Criminal Minds s14e07 Episode Script
Twenty Seven
1 Woman: Ok, let me see.
No.
No.
Uh-uh.
No.
No.
Stop playing around.
Take another one, but, you know, make it good this time.
I need some beautiful vacay shots for my Instagram.
Did you just say "vacay"? This is how I get to work every day.
It's not exactly the Lincoln Memorial.
Ok.
How about this? [Camera shutter clicks.]
[Laughs.]
Ok, ok.
Step a little to your right.
[Beep.]
Whoops.
I'm recording.
Your phone is super dumb.
[Woman shouts.]
[People shouting.]
Aah! Man: All right, guys, get back.
[Man groaning.]
Get back, get back.
There's a man out here stabbing people.
Some guy's hurt really bad.
Man: Hey.
Woman: He's bleeding! Leave them alone.
We need an ambulance.
Where? K Street and 18th.
[Crowd gasps.]
Man: Oh, my God.
Second man: He's coming this way.
[Coughing.]
Oh, man.
Oh, man.
Hang in there.
Help is coming.
I'm a nurse.
Let me through.
Quick, your jacket.
We got to put pressure on his wounds.
We're near the metro stop.
What is taking so long? [Indistinct chatter.]
It's gonna be ok.
Stay with us.
Hey.
He was African American.
He was wearing a green jacket, a white bandana across his face.
Oh, my God, is he dead? No.
No, he just passed out.
[Sirens.]
Here! Over here! All right, FBI.
I need you to stay back.
[Siren bleats.]
Have your men secure the scene.
Hey, let's go.
Clear a path for the EMTs.
Make way.
All right, all these businesses are gonna have security cameras.
These witnesses here.
All right, I need a hard target search on every building, bureau, restaurant, residence, department store, clothing store, grocery store, and gas station in the immediate vicinity.
I want officers [Siren.]
Nobody leaves until I say so.
Unit Chief Prentiss, Unit Chief Andrew Mendoza, Washington field.
SSAs Simmons and Jareau.
I appreciate you guys coming out.
We need all hands on deck.
All right, Metro P.
D.
has back up on the way and we've set a perimeter.
We got multiple eyewitnesses.
- Is he gonna make it? - Man: Not sure, sir.
Mendoza, the eyewitnesses? Over here with the chief.
I'm on it.
What about CCTV footage or security cameras? Well, these 3 are gonna be our best bet.
We sent an officer Matt.
Dammit.
Darcy, news crews.
Sir.
This is the third machete attack reported within the last hour.
Yeah, we're talking about crowded city centers here, broad daylight, men and women.
First two victims are in critical condition.
And right now I don't know if this is an act of terrorism, a domestic fringe group, or some nutcase on a killing spree.
Now, the first call came in a few minutes after noon? Yeah.
And every half hour since we've had another attack.
Charles O'Neill just died.
The first victim.
He died from his injuries.
Son of a bitch.
This manhunt just turned into a homicide investigation.
Yeah.
How do you want to handle it? First things first, we need detailed statements from any and all witnesses.
And I want them vetted.
Any and all personnel going in or out of the scene we need vetted.
This guy sticks to pattern.
We got less than 30 minutes before he strikes again.
- Let's make it count.
- Got it.
[Cell phone beeping.]
[Sirens, indistinct chatter.]
FBI will run point.
And you put district on citywide tactical alert? Yes, I've got officers standing by.
What should I say to the media? Our focus is on protecting the public.
Release a description of the attacker, but don't speculate as to motive or intent.
Yes, I'm here.
Go ahead, Garcia.
Garcia: As you all know, this is the third machete attack in the streets of Washington D.
C.
in the last hour.
We've been asked to form a joint taskforce with the Washington field office.
They need a profile.
It's our job to get it to them.
What do we know so far? There are 3 victims Charles O'Neill, Kary Karlsson, and Park Ji Sung.
First victim, Charles O'Neill, has already died from his injuries.
The other two victims are at the hospital in critical condition.
Prentiss: Witnesses described our attacker as an African-American male in his late twenties to early thirties.
It says here he was wearing a white bandana over the lower half of his face.
That's curious considering he's taking no other precautions.
Yeah, he's picked crowded city streets and heavily-trafficked thoroughfares.
This isn't exactly someone who's afraid of being seen.
Maybe it functions as a mask, a costume, a way for our unsub to distance himself from his actions.
Alvez: Whatever the reason, I mean, it's all by design.
This is somebody who wants to create a spectacle, maybe even send a message.
What, you think he's gonna reach out to the media like the D.
C.
snipers? Right now he's letting his actions do the talking.
Let's talk about the machete.
I mean, that's a brutal weapon.
You got to get up close.
It's messy.
Reid: Well, from political uprisings to Jason Voorhees, the iconography is certainly vivid.
Maybe that's his point? But the anger involved in hacking a victim to death, it feels more personal than ideological.
Like this is some kind of vendetta.
We have a ticking clock, and 3 primary questions What does our unsub want, where is he headed next, and how is he selecting his victims? To that end, Reid, I need you to work up a geo-profile.
Luke, Tara, Penelope, you're on victimology.
We have to figure out if these are victims of opportunity or if he's targeting them Sorry, I need you.
Or if he's targeting them specifically.
- I gotta go.
- Found something.
I was going over the 9-1-1 calls like you suggested.
For this most recent attack, the first call was an anonymous male.
He gave an address and a basic description of the attack, and then he hung up.
Did they trace the call? No, it was a burner phone, but that's not what got my attention.
[Police radio chatter.]
What am I looking at? EMs call logs from this morning.
Eyewitness accounts put the time of the third attack at 12:58, but the anonymous call came in at 12:57 on the dot.
A full minute before any other? That got me thinking.
So I looked into previous incidents.
The second attack, an anonymous call came in at 12:30.
CCTV footage put the incident at 12:31.
The first one Was at 12:05 according to witnesses, but the first EMs call came in at 12:03.
He's calling 9-1-1 himself.
How else do you explain somebody reporting the attacks before they happen? 27 minutes.
That's the time between calls.
It's not roughly every 30 minutes.
It's 27 minutes on the dot.
And he hasn't deviated yet.
It's a signature.
27 minutes means something to him.
And to stick to that schedule so carefully means that the timing of the attacks is as important to him as the victims themselves.
Also means that we only have 14 minutes left until the next attack, not 17.
[Sighs.]
JJ: Anything else? He had on a green jacket.
Ok.
Uh, hey, Matt.
Can I borrow that? Woman: Yeah, of course.
Thanks.
Apparently the building's camera systems are down for testing.
Uh, I got you covered.
These two filmed the entire encounter.
Let's take a look.
Ok, there.
Park Ji Sung enters the frame, and then the unsub.
Wait, he looks wounded before any of this even started.
[Screaming on recording.]
Simmons: The unsub is in complete control.
Ji Sung's definitely not getting away.
It's almost like the unsub was stalking or hunting him.
Question is, did he follow him here or did he just pick him out of the crowd? Yeah.
Not to mention there were dozens of people on the street.
I mean, he could have chosen anyone.
He could have attacked more than one.
Yeah, but he doesn't.
He sticks with his man, his mission.
Ok, so what was it about Park Ji Sung that stood out? Why him? [Crowd screaming.]
[Cell phone rings.]
- Alvez: Hey, Dave.
- How you holding up? Ok.
Prentiss gave me a direct order and I disobeyed it.
It sucks to be benched, but I just want to help in any way I can.
Good.
I'm with the second victim, Kary Karlsson, and I just spoke with her parents.
Now, when I walked them through the attack, they were surprised to hear that Kary was found in the neighborhood of Trinidad.
Well, that's a rough part of town.
And they had no idea why she would even be there.
Now, Kary's reasons may have been innocent enough, but that doesn't mean she doesn't have a secret.
What, some kind of secret life? Exactly.
I'll talk to Kary's friends.
There might be something there.
We'll run it down on this end, and I'll get back to you.
Thanks, David.
[Cell phone clicks.]
So something interesting came up in Rossi's interview of Kary Karlsson's family.
Now, Kary lived and worked in Noma, and she was attacked in Trinidad.
This struck her family as odd, like Kary was somewhere she didn't belong.
Well, look, Kary was a single, successful, career-oriented graphic designer.
I mean, she could have been in that neighborhood to meet a client or a friend.
What about the other two? Uh, first victim, Charles O'Neill, 40-year-old security guard, married, two kids.
Everything I've learned about him, super great guy.
Yeah, third victim, Park Ji Sung, married, 55.
He was a line cook in Chinatown.
According to his wife, he was saving up to open his own restaurant.
We've got diversity in age, race, and background.
I mean, if they're surrogates, for what? Well, you said that Kary Karlsson was found in Trinidad, a neighborhood where she didn't belong.
And that's actually kind of true for all 3 of our victims.
All of them were found somewhere they wouldn't customarily be.
Outside of their regular routine.
Right, right.
I mean, Charles O'Neill lived and worked in Anacostia, so what was he doing in Noma on a Tuesday? Yeah.
And Park Ji Sung should have been at his restaurant he worked at then.
So why was he on K street? Well, they were in the wrong neighborhood and did the unsub pick them because they stood out? And if so, what is the unsub's connection to all 3 of these neighborhoods? [Siren bleats.]
Prentiss: Right now the unsub's banking on the media to amplify his violence, his message.
We need to minimize the coverage without downplaying the danger.
I'll get my guys on it.
[Police radio chatter.]
From Noma to Trinidad to K street.
In the broadest of terms, our unsub is jumping from wealthy neighborhoods to poor neighborhoods, then back again.
So he'd need transportation, something that would blend in regardless of the area, like a service van.
And given the time it would take to get from one neighborhood to the next, find his victims, plan his escape, et cetera, it's clear that he knows the city as only a local would.
So he attacks, abducts, attacks, abducts, and so on.
Right now our best option is to set up a series of roadblocks.
At the very least, we can disrupt his movements - and maybe slow him down.
- Where are we on time? 8 minutes, 53 seconds.
Coordinate with Metro P.
D.
Let's see if we can buy ourselves some time and get out in front of him.
Mendoza: Prentiss, we need to start talking about possible motives.
I've got officials in my ear worried that this could be some sort of act of terrorism.
I need to know if I should be setting off alarms.
Our unsub is on a spree.
He's only killed one victim so far, but the manner in which he did it was selective, personal.
You said that the violence here has been deliberately sensational, the desire for this unsub to be seen speaks to someone on a mission.
Yes, but there's been no mass casualty event, and the targeted selection of his victims fights against the broader idea of terrorism.
They're not mutually exclusive.
No.
But look, he could be cutting his victims' heads off, killing them instantaneously, but he's not.
He's leaving them suffering and bleeding on the ground.
Yes, he's angry and he's motivated, but if this was political, why call 9-1-1? He's giving them a chance to survive.
Agents, my men have found something.
This matches the suspect's bandana.
Mendoza: We should clear this garage.
He may have a vehicle or be looking to boost one.
You two take the south entrance.
Chief Wagner.
Wagner: We'll take the north.
Yes, ma'am.
Man: All right, let's get eyes on all doors.
[Gunshot.]
Mendoza: Hands up! Put your hands up now! I got him.
I shot him, the machete killer.
Prentiss: Drop your weapon.
Do it now.
Wagner: I need an ambulance.
I have a suspect down.
I saw him trying to break into that car.
He had on he has on the green jacket.
They said on the news.
And the machete.
He has the machete.
[Grunts.]
[Handcuffs click.]
It's not him.
Wait, it's him, isn't it? Dammit! Man: It's him, isn't it? He's the machete killer, right? Get him out of here! No, I thought He looked He looks like the guy.
He has on the green jacket.
He looks like the guy.
I thought it was him.
He looked like the guy.
An unarmed man was just shot.
I'm asking, how do you want me to proceed? Be transparent.
Explain that the shooter is in police custody and that's it's an evolving situation.
The whole city is watching.
We get this wrong, there could be a riot.
People in the street.
Then don't get it wrong.
Until this is over, we need D.
C.
residents to stay inside, share any and all information they have with the authorities and only the authorities.
That's it.
Prentiss, you good? It's my fault.
I told the police to release a description of the suspect.
I should have waited until we knew more.
Now an innocent man may lose his life because of it.
No, we had a duty to inform the public, above all else.
You are not responsible for this.
There's no way to predict a kid with a gun is gonna try to play hero.
Victim's name is Peter Salah.
He's heading into surgery right now.
He's in critical condition.
Peter's 24, single, works down the street as a handyman.
He was on a job all morning, headed out to get some piping to finish a work order.
The keys to his car were in his pocket.
Ok.
I want a full search of all the surrounding buildings.
Our unsub was here.
And we have less than 5 minutes.
[Sighs.]
All right, I just spoke to a neighbor who says that he saw Kary Karlsson being forced into a vehicle outside her apartment building.
- She was abducted? - According the neighbor, a man fitting the description of our unsub approached Kary brandishing a weapon of some kind.
Probably the machete.
He forced her into a white sedan and drove off.
The neighbor didn't report the incident until he arrived at work some 40 minutes later.
Some neighbor.
So our unsub grabbed Kary outside of her loft, drove her to a secondary location, viciously attacked her, and then let her go.
Why? Why risk moving her at all? Do you think they were all abducted? That's a good bet.
Lewis: It's like Reid said.
The movements of this unsub, they're calculated.
He takes a working-class family man and kills him in an upscale community, and then he takes a well-to-do graphic designer and drops her off in a seedy neighborhood.
And finally, he takes a cook and lays him at the feet of rich lobbyists on K street.
This entire thing, this is about inequality.
Right.
Ok.
I'm on it.
Hey, hang on.
Hang on.
So our unsub grabs Kary, puts her in the car, closes the door, locks it, runs around to the other side of the car, gets in, closes the door, locks it, starts the car, and drives.
And all the while holding a machete on Kary? And she doesn't fight back or make a run for it? That doesn't make sense.
Unless He has a partner.
Someone in the backseat with a knife or a gun to control the victim.
We're looking for a team.
Usually it's just me and my guys talking it over.
We don't normally do profiles.
Just follow my lead.
You'll be fine.
Wagner: Everybody settled? Ok, let's go.
As you know, we are now two hours into a citywide manhunt.
We can now say with confidence that we're looking for a pair of statement-oriented spree killers.
These partners are believed to be in their late twenties to early thirties, African-American males.
Our unsubs are probably bonded by a shared grievance A loss or a past trauma.
As with any partnership, like the D.
C.
snipers, there is most likely a dominant and a submissive.
Examination of the wound patterns dictates that both of these men have had hands in these attacks.
They're taking turns.
So while one may be dominant over the other, they are equal participants, equally dangerous.
Our suspects are abducting their victims.
They're taking them from the neighborhoods where they live into neighborhoods they would not be likely to visit.
This back and forth across the city is a deliberate provocation designed to question our assumptions about who belongs where Inequality, privilege, class.
Our unsub's anger is focused on something along those lines.
We need to concentrate on recent flashpoints in the city's history Bad shooting, suspicious death.
Anything that would have caused a backlash or controversy within the community.
These attacks are a statement.
It's their response.
And they won't stop until they feel heard.
In addition to the manned checkpoints going up around the district, we need to be looking at arrest records, complaints, threats.
These two are out there.
We know what we're looking for.
Let's get to work.
[Alarm blaring.]
Wagner: Ok, let's go.
Anything? No.
Garcia's monitoring EMs calls, but they're late.
Maybe our roadblocks are working.
If our unsubs stick to pattern, they've likely already abducted their next victim.
The question is where would they take them? Well, what would make the biggest splash? Well, if they continued heading north cycling between rich and poor neighborhoods, they have a couple of options, but Columbia heights has been in the news lately.
JJ: Yeah, I read about that.
Residents are upset about some of the efforts to gentrify the neighborhood.
Yeah.
They're trying to turn the area around Height's Park into luxury condos.
Well, that would certainly fit with their mission statement.
Reid: We've got units canvassing these two blocks, but nothing here near the park.
Call Luke.
Have him meet you there with a couple of plainclothes officers.
Take a look.
They're late, but there's no way they're not showing up, not once they've finally got everyone's attention.
Still, what's their endgame? I mean, they aren't trying to get away with this, otherwise they would have taken more precautions.
It feels like they're prepared to die, like the Vegas or the Orlando shooters, either in a hail of bullets or suicide by cop.
Well, that's likely true for the dominant, - whose sense of agree - [Cell phone rings.]
Hey, Garcia.
I just intercepted a 9-1-1 call.
There's been another attack.
Where? Right there.
Right where you are.
[Woman screams.]
Help! I need help! Somebody! [Horn honks.]
Driver: Hey, watch it! JJ: Are you hurt? No, the parking lot.
A man.
Hurry! This is SSA Luke Alvez.
I need an ambulance immediately.
We're in a residential parking lot on 16th, 700 block.
No, no, no, no.
Don't move.
Don't move, ok? Hey, did you see who attacked him? It was a man, African American.
Which way did he go? That way.
JJ: Go.
Go, Luke.
We're fine.
Officers, come with me.
Let's go.
1 and 2 and 3 and 4 and 1 and 2 and 3 and 4.
And 1 and 2 and 3 and 4.
Hey, stay back.
Man: Hang on.
Hey, come on, man.
Turn that off.
FBI, turn your phone off.
Let's go back to the first victim, Charles O'Neill.
Our unsubs took a big risk going after a guy like that first.
JJ: FBI.
Turn your phone off.
Guys, this is live.
This is happening right now.
Lewis: Oh, my God.
Son of a bitch.
I don't want to see any of this on the news.
We need to shut this feed down immediately.
Agreed.
[Tires squeal.]
Alvez: Get the plate! - [Approaching sirens.]
- Come on.
And 2 and 3, 4.
Spencer, come on.
Let me.
I got it.
I got it.
I can do it.
I can do this.
[Sirens.]
Hey.
Uh, he's been stabbed multiple times.
Multiple stab wounds.
We got it from here.
We got it.
Ok.
Man: We're getting him some help, guys.
Back it up.
Come on, get back.
[Electricity whirs.]
Clear.
Come on, come on.
Come back to us.
He must have hit an artery.
He's lost too much blood.
Going again.
[Electricity whirs.]
Clear.
He's gone.
Sorry.
[Sighs.]
He's dead.
No, he's not dead.
There's got to be something else that they can do.
Garcia Restart the clock.
[Beep.]
FBI, don't move.
Officer: Put your hands in the air.
Drop the weapon now.
- [Machete clatters.]
- Turn around.
Hands behind your head.
Uh, 700.
Nice work.
Yeah, thanks.
We tracked him from the parking lot.
- They split up? - Yeah, this one ran.
The other one drove off.
We've got uniforms canvassing the area.
Upon contact, this suspect surrendered.
No fight.
He's got no I.
D.
he hasn't said or asked for anything.
- But he gave himself up.
- Mm-hmm.
We profiled these guys as confrontational and statement-driven.
The fact that he surrendered makes me think he must be the submissive in the partnership.
How do you want to do this? We need to get him talking, see if we can get him to give up his accomplice.
I'll do it alone.
I think he'll respond to someone less authoritative than his partner.
Give me a minute.
Yes, ma'am.
I'm Emily Prentiss.
I'm with the FBI.
You can call me Emily.
What's your name? You have a name, right? What about your partner? Where'd he go? He just took off, left you behind? Left you holding the machete.
I can help you.
There's still time to do the right thing.
I know this wasn't your idea.
And this isn't what you really want.
18:46.
18:45.
18:44.
18:43.
This is not a game.
No, it isn't, Emily.
What is your name? Tick tock, Emily.
Tick tock.
All right, they've split up.
They know we're closing in.
What's next? Well, we've disrupted their ability to abduct and to transport their victims, so now the dominant not only has to pick his next victim, but his next spot.
Maybe a mall or museum, park.
Right.
Somewhere wealthy, something that represents progress, but at the same time, at this point, it's personal to them.
Prentiss: He's taunting us.
As long as his partner's still out there, the mission continues, and he knows it.
Yeah, we can't just keep making runs at him.
He's gonna lawyer up.
In 15 minutes, it won't matter.
- No one else dies today.
- [Cell phone rings.]
Dave, tell me you found something.
We've been spinning our wheels, trying to figure out why these two would go after a guy like Charles O'Neill first.
Well, I just got off the phone with O'Neill's wife.
She told me that outside of his day job, he would moonlight as a bouncer.
He worked in Anacostia at a club called Hard Times.
Last week there was a stabbing.
A young man died.
Bled to death.
Sound familiar? Garcia: I found it buried in the weekly beat report.
Young man's name was Tom Wells, 18 years old, born and raised in the district.
He's survived by his two older brothers, James and Marcus Wells.
James is the oldest.
He raised both the other two when their mom died when they were young.
You've arrested Marcus.
James is still out there.
Looks like their brother's funeral was yesterday.
What about the incident itself? Did they arrest anyone? Yeah.
Guy's name was Lonny Carson.
He is in jail.
He's awaiting trial.
I'm sending you everything I've got now.
Prentiss: Loop Mendoza's team in.
I want agents at their work and home, girlfriends, boyfriends, family.
No stone unturned.
That's how I roll.
What the hell am I missing here? If the guy that stabbed their brother is sitting in jail, why are they still out here carving up innocent people? Ok, go back to the profile.
Inequality, class, injustice.
They're trying to tell us this is about something deeper.
So then why target Charles O'Neill? All the others seem to have been chosen at random.
It's possible they feel Charles O'Neill bears some blame for Tom's death.
But Charles is like them.
He's from a similar neighborhood and economic background.
Striking him first draws a direct parallel between their brother's death and everyone else's.
There's no way Marcus is gonna give up his brother.
Maybe not.
But for the first time today, we have the upper hand.
[Indistinct chatter.]
Marcus Wells, 1521 Harris street in Garfield Heights.
Brother of Tom and James Wells.
I am sorry about the loss of your brother.
He seemed like a good kid.
Graduated top of his class.
Tom was a freshman at Hallridge university Don't.
Don't even say his name.
You're not allowed to say his name.
What about James? I'm going to level with you, Marcus.
There are only two ways for this to end, and I don't think you want to bury another brother this week.
I need you to tell me where James is.
I know this whole day was his idea.
He was sent to juvie twice, jail once.
James likes to fight.
You have no idea who James is.
He raised us.
He worked two jobs just to put Tom through school.
You don't know him.
You don't know me, what we've been through.
So tell me.
Why? You don't care about me or my brother.
You just as soon shoot us dead in the street, like that unarmed man who got shot today.
Where were you then? What did you do to help him? The way I see it, that blood is on your hands.
So you think this is what Tom would have wanted, for you to kill a bunch of innocent people in his name? See, I think he would have been ashamed.
No, no, no.
No, he would have understood what we were trying to say.
Marcus, whatever point you were trying to make is irrelevant now.
You've killed two people.
You've critically injured two others.
This is over.
Look, your only option is to talk to me, to tell me where James is.
There is still time.
You've got a chance here to do the right thing.
The right thing? My brother did everything right and he never had a chance.
He never had a chance.
Today proved that.
A chance at what? Surviving? Why 27, Marcus? Why not 26 or 24? I ask myself that question every day.
Every damn day.
What does 27 mean? Everything.
It means everything.
I'm done talking.
I want a lawyer.
[Dials cell phone.]
Anything? - [Line rings.]
- We'll see.
Garcia? Yeah, I'm here.
Talk to me.
I need you to pull emergency response call logs from the night that Tom Wells was murdered.
On it.
[Typing.]
How much time do we have? Less than 10 minutes.
What are you thinking? 27 minutes has been staring us in the face this whole time.
Marcus and his brother think that where you live not only determines your quality of life, but your quality of care.
Your zip code determines your fate.
That's why they're moving these people back and forth.
They're trying to show us the disparity in response times.
That's why they call 9-1-1.
Yeah, rich neighborhoods get faster care than poor neighborhoods.
And actions speak louder than words.
They thought the most effect way to get their message across would be to demonstrate it in real time.
The night Tom died, I bet we're gonna find out it took 27 minutes for help to arrive.
Tom probably bled to death in the street in his brothers' arms.
Oh, jeez, this is awful.
They called 9-1-1 9 times.
And for whatever reason, it took the ambulance 27 minutes to get there.
Tom was pronounced dead at the scene.
What can you tell me about Tom and James relationship? James did everything for his little brother.
The night that they went out, it was to celebrate Tom's first semester at Hallridge university.
Hallridge.
That's it.
When I mentioned that Tom was a freshman there, Marcus lost it.
You think that's where James is headed? I think they're grieving for what they've lost, this future that was ripped away from their brother and their family, and Hallridge is a part of that.
An innocent student would in essence be the perfect stand in for their brother.
Rossi: The ultimate surrogate.
Garcia: Hallridge isn't far, just a few miles away.
You know, it's almost like they've been heading there this whole time.
Mendoza: Listen, if we're going to shut down an entire campus in less than 10 minutes, we're gonna have to divert all of our resources, pull the units off the streets.
If we're wrong.
We're not wrong.
This is his final play, I'm sure of it.
Keep a low profile.
We don't want to provoke him.
Thayer hall, where Tom roomed, is directly to our north.
James is not planning on walking out of here alive.
Our goal is to isolate and deescalate.
All right, let's clear these students out of here, please.
This way.
Hey, guys, could I get you to do me a favor and head indoors? All right, move these people out.
Hey, guys.
FBI.
We need you to head inside, ok? Yes, sir.
On chapter two Ladies, I'm with the FBI.
Go on.
Everybody please just head inside.
Thank you.
Mendoza: Ladies, I need you to take it indoors for me, ok? Guys, take it indoors, please.
Guys, take it indoors for me, will you? Will you head inside? Come on.
Come on, let's go.
Fellas, take it indoors for me, will you? Guys, I need you to take it inside.
Let's go.
Aah! [Woman screaming.]
Status report.
Yeah, I heard it.
I'm at 3 o'clock, but I don't see anything.
Nothing to your south.
Mendoza, status.
- Mendoza.
- Don't! - Do you copy? - Don't! [Indistinct chatter.]
Miss, look at me.
Look at me.
You're gonna be ok.
Ok? You're gonna be ok.
James, I'm gonna need you to let her go.
I want you to take me, all right? I'm FBI.
A fed.
I'm the guy you want.
Ok? You want people to pay attention, right? Let her go.
Come on, brother.
Let her go.
Take me.
Come on.
Come on.
[Woman screams.]
FBI, get out of the way.
Get out of the way.
Aah! [Groans.]
Prentiss: James, drop the weapon.
We have you surrounded.
This is over now.
No, it ain't.
You gonna feel what it's like.
You gonna feel what it's like to watch someone you care about bleed to death in front of you.
We waited 27 minutes and no one came.
No one.
Do you know what that's like? Huh? To be powerless? You think he's got 27 minutes? What happened to your brother was a tragedy.
Mistakes were made.
No! No.
It wasn't a mistake.
And it wasn't an accident.
The system worked exactly like it was built to.
Tom did everything right, and they still let him die in the street.
You're right.
It's not fair and it's not equal, and that has to change.
But we can't control what happens around us or to us.
We can only control how we respond.
Look, I don't want to shoot you.
Do you see those news crews over there? I'm gonna let you tell your story, so we can make sure that what happened to your brother never happens again.
[Grunts.]
Stay down.
Stay down.
Hands, hands.
[Sirens approaching.]
I need a medic.
We've got a man down.
[Handcuffs click.]
You're gonna be fine.
I've got you.
Help is coming.
We'll need a board.
You can't tell from my face how much this hurts, right? Not at all.
You're gonna be fine.
You're gonna be ok.
[Grunting.]
Lewis: Hey.
You all right? Yeah.
We got him.
That was a hell of a punch.
Heh.
Will Samson: your body is a bird with its wings hidden deep in your mind just like a light in the storm clouds how they shine oh, how they shine ghosts in the night, I can see them who caused you harm? Who's been unkind? Smile only with your eyes 'cause with your mouth, it's just a good disguise [Knocking.]
Hey.
[Clears throat.]
Hey.
I know it's late.
I just wanted to see how you were doing.
You look well.
[Scoffs.]
Thanks.
It's Pain meds are spectacular.
[Chuckles.]
Peter Salah, the man our would-be hero shot, he's gonna pull through.
Oh, great.
That's great.
That's great.
You know, you're D.
C.
's new celebrity.
They can't stop talking about you.
[Scoffs.]
Listen, your reputation, it doesn't do you justice.
People told me you were good, but you're like really good.
It's a group effort.
Anyway, when are you getting out of here? Uh, soon, I hope.
Um, my vital organs are in place, so there's that.
Good.
[Inhales.]
Because, uh, I did save your life.
Least you could do is buy me a beer or something.
Yeah.
Yeah, I could do that.
I might even be able to take you to dinner.
I mean, since we're gonna be out.
Maybe a ballgame.
I could get you one of those little hats with ice cream in it.
You know, if you're into that kind of thing.
Well, it sounds like a date.
Yeah.
It'd be a date.
I'll think about it.
No.
No.
Uh-uh.
No.
No.
Stop playing around.
Take another one, but, you know, make it good this time.
I need some beautiful vacay shots for my Instagram.
Did you just say "vacay"? This is how I get to work every day.
It's not exactly the Lincoln Memorial.
Ok.
How about this? [Camera shutter clicks.]
[Laughs.]
Ok, ok.
Step a little to your right.
[Beep.]
Whoops.
I'm recording.
Your phone is super dumb.
[Woman shouts.]
[People shouting.]
Aah! Man: All right, guys, get back.
[Man groaning.]
Get back, get back.
There's a man out here stabbing people.
Some guy's hurt really bad.
Man: Hey.
Woman: He's bleeding! Leave them alone.
We need an ambulance.
Where? K Street and 18th.
[Crowd gasps.]
Man: Oh, my God.
Second man: He's coming this way.
[Coughing.]
Oh, man.
Oh, man.
Hang in there.
Help is coming.
I'm a nurse.
Let me through.
Quick, your jacket.
We got to put pressure on his wounds.
We're near the metro stop.
What is taking so long? [Indistinct chatter.]
It's gonna be ok.
Stay with us.
Hey.
He was African American.
He was wearing a green jacket, a white bandana across his face.
Oh, my God, is he dead? No.
No, he just passed out.
[Sirens.]
Here! Over here! All right, FBI.
I need you to stay back.
[Siren bleats.]
Have your men secure the scene.
Hey, let's go.
Clear a path for the EMTs.
Make way.
All right, all these businesses are gonna have security cameras.
These witnesses here.
All right, I need a hard target search on every building, bureau, restaurant, residence, department store, clothing store, grocery store, and gas station in the immediate vicinity.
I want officers [Siren.]
Nobody leaves until I say so.
Unit Chief Prentiss, Unit Chief Andrew Mendoza, Washington field.
SSAs Simmons and Jareau.
I appreciate you guys coming out.
We need all hands on deck.
All right, Metro P.
D.
has back up on the way and we've set a perimeter.
We got multiple eyewitnesses.
- Is he gonna make it? - Man: Not sure, sir.
Mendoza, the eyewitnesses? Over here with the chief.
I'm on it.
What about CCTV footage or security cameras? Well, these 3 are gonna be our best bet.
We sent an officer Matt.
Dammit.
Darcy, news crews.
Sir.
This is the third machete attack reported within the last hour.
Yeah, we're talking about crowded city centers here, broad daylight, men and women.
First two victims are in critical condition.
And right now I don't know if this is an act of terrorism, a domestic fringe group, or some nutcase on a killing spree.
Now, the first call came in a few minutes after noon? Yeah.
And every half hour since we've had another attack.
Charles O'Neill just died.
The first victim.
He died from his injuries.
Son of a bitch.
This manhunt just turned into a homicide investigation.
Yeah.
How do you want to handle it? First things first, we need detailed statements from any and all witnesses.
And I want them vetted.
Any and all personnel going in or out of the scene we need vetted.
This guy sticks to pattern.
We got less than 30 minutes before he strikes again.
- Let's make it count.
- Got it.
[Cell phone beeping.]
[Sirens, indistinct chatter.]
FBI will run point.
And you put district on citywide tactical alert? Yes, I've got officers standing by.
What should I say to the media? Our focus is on protecting the public.
Release a description of the attacker, but don't speculate as to motive or intent.
Yes, I'm here.
Go ahead, Garcia.
Garcia: As you all know, this is the third machete attack in the streets of Washington D.
C.
in the last hour.
We've been asked to form a joint taskforce with the Washington field office.
They need a profile.
It's our job to get it to them.
What do we know so far? There are 3 victims Charles O'Neill, Kary Karlsson, and Park Ji Sung.
First victim, Charles O'Neill, has already died from his injuries.
The other two victims are at the hospital in critical condition.
Prentiss: Witnesses described our attacker as an African-American male in his late twenties to early thirties.
It says here he was wearing a white bandana over the lower half of his face.
That's curious considering he's taking no other precautions.
Yeah, he's picked crowded city streets and heavily-trafficked thoroughfares.
This isn't exactly someone who's afraid of being seen.
Maybe it functions as a mask, a costume, a way for our unsub to distance himself from his actions.
Alvez: Whatever the reason, I mean, it's all by design.
This is somebody who wants to create a spectacle, maybe even send a message.
What, you think he's gonna reach out to the media like the D.
C.
snipers? Right now he's letting his actions do the talking.
Let's talk about the machete.
I mean, that's a brutal weapon.
You got to get up close.
It's messy.
Reid: Well, from political uprisings to Jason Voorhees, the iconography is certainly vivid.
Maybe that's his point? But the anger involved in hacking a victim to death, it feels more personal than ideological.
Like this is some kind of vendetta.
We have a ticking clock, and 3 primary questions What does our unsub want, where is he headed next, and how is he selecting his victims? To that end, Reid, I need you to work up a geo-profile.
Luke, Tara, Penelope, you're on victimology.
We have to figure out if these are victims of opportunity or if he's targeting them Sorry, I need you.
Or if he's targeting them specifically.
- I gotta go.
- Found something.
I was going over the 9-1-1 calls like you suggested.
For this most recent attack, the first call was an anonymous male.
He gave an address and a basic description of the attack, and then he hung up.
Did they trace the call? No, it was a burner phone, but that's not what got my attention.
[Police radio chatter.]
What am I looking at? EMs call logs from this morning.
Eyewitness accounts put the time of the third attack at 12:58, but the anonymous call came in at 12:57 on the dot.
A full minute before any other? That got me thinking.
So I looked into previous incidents.
The second attack, an anonymous call came in at 12:30.
CCTV footage put the incident at 12:31.
The first one Was at 12:05 according to witnesses, but the first EMs call came in at 12:03.
He's calling 9-1-1 himself.
How else do you explain somebody reporting the attacks before they happen? 27 minutes.
That's the time between calls.
It's not roughly every 30 minutes.
It's 27 minutes on the dot.
And he hasn't deviated yet.
It's a signature.
27 minutes means something to him.
And to stick to that schedule so carefully means that the timing of the attacks is as important to him as the victims themselves.
Also means that we only have 14 minutes left until the next attack, not 17.
[Sighs.]
JJ: Anything else? He had on a green jacket.
Ok.
Uh, hey, Matt.
Can I borrow that? Woman: Yeah, of course.
Thanks.
Apparently the building's camera systems are down for testing.
Uh, I got you covered.
These two filmed the entire encounter.
Let's take a look.
Ok, there.
Park Ji Sung enters the frame, and then the unsub.
Wait, he looks wounded before any of this even started.
[Screaming on recording.]
Simmons: The unsub is in complete control.
Ji Sung's definitely not getting away.
It's almost like the unsub was stalking or hunting him.
Question is, did he follow him here or did he just pick him out of the crowd? Yeah.
Not to mention there were dozens of people on the street.
I mean, he could have chosen anyone.
He could have attacked more than one.
Yeah, but he doesn't.
He sticks with his man, his mission.
Ok, so what was it about Park Ji Sung that stood out? Why him? [Crowd screaming.]
[Cell phone rings.]
- Alvez: Hey, Dave.
- How you holding up? Ok.
Prentiss gave me a direct order and I disobeyed it.
It sucks to be benched, but I just want to help in any way I can.
Good.
I'm with the second victim, Kary Karlsson, and I just spoke with her parents.
Now, when I walked them through the attack, they were surprised to hear that Kary was found in the neighborhood of Trinidad.
Well, that's a rough part of town.
And they had no idea why she would even be there.
Now, Kary's reasons may have been innocent enough, but that doesn't mean she doesn't have a secret.
What, some kind of secret life? Exactly.
I'll talk to Kary's friends.
There might be something there.
We'll run it down on this end, and I'll get back to you.
Thanks, David.
[Cell phone clicks.]
So something interesting came up in Rossi's interview of Kary Karlsson's family.
Now, Kary lived and worked in Noma, and she was attacked in Trinidad.
This struck her family as odd, like Kary was somewhere she didn't belong.
Well, look, Kary was a single, successful, career-oriented graphic designer.
I mean, she could have been in that neighborhood to meet a client or a friend.
What about the other two? Uh, first victim, Charles O'Neill, 40-year-old security guard, married, two kids.
Everything I've learned about him, super great guy.
Yeah, third victim, Park Ji Sung, married, 55.
He was a line cook in Chinatown.
According to his wife, he was saving up to open his own restaurant.
We've got diversity in age, race, and background.
I mean, if they're surrogates, for what? Well, you said that Kary Karlsson was found in Trinidad, a neighborhood where she didn't belong.
And that's actually kind of true for all 3 of our victims.
All of them were found somewhere they wouldn't customarily be.
Outside of their regular routine.
Right, right.
I mean, Charles O'Neill lived and worked in Anacostia, so what was he doing in Noma on a Tuesday? Yeah.
And Park Ji Sung should have been at his restaurant he worked at then.
So why was he on K street? Well, they were in the wrong neighborhood and did the unsub pick them because they stood out? And if so, what is the unsub's connection to all 3 of these neighborhoods? [Siren bleats.]
Prentiss: Right now the unsub's banking on the media to amplify his violence, his message.
We need to minimize the coverage without downplaying the danger.
I'll get my guys on it.
[Police radio chatter.]
From Noma to Trinidad to K street.
In the broadest of terms, our unsub is jumping from wealthy neighborhoods to poor neighborhoods, then back again.
So he'd need transportation, something that would blend in regardless of the area, like a service van.
And given the time it would take to get from one neighborhood to the next, find his victims, plan his escape, et cetera, it's clear that he knows the city as only a local would.
So he attacks, abducts, attacks, abducts, and so on.
Right now our best option is to set up a series of roadblocks.
At the very least, we can disrupt his movements - and maybe slow him down.
- Where are we on time? 8 minutes, 53 seconds.
Coordinate with Metro P.
D.
Let's see if we can buy ourselves some time and get out in front of him.
Mendoza: Prentiss, we need to start talking about possible motives.
I've got officials in my ear worried that this could be some sort of act of terrorism.
I need to know if I should be setting off alarms.
Our unsub is on a spree.
He's only killed one victim so far, but the manner in which he did it was selective, personal.
You said that the violence here has been deliberately sensational, the desire for this unsub to be seen speaks to someone on a mission.
Yes, but there's been no mass casualty event, and the targeted selection of his victims fights against the broader idea of terrorism.
They're not mutually exclusive.
No.
But look, he could be cutting his victims' heads off, killing them instantaneously, but he's not.
He's leaving them suffering and bleeding on the ground.
Yes, he's angry and he's motivated, but if this was political, why call 9-1-1? He's giving them a chance to survive.
Agents, my men have found something.
This matches the suspect's bandana.
Mendoza: We should clear this garage.
He may have a vehicle or be looking to boost one.
You two take the south entrance.
Chief Wagner.
Wagner: We'll take the north.
Yes, ma'am.
Man: All right, let's get eyes on all doors.
[Gunshot.]
Mendoza: Hands up! Put your hands up now! I got him.
I shot him, the machete killer.
Prentiss: Drop your weapon.
Do it now.
Wagner: I need an ambulance.
I have a suspect down.
I saw him trying to break into that car.
He had on he has on the green jacket.
They said on the news.
And the machete.
He has the machete.
[Grunts.]
[Handcuffs click.]
It's not him.
Wait, it's him, isn't it? Dammit! Man: It's him, isn't it? He's the machete killer, right? Get him out of here! No, I thought He looked He looks like the guy.
He has on the green jacket.
He looks like the guy.
I thought it was him.
He looked like the guy.
An unarmed man was just shot.
I'm asking, how do you want me to proceed? Be transparent.
Explain that the shooter is in police custody and that's it's an evolving situation.
The whole city is watching.
We get this wrong, there could be a riot.
People in the street.
Then don't get it wrong.
Until this is over, we need D.
C.
residents to stay inside, share any and all information they have with the authorities and only the authorities.
That's it.
Prentiss, you good? It's my fault.
I told the police to release a description of the suspect.
I should have waited until we knew more.
Now an innocent man may lose his life because of it.
No, we had a duty to inform the public, above all else.
You are not responsible for this.
There's no way to predict a kid with a gun is gonna try to play hero.
Victim's name is Peter Salah.
He's heading into surgery right now.
He's in critical condition.
Peter's 24, single, works down the street as a handyman.
He was on a job all morning, headed out to get some piping to finish a work order.
The keys to his car were in his pocket.
Ok.
I want a full search of all the surrounding buildings.
Our unsub was here.
And we have less than 5 minutes.
[Sighs.]
All right, I just spoke to a neighbor who says that he saw Kary Karlsson being forced into a vehicle outside her apartment building.
- She was abducted? - According the neighbor, a man fitting the description of our unsub approached Kary brandishing a weapon of some kind.
Probably the machete.
He forced her into a white sedan and drove off.
The neighbor didn't report the incident until he arrived at work some 40 minutes later.
Some neighbor.
So our unsub grabbed Kary outside of her loft, drove her to a secondary location, viciously attacked her, and then let her go.
Why? Why risk moving her at all? Do you think they were all abducted? That's a good bet.
Lewis: It's like Reid said.
The movements of this unsub, they're calculated.
He takes a working-class family man and kills him in an upscale community, and then he takes a well-to-do graphic designer and drops her off in a seedy neighborhood.
And finally, he takes a cook and lays him at the feet of rich lobbyists on K street.
This entire thing, this is about inequality.
Right.
Ok.
I'm on it.
Hey, hang on.
Hang on.
So our unsub grabs Kary, puts her in the car, closes the door, locks it, runs around to the other side of the car, gets in, closes the door, locks it, starts the car, and drives.
And all the while holding a machete on Kary? And she doesn't fight back or make a run for it? That doesn't make sense.
Unless He has a partner.
Someone in the backseat with a knife or a gun to control the victim.
We're looking for a team.
Usually it's just me and my guys talking it over.
We don't normally do profiles.
Just follow my lead.
You'll be fine.
Wagner: Everybody settled? Ok, let's go.
As you know, we are now two hours into a citywide manhunt.
We can now say with confidence that we're looking for a pair of statement-oriented spree killers.
These partners are believed to be in their late twenties to early thirties, African-American males.
Our unsubs are probably bonded by a shared grievance A loss or a past trauma.
As with any partnership, like the D.
C.
snipers, there is most likely a dominant and a submissive.
Examination of the wound patterns dictates that both of these men have had hands in these attacks.
They're taking turns.
So while one may be dominant over the other, they are equal participants, equally dangerous.
Our suspects are abducting their victims.
They're taking them from the neighborhoods where they live into neighborhoods they would not be likely to visit.
This back and forth across the city is a deliberate provocation designed to question our assumptions about who belongs where Inequality, privilege, class.
Our unsub's anger is focused on something along those lines.
We need to concentrate on recent flashpoints in the city's history Bad shooting, suspicious death.
Anything that would have caused a backlash or controversy within the community.
These attacks are a statement.
It's their response.
And they won't stop until they feel heard.
In addition to the manned checkpoints going up around the district, we need to be looking at arrest records, complaints, threats.
These two are out there.
We know what we're looking for.
Let's get to work.
[Alarm blaring.]
Wagner: Ok, let's go.
Anything? No.
Garcia's monitoring EMs calls, but they're late.
Maybe our roadblocks are working.
If our unsubs stick to pattern, they've likely already abducted their next victim.
The question is where would they take them? Well, what would make the biggest splash? Well, if they continued heading north cycling between rich and poor neighborhoods, they have a couple of options, but Columbia heights has been in the news lately.
JJ: Yeah, I read about that.
Residents are upset about some of the efforts to gentrify the neighborhood.
Yeah.
They're trying to turn the area around Height's Park into luxury condos.
Well, that would certainly fit with their mission statement.
Reid: We've got units canvassing these two blocks, but nothing here near the park.
Call Luke.
Have him meet you there with a couple of plainclothes officers.
Take a look.
They're late, but there's no way they're not showing up, not once they've finally got everyone's attention.
Still, what's their endgame? I mean, they aren't trying to get away with this, otherwise they would have taken more precautions.
It feels like they're prepared to die, like the Vegas or the Orlando shooters, either in a hail of bullets or suicide by cop.
Well, that's likely true for the dominant, - whose sense of agree - [Cell phone rings.]
Hey, Garcia.
I just intercepted a 9-1-1 call.
There's been another attack.
Where? Right there.
Right where you are.
[Woman screams.]
Help! I need help! Somebody! [Horn honks.]
Driver: Hey, watch it! JJ: Are you hurt? No, the parking lot.
A man.
Hurry! This is SSA Luke Alvez.
I need an ambulance immediately.
We're in a residential parking lot on 16th, 700 block.
No, no, no, no.
Don't move.
Don't move, ok? Hey, did you see who attacked him? It was a man, African American.
Which way did he go? That way.
JJ: Go.
Go, Luke.
We're fine.
Officers, come with me.
Let's go.
1 and 2 and 3 and 4 and 1 and 2 and 3 and 4.
And 1 and 2 and 3 and 4.
Hey, stay back.
Man: Hang on.
Hey, come on, man.
Turn that off.
FBI, turn your phone off.
Let's go back to the first victim, Charles O'Neill.
Our unsubs took a big risk going after a guy like that first.
JJ: FBI.
Turn your phone off.
Guys, this is live.
This is happening right now.
Lewis: Oh, my God.
Son of a bitch.
I don't want to see any of this on the news.
We need to shut this feed down immediately.
Agreed.
[Tires squeal.]
Alvez: Get the plate! - [Approaching sirens.]
- Come on.
And 2 and 3, 4.
Spencer, come on.
Let me.
I got it.
I got it.
I can do it.
I can do this.
[Sirens.]
Hey.
Uh, he's been stabbed multiple times.
Multiple stab wounds.
We got it from here.
We got it.
Ok.
Man: We're getting him some help, guys.
Back it up.
Come on, get back.
[Electricity whirs.]
Clear.
Come on, come on.
Come back to us.
He must have hit an artery.
He's lost too much blood.
Going again.
[Electricity whirs.]
Clear.
He's gone.
Sorry.
[Sighs.]
He's dead.
No, he's not dead.
There's got to be something else that they can do.
Garcia Restart the clock.
[Beep.]
FBI, don't move.
Officer: Put your hands in the air.
Drop the weapon now.
- [Machete clatters.]
- Turn around.
Hands behind your head.
Uh, 700.
Nice work.
Yeah, thanks.
We tracked him from the parking lot.
- They split up? - Yeah, this one ran.
The other one drove off.
We've got uniforms canvassing the area.
Upon contact, this suspect surrendered.
No fight.
He's got no I.
D.
he hasn't said or asked for anything.
- But he gave himself up.
- Mm-hmm.
We profiled these guys as confrontational and statement-driven.
The fact that he surrendered makes me think he must be the submissive in the partnership.
How do you want to do this? We need to get him talking, see if we can get him to give up his accomplice.
I'll do it alone.
I think he'll respond to someone less authoritative than his partner.
Give me a minute.
Yes, ma'am.
I'm Emily Prentiss.
I'm with the FBI.
You can call me Emily.
What's your name? You have a name, right? What about your partner? Where'd he go? He just took off, left you behind? Left you holding the machete.
I can help you.
There's still time to do the right thing.
I know this wasn't your idea.
And this isn't what you really want.
18:46.
18:45.
18:44.
18:43.
This is not a game.
No, it isn't, Emily.
What is your name? Tick tock, Emily.
Tick tock.
All right, they've split up.
They know we're closing in.
What's next? Well, we've disrupted their ability to abduct and to transport their victims, so now the dominant not only has to pick his next victim, but his next spot.
Maybe a mall or museum, park.
Right.
Somewhere wealthy, something that represents progress, but at the same time, at this point, it's personal to them.
Prentiss: He's taunting us.
As long as his partner's still out there, the mission continues, and he knows it.
Yeah, we can't just keep making runs at him.
He's gonna lawyer up.
In 15 minutes, it won't matter.
- No one else dies today.
- [Cell phone rings.]
Dave, tell me you found something.
We've been spinning our wheels, trying to figure out why these two would go after a guy like Charles O'Neill first.
Well, I just got off the phone with O'Neill's wife.
She told me that outside of his day job, he would moonlight as a bouncer.
He worked in Anacostia at a club called Hard Times.
Last week there was a stabbing.
A young man died.
Bled to death.
Sound familiar? Garcia: I found it buried in the weekly beat report.
Young man's name was Tom Wells, 18 years old, born and raised in the district.
He's survived by his two older brothers, James and Marcus Wells.
James is the oldest.
He raised both the other two when their mom died when they were young.
You've arrested Marcus.
James is still out there.
Looks like their brother's funeral was yesterday.
What about the incident itself? Did they arrest anyone? Yeah.
Guy's name was Lonny Carson.
He is in jail.
He's awaiting trial.
I'm sending you everything I've got now.
Prentiss: Loop Mendoza's team in.
I want agents at their work and home, girlfriends, boyfriends, family.
No stone unturned.
That's how I roll.
What the hell am I missing here? If the guy that stabbed their brother is sitting in jail, why are they still out here carving up innocent people? Ok, go back to the profile.
Inequality, class, injustice.
They're trying to tell us this is about something deeper.
So then why target Charles O'Neill? All the others seem to have been chosen at random.
It's possible they feel Charles O'Neill bears some blame for Tom's death.
But Charles is like them.
He's from a similar neighborhood and economic background.
Striking him first draws a direct parallel between their brother's death and everyone else's.
There's no way Marcus is gonna give up his brother.
Maybe not.
But for the first time today, we have the upper hand.
[Indistinct chatter.]
Marcus Wells, 1521 Harris street in Garfield Heights.
Brother of Tom and James Wells.
I am sorry about the loss of your brother.
He seemed like a good kid.
Graduated top of his class.
Tom was a freshman at Hallridge university Don't.
Don't even say his name.
You're not allowed to say his name.
What about James? I'm going to level with you, Marcus.
There are only two ways for this to end, and I don't think you want to bury another brother this week.
I need you to tell me where James is.
I know this whole day was his idea.
He was sent to juvie twice, jail once.
James likes to fight.
You have no idea who James is.
He raised us.
He worked two jobs just to put Tom through school.
You don't know him.
You don't know me, what we've been through.
So tell me.
Why? You don't care about me or my brother.
You just as soon shoot us dead in the street, like that unarmed man who got shot today.
Where were you then? What did you do to help him? The way I see it, that blood is on your hands.
So you think this is what Tom would have wanted, for you to kill a bunch of innocent people in his name? See, I think he would have been ashamed.
No, no, no.
No, he would have understood what we were trying to say.
Marcus, whatever point you were trying to make is irrelevant now.
You've killed two people.
You've critically injured two others.
This is over.
Look, your only option is to talk to me, to tell me where James is.
There is still time.
You've got a chance here to do the right thing.
The right thing? My brother did everything right and he never had a chance.
He never had a chance.
Today proved that.
A chance at what? Surviving? Why 27, Marcus? Why not 26 or 24? I ask myself that question every day.
Every damn day.
What does 27 mean? Everything.
It means everything.
I'm done talking.
I want a lawyer.
[Dials cell phone.]
Anything? - [Line rings.]
- We'll see.
Garcia? Yeah, I'm here.
Talk to me.
I need you to pull emergency response call logs from the night that Tom Wells was murdered.
On it.
[Typing.]
How much time do we have? Less than 10 minutes.
What are you thinking? 27 minutes has been staring us in the face this whole time.
Marcus and his brother think that where you live not only determines your quality of life, but your quality of care.
Your zip code determines your fate.
That's why they're moving these people back and forth.
They're trying to show us the disparity in response times.
That's why they call 9-1-1.
Yeah, rich neighborhoods get faster care than poor neighborhoods.
And actions speak louder than words.
They thought the most effect way to get their message across would be to demonstrate it in real time.
The night Tom died, I bet we're gonna find out it took 27 minutes for help to arrive.
Tom probably bled to death in the street in his brothers' arms.
Oh, jeez, this is awful.
They called 9-1-1 9 times.
And for whatever reason, it took the ambulance 27 minutes to get there.
Tom was pronounced dead at the scene.
What can you tell me about Tom and James relationship? James did everything for his little brother.
The night that they went out, it was to celebrate Tom's first semester at Hallridge university.
Hallridge.
That's it.
When I mentioned that Tom was a freshman there, Marcus lost it.
You think that's where James is headed? I think they're grieving for what they've lost, this future that was ripped away from their brother and their family, and Hallridge is a part of that.
An innocent student would in essence be the perfect stand in for their brother.
Rossi: The ultimate surrogate.
Garcia: Hallridge isn't far, just a few miles away.
You know, it's almost like they've been heading there this whole time.
Mendoza: Listen, if we're going to shut down an entire campus in less than 10 minutes, we're gonna have to divert all of our resources, pull the units off the streets.
If we're wrong.
We're not wrong.
This is his final play, I'm sure of it.
Keep a low profile.
We don't want to provoke him.
Thayer hall, where Tom roomed, is directly to our north.
James is not planning on walking out of here alive.
Our goal is to isolate and deescalate.
All right, let's clear these students out of here, please.
This way.
Hey, guys, could I get you to do me a favor and head indoors? All right, move these people out.
Hey, guys.
FBI.
We need you to head inside, ok? Yes, sir.
On chapter two Ladies, I'm with the FBI.
Go on.
Everybody please just head inside.
Thank you.
Mendoza: Ladies, I need you to take it indoors for me, ok? Guys, take it indoors, please.
Guys, take it indoors for me, will you? Will you head inside? Come on.
Come on, let's go.
Fellas, take it indoors for me, will you? Guys, I need you to take it inside.
Let's go.
Aah! [Woman screaming.]
Status report.
Yeah, I heard it.
I'm at 3 o'clock, but I don't see anything.
Nothing to your south.
Mendoza, status.
- Mendoza.
- Don't! - Do you copy? - Don't! [Indistinct chatter.]
Miss, look at me.
Look at me.
You're gonna be ok.
Ok? You're gonna be ok.
James, I'm gonna need you to let her go.
I want you to take me, all right? I'm FBI.
A fed.
I'm the guy you want.
Ok? You want people to pay attention, right? Let her go.
Come on, brother.
Let her go.
Take me.
Come on.
Come on.
[Woman screams.]
FBI, get out of the way.
Get out of the way.
Aah! [Groans.]
Prentiss: James, drop the weapon.
We have you surrounded.
This is over now.
No, it ain't.
You gonna feel what it's like.
You gonna feel what it's like to watch someone you care about bleed to death in front of you.
We waited 27 minutes and no one came.
No one.
Do you know what that's like? Huh? To be powerless? You think he's got 27 minutes? What happened to your brother was a tragedy.
Mistakes were made.
No! No.
It wasn't a mistake.
And it wasn't an accident.
The system worked exactly like it was built to.
Tom did everything right, and they still let him die in the street.
You're right.
It's not fair and it's not equal, and that has to change.
But we can't control what happens around us or to us.
We can only control how we respond.
Look, I don't want to shoot you.
Do you see those news crews over there? I'm gonna let you tell your story, so we can make sure that what happened to your brother never happens again.
[Grunts.]
Stay down.
Stay down.
Hands, hands.
[Sirens approaching.]
I need a medic.
We've got a man down.
[Handcuffs click.]
You're gonna be fine.
I've got you.
Help is coming.
We'll need a board.
You can't tell from my face how much this hurts, right? Not at all.
You're gonna be fine.
You're gonna be ok.
[Grunting.]
Lewis: Hey.
You all right? Yeah.
We got him.
That was a hell of a punch.
Heh.
Will Samson: your body is a bird with its wings hidden deep in your mind just like a light in the storm clouds how they shine oh, how they shine ghosts in the night, I can see them who caused you harm? Who's been unkind? Smile only with your eyes 'cause with your mouth, it's just a good disguise [Knocking.]
Hey.
[Clears throat.]
Hey.
I know it's late.
I just wanted to see how you were doing.
You look well.
[Scoffs.]
Thanks.
It's Pain meds are spectacular.
[Chuckles.]
Peter Salah, the man our would-be hero shot, he's gonna pull through.
Oh, great.
That's great.
That's great.
You know, you're D.
C.
's new celebrity.
They can't stop talking about you.
[Scoffs.]
Listen, your reputation, it doesn't do you justice.
People told me you were good, but you're like really good.
It's a group effort.
Anyway, when are you getting out of here? Uh, soon, I hope.
Um, my vital organs are in place, so there's that.
Good.
[Inhales.]
Because, uh, I did save your life.
Least you could do is buy me a beer or something.
Yeah.
Yeah, I could do that.
I might even be able to take you to dinner.
I mean, since we're gonna be out.
Maybe a ballgame.
I could get you one of those little hats with ice cream in it.
You know, if you're into that kind of thing.
Well, it sounds like a date.
Yeah.
It'd be a date.
I'll think about it.