MorganFloyd, I had to pull some serious strings to get him here. My bosses didn't like the idea at all of sendin' him in. Now, they're gonna allow him to sit right here and listen, But you're gonna talk to me, all right?
FFFloyd Feylinn Ferrell
Okay. [To Father Marks] I've done some really bad things.
FMFather Marks
Everybody's done things they're not proud of, Floyd. The only thing that helps is to talk about 'em, Tell other people. Things are always better after you talk about 'em.
This is strange. When he entered the park, Feylinn signed the volunteer sign-in sheet, but his name's not on the list of searchers.
Morgan
Come on, Floyd. I got him here like you asked. Now it's your turn. Tell us. Where is Tracey Lambert?
FFerrell
Father, I feel so alone. I feel like God has abandoned me. Why?
FMFather Marks
You are not alone, my son. God is in all of us.
We need to stop the interview!
FFerrell
[To Father Marks] So is Tracey Lambert.
[The BAU and Father Marks realize that Ferrell already killed Tracey and fed her remains as chili to the search party.]
FMFather Marks
Son of a bitch.
[Ferrell lets out an evil chuckle.]
FMFather Marks
[Charges at Ferrell] You son of a bitch! YOU SON OF A BITCH!
Morgan
[Restraining Father Marks] Father Marks! No! Help!
FMFather Marks
YOU SON OF A BITCH!
[Morgan, Rossi, and Hotch restrain Father Marks as he tries to attack Ferrell.]
JDetective Jordan
He was feeding the volunteers.
[Meanwhile, Feylinns' Fine Bar-B-Q, located somewhere, is sealed off as a crime scene by local police; one of the menu's items shown is "Chick 'N' Chili".]
[about Feylinn] Blaming the devil for his cannibalism wasn't enough to lessen his guilt, so he tricked others into participating. He made them all as guilty as he was.
Morgan
He caught every break possible, Rossi. Gets released from the hospital. His records get destroyed. Gets pulled over with a victim in the trunk of his car, and they let him go. I've never seen anyone that lucky.
Morgan
You've been doin' this a long time. You've seen a lot of things. You think it's possible Feylinn would... I don't know. That he was getting some kind of help from something else?
It's irrelevant. The job is to find evil, to stop it, not to know where it came from. Let somebody else take that job. This one's tough enough.
Morgan
I asked her to go out last night. But she was pissed at me. She blew me off.
So you ended up in church?
Morgan
Yeah. What does it mean? On one hand, if she'd gone out with me, she would have never got shot. On the other hand... what are the odds that the first time I pray in twenty years, she's on the table?
All right, let's cut the crap! You need to be straight with us. Right now. Look at me, not them!
I am not hiding anything...
You got shot! Most people get shot for a reason!
[Garcia looks around]
Morgan
Ease up Rossi!
You got a room full of people here, willing to believe that an FBI agent is trying to kill you! We need to know everything you do on company time that we don't know about!
Morgan
Come on, man!
It's nothing bad! It's just... I counsel victim's families and they know where I work, so sometimes they ask to look into their cases for them.
Just means that the cases, the unsolved ones, I tag them, so whoever investigates them knows that the FBI considers them a priority.
You're not authorized to do that.
I know! I was just trying to help.
[arriving at the crime scene] Should have listened to me.
Morgan
It wouldn't have saved that much time, Reid. Let it go.
The interchange between the 405 and the 101 freeways is consistently rated the worst interchange in the entire world.
Morgan
Why do you know that?
It's a government report.
Morgan
So what?
So, you work for the government. What, you don't read the reports?
Morgan
On traffic patterns in a city 2,500 miles from where I live?
Morgan
Don't make me smack you in front of all these people.
[as Morgan fixes her chair] You really don't have to do this.
Morgan
Woman, will you hush?
I could do it myself. I just can't grip anything too tight yet, and when I tried to do it, it kept falling...
Morgan
Will you sit your motor mouth down?
[sits down] See, now, that's perfect.
Morgan
Yeah?
Morgan
Well, there you go, my sweet lady.
Morgan
I am nobody's hero. [kisses Garcia on the head]
Hey, do you know who Frank Miller is?
Morgan
Frank Miller. Um... sounds familiar. Unsub?
No. Graphic novelist. 300? Sin City?
Morgan
Oh! Right, right, right. Cool movies.
Anyway, he said something once and it makes me think of you: "The noir hero is a knight in blood-caked armor. He's dirty, and he does his best to deny the fact that he's a hero the whole time."
Morgan, obsessional crimes are your specialty.
Morgan
Well, there's two kinds of obsessional offenders that would send gifts to survivors. Sadists, who want to make the families keep reliving the crime, or guilt-laden offenders, desperately trying to find some type of way to apologize.
Sadists usually use something they know will remind the family of the person or the crime. Jewelry, newspaper clippings.
These don't look like the kind of things you would send to inflict pain on someone.
You know, they actually look like the kind of thing a child would send.
Morgan
Okay. Well, it's rare, but an unsub who feels this much guilt sometimes commits the crime unintentionally. They tend to be developmentally disabled, extremely low IQ offender, and generally, well, they're physically large and they're very strong. Strong enough to hurt somebody accidentally.
Like Lennie in Of Mice and Men.
Morgan
Hotch would never have taken this case. And I say "case" in the loosest sense.
Profile the facts as they are without bias. Isn't that what we do?
Morgan
What facts, Rossi? Look at us. We don't have a single file.
Okay, let me help you out. Jump right in anytime. Fact one - there are no files, so it seems no case.
One fire, fourteen deaths, five suicides.
All the suicides are connected to the original fire.
And all exactly two weeks apart.
Come on, Derek, you can't tell me that doesn't feel a lot like a pattern.
Morgan
A lot of people lost their kids in that fire. That's a whole world of grief, and for a few... suicide's their only way out.
Or someone decided it was.
Morgan
And made it look this way?
Morgan
Then we're looking for one very smart unsub.
Morgan
You said I was a high school jock. I was, but not at first. My freshman year, I was five foot three. I weighed a buck twenty soaking wet, so trust me when I tell you I got my ass kicked every day. So the following summer, I hit the weights. And I got lucky, I grew six inches. But it was never about vanity, Reid. It was about survival.
I was in the library and, um... Harper Hillman comes up to me, and she tells me that, uh... Alexa Lisbon wants to meet me behind the field house. Alexa Lisbon's like, easily, the prettiest girl in school.
Morgan
So what happened? Alexa wasn't there?
No, she was there. So was the entire football team. They... stripped me naked and tied me to a goalpost. So many kids were there, you know, just watching.
Morgan
Nobody tried to stop it?
I begged... I begged them to, but they just... just watched. And... finally, they got bored and they left. It was like midnight when I finally got home. And my mom had... mom was having one of her episodes, so she didn't even realize I was late.
Morgan
You never told her what happened?
I never told anybody. I thought... it was one of those things that I thought if I didn't talk about it, I'd just forget. But I remember it like it was yesterday.
Morgan
[sighs] Oh, Reid, you don't need an eidetic memory for that. You know, we forget half of what they teach us in school, but when it comes to the torment and the people who inflicted it, we've all got an elephant's memory.
He could be suffering from Cluster B.
TLDetective Tina Lopez
Cluster B?
Ah, cluster of personality disorders. It's also called a erratic, dramatic emotional cluster. An enduring pattern of inner experience and behavior that differentiates itself markedly from the expectations the individual's cultures. It manifests...
Morgan
[Interrupts Reid] This guy is a sick dude!
[Reid nods yes]
SBDetective Steve Berry
Aren't you guys a little overqualified for this case? I mean, this guy's no serial killer.
We construct behavioral profiles for a variety of investigative scenarios. That includes stalking.
Morgan
We've seen this kind of thing before, and it can get ugly real fast.
[while entering the plane] How come I only get to travel with you guys only like every two years?
Morgan
Trust me mama, it can get old.
Oh, right, like the way spa treatments in five star hotels can get old.
Remember the time we got on-board and they hadn't chilled the Cristal?
Morgan
Oh, I almost quit the BAU that day!
Hey, you know what? You guys can joke all you like, 'cause I am never leaving this plane!
Morgan
[about telling off SSA Joyner] I know, I was out of line.
You get too emotionally involved sometimes. I know the feeling.
Morgan
I just felt like Hotch was taking her side.
Morgan
I know.
The word is, they have an eye on you if SSA Joyner gets canned. People talk. But if she were to get fired, it would be because we didn't solve this case.
Morgan
Rossi, I hope you're not saying you think I want her to fail.
Of course not. But I've never seen you push a superior like that before. So would you take the job?
Morgan
I don't know. It might be nice to finally be the one making the calls.
And dealing with the politics of running a field office? That doesn't seem like you.
Morgan
BAU wears people out, man. Look at Gideon. That man was the best, and in the end, he simply ran away. I mean, Hotch hasn't even thought about cracking a smile in over a year. That man has to take a personal day just so he can have a conversation with his own kid. What about you? How many times you been married?
I get it. But I'll make you a deal. If I think you're losing it, I'll pull you out myself. But right now, I see someone who wants to get back on the job. Or is there another reason why you haven't even touched that beer?
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