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?
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.
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.
And made it look this way?
Then we're looking for one very smart unsub.
His life was one torment after another. His teachers gave up on him, his classmates bullied him and his father blamed him while giving him access to guns. Given these condition,s you're actually quite fortunate.
DLDeputy Lawford
It sounds like you're saying these victims deserved this.
We're not. Nobody deserves this.
But you could have prevented it.
[They walk out into another room]
It's the truth! They could have done something, they work with his father, they knew Owen!
So what? All adolescents profile like sociopaths. There's a reason you can't diagnose them until they're 18.
Yeah, they could have seen the signs!
Nobody sees the signs, Reid! You know that! And making it their fault is not only unfair, it's dangerous. I want you to go back to the Savage house and I want you go through Owen's room.
Morgan's already doing that.
Yeah, and you're going to join him.
No, I'm using you. You know this kid better than anybody. Go find us something we can use!
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.
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.
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.
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.
[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.
You knowingly jeopardized your life and the lives of others. I should fire you. You're the smartest kid in the room, but you're not the only one in that room. You pull something like this again, you will be. Am I clear?
Yes, sir. It won't happen again. Thank you.
I was thinking that would have been, uh, the second time a kid died in front of me.
You're keeping score, just like Owen.
It was my turn to save one.
It doesn't work like that.
I know it's painful when the person you identify with is the bad guy.
Good at the job. I know it's none of my business, but when we land, I think you should go and catch the rest of that movie.
TLDetective Tina Lopez
I am gonna take the skinny kid and Derek to the dumpsites. So, I got my cell, radio if anyone doesn't give you anything, just call me.
[Detective Tina turns and leaves]
She did say she wasn't good at names.
Wonder how she'll describe us?
Oh, I am sure I don't wanna know!
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...
[Interrupts Reid] This guy is a sick dude!
[Reid nods yes]
