Criminal Minds (2005–…): Season 1, Episode 12 - What Fresh Hell? - full transcript

- Come on, guys.
- She's wide open over here.

There you go. Nice pass.

Shoot.

Carmen, you just fouled
the halfback.

You play like that tomorrow,

we're going to get beat
by penalty kicks. Okay?

I don't see why I can't go, Mom.

I told you. We have a game tomorrow.

So what? I'm not playing.

You are still a member of this team
and they deserve your support.

Then I'll get Dad to drive me
back in time for the game.



No. Hey, come on, guys, pass the ball.

Why? I want to spend time with Dad.

Of course, you do.
He doesn't make you do anything.

- God, you can be such a...
- Billie, you have a bad attitude.

And I want it gone
by the time we head for home.

I suggest you run it off. Laps. Now.

Dad, where are you?

Can you talk to Mom? Please.

We're fighting, again.

I really want to stay with you
for a little while.

I know what you're going to say,

but can we, at least,
have a family meeting?

Call me back. Bye.

Don't worry, mister.
If she's old, she can't go too far.



I know what it's like to lose your dog.
Where'd you look?

Are you okay?

Yeah?

Thank you for the flowers.

"I know I can be challenging but
your work is appreciated. J. Gideon."

I appreciate the appreciation
and, BTW, you're not challenging.

Well, no, you're totally challenging

but, you're not challenging at all
in a bad way, sir.

Hey, is this your family?

- Yeah, sort of.
- Nice.

Thanks again for the flowers.

- Hey.
- Hey.

What the hell does "BTW" mean?

Internet shorthand for "by the way,"
you sent Garcia flowers?

No.

You need something?

Missing child in Wilmington, Delaware.

11-year-old Billie Copeland
was last seen on the playground

at 4:30 yesterday afternoon.

That's 20 hours ago.
Child Abduction Response Plan

says we get notified immediately.
What happened?

Well, there was reason to believe
that she was with her father.

Her cell phone shows a call to him

at around the time
of the disappearance.

So, they've since ruled him out?

He called the mother
about an hour ago.

That doesn't mean he isn't involved.

He's on his way to the family home
so you can talk to him there.

But, the local police are now
considering this a stranger abduction.

20 hours late?

Long-term stranger abductions
of children Billie's age are rare.

They represent only half of one percent
of all missing cases per year,

but they are usually more likely
to be fatal.

Of the children
that are abducted and murdered,

44% die within the first hour.

From that point forth their odds of
survival greatly decrease.

75% are gone after three hours.

Virtually all of them are dead after 24.

Which means we have
just under four hours to find her.

Shall we go?

The poet W. H. Auden wrote,

"Evil is always unspectacular
and always human.

"And shares our bed
and eats at our table."

She's been missing 21 hours.

We're going to go meet
with the lead detective

at the park
where the girl was last seen.

We need to know everything
that's being done.

I'll find out what the press is running.
See if I know any of them.

We may need to manage
what they put out.

Good. See what the uniforms
know from the canvasses.

- Elle.
- Yeah.

I need you to be a liaison
with the family.

A liaison?

In a child abduction,
the parents are likely to break down

- if we aren't careful.
- Okay.

Put out a citywide alert.

We've got multi-agency law
enforcement running canvass.

Body and evidence grid search is up
and running on foot with canine units.

Talked to the press twice,

gave them a description
of the SUV and the suspect

and formed a round-the-clock
volunteer-manned hotline service.

Did you run a background check
on these volunteers?

Ongoing, but no red flags yet.

I had to make a call on this one,
you know?

It looked like a family thing.

Any witnesses?

Witnesses have her talking
to a white male,

mid-30s, carrying a leash,
right about there.

- Just a leash? No dog?
- No dog.

Lost dog is a common ruse.
Especially with children.

A short time later, a green SUV
sped out of the parking lot over there.

We have an Amber Alert on it.

According to preliminary reports,

mother and daughter had an argument
during soccer practice?

Billie wants to spend more time with
her father. It's a pretty fresh divorce.

I get the impression
that our victim is in the middle of it.

UnSub could've been hunting
during practice.

A crowded park at 4:00 p.m.'s
a target-rich environment.

Angry, upset little girl
needs someone to talk to.

How would he know she was upset?

Finding vulnerable kids
is what these guys are good at.

Russet. Yeah. Where?

We'll be right there.

Uniforms just located another kid

who might have talked
to the suspect yesterday.

It's a couple of blocks from here.

Let's go.

Oh, my gosh. Guess what?
I made the team. Isn't that great?

All my team-mates are so nice.
I'm so excited.

Oh, Daddy, look a puppy. He's so cute.

Oh, what a good boy.
Such a good boy.

Where did he go?

We're looking
for a white male in his 30s

who drives a late model, green SUV.

Anyone who's seen
anything suspicious,

we have a hotline set up
at the Wilmington Police Department.

Billie Copeland is an 11-year-old girl.

The last time she was seen,

she was in a blue tracksuit
and a blue soccer uniform.

They've been running that over
and over again for the past two hours.

The press wants to talk to me,
but I just... I don't think I can face it.

Why don't you just tell me
what happened?

Umm...

I was focused on practice.
And Billie was just

being a pain, as usual.

She was giving me attitude.

So I told her to run it off.

I sent her away.

How long have you been divorced?

It's been final for six months,

but we haven't lived together
for over a year.

You seeing anyone?

Between work and Billie,
when would I have the time?

Not one date?
Any men coming over to the house?

I had a few casual dates after work,
but, they never came to the house.

Billie still hopes that
her father and I will get back together.

How did Billie's dog die,
Mrs. Copeland?

He was hit by a car two weeks ago.
How did you know that?

The shrine in the room.

Helps her grieve?

Her father did that for her.

- They get along well?
- Best of friends.

She calls him every night.

Tells him about her day,
asks about his.

He's a cancer survivor.

So, he takes time off from work,

pulls her out of school
for father-daughter field trips.

Says we all need to stop and enjoy life.

But he forgets
that he has responsibilities.

That they both do.

Which makes me the bad guy.

And she blames me for the divorce.

Blames me for everything.

I should have just let her go
with her father.

I'm sorry.

She's pretty fragile.

The last thing she did
was fight with her daughter.

Can you imagine what that feels like?

Mr. Copeland's here.

- Big response.
- Yeah.

- My friends in the press, eat this up.
- They have a lot of on-air hours to fill.

Excuse me.

Look who's here.

Came all the way down
from New York, huh?

Well, missing little girl
is always going to be news.

Yeah.

So did you get all the photos
and everything you need?

Look, she's been missing
since yesterday.

How come you guys just got here?

We'll have a press conference.

- When?
- Soon.

Come on, JJ.
Give me something. Huh?

- For old times' sake?
- Okay.

You may want to rethink that tie.

I have been calling you all night.

I'm sorry, Marilyn.
I turned my phone off.

How could you turn your phone off?
What if Billie got sick or...

- We needed you.
- I said I was sorry.

What's being done
to find my daughter?

- We're assessing that right now.
- She's been missing since yesterday.

What the hell have you people
been doing since then?

- Where have you been, Mr. Copeland?
- Me?

- Where were you all day and all night?
- I have a cabin in Brandywine Valley.

- Police tried you there.
- Well, maybe I was out at the time.

Billie tried your cell phone
yesterday afternoon.

Well, I shut it off sometimes.
I like the solitude.

You didn't fight your wife
for custody of your daughter,

but you, you like being in her life.

I want her to grow up in her home.
With her friends around.

This is the only place she's ever lived.

- So, you love her very much.
- Yes.

Why are you wasting the precious time
we have left?

You weren't at your cabin.
You weren't at work or with friends.

The police didn't call us
until a little while ago

because they thought your daughter
might have been with you.

That you might have taken
your daughter.

Until you can give us a satisfactory
accounting of your whereabouts

from the time
your daughter went missing until...

Why don't you help me understand

why a devoted father
who talks to his daughter every night

suddenly turns his phone off
and disappears for almost 24 hours.

I was busy.

It's 1:30.

You called your wife at 11:30
and found out Billie was missing.

So?

Well, Brandywine Valley's
15 minutes away.

Where were you, Mr. Copeland?

I don't...

I was at Sloane Kettering Hospital
in New York City.

Dr. Baylan Mahal.
He's the Head of Oncology.

- You can call him if you want.
- I will.

- You had a relapse?
- It's in my lymph nodes now.

There's nothing more they can...

Please find my daughter.
Find my daughter.

Call Sloane Kettering.

Good afternoon. I'm Detective Russet.

This is Special Agents Hotchner
and Morgan from the FBI.

- Hi, you guys.
- Can I see your gun?

This used to be a good neighborhood.

But this is what happens

when you let pedophiles and
sex freaks live wherever they want.

- Ma'am, we...
- No, I have been searching

the sex offender registry.
Two of them live close.

Not that you can tell exactly
where from the map on the Internet.

- Are you talking to them?
- Yes, ma'am.

What's a pedophile sex freak?

Okay, hey, hey, kids, kids, listen up.

Which one of you is Connie?
Hey, sweetheart.

Ma'am,
do you mind if we ask your daughter

- just a couple of questions?
- No.

Why don't we step right over here

and the rest of you
can go back to playing, all right?

He's going to
ask you some questions.

All right.

Connie, I'm Agent Hotchner.

Did you talk to a man yesterday
about finding his dog?

Yeah, he said her name was Candy
and that she was old.

But I told him I couldn't help him 'cause
I had to go home and have lunch.

And if I'm late, I get grounded.

Yeah, well, moms are like that.

And then when he came back,
I was already late for soccer practice.

- Connie, he came back?
- Yeah, after lunch.

He said his dog was still lost.

Do you think you'd recognize him
if you saw him again?

I don't know.

Would you like to go down
to the police department

and have a look at a book
with some men's faces in it?

Might help you recognize him?

- Would that be all right?
- Okay.

Okay.

Thanks, Connie.

He came back to the same
neighborhood twice in one day.

- That's bold.
- He's comfortable in the area.

Yeah.

What do we know?

We talked to a kid
who had contact with the UnSub.

He came back to the same street
more than once.

That tells us
he's at ease in the neighborhood

and comfortable talking to kids
in plain view.

He lured Billie with a story
about a lost dog.

Yeah, she recently lost one of her own.

That indicates previous knowledge
of the victim.

Yeah, but it doesn't mean
she necessarily knew him personally,

only that he's aware.

It's not uncommon
for predators like these

to know kids that live around his area.

He's from the neighborhood.

Then we go door-to-door
and ask for voluntary searches.

The neighborhood's already crawling
with uniforms. They're everywhere.

Look, so far, you've followed

the Child Abduction Response Plan
to the letter?

For the past few hours. Yes.

So now we need to
move past the guidelines.

- What?
- Change tactics.

If we don't, Billie isn't going to make it
past the next 24 hours.

I want you to corral these clowns.

We're going to need them. All of them.

Billie Copeland
has been missing 22 hours.

It is vital
that we locate her in the first 24.

The unknown subject
in this case is most likely a resident

of one of the subdivisions
around the park.

We have canceled the AMBER Alert.

We need to coordinate
with all your officers

to pull everyone off
the street immediately.

- That's crazy.
- Just hear me out.

But it goes against CARP procedures.
You guys wrote the damn thing.

CARP is just a guideline for immediate
response to child abduction.

Believe it or not,
we're already late in the game

and we do know enough about
this UnSub to know that

if he feels like
we are closing in on him at all,

he will kill Billie to avoid detection.

If anything,
we need to lessen the pressure on him.

The man fits in
'cause nobody knows what he is.

Can we really know our neighbors?

He walks his dog.

- Good morning.
- Hi.

Does yard work.
Solitary activities appeal to him.

But if you watch closely, you'll see

that he pays a little too much attention
to the neighborhood kids.

This largely goes unnoticed
because he isn't perceived as a threat.

He's a white male,
in his late 20s to 30s.

He has a menial or temporary job.

Socially marginalized and frustrated,

he relates better to kids
than he does to adults.

This is not his first offense against
children, but it is his first abduction.

How do you know that?

Well, first timers hunt close to home.
Experienced predators don't.

And he's had a recent stressor,
a job loss or other setback.

Unable to maintain
a normal relationship,

he'll have
extensive pornographic materials

in his home and on his computer.

And while they won't all involve
children, some of them definitely will.

Since he used a missing dog ruse

and we believe him to be
a regular fixture of the neighborhood,

it's quite possible
that he truly does own

or did at one point
own a dog named Candy.

We'd recommend
crosschecking any veterinary records

with residents in the neighborhood.

He will not inject himself
into this investigation.

Don't these guys like to know
what the cops know?

No, not this type of UnSub.
He's hiding.

He doesn't know what anyone saw.

He doesn't know if there's
any information about him out there.

He's not likely to walk in and ask us,
"Can I help you?"

But I can guarantee you
he will be watching the news.

So how we handle them
is very important.

Check your canvass records.

One of you may have had contact
with him in the early stages.

What about registered sex offenders?

We've got somebody working
on that right now.

Okay, ladies and gentlemen.
Everyone clear on that?

Good luck. Thank you.

Penelope Garcia's house of
"how may I save your ass today?"

Girl, you can give me sex offender
registry for Wilmington, Delaware.

Oh, that's always a fun group.

Morgan, did you hear
that Agent Gideon sent me flowers?

- No kidding?
- Jealous?

- Sex offenders, Garcia.
- All right.

Wilmington, Delaware, sex offenders.

Worst of them all,
Level Three offenders, zip, nada.

Got a couple of Level Two's
residing six and twelve miles

from the abduction site.

One of which with such a long sheet,
he should probably still be in prison,

but apparently
has served his full freight,

and another paroled on two counts
of sexual assault and rape one.

- Any child victims?
- No.

Come on, Garcia. Dig. Dig for me.

You've got a Level One,
Dennis Jones lives a mile away.

"Solicitation of Prostitution."

No, Jones doesn't fit the profile.

The guy we're looking for probably
couldn't perform with adults, pro or not.

Well, give me a list of suspects
and I can run a deep background.

No. It'll be way too late by then.

You took all the police off the street?

We believe your daughter was
abducted by someone in the area

and that she's probably still nearby.

Then shouldn't you be
flooding the area with cops?

- Knocking on doors?
- It's not that simple.

Yes, it is.

You're taking the meds again.

Look, what exactly are you people
doing to help get my daughter back?

You're sick again, aren't you?

We want you to meet with the press.
Both of you.

A press conference?
That's what you have?

You just said you're already taking
the press that's running off the air.

I know but this will be different.

Trust us, Mr. Copeland.

I'll get it.

Just tell Marilyn
what you need us to do.

- That was his second remission.
- I'm sorry.

Billie won't even talk to me any more.

How am I going to tell her
that her father's sick again?

One thing at a time, Mrs. Copeland.

Once we find your daughter,
you'll figure it out.

Yeah, can I help you?

Mr. Copeland. I'm Helen
Godfrey from a few blocks away.

I have printouts on all sex offenders
in the area.

I mean, I think it would be...
Look at any of these.

What the hell?

Mr. Copeland? Mr. Copeland!

There are sex offenders in the area.
I thought he should know.

Stupid.

Hotch, we have a problem.

Dennis Jones?

Are you Dennis Jones?

- Do I know you?
- Where's my daughter?

What?

You tell me where she is
or I'm going to kill you right here.

Dude, I got no idea
what you're talking about.

Where is she?

Tell me where is she, you pervert!
Tell me.

Copeland. Mr. Copeland, don't do it.

Get off of me!

- He's got my kid!
- I got no kid!

Get inside.

- What is this?
- Let it go.

He's got my daughter.
I know he does.

Well, that's it. No more uniforms
in the neighborhood.

- Are you sure this is the way to go?
- I hope it is.

You're taking a hell of a chance,
aren't you?

All we can do is respond
to what's in front of us.

What if you're wrong?

Do you know what program
did the most harm to this country

in terms of crimes like this?

- Child abduction.
- No.

- "Stranger Danger."
- Flooded the schools with it.

I remember them
coming to my classroom.

It was "Officer Friendly" with
"Stranger Danger" coloring books.

Taught a whole generation

about a scary man in a trench coat
hiding behind a tree.

Then we learnt that strangers
are only a fraction

of the offenders out there.

Most are people you see every day.

Your family, your neighbors,
your school teachers.

You know the rest.

Prepared our children for 1%
of the danger

and made them more vulnerable
to 99%.

So we've been wrong before.

All we can do is learn from it
and hopefully be better next time.

- Unit five-three-nine.
- Nine.

Nine, we have a marked unit
calling for your presence

at the river off Route Six.

- What's this in reference to?
- They've located a body. Female.

The call was anonymous.

Said there was a body in the water.

Brown hair, brown eyes.
About 4'10 ", 4'11"?

Yeah.

I should have
started this search earlier.

I'm sure you just did
what you thought was right, Detective.

- I can't, I can't. If it's her I...
- It's all right.

Mr. Jones isn't interested
in pressing charges.

Oh, oh, am I supposed to be grateful?
The bastard's a pedophile.

- No, he isn't.
- Did you check up on him?

Did you even search his house?

His sex offense
was soliciting a prostitute.

It had nothing to do with children.

- But he's registered on...
- Mr. Copeland.

There are a lot of ways
to get on that list.

That's why accessing
that type of information

is supposed to be left up
to law enforcement.

We understand
your frustration and your anger,

but you're jeopardizing our efforts
to save your daughter's life.

Every minute spent chasing you
is time we're not spending on Billie.

So, either get control of yourself
and follow our directions

or stay out of our way.

What would you like us to do?

Make a public appeal for information

regarding a witness
driving a dark green SUV.

Isn't he supposed to be the suspect?

Yes, but when people hear "suspect,"

they can't see the guy next door
as a monster.

They can't imagine their neighbor
could do something like this.

If he's a witness, he might be a hero.

Okay, but what if he thinks it's a trick?

What if he panics or thinks it's too risky
and then he...

It's not just him
that you'll be speaking to.

It's his neighbors as well.

We've done everything we can
to relieve the pressure on this man.

We've taken the cops off the street.

You won't have any standing with you
on the dais.

Only a local minister.

Hearing he isn't a suspect
might calm him down as well.

Right now he's under enormous stress.

And we need him to believe,

even if it's just for a little while,
that we're way off the mark.

That we're not close to arresting him.

Are you? Close to arresting him?

We need the public's help.

- Okay, come on.
- Here they come.

Would you just close the door?
Thank you.

Okay, can I have everyone's attention?

Please, if you could just take
your seats, I'll begin.

The Copeland family
is here to make an appeal.

As you all know,

their 11-year-old daughter, Billie,
is missing.

So if you could just have
a little compassion and patience.

Mr. Copeland.

Yesterday...
Yesterday at approximately 3:00 p.m.,

my daughter, our daughter,
Belinda Copeland, Billie,

went missing
from the recreation center.

We are looking for a man,
a witness in a green SUV.

There have been some reports that
he is a suspect but that was a mistake.

He is not suspected of anything.

We would like this man to come
forward and tell us what he knows.

We need your help.

He may not even understand
how important what he saw is.

So, anyone with information about
this individual or his green SUV,

please call the tip hotline.

Thank you.

Mr. Copeland.
Mr. Copeland!

We'd like Billie to come home, now.
It'll be dark soon. Thank you.

So the body located by police,
earlier today, is not Billie's?

What?

The female body
that was found in the water.

There'll be no more questions.
Thank you.

- What body?
- This press conference is over.

What body?

There'll be no more questions.
That'll be all for now.

Mr. Copeland, when was
the last time you saw your daughter?

Mr. Copeland!

- Is that your idea of compassion?
- I only asked a question.

You're the ones who didn't tell
the parents about the body.

A positive identification
hasn't been made.

Asking them about that
was out of line, Hal.

- Is there a body?
- Please just come with me.

You tell me right now!
Did you find a body?

Mrs. Copeland.

Did you find Billie?
Is my daughter dead?

- A body was discovered.
- It's not Billie.

The body that was found
was much older.

It has been dead for a number of days.

It looks like maybe a junkie
or an overdose.

- Are you sure?
- Yes, I saw the body myself.

- It's not your daughter.
- My God, I can't, I can't...

Please, just come with me right now.

- What the hell was that about?
- A reporter asked them about the body.

Probably heard it on a scanner.

I should have prepared them for that.

We didn't have anything
to tell them yet.

- Billie's running out of time, guys.
- So are the parents.

Oh, come on. A little hope, huh?
We'll make it. We'll make it.

How's it going?

The UnSub's in here somewhere.

I got to bet that the police talked to him
in their initial canvass.

Maybe not.
Our UnSub is a solitary individual.

He isn't the type of guy to insert
himself into an investigation.

I mean, wouldn't it make more sense

that he wouldn't have answered
the door during the initial canvass?

The neighborhood
was crawling with cops,

canine units, Search and Rescues.

Make him nervous and jumpy.
He'd want to avoid them at all costs.

So, then he couldn't allow anyone
into his home

to ask routine questions
even if the girl was bound or gagged

because it'd be too risky.

It is next to impossible to control

breathing, speech patterns,
body language

when the body's under extreme duress.

Maybe if we compare hotline tips
with anyone

who wasn't at home
during the initial canvass.

- Or didn't answer the door.
- We'll find our UnSub.

- Let's go to it.
- Sergeant.

- Yeah.
- Here's what we need.

Everything that comes in here...

Oh, my God, Billie.

You have to be strong now.
You have to.

How are we doing?

All her life, when my little girl
needed help, she came to me.

And now when she needs me most,
there's nothing.

When he got sick, he said he didn't
want to make us watch him die.

He wanted the divorce.

And I let her believe that it was me,
because...

I don't know,

it seemed better than the truth
that he was running away from us.

So, I lied to her.

I think that's an incredible sacrifice.

Except now he's sick

and all I have left is a daughter
who hates me.

I just...
I can't just sit around here helpless.

Well, when you were first diagnosed
with cancer,

you could have given up but you didn't.

But there was an enemy.
Something to fight.

Yeah, but it was a ghost enemy.

It sneaks in, ravages you
before you even know it's there.

And by the time you do know,
you're already losing.

And you took on that one.

Whatever will you summoned to fight
that battle, find it again.

For Billie. Don't give up, sir.

But it didn't matter.
I fought and it came back.

The cancer won.

I saw the pictures of you and her,
in her room.

Pictures of you fishing.

Being there for her when her dog died.
Building a shrine to her pet.

Do you think that extra time
didn't matter?

Are you going to find her?

The men and women I work with
are the best in the world.

They won't rest until they do.

You have my word on that.

Yeah, it was worth a try. That's right.
Thank you. Nothing.

- Agent Morgan?
- Yeah?

Is this the kind of thing
you're looking for?

Reid.

A Mr. Lomax has a neighbor
with a green SUV,

but he hasn't seen him all day.
Says that's unusual.

Thought he might've just been
out of town,

but now he sees some lights
on over there.

"1106 Springfield."
Where's our canvass sheets? 1106.

1100 block. 1106. No answer.

Let's go to talk with Mr. Lomax.
Nice call.

All right, guys. Good luck.

Mr. Lomax? Agent Morgan.
Agent Reid. FBI.

Holy smokes, that was fast.

Did you call in a tip
about your neighbor, Don Curtis?

Lives down the street.
I saw the news thing, you know?

I was thinking,
Don drives a dark green Explorer

and he's at the park all the time.

I figured, like they said on the
television, maybe he knows something,

but doesn't know that he knows it.
Know what I mean?

Where's his Explorer now?

It's usually in the driveway,
but I haven't seen it today.

Haven't seen Don either,
which is kind of weird.

We're always out front
talking about the lawns.

He never has any crabgrass.
I don't know how he does it.

- Do you know if he has a dog?
- Used to.

A big golden retriever.
Her name was Candy.

- I think she died like six months ago.
- Thank you, Mr. Lomax.

Yeah, Hotch? It's Morgan.
You better get over here right now.

Third house down on the right.

We knocked on the door
but nobody's answering.

His neighbor said
he's definitely in there.

He's got a green Ford Explorer
in the garage.

- Break down the door.
- No, we don't have probable cause.

He's got a green SUV,
he had a dog that died recently,

he spends time in the park.

And he's pretending he's not home.

None of which are illegal.

No judge is going to sign a warrant
based on that information.

You're weighing the life of a child
against the price of a door?

I'm weighing the law against the price
of a door.

The girl's in the house right now
and the longer

we stand here and wait,
the longer he has to finish her off.

I'll call a judge.
If we go in there without a warrant,

all that evidence will get thrown...

We're aware of the rules of evidence.
What do you propose that we do?

Gideon.

We tow his car,
we impound it, and we search it.

Gideon. Gideon.

Wait a minute. Gideon!

Gideon, you need backup.

Federal agents. FBI.

FBI.

Clear.

Look out!

- Where is she?
- I don't know what you're talking about.

- Where's Billie Copeland?
- Please don't hurt me.

- Gideon.
- Please!

- Please put the gun down.
- Gideon.

- Get him out of here.
- Let's go. Let's go.

Tear the place apart!

We went through everything.

The house, the garage.
The girl isn't here.

What?

Just as we expected,

he has an extensive collection of
deviant photos and cartoon downloads.

Neatly partitioned?
All in separate folders?

- Mmm-hmm.
- Access the Internet history.

Identify any pornographic sites,
shut them down.

I'm uploading to Garcia as we speak.

What is this? Is it all porn?

It's a lot of home movies
with a bunch of kids in it.

But this one, you need to see it.

Shh. Remember what I'll do
if you tell.

Gideon, we searched the entire house.
Upstairs, downstairs, everywhere.

There's no sign of the girl
or that she's even been here.

It is possible that he moved her.

Polly Klaas was found 25 miles
from home.

Danielle Van Dam, 30,
Samantha Runnion, 52,

but, keep in mind,
we were 20 hours late getting involved.

The man doesn't take chances.

He wouldn't drive around
with the girl in the car.

He took her and got her off of the street
as quickly as possible.

Just keep looking.

I'm on it.

Your tapes, your computer,
are full of child pornography.

Do you guys have a warrant?
I didn't see a warrant.

You're going to prison.

Right now, for how long is up to you.
It's in your best interest to help us.

I want a lawyer.

Then we won't be able
to talk to you any more.

We won't hear your side of the story

and we won't get Billie Copeland
back to her parents.

Now you can help us.

Make it right.

Can you close the door? It's cold.

- Curtis lawyered up.
- Of course, he did.

That's the first smart thing he's done.

We broke into his house
and without Billie,

we don't have
the exigent circumstances

we need to make this stick.

We may have to let him go.

I told you
we should have waited.

Yes, I know. We made a call.

And if there are any recriminations,
we will take full responsibility.

Hotch, he's the man.

Jason, I agree,
but we may have been overly hasty.

Hasty?

You know as well as I do, unless
we actually find Billie in this house,

any evidence we find,
is fruit of the poison tree.

Insulation.

There it is.

Hotch, get me up there.

- Here.
- All right.

- Up.
- Go. Go.

She's here.

Hi, Billie. My name's Jason.

I'm here to take you home, sweetie.

Your mommy and daddy
are very worried about you.

I want to go home.

I want to go home.

- Let's go see your mom and dad, huh?
- Uh-huh.

Oh, I forgot.

I took that for luck.

Let's bring it back to
where it belongs, okay?

Let's go see your mommy and daddy.

Hotch! Here she comes.

Here you go, sweetie. Watch your arm.

Watch her arm.

"Measure not the work until
the day's out and the labor done."

Elizabeth Barrett Browning.

- I got absolutely nothing.
- Nothing.

Two pair of aces.

- Oh. Shut up.
- Oh, get out of town.

See, why you always winning?
No.

Because he cheats.

- Poker, it's mathematics, it's statistics.
- Oh, I know.

He's from Vegas.

- House rules.
- There's that, too.

- All right, shuffle.
- Yeah, give me a card.

- Hey, Hotch.
- Yeah.

Did you send flowers
to that tech room girl, Garcia,

- and say they were from me?
- Yeah.

Why?

Jason, people need to know
that they're important,

and sometimes you forget that.

Well, I already sent her a gift.
An MP3 player.

They last longer unless you drop them
or the battery dies,

whichever comes first.

- So, she got two gifts?
- What if she thinks I'm sweet on her?

Maybe not, huh?

I think the Copelands
are going to stay together.

- Well, good.
- He's dying.

He's having a difficult time.

You know, Billie's kind of used to him
not being there.

So, maybe it would be better
if they stayed apart.

- No, it wouldn't.
- How do you know?

I know.

Just know.