wasn't hurt.
They masked their voices around him.
Because Andrew would have noticed
if a woman had taught him a prayer.
So we went back over
the Cyrus LeBrun case.
We looked for any connections
with a double-X chromosome.
Well, I went over that file, too.
Cyrus was a person of interest
in the Silvio Herrera case,
but he was never interviewed.
And the reason he was never interviewed
is because the North
Carolina State Police
were told he was out of the country.
Huh. Who told them that?
The woman who answered his door.
20 years old.
She identified herself as Tessa LeBrun.
She said she was Cyrus's daughter.
And Cyrus was not the type to procreate.
This is from 2004, so Voit
had left Cyrus by then.
He'd outgrown Cyrus.
He wanted to be his
own man, his own killer.
So Cyrus replaced him.
And Voit 2.0 would
have had to been someone
that Cyrus could completely dominate.
- Any leads on where she is now?
- We're looking into it.
She's got to be 40 by now.
And brilliant enough to run the network.
How many people do you know who
are this good with computers?
We can take Penelope off the table.
Who does that leave?
Voit.
Maybe Tessa inherited his knowledge.
Maybe he taught her.
Either way, we need him to talk.
And there's only one
way that can happen.
(CHUCKLES)
You ever play this with your girls?
It's my turn. Give it back.
Who-Who's better at
it, uh, Holly or Harlow?
Yeah, I know this trick, Dave.
You get me talking, and then
I just tell you everything.
Can we just play the game, please?
Are we really gonna do this?
Are we really gonna wait for a lawyer?
- Yep.
- A lawyer
who, let's face it, is not
gonna want to take you on
as a client, because your lawyers die
faster than the
drummers from Spinal Tap.
I-I'm not sure if it's the
amnesia or you're just old.
But I don't, I don't get that joke.
You know what I think? I
think you didn't leak dick.
Don't tell me. Tell your team.
Now, you-you got a phone
somehow, but it was just to-to
reach the mom and her little
girl and tell them to run.
That's all.
(SIGHS)
Am I close?
Why do you always think you know me?
Because I do.
I knew you when you were a killer,
and I know you now.
And I know that saving
Ava from being buried alive
did a number on you.
- Am I wrong?
- You're wrong.
Oh, well, then, she didn't remind you
of your own daughters?
Nope.
Well, then, you are
the psychopath you've been all along,
and you fooled all of us.
So, what do you think? You think I
I-I stole a phone
someone left at the
nurses station so that
I could use everything
I know to help keep
Lainey and Ava off the grid?
That's exactly what I think.
Wow, I must be
a real son of a bitch to
sabotage your case like that.
Everyone else thinks that,
but they haven't seen what I've seen.
Something I've never seen
in 40 years of profiling.
A psychopath who's grown a conscience.
So, where's Lainey and Ava?
I-I can't trust you
with that information.
Why not?
Because you're not good
enough to save them.
No matter how good you are, no
matter how good your team is,
innocent people always wind up dying.
Sometimes it's because
of me, so for once,
I wanted to help save lives.
And help them stay saved.
Elias, I swore I would never
make this promise again.
But I promise we will
keep Lainey and Ava safe.
But we can't until
you unlock that phone.
(ELEVATOR BELL DINGS)
- ALVEZ: Ava!
- (GIGGLES)
Luke.
Hey, what's up, kid?
Aah!
(CHUCKLES)
Hi, Lainey. How are you?
Not great. Tyler said
something about us
moving us to a safe house?
It's already set up, but, uh,
- we need your help with something else.
- Come on.
After everything we've been through?
Hey, Ava, you want to come
with me to the family room?
It's got really cool toys.
No. I want, I want to stay with my mom.
It's okay. I'll be right behind you.
And, look, we'll be right in here, okay?
Just in here.
No offense.
I'm just still having nightmares about
my asshole ex almost
burying my daughter alive.
Yeah, I get it.
And that asshole ex is
actually why you're here.
Oh, God. Now what?
He's, uh, ransoming his
cooperation for his freedom.
And we were hoping that maybe
you could say something to him,
get him to talk.
(SIGHS) Where is he?
This way.
Tessa? (STAMMERS)
You're sure her name is Tessa?
Yeah, she told the cops
she was Cyrus's daughter.
- That name means nothing to you?
- No. I've never heard of her.
(DOOR OPENS)
(DOOR CLOSES)
I need a minute.
Alone.
(DOOR OPENS)
Listen to me, you
limp-dicked sack of shit.
I will personally tell
everyone on cell block D
you tried to kill your own daughter.
Spousal privilege.
We can't listen.
LAINEY (OVER SPEAKERS): So think about
how many times you're gonna get fucked
unless you tell them everything
that they need to know
right now!
(DOOR OPENS)
He'll talk now.
(DOOR CLOSES)
Those guys in the back of the truck,
the guys you rescued, they're
the loose ends, after me.
That's Project Checkmate.
They kill them, then they disappear.
Bullshit.
It is. It's what they talked about.
Bullshit.
(SIGHS)
We know how the network
thinks now, Kyle.
We know how they move.
They leak misinformation
to scramble our profile.
And then they get away clean.
So let's start here.
Who is the leak in this case?
Yeah, we know about that.
(SIGHS)
Okay.
There's this guy.
Calls himself "the Engineer".
And he showed me how to rig up
the explosives in my coffins.
And he made the, uh, small
ones with the spiders.
Uh, and also, uh, for
his gun, he made this, uh,
this, like, silencer thing.
Keep talking.
Well, if anyone's leaking, it's him.
But that makes him the last loose end.
After me, he's the most direct
connection to the network.
'Cause he knows too much.
This Engineer, what's his name?
I don't know.
Then what good are you?
Uh, w-wait, wait, wait.
When he, when he made his, uh, silencer,
he bought a 55-gallon drum
as an agitator to, uh
- Shit, how did he put it?
- (FINGERS SNAP)
To anodize the aluminum.
Make it as quiet as possible. (CHUCKLES)
There's not a lot of
guys in the District
that can do that, right?
If what you're saying
gets us to this Engineer,
then perhaps God
and the justice system
will take pity on you.
But if this is another smoke screen,
God himself cannot save you.
Is anodized aluminum a thing?
Oh, it's a thing.
And based on that size, he's right.
Not a lot of people could do it.
You think we're still in
a race with the network?
Yeah, I do. Why?
I think, for the first
time, we're in the lead.
I'm being set up.
I believe you.
We just had a break in the case.
Look, somebody somebody skilled
bought a cell phone
using your credit card,
had it shipped here, intercepted
it before you could get it.
He calls himself "the Engineer".
Can you think of anybody like that?
"Engineer"?
No. God, you don't work
here if you're an engineer.
Okay.
Well, you're-you're free to go.
- Monica, I am so sorry.
- (GROANS)
(DOOR OPENS, CLOSES)
Monica's worked here longer than I have.
She has two kids.
How could I ever think
that she would do this?
Can you think of anyone
who would want to frame her?
No. I mean, you were there. You saw it.
Everyone else checked out.
- Tell me you have another way to catch this guy.
- (PHONE CHIMES)
We do, actually.
Please tell me I don't have to
accuse anyone else on my staff.
No, but my team has to try
and convince the Internet
that someone who's still
alive is actually dead.
Who?
This guy. Kyle Mackey.
(TYPING RAPIDLY)
♪
- Hey.
- What's all this?
The survivors from
the Tate Andrews case.
If the Disciple takes the
bait that Kyle is dead,
then, yeah, he should
head for the Engineer.
But just to be safe,
we're gathering them here
and we're staking out their homes.
Seriously? That's eight
simultaneous stakeouts.
That's-that's a hell
of a lot of resources.
Emily called in a lot of favors.
Where are we with the Engineer?
LEWIS: There are a handful
of industrial plants
with anodizers that big,
but like you thought,
only one was purchased by a civilian.
A guy by the name of John Peters.
Delivered to his home in
Manassas three months ago.
That is right next to last
night's victims, the Wolners.
Of course it is.
They've been putting the pieces in place
for Project Checkmate for months.
We're in the process
of getting a warrant.
Judge Robinson is being a
pain about probable cause.
- Push.
- I am.
We have Alvez and Tyler patched in.
Guys, you copy?
GREEN: Copy.
We're here.
Okay, we can't breach for an arrest,
but if the Disciple
comes for Peters, move in.
Should be easy to spot.
Especially if the Disciple
loves that stupid mask
as much as the network does.
Anything?
- Lights haven't even come on.
- Where are we with the warrant?
We're working on it.
This place is dead.
Hey, are we sure we
have the right address?
(EXHALES) We got fucked.
Yeah, but who's doing the fucking?
We have a problem.
The property is registered
to a John Peters,
but he lives in Miami.
He hasn't been inside
that house for five years.
PRENTISS: What did I tell you?
You lied to us, Kyle.
There's no Engineer.
- There's nothing.
- There is.
I swear to God, there is.
He laughed about it.
About how he lived right
outside your zip code
and you didn't even know.
Oh, God.
ROSSI: What? What? Hey.
- Oh, no.
- Whoa, whoa, whoa, hey, hey, hey.
- No, no, no.
- Talk to me. What is it? What is it?
In our decades of experience,
when have we ever had as
many unsubs this close to us?
What do you mean?
PRENTISS: Franklin Fowler,
Clyde Smets, Kyle Mackey,
Bob Kinney, Tara's shooter.
We've been so busy chasing them,
we haven't stopped to
ask the obvious question.
Why are they in our backyard?
This is how they checkmate us.
They split us in eight directions.
Stretch us so thin we
can't respond in time
for their final move.
But what's the final move?
Who did we leave exposed?
Voit.
♪
(CLEARS THROAT)
After everything we've done for you,
I have done for you
- Look, can I just explain?
- No.
No, you cannot.
You are going to listen.
Elias, I defended you.
I justified you.
I protected you.
And still, you don't (SIGHS)
Whose phone was it?
I don't know.
I just found it on the nurses station,
- and I thought
- Of course you did.
Of course you did, because
that is who you are.
You know, you may not be a psychopath,
but you're not a good person either.
Tomorrow morning, I'm
putting in for a transfer.
- Wait, no, no. Where are you going?
- Oh. (SCOFFS)
I'm staying here.
You are being transferred
back to minimum security.
Goodbye.
(MUFFLED SHOUT) Elias!
- Get the fuck off of me!
- (SHUSHING)
- Just stop talking. Stop fucking talking.
- Elias!
Let go of me!
We're in trouble,
okay? Something's wrong.
How do you know that?
Because it only gets this quiet
when I'm about to kill someone.
(SILENCED GUNSHOTS)
(SILENCED GUNSHOTS)
(OCHOA WHIMPERING)
OFFICER: All teams take positions.
Possible active shooter,
Melgren Medical Center.
♪
(GASPS)
♪
JJ: Clear.
PRENTISS: This is SSA Prentiss.
We need immediate
backup at Melgren Medical
due to a mass shooting.
Gunman is at large.
I repeat, we need backup
for a gunman on the loose.
DISPATCHER: SSA, we copy.
Medical and backup is en route.
Is Voit ?
He's not here.
♪
Previously on Criminal
Minds: Evolution
- Get down!
- (GRUNTS)
Agent Lewis's prognosis it
not what we might've hoped for.
REBECCA: No matter how scared you
are, no matter how hurt you are,
- I'm here.
- LEWIS: Rebecca, this team,
they're my chosen family.
That's why I needed to ask
you this in front of them.
Will you marry me?
Darcy's place was tossed, wasn't it?
You think Darcy found something?
Something the Disciple
needed time to catch and kill.
How you doing there?
What's the matter, boy?
You look like you seen a ghost.
ROSSI: The Disciple
knows more about Voit
and his condition than
Orlov could've ever told him.
So, what, someone in the
hospital is part of this?
Let's just lock everything down.
PRENTISS: I'm going to
recommend that your nursing staff
be completely turned
over every two weeks.
That's impossible.
Unfortunately, it has become an
unavoidable security precaution.
(INDISTINCT ANNOUNCEMENT OVER P.A.)
Perry? John Perry?
- Hi. I'm Dr. Julia Ochoa.
- Hi.
So it says here you've been an orderly
- at Melgren for 11 months?
- Yep.
No criminal record.
No disciplinary issues.
- Occasionally tardy.
- (CHUCKLES) I can
I'm working on that.
So, what have you heard
about this position?
Uh, I know it's a two-week gig.
Then I rotate back downstairs.
And I know it involves a VIP.
Well, he's actually not a VIP.
We're treating a high-value
informant for the FBI.
So we have to go above and beyond
our usual HIPAA security standards.
Every record gets submitted twice.
Every syringe gets accounted for.
And your phone stays in
your pocket at all times.
Got it.
I mean it about the phone thing.
We've already had to let some people go.
This job pays double-time, right?
That's right.
Well, my wife has instructed
me to tell you that,
in this economy, I will
suck dick for double-time.
So I can keep my phone in my locker.
Okay, thank you. Well,
we'll be in touch.
Despite his social graces,
his supervisor says he's solid.
Not straight A. But solid.
All right, well, put
him on the short list.
Who's next?
JJ: Simple question.
If the Disciple can talk
to you like he's Cyrus,
who else knew about you and Cyrus?
No one.
When I was in Cyrus's
house, it was just him and I.
Then how did he become a person
of interest in a local case?
Wait, he was? When?
No, I was gone by then.
Wh-Wh-What was the case?
Silvio Herrera.
Silvio
Never heard of that guy, but
(INDISTINCT P.A. ANNOUNCEMENT)
(PHONE VIBRATES)
Mm-hmm. I saw that.
(CHUCKLES) Hey.
Give me a break?
M-My kid, he woke up with a 103 fever.
(SIGHS) Want to bring him in?
No.
But my wife, she's
working nights all weekend.
- I'm not on call, am I?
- (TABLET CHIRPS)
You're good.
Keep it in your locker.
♪
(SETS DOWN GUN)
♪
(ANDREW WHIMPERS)
(GASPS)
(SCREAMING)
(PANTING)
♪
Hey, how's that little boy doing?
Well, the fever broke, thank God.
But only after I drugged
him to get him to sleep.
What's going on here?
Strap yourself in for ten
hours of watching paint dry.
(PERRY CHUCKLES)
It's a waste of our goddamn time.
We're never finding
the Disciple this way.
Maybe not, but we have guys
from the network in custody.
One of them will start talking to us.
We're closer than you think.
♪
- (KNOCKING AT DOOR)
- VOIT: Hey.
Oh, hey. How you feeling today?
Uh, good, good.
Good.
Is there something else
I can help you with?
Oh, yeah, um, do you, do
you like dark chocolate?
I love dark chocolate. Why?
Oh. Good, then
maybe you'll like this.
Oh. Well
First of all, thank you very much.
- Very welcome.
- And secondly,
Elias, I'm your doctor.
- Yeah Oh.
- And that means
No, I-I know. I just I-I
don't even like that brand.
- I thought maybe
- I don't need gifts.
- Okay? This is my job.
- Yeah, I-I know.
I was just thinking I
Look, I don't know what I was thinking.
- I'll-I'll just take it back.
- Oh, whoa, get out of here.
You're not taking back my chocolate.
(CHUCKLES SOFTLY)
(PHONE CHIMES, VIBRATES)
(TYPING RAPIDLY)
GARCIA: What?
Huh? What?
(GASPS SOFTLY)
Oh, no.
Oh, no.
No.
Oh.
(BREATH TREMBLES)
I know. Assemble the team.
- Is this
- We're gonna find out, all of us.
- The team. Now.
- (STAMMERS) Yeah.
Yes, this is SSA Prentiss for
the Deputy Attorney General.
I understand.
Please pull him from the meeting.
- What do we have?
- Go ahead, Penelope.
Last night, Kathy Wolner was shot
point-blank in her home
with a nine millimeter.
Based on the irregular muzzle imprints,
Manasses PD believe that
the unsub used a suppressor.
- Kathy Wolner?
- Who's Kathy Wolner?
She's the wife of Trevor Wolner.
GREEN: One of the guys on the network
we arrested before they
could kill themselves.
- They have a son.
- Yes. Andrew.
He wasn't on the scene.
The locals believe he was abducted.
And they also found this.
Signing their work like they always do.
Yeah, but what they don't
do is take a hostage.
So why start now?
Continued leverage.
What is the one consistent element
of Voit's old network and this new one?
Suicide pact. You kill
yourself before you get caught
so you don't bring down
everyone else with you.
JJ: So the Disciple
is sending a message:
This is what will happen to
you if you don't follow through.
The network is closing ranks
and eliminating any lead we have.
Then Voit's a target, too.
Dr. Ochoa has him on lockdown,
and I've doubled the number
of marshals covering him.
We need to secure
everyone we have in custody
and their families
and the victims we saved
in the Tate Andrews case,
just to be safe.
Rebecca's coordinating
with the Bureau of Prisons.
We are going to divide
and conquer everyone else.
Shit.
What happened?
Trevor Wolner hung himself
in his cell this morning.
And as for his partner, Steve Morris,
yes, he was in a different facility,
but two hours ago,
he jabbed a sharpened pencil in
his carotid artery and bled out.
The network must have gotten to him,
so he took himself off the table.
That leaves two suspects
for us to worry about.
Uh, Ronald Graber's brain-dead,
and, um, Voit already killed his family.
Which leaves Kyle
Mackey, the Undertaker.
I have a call in to FCI Petersburg
to have him put in solitary.
Okay. I will have Garcia follow up.
- Can you have his ex-wife and daughter brought here?
- Yeah.
We are in a race with the network,
and we're already behind.
(LINE RINGING)
This is Rebecca Wilson with the DOJ.
I need to put in a WITSEC
order for Torres, comma, Lainey
and Mackey, comma, Ava to MCB Quantico.
CARD Team has us on their
notify list for the boy.
If they have a lead,
we'll be the first to know.
Work this out with me.
The network shoots the wife
to show they're not kidding
and then keeps the boy
to make sure Trevor Wolner
goes through with his suicide.
- Yeah.
- Wolner and Morris are off the table.
It's mission accomplished.
So what's the Disciple gonna
do with a ten-year-old boy?
Let's go find out.
To gain access to my
network, I needed collateral
so that I could scorch the earth.
Scorch the earth meaning, if
they don't kill themselves,
you kill their whole family?
Yeah.
Did you learn that after
killing Ronald Graber's family?
Maybe.
Inspired by.
But after Graber, I never
actually went through with it.
(GREEN SIGHS)
I think he might be
holding back because of me.
- Should I step out?
- No.
We want him on his back foot.
Let's say you did do it.
Would you ever take a hostage?
Or spare a child to make sure
that they went through with it?
No. That's not how you scorch the earth.
(WATER RUNNING)
JJ: Okay, then why
why would this unsub
abduct a ten-year-old
- and not kill him?
- (FAUCET TURNS OFF)
OCHOA: What? (STAMMERS)
What am I missing here?
Elias?
(DOOR CLOSES)
Hey. Guys. Wait.
What was that all about?
The unsub didn't take
Andrew as collateral.
He took him because he's a pedophile.
Hey, hey, hey.
Were you able to secure the
survivors with the Disciple?
You know, the truck and
the spiders and the
We did. They're safe. Why?
Well, I'm on Undertaker duty,
which is a phrase I hate saying,
and it turns out that Mr. Kyle Mackey,
although remanded to
FCI Petersburg last week,
they have no record of
actually receiving him.
This isn't over.
How is that possible?
A great question great
as my outfit today
that has baffled both me
and the intake officer.
Well, it looks like
you're not the only one.
- More bad news?
- What else?
Lainey Torres and Ava Mackey
disappeared this morning.
GARCIA: No. No.
That means we've lost our
bad guy and his whole family.
Lainey told her detail she
was dropping Ava off at school.
They never came home.
Cell phones are off.
No credit card usage.
No sign of her car.
Just poof, gone.
So we're oh-for-three with the network?
No bodies yet, but based on
the pattern, it would seem so.
Okay, I need a pick-me-up.
Can I see your engagement ring?
Oh. (CHUCKLES)
Uh, actually, there-there was something
- that we wanted to talk to you about.
- (PHONE CHIMES)
LEWIS: Uh, yeah.
Maybe-maybe not now. Emily
needs me on the second floor.
No. No, that's not fair.
You can't say there's
something to talk about
in a happy way and then
drop it because duty calls.
Okay. Walk with me.
GARCIA: Okay.
(GASPS) Oh, I totally forgot to ask.
How are you doing with the ?
Uh, better, yeah.
I mean, still moving slowly.
Rebecca won't let me
lift anything heavy,
which is very sweet,
but I had to draw the
line when she told me
(RAISES VOICE): I was
brushing my teeth too hard.
REBECCA: Well, you do.
- Gingivitis kills, Becs.
- REBECCA: Uh-huh.
Okay, in-in regards to this
news you're gonna tell me,
is it lawful good or chaotic good?
I don't know what that is.
- What? Are you kidding?
- (ELEVATOR BELL DINGS)
You've never played Dungeons & Dragons
in your entire
Never mind. All right.
Boiling it down,
- lawful good means doing good within the system.
- Mm-hmm.
Chaotic good means you're a rebel
with a conscience and a cause.
Will you marry us?
What?
Rebecca and me. Will you marry us?
Yes.
Of course, yes. A thousand times, yes.
I can't believe you're asking me.
- LEWIS: But not so tight.
- Oh, God, I'm so sorry.
I forgot that you got, um
Ooh, wait, why are you asking me?
Well, because I'm chaotic good
and Rebecca is lawful good,
and you're the best parts of both of us.
That's the loveliest
thing anyone's ever said.
Look, I'll let you know the date, okay?
- (ELEVATOR BELL DINGS)
- When we set it.
- Yes. You better. Okay.
- Okay.
- All right.
- Oh.
(PAINED SIGH)
Hey. What do we got?
Another package was delivered to us
with the same handwriting on it
as the box with the Yase-Otoko mask.
- Is it another mask?
- I don't think so.
Why not?
This time, they sent
us something bigger.
(BEEPING RAPIDLY)
- (HAMMER POUNDING)
- (WOOD CRACKING)
(HAMMER POUNDING)
Notify the CARD Team.
(DOOR OPENS)
(DOOR CLOSES)
Where's my mom?
- JJ: Hey.
- Hey.
How's he doing?
His aunt and uncle are on the way.
Pediatrician says that
he's completely unharmed.
Physically, anyway.
But there's s-something else.
What is it?
When I told him that he was at the FBI,
he asked to speak to "Agent JJ".
We're recording?
Thank you.
(DOOR CLOSES)
Hi, Andrew.
Who are you?
I'm JJ.
- Were you guys playing Rat Slap?
- You know how to play?
Are you serious?
I crush at Rat Slap.
Can we? Yeah?
Okay.
(SIGHS)
Let's see. Got to make sure
they're shuffled really good
so you don't cheat.
All right. There we go.
(PLACES DECK ON TABLE)
So
I heard you wanted to
talk to me about something?
There's a prayer.
I'm supposed to say it to you.
A prayer?
(GASPS) Mm.
Yeah. They made me memorize it.
They did?
There's more than one?
Did you see their faces?
No.
They wore these weird masks.
Okay, what about their voices?
Were their voices deep or
- (ANDREW PLACES CARD)
- Ah.
They sounded like the girl on TikTok.
You know, that fake voice.
Oh.
Were they
nice to you?
The first guy,
he wasn't nice when he came to my house.
After that, they were very nice.
Then one of them told
me I had to go to sleep.
That's when they told me the prayer.
Do you want to hear it?
I do.
Okay, it goes,
"Now I lay me down to sleep.
Your husband's soul is God's to keep.
Lainey and Ava will be safe
if you release the
man who dug their graves."
That's it. That's the prayer.
Andrew, you're a very brave boy.
And you are also kicking my butt,
so I am gonna go
get Agent Stacey to come
in and play with you.
- Okay?
- Okay.
Take it easy on her?
(JJ CHUCKLES)
Bye.
- Those motherfuckers.
- Just hang on.
They threw my dead husband in my face.
Yeah, they did, okay?
But Emily thinks that
they overplayed their hand.
What?
JJ, the network has
made a critical error.
But to understand it, we need
to go over Andrew's prayer.
ANDREW: "Lainey and Ava will be safe
if you release the man
who dug their graves."
- Who are they talking about?
- It's a ransom demand.
They have Lainey and Ava.
They're willing to trade them
for Kyle Mackey, the Undertaker.
- The one who dug their graves.
- But why give us this message?
They got to the other two
without making demands.
Because they couldn't find him
- in the prison system either.
- ALVEZ: Exactly.
They assume we already
released Mackey to protective custody,
so they're trying to trade for him.
Except the collateral they're offering?
- They don't have it.
- They don't?
No, they don't.
I had Tyler talk to the
marshal in charge of their case.
He told us something
critical to our investigation.
GREEN: We are on the record
with U.S. Marshal Andy Murray.
- Thank you for coming in.
- Any news on Lainey or Ava?
Not yet. That's what we're
hoping you can help us with.
Can you walk me through how
you learned they were missing?
Lainey didn't return
from school drop-off.
After 30 minutes, I initiated
witness recovery protocol.
But when I searched the apartment,
I saw that their closets were empty.
- Empty?
- Yeah.
Fucking bone dry.
Our concern was that
they were kidnapped.
But they're on the run.
Someone tipped off Lainey and Ava.
Told them they were in danger.
So the network tried to bluff.
And trick us into releasing Mackey.
ROSSI: Yeah, but they wouldn't go
this big unless they
were this desperate.
Which means we're not out of the race.
There are suspects and survivors
who I think can help us
crack open the whole network.
We have to find them, all of them.
Garcia is looking for Kyle Mackey.
Luke, I want you helping her.
Dave and I will stay on
wife and daughter detail.
JJ, I need a word.
We haven't talked about the
first line of the prayer.
Why would they bring up Will?
To dysregulate me.
To push my buttons. To
make me make a mistake.
That has been the pattern, hasn't it?
They push our buttons, we screw up.
But the buttons
are getting more and more precise,
to the point where a little
boy used your nickname that
Who else knows about
that outside of this team?
Not a lot of people.
Shit.
This case has a leak.
I have Garcia running a systems analysis
in case they hacked us.
Who else should we be looking at?
Uh, the survivors from
the back of the truck.
Tara's covering that.
I'm covering everyone
under our roof. Who else?
Uh, Ochoa's staff at Melgren.
- Can you
- I'm on it.
(EXHALES)
♪
- (KNOCK ON DOOR)
- Uh, uh, just a minute.
- Dave, you wanted to see me?
- (STAMMERS) Oh, hang on!
What the fuck?
(CLOSES DRAWER)
Okay, now, when does
"hang on" mean "come in"?
What's wrong with you?
What's wrong with me?
What are you hiding?
What the hell is that?
Ozempic.
Ozempic is administered
by injection, Dave.
(SIGHS, MUTTERS)
Look, I I took your advice.
I've been seeing a psychologist,
who referred me to a psychiatrist,
who's put me on a low dose of
(MUMBLES): Well-bu-bur-ten.
Never heard of that drug.
Wellbutrin.
Okay?
As it turns out, the
combination of the therapy
and the antidepressants actually have
made a difference in
on my whole seeing weird stuff.
I love it!
- Oh, come on!
- I know.
- Get it together!
- Okay. Yes
We love to hear it!
- Very, very nice.
- Ah.
- Now, okay.
- Oh, God.
Now, good. Now that your
end zone dance is over,
I have this hunch about the Disciple
that is a waste of my time.
But since I can't make you
write on the chalkboard
that "I will not come in
before David Rossi says 'come in, '"
I will waste your time instead.
So, please, sit down.
(CHANTING): David Rossi. David
(IMITATES CROWD CHEERING)
There you are.
What are you doing?
GARCIA: Oh, no, no, no.
Don't even try to be
charming. You will fail.
I am at the red line,
and the red line says, "She has had it".
And that "she" is me.
Emily asked me to check to see
if we've been hacked, and
Oh. It looks like we're clear.
And meanwhile, I'm still trying
to find this Kyle Mackey person
somewhere in the prison
system we've lost.
And I have told you not to chat
with your fantasy
football buddies on here.
(SCOFFS) All right, look,
if I help you find this
certain lost inmate,
can you keep the football
thing under your hat?
Oh, that entirely depends
upon how helpful you are.
When I was on the Fugitive Task Force,
I got an education in how
the prison system works.
Inmates go missing because
their names get misspelled
or Social Security numbers
get written down the wrong way.
Sometimes they get
sent to the wrong prison
because people get their wires crossed.
Okay, so, to not go down the
rabbit hole of the complicated,
I'm gonna start with
simple clerical errors
and look up Kyle Mackey's name
in prison requisition forms.
Uh, respectfully, I have a better idea.
Why don't you pull the
paperwork that his lawyer filed?
(SIGHS) Fine.
I still get a little mad
when you have a good idea.
Wait, there it is.
"Kyle McKay". His lawyer typed
it wrong on his admission form.
Looks like he got sent
to Devens Prison Camp
instead of FCI Petersburg.
Mackey planned this all along.
He knew that once we arrested him,
the network was going to
put a target on his back.
But thanks to you
We got our last bad guy back.
ALVEZ: You're a hard guy to find, Kyle.
You want to know how we did it?
No?
Well, I'm gonna tell you anyway.
See, here's the thing about collateral.
It has to hurt to lose it.
But Lainey and Ava, you
you didn't care if they died.
Hell, you buried your daughter alive
and then asked the network for
tips on how to get away with it.
And you gave them two family members
you didn't really give a
shit about as collateral.
But you were never gonna
off yourself, were you?
No.
Guy like you always has
one last move to make.
Indeed I do.
Well, we're here now.
You better take your shot.
On the network, there was a discussion
about something called
"Project Checkmate".
As in, the last move.
The one that wins the game.
And I'll be happy to tell you
all about their little plan.
But you got to let me walk.
You're a murderer, Kyle.
We don't let murderers go.
Well, you might.
If you get to catch
all the other murderers.
- We can't.
- No, we're not going to.
"A", it would be stupid.
"B", this could just be another
head fake from the network.
Get us to look right
while they move left.
We either got to trick him or coerce him
into giving us Project Checkmate,
- but how do we do that?
- (SIGHS)
He wants another shot
at his wife and daughter.
He's nursing a narcissistic wound
that they got away the first time.
What if we pour some salt in that wound?
If we find them, we could taunt him
that they're beyond his control.
Yeah, we got to find them first.
And I don't understand
how they've been so good
at staying off the grid this long.
Uh, maybe they had help?
Yeah, but who would want to help them?
And be that good at it?
Elias told me that you'd promise me
a new life, but it wouldn't matter.
And he's right.
- JJ, what?
- (CHUCKLES)
I know exactly who helped them.
Who?
Are we sure about this?
We will be in about 30 seconds.
Let's go.
Hands behind your back.
- What?
- Behind your back.
What's going on? Ow.
(GRUNTS)
Fuck. Easy.
Is it you? Huh?
Where is it?
Are you the one that's been
leaking information about this case?
VOIT: What? No.
- You're not gonna find anything.
- You sure about that?
(SIGHS): Oh, Jesus.
Elias, where did you get this?
I can't tell you that.
You told Lainey and Ava to run.
Hey, where are they?
I can't tell you that either.
Jesus. Let's go.
Elias Voit, you're under arrest
for obstruction of justice
- and conspiracy to commit murder.
- Elias, think about this.
- I did.
- You have the right to remain silent.
- I'm sorry if I disappointed you.
- Anything you say can
and will be used against
you in a court of law.
You have the right to talk to a lawyer.
If you cannot afford a lawyer,
one will be appointed to you.
With these rights in mind
do you wish to speak to me?
I'm glad that it's you doing this.
You deserve it.
Yeah.
I have no idea how this
happened. (STAMMERS)
Call Metro Police. Have
them sweep the room.
I-I guess, bring in the
crime scene tech team,
and they have to be thorough now.
(SIGHS SOFTLY)
(EXHALES)
(SIGHS HEAVILY)
Um
I invoked.
I thought you might be lonely.
(SIGHS) All right, w-wait.
Do you have a piece of paper?
(ROSSI SIGHS)
♪
For you.
(SNICKERS)
Any luck unlocking Voit's phone?
GREEN: I.T. has it now.
Here's what they can tell.
Voit wiped it and reprogrammed it.
But the passcode on it,
it's got a "one strike
and you're out" protocol.
So if we guess once and we're wrong?
The phone is bricked. Total garbage.
(SIGHS) Well, one thing
we know Voit's good at,
it's blowing up evidence
he doesn't want us to have.
Yeah, looks like we're stuck
until he decides to cooperate.
- Not quite.
- No?
No, there's still the question of how
he got the phone in the first place.
JJ and I think there's a leak.
But this phone cements our suspicion
that it's someone on Ochoa's staff.
So he's been in front
of us the whole time.
Yeah. Well, not for much longer.
(COMPUTER TRILLING)
And
You're clear.
OCHOA: Gracias, Teresa.
Next staff member, please.
- Hey, John.
- What's all this about?
Elias Voit, our high-value informant,
he got his hands on a
phone he shouldn't have.
JJ: We need to see if it was
a careless error or if
someone slipped it to him.
- Uh, can we check yours?
- Look, I did take it out,
- but it was just the one time.
- GARCIA: That's not what we're looking for.
We need to see your SIM card,
'cause it has identifying
keys that might be
a match to the phone we recovered,
so fork it over, please.
Thank you.
(COMPUTER TRILLING)
And you're clear.
OCHOA: Thanks, John.
Next.
- Hey.
- Hey, Monica.
I'm so sorry about
this, but we need to
I know the drill.
Thanks, Monica.
- All right.
- (COMPUTER TRILLING)
(HUMMING)
ICCID and credit card are a match.
What? A match?
- What does that mean?
- You need to come with me.
(STAMMERS) Wait a minute.
Wait a minute. What did that thing say?
JJ: We are gonna go talk about that.
If you refuse to answer questions,
- we will have to place you under arrest.
- But what did I do?
That's what we're gonna go talk about.
Julia, you know me. It wasn't me.
- It wasn't me.
- Okay. This way. Come on.
I can't believe this. Do
you think I would destroy
my career over Elias Voit?
Are you kidding me?
So, Dave had a waste-of-time hunch
that wasn't a waste of time at all.
Oh. Which was?
What if the Disciple is a woman?
Based on what?
Voit used collateral
to scorch the earth,
but the Disciple
didn't scorch the earth.
- Instead, he
- Or she.
or she sent us back a little boy.
- Not only that, he
- Or she.
or she took pains
to make sure that the
little boy wasn't hurt.
They masked their voices around him.
Because Andrew would have noticed
if a woman had taught him a prayer.
So we went back over
the Cyrus LeBrun case.
We looked for any connections
with a double-X chromosome.
Well, I went over that file, too.
Cyrus was a person of interest
in the Silvio Herrera case,
but he was never interviewed.
And the reason he was never interviewed
is because the North
Carolina State Police
were told he was out of the country.
Huh. Who told them that?
The woman who answered his door.
20 years old.
She identified herself as Tessa LeBrun.
She said she was Cyrus's daughter.
And Cyrus was not the type to procreate.
This is from 2004, so Voit
had left Cyrus by then.
He'd outgrown Cyrus.
He wanted to be his
own man, his own killer.
So Cyrus replaced him.
And Voit 2.0 would
have had to been someone
that Cyrus could completely dominate.
- Any leads on where she is now?
- We're looking into it.
She's got to be 40 by now.
And brilliant enough to run the network.
How many people do you know who
are this good with computers?
We can take Penelope off the table.
Who does that leave?
Voit.
Maybe Tessa inherited his knowledge.
Maybe he taught her.
Either way, we need him to talk.
And there's only one
way that can happen.
(CHUCKLES)
You ever play this with your girls?
It's my turn. Give it back.
Who-Who's better at
it, uh, Holly or Harlow?
Yeah, I know this trick, Dave.
You get me talking, and then
I just tell you everything.
Can we just play the game, please?
Are we really gonna do this?
Are we really gonna wait for a lawyer?
- Yep.
- A lawyer
who, let's face it, is not
gonna want to take you on
as a client, because your lawyers die
faster than the
drummers from Spinal Tap.
I-I'm not sure if it's the
amnesia or you're just old.
But I don't, I don't get that joke.
You know what I think? I
think you didn't leak dick.
Don't tell me. Tell your team.
Now, you-you got a phone
somehow, but it was just to-to
reach the mom and her little
girl and tell them to run.
That's all.
(SIGHS)
Am I close?
Why do you always think you know me?
Because I do.
I knew you when you were a killer,
and I know you now.
And I know that saving
Ava from being buried alive
did a number on you.
- Am I wrong?
- You're wrong.
Oh, well, then, she didn't remind you
of your own daughters?
Nope.
Well, then, you are
the psychopath you've been all along,
and you fooled all of us.
So, what do you think? You think I
I-I stole a phone
someone left at the
nurses station so that
I could use everything
I know to help keep
Lainey and Ava off the grid?
That's exactly what I think.
Wow, I must be
a real son of a bitch to
sabotage your case like that.
Everyone else thinks that,
but they haven't seen what I've seen.
Something I've never seen
in 40 years of profiling.
A psychopath who's grown a conscience.
So, where's Lainey and Ava?
I-I can't trust you
with that information.
Why not?
Because you're not good
enough to save them.
No matter how good you are, no
matter how good your team is,
innocent people always wind up dying.
Sometimes it's because
of me, so for once,
I wanted to help save lives.
And help them stay saved.
Elias, I swore I would never
make this promise again.
But I promise we will
keep Lainey and Ava safe.
But we can't until
you unlock that phone.
(ELEVATOR BELL DINGS)
- ALVEZ: Ava!
- (GIGGLES)
Luke.
Hey, what's up, kid?
Aah!
(CHUCKLES)
Hi, Lainey. How are you?
Not great. Tyler said
something about us
moving us to a safe house?
It's already set up, but, uh,
- we need your help with something else.
- Come on.
After everything we've been through?
Hey, Ava, you want to come
with me to the family room?
It's got really cool toys.
No. I want, I want to stay with my mom.
It's okay. I'll be right behind you.
And, look, we'll be right in here, okay?
Just in here.
No offense.
I'm just still having nightmares about
my asshole ex almost
burying my daughter alive.
Yeah, I get it.
And that asshole ex is
actually why you're here.
Oh, God. Now what?
He's, uh, ransoming his
cooperation for his freedom.
And we were hoping that maybe
you could say something to him,
get him to talk.
(SIGHS) Where is he?
This way.
Tessa? (STAMMERS)
You're sure her name is Tessa?
Yeah, she told the cops
she was Cyrus's daughter.
- That name means nothing to you?
- No. I've never heard of her.
(DOOR OPENS)
(DOOR CLOSES)
I need a minute.
Alone.
(DOOR OPENS)
Listen to me, you
limp-dicked sack of shit.
I will personally tell
everyone on cell block D
you tried to kill your own daughter.
Spousal privilege.
We can't listen.
LAINEY (OVER SPEAKERS): So think about
how many times you're gonna get fucked
unless you tell them everything
that they need to know
right now!
(DOOR OPENS)
He'll talk now.
(DOOR CLOSES)
Those guys in the back of the truck,
the guys you rescued, they're
the loose ends, after me.
That's Project Checkmate.
They kill them, then they disappear.
Bullshit.
It is. It's what they talked about.
Bullshit.
(SIGHS)
We know how the network
thinks now, Kyle.
We know how they move.
They leak misinformation
to scramble our profile.
And then they get away clean.
So let's start here.
Who is the leak in this case?
Yeah, we know about that.
(SIGHS)
Okay.
There's this guy.
Calls himself "the Engineer".
And he showed me how to rig up
the explosives in my coffins.
And he made the, uh, small
ones with the spiders.
Uh, and also, uh, for
his gun, he made this, uh,
this, like, silencer thing.
Keep talking.
Well, if anyone's leaking, it's him.
But that makes him the last loose end.
After me, he's the most direct
connection to the network.
'Cause he knows too much.
This Engineer, what's his name?
I don't know.
Then what good are you?
Uh, w-wait, wait, wait.
When he, when he made his, uh, silencer,
he bought a 55-gallon drum
as an agitator to, uh
- Shit, how did he put it?
- (FINGERS SNAP)
To anodize the aluminum.
Make it as quiet as possible. (CHUCKLES)
There's not a lot of
guys in the District
that can do that, right?
If what you're saying
gets us to this Engineer,
then perhaps God
and the justice system
will take pity on you.
But if this is another smoke screen,
God himself cannot save you.
Is anodized aluminum a thing?
Oh, it's a thing.
And based on that size, he's right.
Not a lot of people could do it.
You think we're still in
a race with the network?
Yeah, I do. Why?
I think, for the first
time, we're in the lead.
I'm being set up.
I believe you.
We just had a break in the case.
Look, somebody somebody skilled
bought a cell phone
using your credit card,
had it shipped here, intercepted
it before you could get it.
He calls himself "the Engineer".
Can you think of anybody like that?
"Engineer"?
No. God, you don't work
here if you're an engineer.
Okay.
Well, you're-you're free to go.
- Monica, I am so sorry.
- (GROANS)
(DOOR OPENS, CLOSES)
Monica's worked here longer than I have.
She has two kids.
How could I ever think
that she would do this?
Can you think of anyone
who would want to frame her?
No. I mean, you were there. You saw it.
Everyone else checked out.
- Tell me you have another way to catch this guy.
- (PHONE CHIMES)
We do, actually.
Please tell me I don't have to
accuse anyone else on my staff.
No, but my team has to try
and convince the Internet
that someone who's still
alive is actually dead.
Who?
This guy. Kyle Mackey.
(TYPING RAPIDLY)
♪
- Hey.
- What's all this?
The survivors from
the Tate Andrews case.
If the Disciple takes the
bait that Kyle is dead,
then, yeah, he should
head for the Engineer.
But just to be safe,
we're gathering them here
and we're staking out their homes.
Seriously? That's eight
simultaneous stakeouts.
That's-that's a hell
of a lot of resources.
Emily called in a lot of favors.
Where are we with the Engineer?
LEWIS: There are a handful
of industrial plants
with anodizers that big,
but like you thought,
only one was purchased by a civilian.
A guy by the name of John Peters.
Delivered to his home in
Manassas three months ago.
That is right next to last
night's victims, the Wolners.
Of course it is.
They've been putting the pieces in place
for Project Checkmate for months.
We're in the process
of getting a warrant.
Judge Robinson is being a
pain about probable cause.
- Push.
- I am.
We have Alvez and Tyler patched in.
Guys, you copy?
GREEN: Copy.
We're here.
Okay, we can't breach for an arrest,
but if the Disciple
comes for Peters, move in.
Should be easy to spot.
Especially if the Disciple
loves that stupid mask
as much as the network does.
Anything?
- Lights haven't even come on.
- Where are we with the warrant?
We're working on it.
This place is dead.
Hey, are we sure we
have the right address?
(EXHALES) We got fucked.
Yeah, but who's doing the fucking?
We have a problem.
The property is registered
to a John Peters,
but he lives in Miami.
He hasn't been inside
that house for five years.
PRENTISS: What did I tell you?
You lied to us, Kyle.
There's no Engineer.
- There's nothing.
- There is.
I swear to God, there is.
He laughed about it.
About how he lived right
outside your zip code
and you didn't even know.
Oh, God.
ROSSI: What? What? Hey.
- Oh, no.
- Whoa, whoa, whoa, hey, hey, hey.
- No, no, no.
- Talk to me. What is it? What is it?
In our decades of experience,
when have we ever had as
many unsubs this close to us?
What do you mean?
PRENTISS: Franklin Fowler,
Clyde Smets, Kyle Mackey,
Bob Kinney, Tara's shooter.
We've been so busy chasing them,
we haven't stopped to
ask the obvious question.
Why are they in our backyard?
This is how they checkmate us.
They split us in eight directions.
Stretch us so thin we
can't respond in time
for their final move.
But what's the final move?
Who did we leave exposed?
Voit.
♪
(CLEARS THROAT)
After everything we've done for you,
I have done for you
- Look, can I just explain?
- No.
No, you cannot.
You are going to listen.
Elias, I defended you.
I justified you.
I protected you.
And still, you don't (SIGHS)
Whose phone was it?
I don't know.
I just found it on the nurses station,
- and I thought
- Of course you did.
Of course you did, because
that is who you are.
You know, you may not be a psychopath,
but you're not a good person either.
Tomorrow morning, I'm
putting in for a transfer.
- Wait, no, no. Where are you going?
- Oh. (SCOFFS)
I'm staying here.
You are being transferred
back to minimum security.
Goodbye.
(MUFFLED SHOUT) Elias!
- Get the fuck off of me!
- (SHUSHING)
- Just stop talking. Stop fucking talking.
- Elias!
Let go of me!
We're in trouble,
okay? Something's wrong.
How do you know that?
Because it only gets this quiet
when I'm about to kill someone.
(SILENCED GUNSHOTS)
(SILENCED GUNSHOTS)
(OCHOA WHIMPERING)
OFFICER: All teams take positions.
Possible active shooter,
Melgren Medical Center.
♪
(GASPS)
♪
JJ: Clear.
PRENTISS: This is SSA Prentiss.
We need immediate
backup at Melgren Medical
due to a mass shooting.
Gunman is at large.
I repeat, we need backup
for a gunman on the loose.
DISPATCHER: SSA, we copy.
Medical and backup is en route.
Is Voit ?
He's not here.
♪