Criminal Minds s16e02 Episode Script
Sicarius
1
Previously on
"Criminal Minds: Evolution"
PRENTISS: Agent Lewis
uncovered a mass grave.
She'll be staying in Washington State.
I'm gonna need some help.
Tara Lewis.
LEWIS: Looks like there's been an
active killer up here for decades.
We got 16 dead bodies
in a buried shipping container.
BAILEY: When's the last time
David Rossi was in the office?
People are saying this past year,
Agent Rossi's been obsessed.
All those years working in
the basement caught up with him.
JENNIFER: What're you working on?
Westbrook family in Alexandria.
This isn't about invasion.
It's about destruction of a family.
[SCREAMING]
Chrissy Delaney was targeted on "SOAR".
That's impossible.
Luke, "SOAR" is unhackable.
I know. I'm the one that secured it.
It's sophisticated
for a 19-year-old kid.
What are the chances
we have identical foot lockers
on opposite coasts?
We need all eyes on this.
♪
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What
What is
I don't feel so good.
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One, two, three.
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[METAL CLINKS]
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[SCISSORS CLANK]
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[METAL CLINKING]
[SQUISHING]
What's What's going on?
[SQUISHING, CLINKING]
What
What are you
Can you feel that?
- No.
- Good.
No, man, I c I can't feel anything.
Wh
Wait, wait, wait, no! P-P-Please stop!
- Stop! What are you doing to me?
- Shh! Shh!
What are you doing?
Shh! I want you to listen
very carefully.
[METAL CLICKS]
Because you have a choice to make.
♪
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Okay, got the kids breakfast,
made their lunches,
confirmed that Kaylen
is our 13-year-old's friend
but not friend-friend.
Boom. I rule.
What else you got for me,
LaMontagne, huh?
- Bring it.
- Well, how's your appetite?
'Cause I got us a table at
that new Italian place tonight.
Ooh, Italiano.
Yeah.
Tonight.
Yeah, tonight's date night.
[CHUCKLES] Uh, another body
turned up this morning.
Rock Creek Park.
Alright.
It's alright.
Uh, hey, hang on.
Might be able to shuffle
some things around.
No, don't do that.
But can you, uh, confirm
something for me?
So I can tell myself
I'm not going crazy?
You've had a lot on your
shoulders since we got back.
Like, a lot.
And I know you're supermom
and the boys aren't suffering.
But, um
Um, you're talking about us?
Yeah.
Kinda.
Okay, just
just give me give me a chance.
Alright? To make it up to you.
I will.
I swear.
Okay.
Have a good day.
♪
Morning. How was your night?
Fine. How was yours?
Good.
You, uh, still living
out of that hotel, Dave?
What's the case?
This one is in our backyard.
Four days ago, Alex Arnold was dumped
at a rest stop outside of Silver Spring.
Cause of death was
a severed spinal cord.
Last night, it went serial
with Steve Duncan.
Same COD, severed spinal cord.
Good-looking men in their 30s,
not a victimology we see a lot of.
They're usually the UnSubs.
Well, these two were targeted
for a very specific reason.
They both had apps like Tinder, Feeld,
Adult Friend Finder on their phone.
That is where they advertise
their services as bulls.
Are bulls the same thing as studs?
Close.
In the kink known as cuckolding,
wives cheat on
their husbands with bulls.
Men like this.
No money trades hands.
It's all legal and consensual.
The UnSub could have been
burned by that.
Now he's taking his revenge.
There is another reason
why we have to take this case.
Our last UnSub, Rory Gilcrest,
he switched cars
at a Wal-Mart parking lot.
This UnSub did the same thing.
Down to the Wal-Mart.
We profiled that Rory had a partner.
But, I mean
Is this our shipping container guy?
I checked with Tara.
None of the bodies
in the shipping container
have severed spinal cords.
Yes, this is a very specific signature,
but we can't ignore
what's in front of us.
Details from our last case
are showing up here.
Then there's another theory
we have to consider.
Who's ever behind the shipping container
doesn't have one partner.
He has two.
LEWIS: So, the plan here
is standard operating procedure.
We are processing the photographs,
but our main focus
is a complete DNA breakdown.
Once the samples are crossed and typed,
we can ID bodies and then,
fingers crossed, our UnSub.
Locard's Exchange Principle
says that a perpetrator
takes and leaves something
at every crime scene.
If this guy revisited this for 17 years,
there's gonna be some
piece of him in there.
Prentiss? What did you do?
Director Bailey, sir, I had to move
this from Washington State.
The locals didn't have
the resources necessary
to investigate it fully.
And I get it. I love it.
I love the enthusiasm.
But the brass is not gonna like this.
The body count's already gone up to 24,
not counting the bones.
I-I want to be clear here.
The brass doesn't want the BAU
solving this case?
It's not that simple.
Let me run it up the flagpole.
Just hope it's worth it.
Get me Director McNamara
in Resource Management.
Man. You deal with that every day?
Every day.
As if this job wasn't hard enough.
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[GRUNTS SOFTLY]
[LOCK OPENS]
[CELLPHONE BUZZING]
[BUZZING STOPS]
[SCREECHES, BEEPS]
[BUTTONS CLICKING]
[SCREECHING]
[BEEPING]
UNSUB: I want you to listen
very carefully.
Because you have a choice to make.
I'm going to cut your spinal cord.
Oh, God.
You can either live as a quadriplegic.
Control nothing from the neck down.
Or I kill you.
So what's your choice?
Kill me.
[SOBBING]
[CRUNCHING]
[GASPS]
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[BUTTONS CLICKING]
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[GENERATOR WHIRRING, LIGHTS BUZZING]
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[SIGHS]
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LEWIS: It is claimed
that Oscar Wilde wrote,
"Everything in the world
is about sex, except sex.
Sex is about power".
Except he didn't.
Nobody knows who wrote it.
So I combed through
our two victims' cellphones.
And, uh, these bulls,
they made a large number
of women very, very happy.
- What're you, jealous?
- No.
I respect the sanctity
of marriage too much
to mess with married women.
I was looking for overlap
between the wives.
If the UnSub is a cuckolded husband,
I figured that's the place
to start, but so far, nothing.
How about a tox screen?
This UnSub said must be
using heavy-duty narcotics.
Still waiting. But you're right.
If he's performing back surgery,
it's gonna take a lot more
than a bonk on the head.
Where are we with hotels?
Number one was no help.
But number two had the receipts.
So Steve Duncan didn't pay for the room.
His lady friend did, Julie Sullivan.
Why does she look familiar?
That's 'cause she's married to this guy.
Jack Sullivan, City Councilman
for the District of Columbia.
Bring them both in.
The councilman will stonewall us,
but we might be able
to get something from the wife.
It'd be nice if we could
get some background intel
on the both of them,
but without Penelope
We don't have time.
Guys, I know the BAU is different.
I miss Reid. I miss Simmons.
And we all miss Penelope.
But we're gonna have to
solve this case without them.
Okay, pals, you're all wonderful,
but these little boxes are
making my brain wobbly.
And I'm sure it's not just me.
So let's pick this up tomorrow, okay?
Penelope, I'm still getting a 503
when I use the automated interface.
- Oh, Riley, I feel your pain.
- [KEYS CLACKING]
I'll tell you what,
I will e-mail you
my diagnostic checklist.
Still no bueno, give me a call. Okay?
Except not between 12:00 and 1:00
because that is my picnic time.
Alright? Bye!
Auf Wiedersehen!
[SLURPS]
[BEEP]
Who is this?
[BEEPS]
[BEEPING]
♪
Who are you, please?
[KEYS CLACKING]
[BEEPING]
♪
♪
Oh.
[BEEPING]
♪
Look, I cannot help you.
What you're asking me about,
it will destroy my career.
Then help yourself out, Councilman.
Let's start here.
You tell me where you were last night.
And if we can back up your story,
then your private life stays private.
I was at home waiting.
For Julie?
Jack waits for me.
And when I'm with, you know, other men,
I-I send him videos.
Doesn't your husband get jealous
when you do this?
Angry?
No.
It was my idea.
I didn't think she would
like it, but, uh
I do.
Because when he comes home,
it's like he has to win me over again.
It's none of my business, okay?
I'm not here to kink-shame you.
But I've got to be honest.
A lot of men have killed over less.
That's not me.
I'm not a killer.
Can you prove it?
♪
There's one last video Jack got.
I'll have him show it to you.
Is it of you and Steve?
No.
It was from him.
The man you're looking for.
I'm sorry. I know we should
have come forward sooner.
♪
The killer sent you a video?
Wait a minute. Wait, what?
H-How do you know?
Your wife just told me.
We need your phone right now.
I can't. I-If anyone finds out
If you don't, we'll arrest you
for withholding material evidence
in a homicide investigation.
You know what happens then?
Everyone finds out.
[CELLPHONE BEEPING]
You can't be serious.
I'm just the messenger.
But the higher-ups were very clear.
All costs associated with moving
the shipping container
come out of the BAU's budget.
Director, with all due respect,
this team has done
everything you've asked.
We've done more with less,
we've scrimped, we've saved.
And as section chief,
I am allowed discretionary spending.
I made that point.
They said you don't have
that much discretion.
I'm sorry, Emily.
We can't win against the bean counters.
What a crock of shit.
It's like we're being punished
for being good at our job.
Do you know Rebecca Wilson?
- At the DOJ?
- Yeah. She's a friend.
Want me to have her ask around,
find out what's up?
God, yes, please.
And please tell me we caught
a break with the container.
I wish I could.
We have covered every corner,
swabbed every corpse.
We triple-checked that foot locker.
Nothing.
Locard can kiss my ass.
Come on. Nobody's that good.
You want to bet?
[INDISTINCT CONVERSATIONS]
He double- and sometimes
triple-reinforced the metal
to prevent leaks.
He wiped down every surface with bleach
to destroy third-party DNA.
He wanted this place
as airtight as possible.
Safe, secure.
If the bodies were trophies,
like you thought,
he'd want to preserve them
as long as possible.
You know, I-I did think that.
But now I think they were experiments,
because he never repeated
the same pattern.
I mean, he stabbed that guy,
shot her, strangled him.
And then there's this guy.
What did he do to this guy?
He poured Sicarius spiders
down this victim's throat.
They're an incredibly poisonous genus
related to the brown recluse.
Some of the lab techs are starting
to call this UnSub that, "Sicarius".
- I hate spiders.
- [CELLPHONE BUZZING]
Yeah.
Okay, looks like JJ and Alvez
had a break in their case,
but they need to talk to
the entire team, including you.
UNSUB: You can either
live as a quadriplegic.
Control nothing from the neck down.
Or I kill you.
So what's your choice?
[BREATHING SHAKILY]
[BEEP]
Paralyzation or death.
Giving Steve Duncan an impossible choice
only heightens the UnSub's sadism.
Does he reveal his face?
No, but he does reveal something else
as he's turning the video off.
Right
here.
Whoa. That's another kill kit.
Yeah. We thought these cases
were connected
the shipping container, Rory Gilcrest,
our spinal cord guy.
And now we have our smoking gun.
Hmm.
Dave, what are you thinking?
All my years as a profiler,
I studied killers under
all kinds of pressure.
But I never studied what
a pandemic would do to them.
They couldn't move, they couldn't hunt.
But that compulsion
would still drive them,
and they would need
some sort of an outlet.
So they started communicating,
helping each other
to become better predators.
We've got two.
And if we follow the bread
crumbs, we'll find our third.
No, no, no. This is
too organized, too connected.
There's more.
We don't know that for sure.
Think about what we do
know about him so far.
He's controlled, disciplined.
He knows how to hide. Right?
He knows if there's no body,
there's no crime.
But he's a hunter, restless.
Always looking for a better way.
So let's apply that behavior
to his followers.
JENNIFER: I see what Rossi's saying.
Why would he be content with just two?
He isn't with the killings.
So these aren't just connected cases.
This is a network.
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[BEEPING]
♪
ROSSI: I don't understand.
Why can't we tell Director
Bailey what we have?
- Because it's not enough.
- How can you say that?
This is the biggest case we've ever had.
O-Okay, so let's just stick
to what we can prove.
We thought the shipping
container ended in 2020
because of the pandemic, but it didn't.
Instead, the UnSub gathered followers.
Followers that he's now activating.
And if that's what he gets off on,
he might reactivate himself.
Israel Keyes placed kill kits
across the country,
all for his own use.
Emily, we need more resources.
You know that.
I also know that every time
I try to get those resources,
Bailey screws us.
What we need is a way around him.
Have any ideas?
No.
But she might.
Prentiss, Rossi, this is
Rebecca Wilson with the DOJ.
Hi, Emily.
Agent Rossi, big fan.
Likewise if you can get some
FBI bureaucrats off our back.
[CHUCKLES] I got the download
on Director Bailey.
He climbed the ladder at DOJ
by being an efficiency expert.
Slashes budgets, reduces staff,
takes the credit when he can,
and passes the buck everywhere else.
Now that he's Deputy Director
for the Bureau,
he sees a path to becoming AG.
So the BAU's a political football.
More like a chess piece.
Explain something to me like I'm five.
The unit gets results.
Where others see monsters,
we see patterns.
We understand how psychopaths
think and we stop them.
Why fix what's not broken?
I can ask around.
There's nothing on the table.
But there could be something
in the works.
There's always something in the works.
- LEWIS: Thanks, Rebecca.
- Yeah.
Are you kidding me? Are you kidding?
Ow. What?
Y-You and her.
You're so a thing.
No! W-What?
Oh, God. Is it that obvious?
I mean, the temperature
in the room went up
like 10 degrees when you two walked in.
How long has this been going on?
A couple months. Cards on the table.
This is not my first time
dating a woman,
but, oh, man,
it is my first time being this happy.
Oh, that's good.
Oh, we could use some
happiness around here.
Besides, we're gonna give you
so much shit for this.
Ugh.
♪
[BRAKES SQUEAL]
[GEARSHIFT CLICKS, ENGINE SHUTS OFF]
[SEAT BELT CLICKS]
[CELLPHONE BUZZING]
[BEEPING]
What is it?
When do I get to go again?
I told you. Not yet.
That's not fair. There's someone I want.
Robert, are you disobeying me?
No, of course not.
[SIGHS] But why are we stopping now?
It's not a stop. It's a pause.
Somebody took something of mine.
I need to make sure
that can't happen again.
And then you can go again.
When?
Soon.
I need to do some shopping first.
[CELLPHONE BEEPS]
♪
[CAR DOOR CLOSES]
[BEEP]
Okay, that's 10 rolls of duct tape,
6 rolls of electrical tape,
10 toggle switches,
4 bags of wire nuts, wire cutters,
2 small 12-volt batteries.
That'll be $449.49.
Do you take cash?
Sure.
Sorry. Got to make sure
you're not a counterfeiter
or drug dealer.
Definitely not that interesting.
Uh, network security, you know,
making sure people don't get
hacked, that sort of thing.
You need duct tape for network security?
No, I need duct tape
for a personal project
that engages my mind because
network security is very boring.
Especially during the pandemic.
You'd be shocked how careless people get
when you give them instructions
over the Internet.
Look where I work.
I can totally believe it.
[CELLPHONE BUZZING]
Hey, you can get that. It's fine.
Nah. Work. It's always work.
Don't worry about it.
Did you want to join
our rewards program?
- No, I'm good.
- You sure?
'Cause, I mean, you get 20% off
and you have a huge order.
I said I'm good!
Um, my bad.
Sorry.
Who's that?
Ah, that's Moose.
He's my floof.
You know, network security,
home security,
we work hand in hand.
Security cameras, motion-sensor lights.
It's all the same. Nothing beats a dog.
Not Moose. He's a big old goofball.
You don't say?
Mm-hmm.
Well, Tawny, thank you for everything.
♪
[BELL DINGS]
What if who's ever running the
network is as good as Garcia?
You know, our spinal-cord guy
knew the Sullivans' phone number.
He knew when and where
they were meeting their bulls.
So far, our remote Garcias
have found nothing.
If Sicarius and his followers
are as good at hacking
as they are at murder, we're in trouble.
Who's Sicarius?
Uh, Tara said that's what they're naming
the shipping container UnSub.
I'm not gonna name this jag-off.
Fuckhead! Okay? Call him that.
I want to know how to catch him.
Go about that the same way
we would a terrorist cell
or a Mafia family, right?
One case at a time
and hope that our UnSub
gives us the whole network.
Well, then let's focus on this case.
Where are we with the profile?
Still nowhere on
the jealous-husband front.
I mean, the guys that I questioned,
they're all beta males, nonviolent type.
I'm beginning to think
we're looking in the wrong suspect pool.
Yeah, I am, too.
Especially after watching
that murder video.
[SIGHS]
Okay, so sending the husband
homemade porn
is part of the cuckold kink, right?
The bull gets off
on the power and control.
That's why our profile's off.
If we rebuild the profile
based around the theory
that it's a bull killing other bulls,
I think we'll get farther.
Do it.
[CELLPHONE BUZZING]
[CELLPHONE BEEPS]
Penelope?
GARCIA: I need to see you.
I don't know what it is.
Just material evidence
in an FBI investigation.
However, 13 additional encryption links
are embedded in there.
My guess is it's more
coordinates, but mnh.
You should have the me's-who-
are-not-as-good-as-me crack it.
That's kind of suspicious,
don't you think?
I mean, somebody e-mails
this to you on the same day
that we uncover a serial killer network?
Suspicious, coincidence,
not my department anymore.
Well, maybe it ought to be,
'cause this is the second time
they've pulled you in.
And now somebody is feeding you clues.
We need you to get
to the bottom of this.
Mm.
What?
Nothing.
No. Hey, hey, hey.
What? No, wait. You can tell me.
Talk to me. What?
Have you gone to therapy
since Krystall died?
What the hell is that supposed to mean?
- You said I could say it.
- Yeah, well, alright.
Well, that's a little judgy,
don't you think?
- I am not judgy.
- I think that you are.
I'll grieve in my own way.
Thank you very much.
And I wish other people
would respect that.
I do. I do respect it.
It's just that I've been
going to therapy, okay?
And And one of the things
that my licensed clinical social
worker, Tristan, helped me see
after they picked their jaw
up off the floor
from learning of all the things
I've survived,
I have been absorbing trauma
since I was really young
and thinking I was some sort
of hero for doing it.
And then I got a job for 15 years
where even when you do the right thing,
even when you stop serial killers,
your body is absorbing that trauma.
And I'm not a hero for holding on to it
because trauma has to be off-loaded.
It has to be transformed,
or your body will destroy you.
And [SIGHS] Dave, when I look at you
ever since you found out
about Krystall's diagnosis
I think it's better we don't go there.
Right. Okay.
What I mean is, you know
how everybody's life
fell apart during the pandemic
but then there was a handful of people
that were thriving
from sheltering in place?
I am one of those people.
My resting heart rate is stellar.
I'm eating even more phytonutrients.
I-I'm meditating.
You should try that, actually.
I did. I kept falling asleep.
Me too. That was happening to me.
You need to Not the point.
My point right now is,
I miss the team every day.
I miss you every day.
But I don't miss the work.
♪
Can I give you a hug
so I know we're okay?
I'm gonna take your silence as consent.
♪
This is how I profile people.
♪
I really am happy for you.
More than that, I'm jealous.
I want what you have.
But right now I've got a job to do.
You got to go catch a bad guy.
♪
♪
[BRAKES SQUEAL]
[ENGINE SHUTS OFF]
♪
[MESSAGE WHOOSHES]
[MESSAGES CHIMING]
Aah! No! Help!
He took a woman this time?
Are we sure it's the same UnSub?
Yeah. Michelle Tucker.
Lives in Frederick, Maryland.
Her husband reported her missing.
Police found her abandoned car
at a Costco.
Not a Wal-Mart, but close enough.
That's a huge shift in victimology.
Why change now?
I'm thinking because he had to.
We got the tox screen results back,
and the drugs that he uses
for the surgeries,
they're paralytics
to immobilize the victim, sure,
but they're typically prescribed
to treat pain from a back injury.
So if this medication is his,
his condition could tell us
something about him.
There's only so many 200-pound men
a guy with a back injury
can carry around.
So he took Michelle.
Maybe that was out of convenience,
but we can't rule out
a personal connection.
It's like his kink
got turned inside out.
What do you mean?
One side effect of back injuries
is erectile dysfunction.
Our fears come out in our sex lives.
We hate to admit it, but it's true.
He can't perform anymore.
So he's punishing anyone who still can.
Severing the spinal cord
is his only way to feel virile.
Is the husband on his way in?
Yeah. Just landed.
Give him our profile.
Somehow he and Michelle know this guy.
No, no, this can't be happening.
Mr. Tucker, we're doing
everything we can,
but our best hope depends on you
being completely honest here.
Yeah, yeah, whatever you need.
Who was Michelle seeing last night?
- [BUTTONS CLICKING]
- This guy.
Wait a minute. That's the same number
that sent the video to the Sullivans.
Gonna do a reverse image search here.
[BEEPING]
This is from a sexy
firefighters calendar.
You and Michelle were catfished.
What?
Mr. Tucker, Michelle
was targeted for a reason.
Maybe because you'd seen
this bull before.
A man who recently suffered
a back injury
who can't perform anymore.
Does any of this ring a bell?
Robert Harris.
Okay.
Who is he?
He promised the best sex
Michelle was ever gonna have.
But a couple months ago, he got
into a motorcycle accident,
so we found another bull.
Salt in the wound.
Telling him he's not good enough.
He'd attack that.
Okay, we need everything
you have on him.
- Phone number, address, car, anything.
- Yeah.
[PEACEFUL MUSIC PLAYING]
MINDFULNESS VOICE: You
might feel intrusive thoughts.
That's perfectly natural.
[COMPUTER BEEPING]
Just observe those thoughts.
Like a twig floating on a stream.
[COMPUTER BEEPING]
[SIGHS]
[MUSIC STOPS]
[BEEP]
Yeah, Riley? How are you?
Riley?
[DISTORTED VOICE] HelperCat 220?
Y-Yes?
Did you decrypt it?
Oh, my God, it's you.
Did you decrypt it?
No. I mean, yes, but no.
Why not?
Because I gave it to the FBI.
- You what?
- Gave it to the FBI.
Look, whoever you think I am, I am not.
Then who are you? Don't you understand?
You're the only one who could help me.
Now, because you didn't,
people are gonna die!
[COMPUTER BEEPS]
[SIGHS]
[METAL CLINKING]
H-Hello?
[METAL CLINKING]
P-Please, I-I don
I don't know what this is.
[EXHALES DEEPLY]
Why can't I move?
[EXHALES DEEPLY, GASPS]
- Do you feel that?
- No.
Why are you doing this to me?
Because you need to learn
who's in charge.
[ELEVATOR BELL DINGS]
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♪
♪
[BEEP]
♪
♪
[SWITCH CLICKS]
[SIGHS]
♪
[MONITOR WHIRRING]
[BEEP]
Do you need my login or passwo
[KEYS CLACKING]
[MONITORS WHIRRING]
[CLICK]
[BEEPING]
Huh.
What?
Each link has a different key.
That means each one goes
to a different recipient.
13 in all.
Can you crack it?
Can you turn this on, please?
Turn the volume all the way up.
[RUN-DMC'S "TRICKY" PLAYS]
This beat is my recital ♪
I think it's very vital ♪
To rock a rhyme that's right on time ♪
It's Tricky is the title, here we go ♪
It's tricky to rock a rhyme ♪
To rock a rhyme that's right on time ♪
It's tricky ♪
It's tricky, tricky, tricky, tricky ♪
It's tricky to rock a rhyme ♪
To rock a rhyme that's right on time ♪
It's tricky ♪
Tr-Tr-Tr-Tricky, tricky, trrricky ♪
I met this little girlie ♪
Her hair was kinda curly ♪
Went to her house and bust her out ♪
I had to leave real early ♪
These girls are really sleazy ♪
All they just say is, "Please me" ♪
Or spend some time and rock a rhyme ♪
I said "It's not that easy" ♪
It's tricky to rock a rhyme ♪
To rock a rhyme that's right on ♪
What are we looking at?
I don't know. But I say we map it.
It's tricky, tricky, tricky, tricky ♪
It's tricky to rock a rhyme ♪
To rock a rhyme ♪
[INDISTINCT CONVERSATIONS]
[BEEPING]
Quiet, guys.
[BEEPING CONTINUES]
[BEEPING CONTINUES]
♪
[BUTTONS CLICKING]
[CELLPHONE BUZZES, BEEPS]
Yeah, Tara?
Something in the kill kit
just went active.
Those are transponders.
ROSSI: This is how the UnSubs
are finding they kill kits he's burying.
Are you sure?
Yeah, because JJ and Alvez
are heading for one right now.
[WHIRRING]
♪
[BEEPING]
♪
- [STATIC HISSES]
- WOMAN: All units, all units, be advised,
be on the lookout for Robert Harris,
wanted in association
with multiple murders
and the abduction of Michelle Tucker.
[GASPS]
[METAL CLINKING]
You don't have to do this.
Okay?
Whatever I did, I'm I'm sorry.
[BEEPING]
[CELLPHONE RINGING]
♪
[CELLPHONE BEEPS]
What?
You broke the rules, Robert.
No, I didn't.
I told you to pause, and you didn't.
I told you to work from
a secondary location,
and you didn't.
And do you know how I know that?
Because of the fucking beeping
that we are both hearing right now!
[BEEPING CONTINUES]
♪
I-I didn't do this. I don't
know how that happened.
I do. You got sloppy.
And now the police
are on their way to you.
And you know what that means.
I-I can't.
Well, if you can't, then I will.
[BEEPING CONTINUES]
♪
Now, let me talk you through it.
♪
♪
♪
♪
♪
[ELEVATOR BELL DINGS]
♪
Robert Harris killed himself.
Same as Rory Gilcrest.
And just like Rory, nothing
about him profiled as suicidal.
Whoever Sicarius is, he must
have something on these guys.
Or that's the Devil's Bargain
for joining the network.
Kill yourself before you get caught.
Good for him. Bad for us.
We just lost our best lead.
It's okay. We've got others.
We do?
I'll explain.
Go interview them first
so they can go home.
Hey, guys.
♪
This is bad.
MAN: Bull sharks can live
in both salt and fresh water.
- Hi, baby. Come here.
- Its diet consists of fish,
- stingrays, crustaceans.
- Hi. [LAUGHS]
Moose, good boy!
other small shark species.
The bull shark prefers to hunt
by itself in murky waters
- so its prey is unable to see it.
- [RUSTLING, DOG WHIMPERS]
It commonly utilizes
13 signals just went to 12.
- 11.
- What the hell?
We turned them on, and
now someone turned them off,
which means he knows
that we're on to him.
[BEEPING]
Did I just make things worse?
No.
You did what you always do.
You helped.
♪
Can you stop them without me?
Honestly?
I don't know.
I need a moment.
♪
♪
[BUTTONS CLICKING]
Yeah. This is Mr. Rossi, Room 1805.
I'm gonna be checking out.
Thanks.
[BREATHING SHAKILY]
♪
♪
♪
♪
♪
[BUTTON CLICKS]
[EXHALES SHAKILY]
[KEYS CLACKING]
♪
[KEYS JINGLE]
♪
[CLICKING, LOCK OPENS]
[CLICKING, LOCK OPENS]
♪
♪
[SIGHS]
♪
[SIGHS]
♪
You're home.
Yeah. I didn't want to wake you.
- When'd you get in?
- Just now.
I missed my connecting.
I'm lucky I got a flight in.
- You want me to pour you a cup?
- No, I'm good.
I got enough gas in the tank
to make breakfast for the girls.
- Then I'll hit the hay.
- Wait, are you sure?
Because that would be a really big help.
Yeah, sure, I'm sure.
Aww.
Best husband ever.
♪
The boys are out the door,
so I'm gonna head into work.
Uh, yeah. Thanks.
You doing alright?
Do you think our fears
come out in our sex life?
Am I in trouble?
No.
[EXHALES DEEPLY]
That's good.
JENNIFER: I think about
our life sometimes,
and I realize it's crazy
that we ever made it.
And now our whole reality
is this giant clock
counting down the seconds
between school drop-off
and and family dinners and
Dead bodies.
Yeah, that too.
And the truth is,
there isn't enough time.
There never is.
And that
That's my fear.
We have full-time jobs and two kids.
We're doing the best we can.
♪
♪
Maybe.
Maybe we could do better.
♪
If we can't
make date night
we could always do date morning.
♪
[INDISTINCT CONVERSATIONS]
- Morning.
- Morning.
- [ELEVATOR BELL DINGS]
- Glad you're back.
I never left.
Hello. How are we doing?
You look great.
- Oh, come on.
- What?
Is everybody around here
getting laid except me?
Well, I'm not.
- Wow.
- I'm sorry.
Gallows humor, but it's all
I've got right now.
You know what? I will take
gallows humor over no humor.
What do we have?
Tara's girlfriend needs
to tell us something
about Director Bailey.
Good news or bad news?
Wait, did you say girlfriend?
Hey, can we, uh, close the door?
[DOOR CLOSES]
REBECCA: What I'm about
to tell you is classified.
If anyone finds out this came
from me, I'll be fired.
Understood.
Part of Doug Bailey's skill set
is knowing where the
department's focus is
because funding follows focus.
And as I'm sure you've read,
the FBI considers domestic terrorism
to be the fastest growing
threat to this country.
There's money in fast-growing threats.
There's none in serial killers.
He wants to shut down the BAU.
Not shut down.
The proposal I saw
calls for a reorganization.
The unit would be folded
under Domestic Terrorism.
He can bring in new leadership
if he can show that
the current one is wasteful.
But we're not.
You are as of his last budget.
Something about a shipping container.
Son of a bitch.
He's been setting us up this whole time.
What happens with us?
Reassigned.
Replaced.
Retired.
Rebecca, thank you.
I need to speak with the unit, please.
[DOOR OPENS]
So is is this it?
[DOOR CLOSES]
Is it over?
No, it's not over.
We're just getting started.
Yeah, but what moves do we have?
I mean, the guy's the Deputy Director.
We use his own argument against him.
He wants domestic terrorism.
We have a serial-killing network.
That is domestic terrorism.
If we catch them, if we
shut down the network,
if we stop Sicarius
We justify what we do.
Not even Bailey can touch us.
So it's a race.
We've got to get to those
kill kits before the UnSubs.
ALVEZ: Yeah, and with
no margin for error.
Once Bailey knows what we're up to,
he'll use any mistakes against us.
ROSSI: Maybe.
But we have a secret weapon.
♪
Let's get to work.
Oh! ♪
Oh! ♪
[INDISTINCT CONVERSATION]
Oh! ♪
Oh! ♪
Oh! ♪
♪
♪
♪
♪
♪
Previously on
"Criminal Minds: Evolution"
PRENTISS: Agent Lewis
uncovered a mass grave.
She'll be staying in Washington State.
I'm gonna need some help.
Tara Lewis.
LEWIS: Looks like there's been an
active killer up here for decades.
We got 16 dead bodies
in a buried shipping container.
BAILEY: When's the last time
David Rossi was in the office?
People are saying this past year,
Agent Rossi's been obsessed.
All those years working in
the basement caught up with him.
JENNIFER: What're you working on?
Westbrook family in Alexandria.
This isn't about invasion.
It's about destruction of a family.
[SCREAMING]
Chrissy Delaney was targeted on "SOAR".
That's impossible.
Luke, "SOAR" is unhackable.
I know. I'm the one that secured it.
It's sophisticated
for a 19-year-old kid.
What are the chances
we have identical foot lockers
on opposite coasts?
We need all eyes on this.
♪
♪
What
What is
I don't feel so good.
♪
One, two, three.
♪
[METAL CLINKS]
♪
♪
[SCISSORS CLANK]
♪
♪
[METAL CLINKING]
[SQUISHING]
What's What's going on?
[SQUISHING, CLINKING]
What
What are you
Can you feel that?
- No.
- Good.
No, man, I c I can't feel anything.
Wh
Wait, wait, wait, no! P-P-Please stop!
- Stop! What are you doing to me?
- Shh! Shh!
What are you doing?
Shh! I want you to listen
very carefully.
[METAL CLICKS]
Because you have a choice to make.
♪
WORKOUT TRAINER: 20 more seconds, team.
Let's say hello to
Soldier Mom with 400 points!
Ab-tastic with 900. Whoo!
And wow, a whopping 8,000
to QueenBabyGirlYasssss.
You left out an S.
[BREATHING HEAVILY]
Keep going.
[THE LINDA LINDAS' "OH!" PLAYS]
Oh! ♪
Oh! ♪
Oh! ♪
Oh! ♪
[BEEPING]
Oh! ♪
Oh! ♪
Good morning, my fabulous creatures.
Before we begin, let's unmute.
It is time for our daily dance party!
- Oh ♪
- Nobody backs me up ♪
When I try by myself,
I m-m-mess it up ♪
- Oh ♪
- Oh, when they say something ♪
- Oh ♪
- You always suck it up ♪
And when I try to help,
it never is enough ♪
[GRUNTING] High five, high five.
Oh ♪
Okay, got the kids breakfast,
made their lunches,
confirmed that Kaylen
is our 13-year-old's friend
but not friend-friend.
Boom. I rule.
What else you got for me,
LaMontagne, huh?
- Bring it.
- Well, how's your appetite?
'Cause I got us a table at
that new Italian place tonight.
Ooh, Italiano.
Yeah.
Tonight.
Yeah, tonight's date night.
[CHUCKLES] Uh, another body
turned up this morning.
Rock Creek Park.
Alright.
It's alright.
Uh, hey, hang on.
Might be able to shuffle
some things around.
No, don't do that.
But can you, uh, confirm
something for me?
So I can tell myself
I'm not going crazy?
You've had a lot on your
shoulders since we got back.
Like, a lot.
And I know you're supermom
and the boys aren't suffering.
But, um
Um, you're talking about us?
Yeah.
Kinda.
Okay, just
just give me give me a chance.
Alright? To make it up to you.
I will.
I swear.
Okay.
Have a good day.
♪
Morning. How was your night?
Fine. How was yours?
Good.
You, uh, still living
out of that hotel, Dave?
What's the case?
This one is in our backyard.
Four days ago, Alex Arnold was dumped
at a rest stop outside of Silver Spring.
Cause of death was
a severed spinal cord.
Last night, it went serial
with Steve Duncan.
Same COD, severed spinal cord.
Good-looking men in their 30s,
not a victimology we see a lot of.
They're usually the UnSubs.
Well, these two were targeted
for a very specific reason.
They both had apps like Tinder, Feeld,
Adult Friend Finder on their phone.
That is where they advertise
their services as bulls.
Are bulls the same thing as studs?
Close.
In the kink known as cuckolding,
wives cheat on
their husbands with bulls.
Men like this.
No money trades hands.
It's all legal and consensual.
The UnSub could have been
burned by that.
Now he's taking his revenge.
There is another reason
why we have to take this case.
Our last UnSub, Rory Gilcrest,
he switched cars
at a Wal-Mart parking lot.
This UnSub did the same thing.
Down to the Wal-Mart.
We profiled that Rory had a partner.
But, I mean
Is this our shipping container guy?
I checked with Tara.
None of the bodies
in the shipping container
have severed spinal cords.
Yes, this is a very specific signature,
but we can't ignore
what's in front of us.
Details from our last case
are showing up here.
Then there's another theory
we have to consider.
Who's ever behind the shipping container
doesn't have one partner.
He has two.
LEWIS: So, the plan here
is standard operating procedure.
We are processing the photographs,
but our main focus
is a complete DNA breakdown.
Once the samples are crossed and typed,
we can ID bodies and then,
fingers crossed, our UnSub.
Locard's Exchange Principle
says that a perpetrator
takes and leaves something
at every crime scene.
If this guy revisited this for 17 years,
there's gonna be some
piece of him in there.
Prentiss? What did you do?
Director Bailey, sir, I had to move
this from Washington State.
The locals didn't have
the resources necessary
to investigate it fully.
And I get it. I love it.
I love the enthusiasm.
But the brass is not gonna like this.
The body count's already gone up to 24,
not counting the bones.
I-I want to be clear here.
The brass doesn't want the BAU
solving this case?
It's not that simple.
Let me run it up the flagpole.
Just hope it's worth it.
Get me Director McNamara
in Resource Management.
Man. You deal with that every day?
Every day.
As if this job wasn't hard enough.
♪
♪
[GRUNTS SOFTLY]
[LOCK OPENS]
[CELLPHONE BUZZING]
[BUZZING STOPS]
[SCREECHES, BEEPS]
[BUTTONS CLICKING]
[SCREECHING]
[BEEPING]
UNSUB: I want you to listen
very carefully.
Because you have a choice to make.
I'm going to cut your spinal cord.
Oh, God.
You can either live as a quadriplegic.
Control nothing from the neck down.
Or I kill you.
So what's your choice?
Kill me.
[SOBBING]
[CRUNCHING]
[GASPS]
♪
[BUTTONS CLICKING]
♪
-
- ♪
♪
♪
[GENERATOR WHIRRING, LIGHTS BUZZING]
♪
♪
[SIGHS]
♪
LEWIS: It is claimed
that Oscar Wilde wrote,
"Everything in the world
is about sex, except sex.
Sex is about power".
Except he didn't.
Nobody knows who wrote it.
So I combed through
our two victims' cellphones.
And, uh, these bulls,
they made a large number
of women very, very happy.
- What're you, jealous?
- No.
I respect the sanctity
of marriage too much
to mess with married women.
I was looking for overlap
between the wives.
If the UnSub is a cuckolded husband,
I figured that's the place
to start, but so far, nothing.
How about a tox screen?
This UnSub said must be
using heavy-duty narcotics.
Still waiting. But you're right.
If he's performing back surgery,
it's gonna take a lot more
than a bonk on the head.
Where are we with hotels?
Number one was no help.
But number two had the receipts.
So Steve Duncan didn't pay for the room.
His lady friend did, Julie Sullivan.
Why does she look familiar?
That's 'cause she's married to this guy.
Jack Sullivan, City Councilman
for the District of Columbia.
Bring them both in.
The councilman will stonewall us,
but we might be able
to get something from the wife.
It'd be nice if we could
get some background intel
on the both of them,
but without Penelope
We don't have time.
Guys, I know the BAU is different.
I miss Reid. I miss Simmons.
And we all miss Penelope.
But we're gonna have to
solve this case without them.
Okay, pals, you're all wonderful,
but these little boxes are
making my brain wobbly.
And I'm sure it's not just me.
So let's pick this up tomorrow, okay?
Penelope, I'm still getting a 503
when I use the automated interface.
- Oh, Riley, I feel your pain.
- [KEYS CLACKING]
I'll tell you what,
I will e-mail you
my diagnostic checklist.
Still no bueno, give me a call. Okay?
Except not between 12:00 and 1:00
because that is my picnic time.
Alright? Bye!
Auf Wiedersehen!
[SLURPS]
[BEEP]
Who is this?
[BEEPS]
[BEEPING]
♪
Who are you, please?
[KEYS CLACKING]
[BEEPING]
♪
♪
Oh.
[BEEPING]
♪
Look, I cannot help you.
What you're asking me about,
it will destroy my career.
Then help yourself out, Councilman.
Let's start here.
You tell me where you were last night.
And if we can back up your story,
then your private life stays private.
I was at home waiting.
For Julie?
Jack waits for me.
And when I'm with, you know, other men,
I-I send him videos.
Doesn't your husband get jealous
when you do this?
Angry?
No.
It was my idea.
I didn't think she would
like it, but, uh
I do.
Because when he comes home,
it's like he has to win me over again.
It's none of my business, okay?
I'm not here to kink-shame you.
But I've got to be honest.
A lot of men have killed over less.
That's not me.
I'm not a killer.
Can you prove it?
♪
There's one last video Jack got.
I'll have him show it to you.
Is it of you and Steve?
No.
It was from him.
The man you're looking for.
I'm sorry. I know we should
have come forward sooner.
♪
The killer sent you a video?
Wait a minute. Wait, what?
H-How do you know?
Your wife just told me.
We need your phone right now.
I can't. I-If anyone finds out
If you don't, we'll arrest you
for withholding material evidence
in a homicide investigation.
You know what happens then?
Everyone finds out.
[CELLPHONE BEEPING]
You can't be serious.
I'm just the messenger.
But the higher-ups were very clear.
All costs associated with moving
the shipping container
come out of the BAU's budget.
Director, with all due respect,
this team has done
everything you've asked.
We've done more with less,
we've scrimped, we've saved.
And as section chief,
I am allowed discretionary spending.
I made that point.
They said you don't have
that much discretion.
I'm sorry, Emily.
We can't win against the bean counters.
What a crock of shit.
It's like we're being punished
for being good at our job.
Do you know Rebecca Wilson?
- At the DOJ?
- Yeah. She's a friend.
Want me to have her ask around,
find out what's up?
God, yes, please.
And please tell me we caught
a break with the container.
I wish I could.
We have covered every corner,
swabbed every corpse.
We triple-checked that foot locker.
Nothing.
Locard can kiss my ass.
Come on. Nobody's that good.
You want to bet?
[INDISTINCT CONVERSATIONS]
He double- and sometimes
triple-reinforced the metal
to prevent leaks.
He wiped down every surface with bleach
to destroy third-party DNA.
He wanted this place
as airtight as possible.
Safe, secure.
If the bodies were trophies,
like you thought,
he'd want to preserve them
as long as possible.
You know, I-I did think that.
But now I think they were experiments,
because he never repeated
the same pattern.
I mean, he stabbed that guy,
shot her, strangled him.
And then there's this guy.
What did he do to this guy?
He poured Sicarius spiders
down this victim's throat.
They're an incredibly poisonous genus
related to the brown recluse.
Some of the lab techs are starting
to call this UnSub that, "Sicarius".
- I hate spiders.
- [CELLPHONE BUZZING]
Yeah.
Okay, looks like JJ and Alvez
had a break in their case,
but they need to talk to
the entire team, including you.
UNSUB: You can either
live as a quadriplegic.
Control nothing from the neck down.
Or I kill you.
So what's your choice?
[BREATHING SHAKILY]
[BEEP]
Paralyzation or death.
Giving Steve Duncan an impossible choice
only heightens the UnSub's sadism.
Does he reveal his face?
No, but he does reveal something else
as he's turning the video off.
Right
here.
Whoa. That's another kill kit.
Yeah. We thought these cases
were connected
the shipping container, Rory Gilcrest,
our spinal cord guy.
And now we have our smoking gun.
Hmm.
Dave, what are you thinking?
All my years as a profiler,
I studied killers under
all kinds of pressure.
But I never studied what
a pandemic would do to them.
They couldn't move, they couldn't hunt.
But that compulsion
would still drive them,
and they would need
some sort of an outlet.
So they started communicating,
helping each other
to become better predators.
We've got two.
And if we follow the bread
crumbs, we'll find our third.
No, no, no. This is
too organized, too connected.
There's more.
We don't know that for sure.
Think about what we do
know about him so far.
He's controlled, disciplined.
He knows how to hide. Right?
He knows if there's no body,
there's no crime.
But he's a hunter, restless.
Always looking for a better way.
So let's apply that behavior
to his followers.
JENNIFER: I see what Rossi's saying.
Why would he be content with just two?
He isn't with the killings.
So these aren't just connected cases.
This is a network.
♪
[BEEPING]
♪
ROSSI: I don't understand.
Why can't we tell Director
Bailey what we have?
- Because it's not enough.
- How can you say that?
This is the biggest case we've ever had.
O-Okay, so let's just stick
to what we can prove.
We thought the shipping
container ended in 2020
because of the pandemic, but it didn't.
Instead, the UnSub gathered followers.
Followers that he's now activating.
And if that's what he gets off on,
he might reactivate himself.
Israel Keyes placed kill kits
across the country,
all for his own use.
Emily, we need more resources.
You know that.
I also know that every time
I try to get those resources,
Bailey screws us.
What we need is a way around him.
Have any ideas?
No.
But she might.
Prentiss, Rossi, this is
Rebecca Wilson with the DOJ.
Hi, Emily.
Agent Rossi, big fan.
Likewise if you can get some
FBI bureaucrats off our back.
[CHUCKLES] I got the download
on Director Bailey.
He climbed the ladder at DOJ
by being an efficiency expert.
Slashes budgets, reduces staff,
takes the credit when he can,
and passes the buck everywhere else.
Now that he's Deputy Director
for the Bureau,
he sees a path to becoming AG.
So the BAU's a political football.
More like a chess piece.
Explain something to me like I'm five.
The unit gets results.
Where others see monsters,
we see patterns.
We understand how psychopaths
think and we stop them.
Why fix what's not broken?
I can ask around.
There's nothing on the table.
But there could be something
in the works.
There's always something in the works.
- LEWIS: Thanks, Rebecca.
- Yeah.
Are you kidding me? Are you kidding?
Ow. What?
Y-You and her.
You're so a thing.
No! W-What?
Oh, God. Is it that obvious?
I mean, the temperature
in the room went up
like 10 degrees when you two walked in.
How long has this been going on?
A couple months. Cards on the table.
This is not my first time
dating a woman,
but, oh, man,
it is my first time being this happy.
Oh, that's good.
Oh, we could use some
happiness around here.
Besides, we're gonna give you
so much shit for this.
Ugh.
♪
[BRAKES SQUEAL]
[GEARSHIFT CLICKS, ENGINE SHUTS OFF]
[SEAT BELT CLICKS]
[CELLPHONE BUZZING]
[BEEPING]
What is it?
When do I get to go again?
I told you. Not yet.
That's not fair. There's someone I want.
Robert, are you disobeying me?
No, of course not.
[SIGHS] But why are we stopping now?
It's not a stop. It's a pause.
Somebody took something of mine.
I need to make sure
that can't happen again.
And then you can go again.
When?
Soon.
I need to do some shopping first.
[CELLPHONE BEEPS]
♪
[CAR DOOR CLOSES]
[BEEP]
Okay, that's 10 rolls of duct tape,
6 rolls of electrical tape,
10 toggle switches,
4 bags of wire nuts, wire cutters,
2 small 12-volt batteries.
That'll be $449.49.
Do you take cash?
Sure.
Sorry. Got to make sure
you're not a counterfeiter
or drug dealer.
Definitely not that interesting.
Uh, network security, you know,
making sure people don't get
hacked, that sort of thing.
You need duct tape for network security?
No, I need duct tape
for a personal project
that engages my mind because
network security is very boring.
Especially during the pandemic.
You'd be shocked how careless people get
when you give them instructions
over the Internet.
Look where I work.
I can totally believe it.
[CELLPHONE BUZZING]
Hey, you can get that. It's fine.
Nah. Work. It's always work.
Don't worry about it.
Did you want to join
our rewards program?
- No, I'm good.
- You sure?
'Cause, I mean, you get 20% off
and you have a huge order.
I said I'm good!
Um, my bad.
Sorry.
Who's that?
Ah, that's Moose.
He's my floof.
You know, network security,
home security,
we work hand in hand.
Security cameras, motion-sensor lights.
It's all the same. Nothing beats a dog.
Not Moose. He's a big old goofball.
You don't say?
Mm-hmm.
Well, Tawny, thank you for everything.
♪
[BELL DINGS]
What if who's ever running the
network is as good as Garcia?
You know, our spinal-cord guy
knew the Sullivans' phone number.
He knew when and where
they were meeting their bulls.
So far, our remote Garcias
have found nothing.
If Sicarius and his followers
are as good at hacking
as they are at murder, we're in trouble.
Who's Sicarius?
Uh, Tara said that's what they're naming
the shipping container UnSub.
I'm not gonna name this jag-off.
Fuckhead! Okay? Call him that.
I want to know how to catch him.
Go about that the same way
we would a terrorist cell
or a Mafia family, right?
One case at a time
and hope that our UnSub
gives us the whole network.
Well, then let's focus on this case.
Where are we with the profile?
Still nowhere on
the jealous-husband front.
I mean, the guys that I questioned,
they're all beta males, nonviolent type.
I'm beginning to think
we're looking in the wrong suspect pool.
Yeah, I am, too.
Especially after watching
that murder video.
[SIGHS]
Okay, so sending the husband
homemade porn
is part of the cuckold kink, right?
The bull gets off
on the power and control.
That's why our profile's off.
If we rebuild the profile
based around the theory
that it's a bull killing other bulls,
I think we'll get farther.
Do it.
[CELLPHONE BUZZING]
[CELLPHONE BEEPS]
Penelope?
GARCIA: I need to see you.
I don't know what it is.
Just material evidence
in an FBI investigation.
However, 13 additional encryption links
are embedded in there.
My guess is it's more
coordinates, but mnh.
You should have the me's-who-
are-not-as-good-as-me crack it.
That's kind of suspicious,
don't you think?
I mean, somebody e-mails
this to you on the same day
that we uncover a serial killer network?
Suspicious, coincidence,
not my department anymore.
Well, maybe it ought to be,
'cause this is the second time
they've pulled you in.
And now somebody is feeding you clues.
We need you to get
to the bottom of this.
Mm.
What?
Nothing.
No. Hey, hey, hey.
What? No, wait. You can tell me.
Talk to me. What?
Have you gone to therapy
since Krystall died?
What the hell is that supposed to mean?
- You said I could say it.
- Yeah, well, alright.
Well, that's a little judgy,
don't you think?
- I am not judgy.
- I think that you are.
I'll grieve in my own way.
Thank you very much.
And I wish other people
would respect that.
I do. I do respect it.
It's just that I've been
going to therapy, okay?
And And one of the things
that my licensed clinical social
worker, Tristan, helped me see
after they picked their jaw
up off the floor
from learning of all the things
I've survived,
I have been absorbing trauma
since I was really young
and thinking I was some sort
of hero for doing it.
And then I got a job for 15 years
where even when you do the right thing,
even when you stop serial killers,
your body is absorbing that trauma.
And I'm not a hero for holding on to it
because trauma has to be off-loaded.
It has to be transformed,
or your body will destroy you.
And [SIGHS] Dave, when I look at you
ever since you found out
about Krystall's diagnosis
I think it's better we don't go there.
Right. Okay.
What I mean is, you know
how everybody's life
fell apart during the pandemic
but then there was a handful of people
that were thriving
from sheltering in place?
I am one of those people.
My resting heart rate is stellar.
I'm eating even more phytonutrients.
I-I'm meditating.
You should try that, actually.
I did. I kept falling asleep.
Me too. That was happening to me.
You need to Not the point.
My point right now is,
I miss the team every day.
I miss you every day.
But I don't miss the work.
♪
Can I give you a hug
so I know we're okay?
I'm gonna take your silence as consent.
♪
This is how I profile people.
♪
I really am happy for you.
More than that, I'm jealous.
I want what you have.
But right now I've got a job to do.
You got to go catch a bad guy.
♪
♪
[BRAKES SQUEAL]
[ENGINE SHUTS OFF]
♪
[MESSAGE WHOOSHES]
[MESSAGES CHIMING]
Aah! No! Help!
He took a woman this time?
Are we sure it's the same UnSub?
Yeah. Michelle Tucker.
Lives in Frederick, Maryland.
Her husband reported her missing.
Police found her abandoned car
at a Costco.
Not a Wal-Mart, but close enough.
That's a huge shift in victimology.
Why change now?
I'm thinking because he had to.
We got the tox screen results back,
and the drugs that he uses
for the surgeries,
they're paralytics
to immobilize the victim, sure,
but they're typically prescribed
to treat pain from a back injury.
So if this medication is his,
his condition could tell us
something about him.
There's only so many 200-pound men
a guy with a back injury
can carry around.
So he took Michelle.
Maybe that was out of convenience,
but we can't rule out
a personal connection.
It's like his kink
got turned inside out.
What do you mean?
One side effect of back injuries
is erectile dysfunction.
Our fears come out in our sex lives.
We hate to admit it, but it's true.
He can't perform anymore.
So he's punishing anyone who still can.
Severing the spinal cord
is his only way to feel virile.
Is the husband on his way in?
Yeah. Just landed.
Give him our profile.
Somehow he and Michelle know this guy.
No, no, this can't be happening.
Mr. Tucker, we're doing
everything we can,
but our best hope depends on you
being completely honest here.
Yeah, yeah, whatever you need.
Who was Michelle seeing last night?
- [BUTTONS CLICKING]
- This guy.
Wait a minute. That's the same number
that sent the video to the Sullivans.
Gonna do a reverse image search here.
[BEEPING]
This is from a sexy
firefighters calendar.
You and Michelle were catfished.
What?
Mr. Tucker, Michelle
was targeted for a reason.
Maybe because you'd seen
this bull before.
A man who recently suffered
a back injury
who can't perform anymore.
Does any of this ring a bell?
Robert Harris.
Okay.
Who is he?
He promised the best sex
Michelle was ever gonna have.
But a couple months ago, he got
into a motorcycle accident,
so we found another bull.
Salt in the wound.
Telling him he's not good enough.
He'd attack that.
Okay, we need everything
you have on him.
- Phone number, address, car, anything.
- Yeah.
[PEACEFUL MUSIC PLAYING]
MINDFULNESS VOICE: You
might feel intrusive thoughts.
That's perfectly natural.
[COMPUTER BEEPING]
Just observe those thoughts.
Like a twig floating on a stream.
[COMPUTER BEEPING]
[SIGHS]
[MUSIC STOPS]
[BEEP]
Yeah, Riley? How are you?
Riley?
[DISTORTED VOICE] HelperCat 220?
Y-Yes?
Did you decrypt it?
Oh, my God, it's you.
Did you decrypt it?
No. I mean, yes, but no.
Why not?
Because I gave it to the FBI.
- You what?
- Gave it to the FBI.
Look, whoever you think I am, I am not.
Then who are you? Don't you understand?
You're the only one who could help me.
Now, because you didn't,
people are gonna die!
[COMPUTER BEEPS]
[SIGHS]
[METAL CLINKING]
H-Hello?
[METAL CLINKING]
P-Please, I-I don
I don't know what this is.
[EXHALES DEEPLY]
Why can't I move?
[EXHALES DEEPLY, GASPS]
- Do you feel that?
- No.
Why are you doing this to me?
Because you need to learn
who's in charge.
[ELEVATOR BELL DINGS]
♪
♪
♪
[BEEP]
♪
♪
[SWITCH CLICKS]
[SIGHS]
♪
[MONITOR WHIRRING]
[BEEP]
Do you need my login or passwo
[KEYS CLACKING]
[MONITORS WHIRRING]
[CLICK]
[BEEPING]
Huh.
What?
Each link has a different key.
That means each one goes
to a different recipient.
13 in all.
Can you crack it?
Can you turn this on, please?
Turn the volume all the way up.
[RUN-DMC'S "TRICKY" PLAYS]
This beat is my recital ♪
I think it's very vital ♪
To rock a rhyme that's right on time ♪
It's Tricky is the title, here we go ♪
It's tricky to rock a rhyme ♪
To rock a rhyme that's right on time ♪
It's tricky ♪
It's tricky, tricky, tricky, tricky ♪
It's tricky to rock a rhyme ♪
To rock a rhyme that's right on time ♪
It's tricky ♪
Tr-Tr-Tr-Tricky, tricky, trrricky ♪
I met this little girlie ♪
Her hair was kinda curly ♪
Went to her house and bust her out ♪
I had to leave real early ♪
These girls are really sleazy ♪
All they just say is, "Please me" ♪
Or spend some time and rock a rhyme ♪
I said "It's not that easy" ♪
It's tricky to rock a rhyme ♪
To rock a rhyme that's right on ♪
What are we looking at?
I don't know. But I say we map it.
It's tricky, tricky, tricky, tricky ♪
It's tricky to rock a rhyme ♪
To rock a rhyme ♪
[INDISTINCT CONVERSATIONS]
[BEEPING]
Quiet, guys.
[BEEPING CONTINUES]
[BEEPING CONTINUES]
♪
[BUTTONS CLICKING]
[CELLPHONE BUZZES, BEEPS]
Yeah, Tara?
Something in the kill kit
just went active.
Those are transponders.
ROSSI: This is how the UnSubs
are finding they kill kits he's burying.
Are you sure?
Yeah, because JJ and Alvez
are heading for one right now.
[WHIRRING]
♪
[BEEPING]
♪
- [STATIC HISSES]
- WOMAN: All units, all units, be advised,
be on the lookout for Robert Harris,
wanted in association
with multiple murders
and the abduction of Michelle Tucker.
[GASPS]
[METAL CLINKING]
You don't have to do this.
Okay?
Whatever I did, I'm I'm sorry.
[BEEPING]
[CELLPHONE RINGING]
♪
[CELLPHONE BEEPS]
What?
You broke the rules, Robert.
No, I didn't.
I told you to pause, and you didn't.
I told you to work from
a secondary location,
and you didn't.
And do you know how I know that?
Because of the fucking beeping
that we are both hearing right now!
[BEEPING CONTINUES]
♪
I-I didn't do this. I don't
know how that happened.
I do. You got sloppy.
And now the police
are on their way to you.
And you know what that means.
I-I can't.
Well, if you can't, then I will.
[BEEPING CONTINUES]
♪
Now, let me talk you through it.
♪
♪
♪
♪
♪
[ELEVATOR BELL DINGS]
♪
Robert Harris killed himself.
Same as Rory Gilcrest.
And just like Rory, nothing
about him profiled as suicidal.
Whoever Sicarius is, he must
have something on these guys.
Or that's the Devil's Bargain
for joining the network.
Kill yourself before you get caught.
Good for him. Bad for us.
We just lost our best lead.
It's okay. We've got others.
We do?
I'll explain.
Go interview them first
so they can go home.
Hey, guys.
♪
This is bad.
MAN: Bull sharks can live
in both salt and fresh water.
- Hi, baby. Come here.
- Its diet consists of fish,
- stingrays, crustaceans.
- Hi. [LAUGHS]
Moose, good boy!
other small shark species.
The bull shark prefers to hunt
by itself in murky waters
- so its prey is unable to see it.
- [RUSTLING, DOG WHIMPERS]
It commonly utilizes
13 signals just went to 12.
- 11.
- What the hell?
We turned them on, and
now someone turned them off,
which means he knows
that we're on to him.
[BEEPING]
Did I just make things worse?
No.
You did what you always do.
You helped.
♪
Can you stop them without me?
Honestly?
I don't know.
I need a moment.
♪
♪
[BUTTONS CLICKING]
Yeah. This is Mr. Rossi, Room 1805.
I'm gonna be checking out.
Thanks.
[BREATHING SHAKILY]
♪
♪
♪
♪
♪
[BUTTON CLICKS]
[EXHALES SHAKILY]
[KEYS CLACKING]
♪
[KEYS JINGLE]
♪
[CLICKING, LOCK OPENS]
[CLICKING, LOCK OPENS]
♪
♪
[SIGHS]
♪
[SIGHS]
♪
You're home.
Yeah. I didn't want to wake you.
- When'd you get in?
- Just now.
I missed my connecting.
I'm lucky I got a flight in.
- You want me to pour you a cup?
- No, I'm good.
I got enough gas in the tank
to make breakfast for the girls.
- Then I'll hit the hay.
- Wait, are you sure?
Because that would be a really big help.
Yeah, sure, I'm sure.
Aww.
Best husband ever.
♪
The boys are out the door,
so I'm gonna head into work.
Uh, yeah. Thanks.
You doing alright?
Do you think our fears
come out in our sex life?
Am I in trouble?
No.
[EXHALES DEEPLY]
That's good.
JENNIFER: I think about
our life sometimes,
and I realize it's crazy
that we ever made it.
And now our whole reality
is this giant clock
counting down the seconds
between school drop-off
and and family dinners and
Dead bodies.
Yeah, that too.
And the truth is,
there isn't enough time.
There never is.
And that
That's my fear.
We have full-time jobs and two kids.
We're doing the best we can.
♪
♪
Maybe.
Maybe we could do better.
♪
If we can't
make date night
we could always do date morning.
♪
[INDISTINCT CONVERSATIONS]
- Morning.
- Morning.
- [ELEVATOR BELL DINGS]
- Glad you're back.
I never left.
Hello. How are we doing?
You look great.
- Oh, come on.
- What?
Is everybody around here
getting laid except me?
Well, I'm not.
- Wow.
- I'm sorry.
Gallows humor, but it's all
I've got right now.
You know what? I will take
gallows humor over no humor.
What do we have?
Tara's girlfriend needs
to tell us something
about Director Bailey.
Good news or bad news?
Wait, did you say girlfriend?
Hey, can we, uh, close the door?
[DOOR CLOSES]
REBECCA: What I'm about
to tell you is classified.
If anyone finds out this came
from me, I'll be fired.
Understood.
Part of Doug Bailey's skill set
is knowing where the
department's focus is
because funding follows focus.
And as I'm sure you've read,
the FBI considers domestic terrorism
to be the fastest growing
threat to this country.
There's money in fast-growing threats.
There's none in serial killers.
He wants to shut down the BAU.
Not shut down.
The proposal I saw
calls for a reorganization.
The unit would be folded
under Domestic Terrorism.
He can bring in new leadership
if he can show that
the current one is wasteful.
But we're not.
You are as of his last budget.
Something about a shipping container.
Son of a bitch.
He's been setting us up this whole time.
What happens with us?
Reassigned.
Replaced.
Retired.
Rebecca, thank you.
I need to speak with the unit, please.
[DOOR OPENS]
So is is this it?
[DOOR CLOSES]
Is it over?
No, it's not over.
We're just getting started.
Yeah, but what moves do we have?
I mean, the guy's the Deputy Director.
We use his own argument against him.
He wants domestic terrorism.
We have a serial-killing network.
That is domestic terrorism.
If we catch them, if we
shut down the network,
if we stop Sicarius
We justify what we do.
Not even Bailey can touch us.
So it's a race.
We've got to get to those
kill kits before the UnSubs.
ALVEZ: Yeah, and with
no margin for error.
Once Bailey knows what we're up to,
he'll use any mistakes against us.
ROSSI: Maybe.
But we have a secret weapon.
♪
Let's get to work.
Oh! ♪
Oh! ♪
[INDISTINCT CONVERSATION]
Oh! ♪
Oh! ♪
Oh! ♪
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