Prentiss, this is the job, and I need to know that you can be objective.
And I need to know that I can be human.
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S1 E15Unfinished Business
We're looking for two men. Probably white, given the neighborhoods that they hit, mid to late twenties, intelligent, and organized.
These are career criminals. One or both has done hard time, but neither presents as a convict. They would appear clean-shaven, well dressed...
Neighborly. This helps them talk their way into the homes. They may also be using a ruse.
LNLt. Nellis
What kind of ruse?
Given that the invasions have taken place in the evening, it could be anything. Could be door to door sales, person in distress, car trouble.
Uh, Derrick Todd Lee used a tape of a baby crying to get women to open their doors in Baton Rouge. Never underestimate their creativity.
These men share a very tight bond, and a mutual compulsion to kill, but their signatures reveal two very distinct personalities.
One brutalizes the parents. This is the dominant one. Sadistic, remorseless, extremely volatile.
The other prefers a needle. His injections are consistent with an angel of death. He's more withdrawn, sensitive, and he has a warped sense of mercy.
Dostoyevsky once said, "Nothing is easier than denouncing the evildoer. Nothing more difficult than understanding him."
MSMarie Samuels
Realistically, it'll take at least three hours to cover this place.
Realistically, we have less than half that time.
MSMarie Samuels
How do you figure?
99 percent of abducted children were killed or died within the first 24 hours, 75 percent within the first three hours, and like, of course you know, Jessica Davis, 44 percent of children were abducted and killed in the first hour.
I read the Jessica Davis report. I know you found the remains last week.
JFJames Franklin
Twenty years, never seen anything like it. Can't get the image out of my head. I joined the Bureau to rescue people, not to stand over another dead kid today.
Another seven seconds I was able to decipher, but it's seven more than we had.
What are we looking at?
Surveillance footage I retrieved off the second camera on the first floor. It shows Katie exiting the arcade, follows her movements through the crowd. She went north.
Until she disappears.
Criminy, I still can't make out who she was with.
Seven seconds...
All the images I could find, sir.
...is all that it takes for a child to disappear.
G. K. Chesterton wrote, "Fairy tales do not tell children that dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children that dragons can be killed."
"An earthly kingdom cannot exist without inequality of persons. Some must be free, some serfs, some rulers, some subjects." Martin Luther
Go ahead, Garcia.
You were spot-on, crime fighters. Military records match. Francis Goehring, forty-two years old. Did a year in the Army, before a bad conduct discharge. Highlight of which was an arrest during a bar brawl in which three other people were hospitalized. Uh, he also appears in the federal database for - get this - aggressive militia groups.
Aggressive militia groups. Is there any other type?
Mm-hmm. That's your federal government at work. We specialize in redundancy.
RMRobert Miller
You do believe she's alive?
Unless I have evidence to the contrary, I very much consider her to be alive.
SSheriff
I wouldn't have called them in if i believed otherwise.
MMiller
[To Hotch] What do you believe?
I believe you spent all morning... going over and over in your head about the last time you saw her. And asking yourself, "How could it happen, why did it happen?"
I'm with the FBI.
TPTrailer Park Manager
FBI? You're not serious. You look like a pipe-cleaner with eyes. I could snap you like a twig.
Sheriff, someone around here must know who Goehring's partner is.
We should try Goehring's pals, the militia. Maybe they can help.
SSheriff
Militia leader is Harris Townsend, he owns a bar called the Horse Post.
I'd suggest sending Morgan.
What? All due respect, Rossi, but you've got an entire team to pick from. You're choosing me? Are you serious?
SSheriff
No offense, but, do you really want to do that?
Take J.J with you.
They know we're here. But you're the last face they expect.
TTownsend
I never understood, how someone like you could trust them.
Someone like me?
TTownsend
How has the federal government ever helped your people? Slavery, ghettos, poverty. The CIA got you all hooked on heroin in the sixties, crack in the eighties. Now, I hate the government, but you... you should despise them. They sure as hell don't care about you now. There are five other members of your team. Look around you. Why the hell did they send you in here?
Francis Goehring and a partner abducted and killed 4 innocent women, the last of which we just found dead in a bed of roses, shot in the back twice. Nobody sent me anywhere. I came here to do right by her. Now, Goehring's partner is out there somewhere, so we completely understand if you boys are just too afraid to tell us about him. I get it. But just say so. Don't go hidin' behind your vague little gun threats and tired conspiracy theories, please.
So killer satanic cults don't exist, but satanic serial killers do?
Lasciate ogne speranza voi ch'intrate.
[walks out the door]
Huh, thanks for clearing that up.
Eh, it's from Dante's Inferno: "Abandon hope, all ye who enter here."
So that was a "yes"?
A big "yes".
"Fantasy, abandoned by reason, produces impossible monsters." Francisco Goya
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