Criminal Minds s12e07 Episode Script
Mirror Image
[Groaning.]
Gabriel? You're gonna be ok.
JJ, we found him.
What do you have on your end? No, no, no.
Don't look at that.
Look at me.
Keep your eyes on me right here, right here.
[Inaudible whispering.]
[Grunting.]
Stop, stop that.
Stop.
It's engaging! Stop.
No, no, no, no, no! [Knock on door.]
I come bearing office-warming gifts.
Oh, that is so nice.
Thank you.
So, how's it going? Weird.
Yeah? It started with the I'm gonna hurl first day jitters, but now there's this.
I was able to increase the budget to hire a new agent.
That's great.
Yeah.
Anyway, what's up? I was just checking to see if we had a case.
We don't.
We don't? No.
I can double-check, but Uh, Garcia.
Ma'am.
Please stop calling me ma'am.
Uh, we haven't been called in anywhere, have we? No.
As of 9:27 Eastern Standard Time, all serial killers have taken the day off.
Maybe they went to therapy.
Frankly, I could use the time to review these resumes.
Well, if we're good here, I need to take the day off-campus.
Is that a problem? No, not at all.
Thanks.
Is she Don't.
She has sworn me to secrecy.
Ok.
Fair enough.
Never mind.
All right! Twist my arm.
I'll tell you.
Follow me.
Let's face it.
We don't really know much about Dr.
Tara Lewis.
We know she's an army brat who was raised all over the world.
I know, because she told me yesterday, that her mother died of breast cancer when she was in college, and then her dad was honorably discharged, and he started an auto repair shop in D.
C.
But what I just learned is that her most complicated family relationship is with this guy.
Gabriel, her younger brother, every bit as smart as Tara.
He got a 1,600 on his SATs, and he didn't go to Yale, despite having a free ride.
Huh.
Instead, he got involved in a bunch of get-rich-quick schemes bordering on fraud.
Apparently Tara, after bailing him out of bankruptcy, said, look, Gabriel, this cannot happen again.
And then he turned his back on her.
Scandal? Enter, or rather re-enter, the father.
He's distraught that his children are feuding.
He want them to patch things up so they can be a family again, and, today, Gabriel is flying in.
Him and Tara have agreed to meet at a coffee shop.
They're going to swallow their pride and maybe, just maybe, they will put the past behind them.
Sweet, right? Yeah, it's really No, it's terrible, because what if he asks for money? What if she can't say no? What if she gets caught up in his whirlwind of manipulation? Did she put it that way? No, I did.
But I can't help but be super vigilant when it comes to people I love, and I'll go through all the worst-case scenarios.
I'm vigilant myself.
What's going on? It's Gabriel.
Oh.
How did how come you guys know about Uh, she told us about him when she first joined the team.
He flew in this morning, probably looking for money.
Hey.
Is there a case? What's Tara's brother's picture doing up? Prentiss: Well, he's in town.
He must want money.
Come on, the new guy? He knows? How come I was the last one to know? It was an experiment.
She wanted to time how long you could keep a private conversation private.
And you made it 12 hours.
Damn.
I had you down for 6.
Ok, you know what? You guys, I thought you were my friends.
But you suck.
You all suck.
Especially you, new guy.
But then you always suck.
Newbie.
I had 14 hours.
I think I win, right? Uh, who had 11? Oh, I did.
Ahh.
Ha ha.
There she is.
Uh, excuse me? How you doin', girl? You haven't changed a bit.
Now, how does that work? Do you get younger every time you add more initials to the Lewis family name? You've got PhD, FBI, BAU.
This is, uh, this is embarrassing.
I you obviously know me, but I don't remember you.
You playin'? No.
Look, I came here because Dad asked me to come.
But if this this how you gonna Stop.
Stop right there.
I want you to get up from this table and I want you to walk out of here.
I don't know who you are, but I have a badge and a very, very short fuse.
Good seeing you, T.
Do not call me that.
The only person I let call me that is Give me your phone.
No.
Hell, no.
I'm not giving you my phone.
Give me your phone or I will arrest you and I will take it from you.
Jeez.
Who are you? Who am I? Tara, it's me, Gabriel.
Your brother.
Lewis: "A sibling may be the keeper of one's identity", "the only person with the keys to one's unfettered, more fundamental self.
" Marian Sandmaier.
Really? If this is your way of burying the hatchet, you got a funny way of showing it Tara.
We're running prints and DNA.
So far he's not in the system.
We can hold that man for 24 hours.
After that we need to either charge him or let him go.
Is Gabriel answering his phone? This is his phone.
His contacts, his emails.
Look at this.
He was in the Capitol Hill district.
And look at the time stamp.
He's been in my backyard a month and he hasn't told me.
Does your father know? Maybe.
I mean, I have to speak to him.
Albert Lewis body shop.
He's listed, right? I'll bring him in.
Ok, process that and break it down.
Aye aye.
Just why would Gabriel send a stranger to meet me and pretend it's him? It makes no sense.
Maybe he's scared, or maybe it's another one of his scams, but Tara, let's talk.
Um, what is this? Am I in trouble? Just the opposite.
If someone's messing with you, they're messing with all of us.
And it's happening directly on the heels of Hotch entering the WITSEC program.
We have to be hyper vigilant.
I agree.
I'd like to start by questioning the suspect.
No.
Look, if this is because I'm too close to the case We need to treat the man you just brought in as an unsub posing as your brother.
What would interrogation strategy call for at this point? Uh, get him frustrated.
Force a mistake by denying him what he wants.
And what does he want? Me.
So you can't go in.
So, who are we gonna send in instead of you? Good afternoon.
I'm Jennifer Jareau with the Behavioral Analysis Unit of the FBI.
Tara told me you were cool.
JJ: All right.
And you are? Gabriel, her brother.
Could I get your full name and social, please? Gabriel Anthony Lewis.
989-42-7001.
That is Tara's brother.
See the problem here? What? It's a driver's license photo.
They asked me not to smile.
No hesitation.
No upspeak.
He maintains eye contact.
Whoever this guy is, he's good.
Let's see how he does at double jeopardy.
Where were you born? Army base, Fort Rucker.
Right.
In, uh, Georgia? No.
Alabama.
With stops in Okinawa and Hamburg? Other way around.
Hamburg first.
What did you major in at Yale? I didn't.
What is going on here? Why are you the only one that gets to call her T.
? [Scoffs.]
We're going there, huh? Her name is spelled T-A-R-A.
It was my father's grandmother's name.
You know what else is spelled T-A-R-A? [Different pronunciation.]
Tara.
The plantation in "Gone with the Wind.
" Some movie most black folks aren't crazy about.
So my mom and dad, they drilled it into her, it's Tar-a, Tar-a, Tar-a.
And every time we went to a new school, which was every time my dad got re-stationed, she had to make sure our classmates got it right.
- You feel me? - Yeah, I do.
Good.
So while we're in Hamburg, this kid starts following her around and he starts saying, [sing song.]
Terra, Terra, Terra, Terra.
Now, he never seen Vivien Leigh or Clark Gable or "I don't know nothin' about birthin' no babies.
" He just knew that he was getting underneath her skin.
And my sister said Go on.
What did she say? What happened next is our secret.
Mine and hers.
I wouldn't tell the rest just to anybody.
My sister knows that.
All that matters for this little back and forth, which I'm guessing she put you up to is afterward I started calling her T To show her that I was always on her side.
Even now, T.
Even now.
Reid's back with your father.
Tara.
Hey, Dad.
You knew Gabriel was in the District? Yes.
Why didn't you tell me? Because I was afraid you wouldn't even sit down for coffee if you knew why your brother was here.
Why is he here? He got a new job.
He's a lobbyist.
A lobbyist? What lobby would hire Gabriel? A group that's pursuing a constitutional amendment to legalize online gambling in all 50 states.
Oh, my god.
No, no, no, no.
Online gambling sounds bad.
It's all those sport leagues that everyone's joining these days.
Look, if Gabriel and his partner gets this passed, they'll be on the ground floor of An amazing business opportunity? Do you know who the partner is? No.
I haven't met him.
But he sounds nice.
He's letting your brother stay at his place.
I'm gonna need a name and an address.
Ok, here's what I can tell you about Carl Brubaker.
He does in fact live in the city, and the GPS on Gabriel's phone has been consistently there for the last month.
So he had been staying with him like my father said.
Maybe he still is but our unsub got ahold of his phone somehow.
With my brother it's never that simple.
Something else is going on.
Guys, we're being set up.
Alvez: What do you mean, Reid? The face in the driver's license photo displays perfect facial symmetry, I mean perfect, beyond what the human genome can produce.
The picture's a computer-generated forgery.
Who would hack into the DMV and plant a fake Alvez, step on it.
[Siren.]
FBI! Anybody here? Luke! That's Gabriel.
Gabriel, where are you?! Luke! Luke! Luke! Luke! Luke! Luke! It's on a loop.
Luke! Luke! [Muffled.]
Luke! Luke! Luke! Luke! Luke can't help you now.
[Screaming.]
Luke! [Laughing.]
Aah! Mr.
Scratch has my brother.
I've placed protective details on Hayden and Joy and Will and the boys.
We need to assume that Mr.
Scratch is targeting this entire team.
You know, that could be why he had Gabriel screaming out my name.
He wants us to know that he knows I'm part of the BAU now.
Isn't his M.
O.
to drug his victims and make them hallucinate? Then he evolved.
He's taking these victims with multiple personalities and brainwashing them with someone else's memories.
So he took Tara's brother and did God knows what to get him to spill his life story, and then he planted those memories in the guy downstairs.
The more memories he has, the stronger the identity he can create.
He must have put Gabriel's whole life inside of Desmond.
Well, the good news is we have a list from before.
Patients with disassociative identity disorder Scratch might target next.
Ok, cross-reference those against missing persons.
The rest of us need to figure out how to deprogram the unsub safely.
He's still our best lead to Scratch and Gabriel.
It's the pictures that are baffling.
Scratch left them out specifically to call our attention to them.
He's a math genius.
He likes us to solve his puzzles, which usually tend to lead to bigger traps.
But it's the configuration that's strange.
The pictures are obviously of Gabriel at different ages, but normally one would arrange them in chronological or reverse chronological order.
15, 11, and 32 is a pattern that he wants us to see.
Not us.
Tara.
It's a pattern he wants her to see.
Uh, yes.
I remember this.
His 32nd birthday party.
Ah.
His sixth grade graduation.
He made the Honor Roll that year.
Yeah.
He did every year.
Huh.
This one I don't remember.
Yeah.
Neither do I.
That was, uh That was when your mother died.
That part of my life is a blur.
What'd he do this time? Um Dad, it's worse than that.
Gabriel's been kidnapped, by someone my team has been hunting.
What, someone dangerous? Yes.
Is my son dead? Honestly, Dad, I don't know.
I tried.
I really, really, tried.
But the two of you were just, you were just so different.
You I never had to worry about you.
But your brother Your brother, he He needed something different.
Something I That I just couldn't give him.
I Daddy, you did your best.
Now it's my turn.
Reid: Pause the video.
Zoom in on the wrist, Garcia.
That rope, it's called shibari.
It's an intricate form of BDSM bondage.
The last time Mr.
Scratch needed BDSM gear, he used a fake name.
My name, actually.
My name, actually, to buy it.
Well, maybe he did the same thing with Carl Brubaker.
It could give us another location Scratch is hiding at.
Garcia, can you run financials? Yes, I will.
And my search of possible D.
I.
D.
patients/ potential victims is going to give us a much needed break.
[Beep.]
I know that name.
Here's the good news.
I've confirmed that this man is Desmond Holt.
He was diagnosed with dissociative identity disorder after his mother died and his stepfather started to make him play Russian roulette regularly.
That's the good news? Oh, yeah, because the bad news is I got a video from Desmond's therapist, Dr.
Lawrence, who was very concerned when Desmond went missing.
This is why.
Dr.
Lawrence: Desmond.
Desmond.
Desmond, I need you to come back to me.
Desmond, please.
She tried to get Desmond to recognize his other identities, he went into a disassociative break for 6 months.
So if we get Desmond to see he's not Tara's brother, we could end up doing the same thing? Oh, Dr.
Lawrence is surprised we haven't already.
You know the plan where we don't give the unsub what he wants? Yep.
New plan.
We give him everything he wants.
You're not to mention Desmond Holt, Franklin, Tennessee, multiple personalities, or Mr.
Scratch.
Got it.
You have to treat him like he's your brother.
Considering the hostility and dismissal we've subjected him to, it's a small miracle he's not drooling yet.
Not really.
When it comes to my brother, hostility and dismissal are my specialty.
I guess you're pretty angry, huh? Angry? I came here thinking I was gonna have a chance to make things better with my sister, but instead, she had me arrested.
Why would I be mad over a little thing like that? I know this is all confusing, but I need some answers.
Ok, these photographs.
I recognize these two, but not this one.
I need your help.
I've been screaming for you for hours.
When you finally come here, you treat me like always.
- Ok.
- Don't just dismiss it, T.
This is the way it always is.
But The thing I really didn't appreciate was was that game in the coffee shop.
Not even showing me the courtesy of recognizing me.
Well, there were reasons.
No, I don't care! I don't care what your reason is.
That's petty, T.
That's low.
Can't you even ask me how I've been? How have you been? Oh! Great! Sooo good.
Seriously.
Because in the hours that I've been locked up in here I've had the time to think about my rights.
Specifically that you have to either charge me or let me go.
But I say to myself, hell, let me give her the benefit of the doubt.
Give her a chance to come up in here and say, Gabriel, my baby brother, I'm so sorry that I went psycho on you.
I've let the whole wrongful arrest thing go for Dad's sake.
But you didn't.
Because you can't, can you? [Line ringing.]
Luke, I need you to do something.
Hey, Gabriel.
How you doing, man? Why? It's Luke Alvez.
I work with your sister.
She must have mentioned me.
No.
Are you sure? Yeah, I'm positive.
You are and always will be a stupid jerk.
That's what I said to that kid, Martin Gumbel, that little jackass who made fun of me in Germany.
He responded by drawing a swastika on my locker.
So you told on him and then his friends beat you up.
You always looked out for me, even as a little kid.
I never told you how much that meant to me.
Gabriel, you're my baby brother.
I am sorry I went psycho on you.
And I need you to stay.
Well, if you mean it Put some skin in the game.
Ha ha! Ok.
That means before I help you I get to ask you for anything I want.
I know what it means.
Good.
'Cause I want Dad.
No.
Yeah, no, I want him to be there when I explain that picture to you.
This has nothing to do with him.
I'm sorry, that's not for you to decide.
You put skin in the game.
Go get him.
Ha! Dad We might have a lead.
But I need you to do something, and it's not gonna be easy.
When I got to the coffee shop this morning, a man sat down across from me.
A man I didn't recognize.
Dad It wasn't Gabriel.
So from what Spence and I dug up, Scratch used his fake identity to buy a shibari rope from this couple.
They own a batik sex shop.
In addition to the rope, he also made a very expensive purchase that was listed only as "other.
" Shop's probably closed by now.
We do have their home address.
We have to hurry.
Scratch likes mind games, and right now he's putting Tara through hell.
Do I have to do this? No.
But we'll have a better chance of finding your brother if I do.
[Takes deep breath.]
Then I'm ready.
No, you're not.
I've been trained for this, Dad.
You haven't.
So the best thing you can do in there is to not say anything.
Ok? Ok.
[Exhales.]
Oh, Dad.
Hallelujah.
Can you talk some sense into my sister, please? Oh.
Oh.
Oh.
Maybe we should call aunt Thelma in while we're at it.
Maybe she can turn her back on me, too.
You asked for us both, Gabriel.
Here we are.
What is this? I was 15 here.
You were what? I was 18.
What was going on at 18? I was at Dartmouth.
Uh, I had to come home that spring for Mom's funeral.
And how was I during that time? You didn't talk much, but I could tell that you were hurting.
So, I convinced Dad to let me have you over family weekend.
He had two rules.
What were they? I couldn't get you drunk.
And, um Go ahead, Dad.
You remember.
I made you promise to take Gabriel to church.
I wanted the two of you to pray for your mother's soul.
That was the most boring pastor, ever, man.
Can we please get breakfast now? Let me take a picture for Dad.
[Sing-song.]
Name a type of cheese.
[Sing-song.]
Swiss.
I remember it now.
But why is this so significant to you? It's the last time I felt normal.
Isn't that right, Dad? Ok, Dad, let's go outside.
No.
No.
You wanted my help.
You want us to be a family again.
Let's do 'em both.
The 3 of us.
Mom, Dad! Mom and Dad: Don't come in! Someone was at the door, so I let them in.
Mom: Honey, you know we talked about this.
You said it was ok if it was the police, and it's the FBI.
FBI?! What's the FBI doing here?! I have no idea.
I'm slipping.
I'm slipping! Aah! [Thud.]
Hannah, you know what? We can take it from here.
Ok.
Just so you know, sometimes it takes him a while to untie her.
Can I offer you anything to drink? No, thank you.
We're good.
Yes, I made equipment for Carl Brubaker, we talked on the phone, but we never met face to face.
Do you have an address? Just a P.
O.
box.
We needed to make sure they could handle a delivery of that size.
And what did you make for him? It was a vise connected to a pressure plate, which was in turn built around a chair.
If you moved the weight off the pressure plate, the vise would squeeze.
If you take the weight off, how tightly would it squeeze? Tight enough to cut off blood flow.
Or oxygen? Yes, or oxygen.
What do you mean, it was the last time you felt normal? Because I was a victim, of the soft bigotry of low expectations.
Come on, Gabriel.
You had a full ride to college and you didn't take it.
What was it you said to me? "Oh, I don't know, T.
What if it's too hard?" [Laughs.]
Yeah, that's what I said.
Isn't it? Do not look to him.
He's not responsible for your choices.
Choices? Oh, wow.
That's a good one.
That's [Laughs.]
So funny.
Uh, you ever hear of a brand of wine called Leonte Chianti? No.
Of course you haven't.
That's because it's cheap.
It's a step below Two-Buck Chuck.
But, uh, it's perfect for drowning your sorrows.
Blaming alcohol now? No, not in the way you think.
But if you or I ever had a glass of Leonte, we'd probably have to fight our gag reflexes.
But, um, let's just say you were drinking to forget, I don't know, uh, how about the, uh The death of your wife? It'd be perfect then.
"This is my rifle, this is my gun! This one's for killing, this one's for fun!" Yeah, that's what he'd say, as he marched around the house, loaded shotgun in one hand.
After about 3 or 4 bottles I gently coaxed it away from him.
Is this true? I remember the wine.
[Sighs.]
That's why you didn't go to Yale.
Why wouldn't you tell me that, Gabriel? So why didn't I tell her? I ordered him not to.
Your mother and I, you were our dream, and we couldn't let anyone stand in the way of what you could be.
Hence, the soft bigotry of low expectations.
Not from society From your own family.
Now, you better go after him.
Here's the thing about brainwashing.
It's actually a myth.
You go back to MKUltra and the CIA dosing people with LSD and "the Manchurian candidate," never worked.
Scratch cracked the code with his drugs and his patients with multiple personalities.
That's true, but I keep going back to the video that Garcia got.
Now, this Desmond guy is supposed to be super delicate.
One wrong word and he goes into a stupor.
That's not what we're seeing.
Desmond Holt is dug in.
You can watch the real Gabriel in here right now and Desmond's going to insist that he's Tara's brother.
I think the only way Scratch could have gotten him to that point is if there was overlap somehow.
Emotional overlap, psychological overlap.
If we can find that overlap, we might be able to deprogram Desmond.
All right.
What do they share? Hatred.
For the father figure in their lives.
Desmond played Russian roulette with his stepfather, and Gabriel Well, yeah, it's not the same thing, but it's close.
So what else? When Mom died, they were all alone, and he needed a protector.
"Luke can't save you now.
" That's what Scratch said.
I mean, we knew Scratch would be baiting us.
That name, it should have copied over.
When I stopped him at the elevator, he didn't even know who I was.
Are there any other Lukes in his life? Not that I can You gotta be kidding me.
What do you see? This whole time I thought Luke and these pictures were separate clues.
They're not.
They're the same clue.
This is the pattern that Scratch wanted us to see.
Luke, 15, 11, 32.
The Gospel of Luke, chapter 15, verses 11 through 32.
I know exactly what this is.
That morning, after we got back from church, you complained about how boring it was.
And then I took this.
[Sing-song.]
Swiss.
You know the part of church I liked? The Bible story.
You know, the one about the older sibling who griped to Dad because the younger brother was such a screw-up.
Whew! Boy, could I relate.
But that wasn't the end, was it? The parable of the prodigal son from the Gospel of Luke.
You remember it? I never forgot.
That's why you kept this photo for 20 years.
Because you look at the two of us on paper and it's easy to make assumptions I am the successful one.
I'm the one who got the degree, the career that Dad could brag about, but I also never looked back.
And when you opted out of college, I never thought it was because you were the one who had to stay home and do the hard work.
Like the older son in that parable.
Gabriel, you're not You're not the prodigal.
I am.
Was it scary? Mom gone, just you and your stepdad and that gun? Yeah.
I am so sorry that happened to you, Desmond.
What? So sorry.
[Exhales.]
No.
Look at me.
Stay with me, Desmond.
Stay with me.
Please, stay with me.
[Grunting, muttering.]
Desmond.
My name is Tara Lewis.
Yeah.
Yeah.
[Indistinct.]
[Sobbing.]
I know.
I'm sorry.
I'm sorry.
I did things.
I did them.
Uh, you Tara? I did things 'cause he told me to.
So, that's why I did it.
What about Gabriel? Did you see Gabriel? Yeah, I saw him.
He Is is he alive? Mm-hmm.
[Grunts.]
I saw him.
We were all in a warehouse.
Um, the address is 22 23 Seventh street.
He made me memorize it so I could drive back, 'cause he needed me to get something for him.
It was important and he needed it.
Ok, Desmond, listen, I have to go, but there are people here who will take care of you.
No! No.
He gave me explicit instructions where to find it.
The spare key for the house, underneath the gnome.
Your picture and Gabriel's picture on the wall And I think your mom.
My father's house? He told me to get him a box, so I got it for him.
When I gave him the box, he said Maybe this is for killing and for fun.
And for fun.
[Echoing.]
Killing Killing [Laughing.]
And for fun, and for fun, and for fun.
He's gonna kill Gabriel with my father's gun.
I'll coordinate from here.
GW emergency's on alert.
The director wants a report if you catch Scratch dead or alive.
Will do.
It's something bad, isn't it? Something you're not telling me.
Dad, I have to go.
Tara Elizabeth Whatever it is, you can tell me.
I can take it.
Because, uh It's all my fault.
This is no one's fault.
Thank you.
I don't know about the rest of you, but I'm getting tired of losing to this rat-faced son of a bitch.
He's not gonna take anyone else away from us, not on my watch.
Am I clear? Hoo-ah.
[Elevator doors open.]
Let's go to work.
Clear! Wait, hold up.
That doesn't belong.
Lewis, Alvez, second floor.
Reid, JJ, open that up, but don't disable anything until you get my go-ahead.
Gabriel? You're gonna be ok.
All right? JJ, we found him.
What do you have on your end? We found a power source.
If we cut the right wire, it should shut down the vise.
No.
No, no, no, no, no.
Don't look at that.
Look at me.
Keep your eyes on me.
Right here.
Right here.
This rope is heavy.
Just removing it will shift the weight differential and fire the gun.
JJ, what have you got? We may have something.
Hang on.
We're gonna get out out of this, ok? We're gonna find a way.
No, no.
Don't move.
Don't move.
Stop.
Stop! These aren't fuses, they're shotgun shells.
No, no, no, no, no.
Don't move, don't move.
Stop.
Stop, stop, stop, stop, stop.
Stop.
It's engaging! No, no, no, hold it! Stop! [Click.]
It's a decoy.
The shotgun isn't loaded.
[Breathing hard.]
Ohh Ok.
Wait a minute.
Why would Scratch stage this? It's not in his profile, unless he's leading us into a bigger trap.
Reid, JJ, look for another trigger.
Reid, what is Exodus, chapter 8, verse 24? It's one of the plagues of Moses.
"And the Lord did this.
Dense swarms of flies "poured into Pharaoh's palace.
Throughout Egypt the land was ruined by the flies.
" It's above us! There's a redundance switch somewhere.
It's going off.
We can interrupt it if we bypass the correct fuse.
Get this off me.
I believe All right, this will only delay the trigger for a few seconds.
All right, go, go, go, go go! Get him off of there! Go! Go, go, go! Ohh [Breathing hard.]
Is everyone ok? Is anyone hurt? Good.
Hey, T.
Gabriel.
Dad.
Lewis: "The father said, you are always with me", "and everything I have is yours.
"But we had to celebrate and be glad, "because this brother of yours was dead and is alive again.
He was lost and is found.
" The Gospel of Luke.
Gabriel? You're gonna be ok.
JJ, we found him.
What do you have on your end? No, no, no.
Don't look at that.
Look at me.
Keep your eyes on me right here, right here.
[Inaudible whispering.]
[Grunting.]
Stop, stop that.
Stop.
It's engaging! Stop.
No, no, no, no, no! [Knock on door.]
I come bearing office-warming gifts.
Oh, that is so nice.
Thank you.
So, how's it going? Weird.
Yeah? It started with the I'm gonna hurl first day jitters, but now there's this.
I was able to increase the budget to hire a new agent.
That's great.
Yeah.
Anyway, what's up? I was just checking to see if we had a case.
We don't.
We don't? No.
I can double-check, but Uh, Garcia.
Ma'am.
Please stop calling me ma'am.
Uh, we haven't been called in anywhere, have we? No.
As of 9:27 Eastern Standard Time, all serial killers have taken the day off.
Maybe they went to therapy.
Frankly, I could use the time to review these resumes.
Well, if we're good here, I need to take the day off-campus.
Is that a problem? No, not at all.
Thanks.
Is she Don't.
She has sworn me to secrecy.
Ok.
Fair enough.
Never mind.
All right! Twist my arm.
I'll tell you.
Follow me.
Let's face it.
We don't really know much about Dr.
Tara Lewis.
We know she's an army brat who was raised all over the world.
I know, because she told me yesterday, that her mother died of breast cancer when she was in college, and then her dad was honorably discharged, and he started an auto repair shop in D.
C.
But what I just learned is that her most complicated family relationship is with this guy.
Gabriel, her younger brother, every bit as smart as Tara.
He got a 1,600 on his SATs, and he didn't go to Yale, despite having a free ride.
Huh.
Instead, he got involved in a bunch of get-rich-quick schemes bordering on fraud.
Apparently Tara, after bailing him out of bankruptcy, said, look, Gabriel, this cannot happen again.
And then he turned his back on her.
Scandal? Enter, or rather re-enter, the father.
He's distraught that his children are feuding.
He want them to patch things up so they can be a family again, and, today, Gabriel is flying in.
Him and Tara have agreed to meet at a coffee shop.
They're going to swallow their pride and maybe, just maybe, they will put the past behind them.
Sweet, right? Yeah, it's really No, it's terrible, because what if he asks for money? What if she can't say no? What if she gets caught up in his whirlwind of manipulation? Did she put it that way? No, I did.
But I can't help but be super vigilant when it comes to people I love, and I'll go through all the worst-case scenarios.
I'm vigilant myself.
What's going on? It's Gabriel.
Oh.
How did how come you guys know about Uh, she told us about him when she first joined the team.
He flew in this morning, probably looking for money.
Hey.
Is there a case? What's Tara's brother's picture doing up? Prentiss: Well, he's in town.
He must want money.
Come on, the new guy? He knows? How come I was the last one to know? It was an experiment.
She wanted to time how long you could keep a private conversation private.
And you made it 12 hours.
Damn.
I had you down for 6.
Ok, you know what? You guys, I thought you were my friends.
But you suck.
You all suck.
Especially you, new guy.
But then you always suck.
Newbie.
I had 14 hours.
I think I win, right? Uh, who had 11? Oh, I did.
Ahh.
Ha ha.
There she is.
Uh, excuse me? How you doin', girl? You haven't changed a bit.
Now, how does that work? Do you get younger every time you add more initials to the Lewis family name? You've got PhD, FBI, BAU.
This is, uh, this is embarrassing.
I you obviously know me, but I don't remember you.
You playin'? No.
Look, I came here because Dad asked me to come.
But if this this how you gonna Stop.
Stop right there.
I want you to get up from this table and I want you to walk out of here.
I don't know who you are, but I have a badge and a very, very short fuse.
Good seeing you, T.
Do not call me that.
The only person I let call me that is Give me your phone.
No.
Hell, no.
I'm not giving you my phone.
Give me your phone or I will arrest you and I will take it from you.
Jeez.
Who are you? Who am I? Tara, it's me, Gabriel.
Your brother.
Lewis: "A sibling may be the keeper of one's identity", "the only person with the keys to one's unfettered, more fundamental self.
" Marian Sandmaier.
Really? If this is your way of burying the hatchet, you got a funny way of showing it Tara.
We're running prints and DNA.
So far he's not in the system.
We can hold that man for 24 hours.
After that we need to either charge him or let him go.
Is Gabriel answering his phone? This is his phone.
His contacts, his emails.
Look at this.
He was in the Capitol Hill district.
And look at the time stamp.
He's been in my backyard a month and he hasn't told me.
Does your father know? Maybe.
I mean, I have to speak to him.
Albert Lewis body shop.
He's listed, right? I'll bring him in.
Ok, process that and break it down.
Aye aye.
Just why would Gabriel send a stranger to meet me and pretend it's him? It makes no sense.
Maybe he's scared, or maybe it's another one of his scams, but Tara, let's talk.
Um, what is this? Am I in trouble? Just the opposite.
If someone's messing with you, they're messing with all of us.
And it's happening directly on the heels of Hotch entering the WITSEC program.
We have to be hyper vigilant.
I agree.
I'd like to start by questioning the suspect.
No.
Look, if this is because I'm too close to the case We need to treat the man you just brought in as an unsub posing as your brother.
What would interrogation strategy call for at this point? Uh, get him frustrated.
Force a mistake by denying him what he wants.
And what does he want? Me.
So you can't go in.
So, who are we gonna send in instead of you? Good afternoon.
I'm Jennifer Jareau with the Behavioral Analysis Unit of the FBI.
Tara told me you were cool.
JJ: All right.
And you are? Gabriel, her brother.
Could I get your full name and social, please? Gabriel Anthony Lewis.
989-42-7001.
That is Tara's brother.
See the problem here? What? It's a driver's license photo.
They asked me not to smile.
No hesitation.
No upspeak.
He maintains eye contact.
Whoever this guy is, he's good.
Let's see how he does at double jeopardy.
Where were you born? Army base, Fort Rucker.
Right.
In, uh, Georgia? No.
Alabama.
With stops in Okinawa and Hamburg? Other way around.
Hamburg first.
What did you major in at Yale? I didn't.
What is going on here? Why are you the only one that gets to call her T.
? [Scoffs.]
We're going there, huh? Her name is spelled T-A-R-A.
It was my father's grandmother's name.
You know what else is spelled T-A-R-A? [Different pronunciation.]
Tara.
The plantation in "Gone with the Wind.
" Some movie most black folks aren't crazy about.
So my mom and dad, they drilled it into her, it's Tar-a, Tar-a, Tar-a.
And every time we went to a new school, which was every time my dad got re-stationed, she had to make sure our classmates got it right.
- You feel me? - Yeah, I do.
Good.
So while we're in Hamburg, this kid starts following her around and he starts saying, [sing song.]
Terra, Terra, Terra, Terra.
Now, he never seen Vivien Leigh or Clark Gable or "I don't know nothin' about birthin' no babies.
" He just knew that he was getting underneath her skin.
And my sister said Go on.
What did she say? What happened next is our secret.
Mine and hers.
I wouldn't tell the rest just to anybody.
My sister knows that.
All that matters for this little back and forth, which I'm guessing she put you up to is afterward I started calling her T To show her that I was always on her side.
Even now, T.
Even now.
Reid's back with your father.
Tara.
Hey, Dad.
You knew Gabriel was in the District? Yes.
Why didn't you tell me? Because I was afraid you wouldn't even sit down for coffee if you knew why your brother was here.
Why is he here? He got a new job.
He's a lobbyist.
A lobbyist? What lobby would hire Gabriel? A group that's pursuing a constitutional amendment to legalize online gambling in all 50 states.
Oh, my god.
No, no, no, no.
Online gambling sounds bad.
It's all those sport leagues that everyone's joining these days.
Look, if Gabriel and his partner gets this passed, they'll be on the ground floor of An amazing business opportunity? Do you know who the partner is? No.
I haven't met him.
But he sounds nice.
He's letting your brother stay at his place.
I'm gonna need a name and an address.
Ok, here's what I can tell you about Carl Brubaker.
He does in fact live in the city, and the GPS on Gabriel's phone has been consistently there for the last month.
So he had been staying with him like my father said.
Maybe he still is but our unsub got ahold of his phone somehow.
With my brother it's never that simple.
Something else is going on.
Guys, we're being set up.
Alvez: What do you mean, Reid? The face in the driver's license photo displays perfect facial symmetry, I mean perfect, beyond what the human genome can produce.
The picture's a computer-generated forgery.
Who would hack into the DMV and plant a fake Alvez, step on it.
[Siren.]
FBI! Anybody here? Luke! That's Gabriel.
Gabriel, where are you?! Luke! Luke! Luke! Luke! Luke! Luke! It's on a loop.
Luke! Luke! [Muffled.]
Luke! Luke! Luke! Luke! Luke can't help you now.
[Screaming.]
Luke! [Laughing.]
Aah! Mr.
Scratch has my brother.
I've placed protective details on Hayden and Joy and Will and the boys.
We need to assume that Mr.
Scratch is targeting this entire team.
You know, that could be why he had Gabriel screaming out my name.
He wants us to know that he knows I'm part of the BAU now.
Isn't his M.
O.
to drug his victims and make them hallucinate? Then he evolved.
He's taking these victims with multiple personalities and brainwashing them with someone else's memories.
So he took Tara's brother and did God knows what to get him to spill his life story, and then he planted those memories in the guy downstairs.
The more memories he has, the stronger the identity he can create.
He must have put Gabriel's whole life inside of Desmond.
Well, the good news is we have a list from before.
Patients with disassociative identity disorder Scratch might target next.
Ok, cross-reference those against missing persons.
The rest of us need to figure out how to deprogram the unsub safely.
He's still our best lead to Scratch and Gabriel.
It's the pictures that are baffling.
Scratch left them out specifically to call our attention to them.
He's a math genius.
He likes us to solve his puzzles, which usually tend to lead to bigger traps.
But it's the configuration that's strange.
The pictures are obviously of Gabriel at different ages, but normally one would arrange them in chronological or reverse chronological order.
15, 11, and 32 is a pattern that he wants us to see.
Not us.
Tara.
It's a pattern he wants her to see.
Uh, yes.
I remember this.
His 32nd birthday party.
Ah.
His sixth grade graduation.
He made the Honor Roll that year.
Yeah.
He did every year.
Huh.
This one I don't remember.
Yeah.
Neither do I.
That was, uh That was when your mother died.
That part of my life is a blur.
What'd he do this time? Um Dad, it's worse than that.
Gabriel's been kidnapped, by someone my team has been hunting.
What, someone dangerous? Yes.
Is my son dead? Honestly, Dad, I don't know.
I tried.
I really, really, tried.
But the two of you were just, you were just so different.
You I never had to worry about you.
But your brother Your brother, he He needed something different.
Something I That I just couldn't give him.
I Daddy, you did your best.
Now it's my turn.
Reid: Pause the video.
Zoom in on the wrist, Garcia.
That rope, it's called shibari.
It's an intricate form of BDSM bondage.
The last time Mr.
Scratch needed BDSM gear, he used a fake name.
My name, actually.
My name, actually, to buy it.
Well, maybe he did the same thing with Carl Brubaker.
It could give us another location Scratch is hiding at.
Garcia, can you run financials? Yes, I will.
And my search of possible D.
I.
D.
patients/ potential victims is going to give us a much needed break.
[Beep.]
I know that name.
Here's the good news.
I've confirmed that this man is Desmond Holt.
He was diagnosed with dissociative identity disorder after his mother died and his stepfather started to make him play Russian roulette regularly.
That's the good news? Oh, yeah, because the bad news is I got a video from Desmond's therapist, Dr.
Lawrence, who was very concerned when Desmond went missing.
This is why.
Dr.
Lawrence: Desmond.
Desmond.
Desmond, I need you to come back to me.
Desmond, please.
She tried to get Desmond to recognize his other identities, he went into a disassociative break for 6 months.
So if we get Desmond to see he's not Tara's brother, we could end up doing the same thing? Oh, Dr.
Lawrence is surprised we haven't already.
You know the plan where we don't give the unsub what he wants? Yep.
New plan.
We give him everything he wants.
You're not to mention Desmond Holt, Franklin, Tennessee, multiple personalities, or Mr.
Scratch.
Got it.
You have to treat him like he's your brother.
Considering the hostility and dismissal we've subjected him to, it's a small miracle he's not drooling yet.
Not really.
When it comes to my brother, hostility and dismissal are my specialty.
I guess you're pretty angry, huh? Angry? I came here thinking I was gonna have a chance to make things better with my sister, but instead, she had me arrested.
Why would I be mad over a little thing like that? I know this is all confusing, but I need some answers.
Ok, these photographs.
I recognize these two, but not this one.
I need your help.
I've been screaming for you for hours.
When you finally come here, you treat me like always.
- Ok.
- Don't just dismiss it, T.
This is the way it always is.
But The thing I really didn't appreciate was was that game in the coffee shop.
Not even showing me the courtesy of recognizing me.
Well, there were reasons.
No, I don't care! I don't care what your reason is.
That's petty, T.
That's low.
Can't you even ask me how I've been? How have you been? Oh! Great! Sooo good.
Seriously.
Because in the hours that I've been locked up in here I've had the time to think about my rights.
Specifically that you have to either charge me or let me go.
But I say to myself, hell, let me give her the benefit of the doubt.
Give her a chance to come up in here and say, Gabriel, my baby brother, I'm so sorry that I went psycho on you.
I've let the whole wrongful arrest thing go for Dad's sake.
But you didn't.
Because you can't, can you? [Line ringing.]
Luke, I need you to do something.
Hey, Gabriel.
How you doing, man? Why? It's Luke Alvez.
I work with your sister.
She must have mentioned me.
No.
Are you sure? Yeah, I'm positive.
You are and always will be a stupid jerk.
That's what I said to that kid, Martin Gumbel, that little jackass who made fun of me in Germany.
He responded by drawing a swastika on my locker.
So you told on him and then his friends beat you up.
You always looked out for me, even as a little kid.
I never told you how much that meant to me.
Gabriel, you're my baby brother.
I am sorry I went psycho on you.
And I need you to stay.
Well, if you mean it Put some skin in the game.
Ha ha! Ok.
That means before I help you I get to ask you for anything I want.
I know what it means.
Good.
'Cause I want Dad.
No.
Yeah, no, I want him to be there when I explain that picture to you.
This has nothing to do with him.
I'm sorry, that's not for you to decide.
You put skin in the game.
Go get him.
Ha! Dad We might have a lead.
But I need you to do something, and it's not gonna be easy.
When I got to the coffee shop this morning, a man sat down across from me.
A man I didn't recognize.
Dad It wasn't Gabriel.
So from what Spence and I dug up, Scratch used his fake identity to buy a shibari rope from this couple.
They own a batik sex shop.
In addition to the rope, he also made a very expensive purchase that was listed only as "other.
" Shop's probably closed by now.
We do have their home address.
We have to hurry.
Scratch likes mind games, and right now he's putting Tara through hell.
Do I have to do this? No.
But we'll have a better chance of finding your brother if I do.
[Takes deep breath.]
Then I'm ready.
No, you're not.
I've been trained for this, Dad.
You haven't.
So the best thing you can do in there is to not say anything.
Ok? Ok.
[Exhales.]
Oh, Dad.
Hallelujah.
Can you talk some sense into my sister, please? Oh.
Oh.
Oh.
Maybe we should call aunt Thelma in while we're at it.
Maybe she can turn her back on me, too.
You asked for us both, Gabriel.
Here we are.
What is this? I was 15 here.
You were what? I was 18.
What was going on at 18? I was at Dartmouth.
Uh, I had to come home that spring for Mom's funeral.
And how was I during that time? You didn't talk much, but I could tell that you were hurting.
So, I convinced Dad to let me have you over family weekend.
He had two rules.
What were they? I couldn't get you drunk.
And, um Go ahead, Dad.
You remember.
I made you promise to take Gabriel to church.
I wanted the two of you to pray for your mother's soul.
That was the most boring pastor, ever, man.
Can we please get breakfast now? Let me take a picture for Dad.
[Sing-song.]
Name a type of cheese.
[Sing-song.]
Swiss.
I remember it now.
But why is this so significant to you? It's the last time I felt normal.
Isn't that right, Dad? Ok, Dad, let's go outside.
No.
No.
You wanted my help.
You want us to be a family again.
Let's do 'em both.
The 3 of us.
Mom, Dad! Mom and Dad: Don't come in! Someone was at the door, so I let them in.
Mom: Honey, you know we talked about this.
You said it was ok if it was the police, and it's the FBI.
FBI?! What's the FBI doing here?! I have no idea.
I'm slipping.
I'm slipping! Aah! [Thud.]
Hannah, you know what? We can take it from here.
Ok.
Just so you know, sometimes it takes him a while to untie her.
Can I offer you anything to drink? No, thank you.
We're good.
Yes, I made equipment for Carl Brubaker, we talked on the phone, but we never met face to face.
Do you have an address? Just a P.
O.
box.
We needed to make sure they could handle a delivery of that size.
And what did you make for him? It was a vise connected to a pressure plate, which was in turn built around a chair.
If you moved the weight off the pressure plate, the vise would squeeze.
If you take the weight off, how tightly would it squeeze? Tight enough to cut off blood flow.
Or oxygen? Yes, or oxygen.
What do you mean, it was the last time you felt normal? Because I was a victim, of the soft bigotry of low expectations.
Come on, Gabriel.
You had a full ride to college and you didn't take it.
What was it you said to me? "Oh, I don't know, T.
What if it's too hard?" [Laughs.]
Yeah, that's what I said.
Isn't it? Do not look to him.
He's not responsible for your choices.
Choices? Oh, wow.
That's a good one.
That's [Laughs.]
So funny.
Uh, you ever hear of a brand of wine called Leonte Chianti? No.
Of course you haven't.
That's because it's cheap.
It's a step below Two-Buck Chuck.
But, uh, it's perfect for drowning your sorrows.
Blaming alcohol now? No, not in the way you think.
But if you or I ever had a glass of Leonte, we'd probably have to fight our gag reflexes.
But, um, let's just say you were drinking to forget, I don't know, uh, how about the, uh The death of your wife? It'd be perfect then.
"This is my rifle, this is my gun! This one's for killing, this one's for fun!" Yeah, that's what he'd say, as he marched around the house, loaded shotgun in one hand.
After about 3 or 4 bottles I gently coaxed it away from him.
Is this true? I remember the wine.
[Sighs.]
That's why you didn't go to Yale.
Why wouldn't you tell me that, Gabriel? So why didn't I tell her? I ordered him not to.
Your mother and I, you were our dream, and we couldn't let anyone stand in the way of what you could be.
Hence, the soft bigotry of low expectations.
Not from society From your own family.
Now, you better go after him.
Here's the thing about brainwashing.
It's actually a myth.
You go back to MKUltra and the CIA dosing people with LSD and "the Manchurian candidate," never worked.
Scratch cracked the code with his drugs and his patients with multiple personalities.
That's true, but I keep going back to the video that Garcia got.
Now, this Desmond guy is supposed to be super delicate.
One wrong word and he goes into a stupor.
That's not what we're seeing.
Desmond Holt is dug in.
You can watch the real Gabriel in here right now and Desmond's going to insist that he's Tara's brother.
I think the only way Scratch could have gotten him to that point is if there was overlap somehow.
Emotional overlap, psychological overlap.
If we can find that overlap, we might be able to deprogram Desmond.
All right.
What do they share? Hatred.
For the father figure in their lives.
Desmond played Russian roulette with his stepfather, and Gabriel Well, yeah, it's not the same thing, but it's close.
So what else? When Mom died, they were all alone, and he needed a protector.
"Luke can't save you now.
" That's what Scratch said.
I mean, we knew Scratch would be baiting us.
That name, it should have copied over.
When I stopped him at the elevator, he didn't even know who I was.
Are there any other Lukes in his life? Not that I can You gotta be kidding me.
What do you see? This whole time I thought Luke and these pictures were separate clues.
They're not.
They're the same clue.
This is the pattern that Scratch wanted us to see.
Luke, 15, 11, 32.
The Gospel of Luke, chapter 15, verses 11 through 32.
I know exactly what this is.
That morning, after we got back from church, you complained about how boring it was.
And then I took this.
[Sing-song.]
Swiss.
You know the part of church I liked? The Bible story.
You know, the one about the older sibling who griped to Dad because the younger brother was such a screw-up.
Whew! Boy, could I relate.
But that wasn't the end, was it? The parable of the prodigal son from the Gospel of Luke.
You remember it? I never forgot.
That's why you kept this photo for 20 years.
Because you look at the two of us on paper and it's easy to make assumptions I am the successful one.
I'm the one who got the degree, the career that Dad could brag about, but I also never looked back.
And when you opted out of college, I never thought it was because you were the one who had to stay home and do the hard work.
Like the older son in that parable.
Gabriel, you're not You're not the prodigal.
I am.
Was it scary? Mom gone, just you and your stepdad and that gun? Yeah.
I am so sorry that happened to you, Desmond.
What? So sorry.
[Exhales.]
No.
Look at me.
Stay with me, Desmond.
Stay with me.
Please, stay with me.
[Grunting, muttering.]
Desmond.
My name is Tara Lewis.
Yeah.
Yeah.
[Indistinct.]
[Sobbing.]
I know.
I'm sorry.
I'm sorry.
I did things.
I did them.
Uh, you Tara? I did things 'cause he told me to.
So, that's why I did it.
What about Gabriel? Did you see Gabriel? Yeah, I saw him.
He Is is he alive? Mm-hmm.
[Grunts.]
I saw him.
We were all in a warehouse.
Um, the address is 22 23 Seventh street.
He made me memorize it so I could drive back, 'cause he needed me to get something for him.
It was important and he needed it.
Ok, Desmond, listen, I have to go, but there are people here who will take care of you.
No! No.
He gave me explicit instructions where to find it.
The spare key for the house, underneath the gnome.
Your picture and Gabriel's picture on the wall And I think your mom.
My father's house? He told me to get him a box, so I got it for him.
When I gave him the box, he said Maybe this is for killing and for fun.
And for fun.
[Echoing.]
Killing Killing [Laughing.]
And for fun, and for fun, and for fun.
He's gonna kill Gabriel with my father's gun.
I'll coordinate from here.
GW emergency's on alert.
The director wants a report if you catch Scratch dead or alive.
Will do.
It's something bad, isn't it? Something you're not telling me.
Dad, I have to go.
Tara Elizabeth Whatever it is, you can tell me.
I can take it.
Because, uh It's all my fault.
This is no one's fault.
Thank you.
I don't know about the rest of you, but I'm getting tired of losing to this rat-faced son of a bitch.
He's not gonna take anyone else away from us, not on my watch.
Am I clear? Hoo-ah.
[Elevator doors open.]
Let's go to work.
Clear! Wait, hold up.
That doesn't belong.
Lewis, Alvez, second floor.
Reid, JJ, open that up, but don't disable anything until you get my go-ahead.
Gabriel? You're gonna be ok.
All right? JJ, we found him.
What do you have on your end? We found a power source.
If we cut the right wire, it should shut down the vise.
No.
No, no, no, no, no.
Don't look at that.
Look at me.
Keep your eyes on me.
Right here.
Right here.
This rope is heavy.
Just removing it will shift the weight differential and fire the gun.
JJ, what have you got? We may have something.
Hang on.
We're gonna get out out of this, ok? We're gonna find a way.
No, no.
Don't move.
Don't move.
Stop.
Stop! These aren't fuses, they're shotgun shells.
No, no, no, no, no.
Don't move, don't move.
Stop.
Stop, stop, stop, stop, stop.
Stop.
It's engaging! No, no, no, hold it! Stop! [Click.]
It's a decoy.
The shotgun isn't loaded.
[Breathing hard.]
Ohh Ok.
Wait a minute.
Why would Scratch stage this? It's not in his profile, unless he's leading us into a bigger trap.
Reid, JJ, look for another trigger.
Reid, what is Exodus, chapter 8, verse 24? It's one of the plagues of Moses.
"And the Lord did this.
Dense swarms of flies "poured into Pharaoh's palace.
Throughout Egypt the land was ruined by the flies.
" It's above us! There's a redundance switch somewhere.
It's going off.
We can interrupt it if we bypass the correct fuse.
Get this off me.
I believe All right, this will only delay the trigger for a few seconds.
All right, go, go, go, go go! Get him off of there! Go! Go, go, go! Ohh [Breathing hard.]
Is everyone ok? Is anyone hurt? Good.
Hey, T.
Gabriel.
Dad.
Lewis: "The father said, you are always with me", "and everything I have is yours.
"But we had to celebrate and be glad, "because this brother of yours was dead and is alive again.
He was lost and is found.
" The Gospel of Luke.