Criminal Minds (2005–…): Season 12, Episode 11 - Surface Tension - full transcript
Reid has returned from Houston, where he was visiting his mother who is in a new facility on an experimental drug program. He is called back home from the office while the rest of the team ...
Help me...
Aah!
Capricorn? Really? Me, too.
Let me buy you a drink.
[Laughing]
I think he really likes you.
What's the matter with you, Kevin?
I almost had a heart attack.
Yeah, not much of a pickup line,
but then again, he is a corpse.
Seriously, you can be such a jerk.
Just relax. I was just trying to...
Grayson's coming.
Come, help! Help me here.
[Door opens]
Everything all right in here?
Yes, ma'am. I thought
I'd come in early to prep.
Save you some time.
Mr. Hilliard, have you
ever heard of Eddie Haskell?
No, ma'am.
I think you might be
a direct descendant.
Well, thank you, ma'am.
Mm-hmm.
Let's get started.
- Oh!
- [Buzzing]
Are you ok?
Yes. It's just...
I never worked on a real person before.
Cadavers aren't people,
Ms. Flanagan, they're things.
Slabs of flesh we briefly
inhabit, like motel rooms.
You check in, you stay
a while, you check out.
Well, that's a weird place for a tattoo.
This is Joan Grayson with
the county coroner's office.
I need to speak with
Detective Trejo in homicide.
Right now.
Hey! Welcome back.
- Hi.
- Mmm!
I missed you so much.
You must be Walker.
Great to finally meet you.
It's really great to finally meet you.
I've heard nothing but wonderful things.
Uh, ok, speaking of wonderful things,
let's have it. How's your mom doing?
She's ok. You know, we
have good days and bad days.
So, are you still going
to be going to Houston
on the weekends to visit her?
- [Cell phone rings]
- No, actually, I...
Excuse me.
Dr. Reid here.
What?
All right, stay there. I'll be right...
I'm on my way, ok? Thanks.
Sorry, guys, I have to go.
Everything all right?
A water pipe broke at my apartment.
Tell Prentiss I'll call her when I can.
What was that all about?
Reid apparently has a
plumbing emergency at home.
Oh, no, what a pain.
We'll need to bring
him up to speed later.
Right now we have a case.
Last night, in Tampa,
this semi sort of doodle
was discovered on the arm of a cadaver
that was being dissected
in an anatomy class.
What is it, some kind of tattoo?
No, it's an ink pen drawing.
Yeah, and luckily for law enforcement,
the teacher of the anatomy class
is also the county coroner,
and she recognized the marking.
She'd also seen it on...
Helen Bollinger.
Helen was found dead in
her car 10 days earlier
with 50 sleeping pills in her system
and it was ruled a suicide.
With that scribbled on her arm?
Please tell me there was an
equivocal death investigation.
There was, but the M.E.
determined that the evidence
didn't meet the threshold
to rule it a homicide.
The marking on the second body
has an extra line added to it.
The design could be a work in progress.
Do we have an identity on the cadaver?
Yes. George Findley.
He's a Gulf war vet.
He lived on the street for years.
He died of a heroin overdose.
Marking looks like an initial,
an "A", maybe.
It could also be a partial triangle.
Or the unsub's got a brand all his own
and he's sending a message...
"these victims belong to me."
If it's a message, why place it
on such an obscure part of the body?
A sophisticated staging like
this takes time and practice.
This unsub's killed before.
Which means we need to move fast.
Reid can meet us later in Florida.
Wheels up in 10.
Don't worry, I'm never coming back!
Whoa, what are you doing?
Leaving.
You can't leave. We have an agreement.
You signed a contract.
The contract didn't say anything
about a crazy person
threatening my life.
She did this on purpose. Goodbye.
Is she gone?
Mom, what did you say to her?
She was trying to get
information from me.
Kept asking questions!
Of course she was. She's supposed to.
I told you to be careful about the
people you bring into this house.
There are spies everywhere!
She's not a spy.
She was here to help you.
Shh! [Whispering] She might
still be out there listening.
Don't ever let her come
back in here again, please.
Promise me.
I will promise you that,
because she is never coming back!
She walked out!
Good.
Because we can only
trust each other now.
Nobody else. Just you and me.
Criminal Minds - 12x11 - Surface Tension
Reid: "We must remember that
Satan has his miracles, too."
John Calvin.
Ok. Bye.
So?
Short version... Spence took his mom
out of the clinical study
study in Houston early
and brought her home with him.
Lewis: Did he say why?
Evidently the experimental
medicine isn't working.
Which facility is he
putting her in up here?
He isn't. He said that
he is bringing his mom
to stay with him.
At his apartment?
The instinct is admirable,
but does Reid have any idea
how difficult that's gonna be?
Well, if he didn't before,
he is gonna get a crash course now.
This morning his mom got into a fight
with the new caretaker,
then she left the
bathroom faucet running,
flooded the apartment,
the caretaker quit,
but Spence still wants to be patched in
for the video conferencing now.
Garcia's standing by.
Be careful not to slip.
I have to jump on a
conference call for work.
Are you gonna be ok for a few minutes?
Spencer, I'm sorry. This is a mess.
It's ok. I know it was an accident.
[Sighs] Your books are ruined.
Just a few of them. It's ok.
No, it's not.
Destroying a book is like...
Destroying a whole world.
[Sighs deeply]
You want to maybe lie
down for a little while
and get some rest?
Yes, that's a good idea, honey.
I need rest.
Hey-o. Beaming Reid
into the starship BAU.
Hey, there's my favorite
genius. Welcome back.
It's good to be back. I'm
sorry about all this trouble.
No, don't be silly.
And if there's anything
we can do to help, just let us know.
Thank you. I had a chance
to look over the case files.
Do we know anything new about
the two victims in Tampa?
Only about how little there is to learn,
and Garcia can't find any connection
between Helen Bollinger
and George Findley.
Which isn't that surprising.
Homeless vet,
upper-middle-class suburban mom.
Not much overlap there.
What about their personal lives?
Well, George was homeless,
so his personal life
was sort of problematic.
Helen, on the other
hand, ticks every box
on the wholesome soccer mom checklist.
President of her PTA,
super active at church,
heavily involved in charity work.
Spence, have you looked
at the ink markings yet?
I did. Whatever it is,
it doesn't come from traditional sources
of art, mythology, and literature.
Except for the incomplete
base of a triangle,
the design is evocative of
the pagan symbol for earth.
Garcia, look into other
questionable suicides
and accidental deaths in
the Tampa area recently.
Searching the sad stuff. On it.
Rossi, when we land, you and
Lewis check in with the M.E.
Alvez, see what you can find
out about George Findley.
JJ, Helen Bollinger's husband
is coming in.
I'd like you to talk to him to see
if he can fill in some of the blanks.
Walker and I will set
up with the local P.D.
_
I knew it. Helen would
never have killed herself.
Can you tell me about the day she died?
It was a...
It was a day like any other day.
You know, she got up, headed
off to her pilates class.
Um, our daughter Crystal had a
ballet recital at school that evening.
I was just gonna meet
her there after work.
And how old is Crystal?
9.
And you're certain she didn't
take those sleeping pills
with her when she left?
Positive!
Honestly, I forgot she even had them.
Ok.
And the mark on her arm?
Was not there when she left.
I told the police that.
Whoever killed her
must have put it there.
Mr. Bollinger, has your house
been burglarized recently?
No. Why?
Has anyone new had access to your home?
A repairman, a delivery person,
that kind of thing?
Nobody.
Wait.
Two nights before Helen died,
we came back from a dinner party,
and our babysitter said
she thought she heard a noise upstairs.
Did you investigate?
Yeah, I checked the whole house.
Nothing was out of place,
nothing stolen.
Helen and I, we didn't
give it another thought.
Oh, my God.
Could that have been him?
I understand you teach anatomy
class every Tuesday evening?
Every other Tuesday.
Just pure luck this body
was sent over that night.
Otherwise nobody'd be the wiser.
You were involved in the
equivocal death investigation
of Helen Bollinger?
Mm-hmm. I was the one
who raised a red flag
to begin with when I saw the arm.
Her husband didn't
recognize the marking,
and he said she hadn't
expressed any suicidal ideation.
And yet you still
determined it was a suicide,
even after foreign DNA was
recovered inside the vehicle?
When the threshold
for homicide isn't met,
I have to go with what I'm left with.
There was no evidence indicating
Helen had been forced
to consume the pills.
Did you compare ink
samples from both victims?
Yes, and they matched. Not just the ink,
but the writing instrument as well.
Every pen develops unique
characteristics with use.
Like ballistics matching
bullets with guns.
Exactly. Unfortunately, in
this case it was a felt-tip pen
you could buy at any office
supply store anywhere.
Were you able to collect
DNA from around the ink area?
Yes, sir. It's being analyzed.
This is a heroin overdose?
I'm not seeing any needle tracks.
There aren't any. Except for the one
that killed him, of course.
Findley wasn't a chronic I.V. drug user.
Something else I discovered
before you arrived.
Take a look?
What am I looking at?
Microscopic burnt hairs
found on George Findley's torso.
From what?
Since there were no burn or
scorch marks on the victim,
I'm assuming they came from the killer.
Hey. How'd you sleep?
I'm... Ok, I guess.
Look what arrived
while you were sleeping.
What is that?
It's your old scrapbook.
I had uncle Gordon send
it from Las Vegas. Look.
What's it for?
It's a scrapbook, Mom.
You started this one in high school.
See?
Hmm.
Put pictures and things in it
that you want to keep forever.
I thought it might help
bring back some nice memories.
It's time to take your medicine.
No. No. It tastes terrible.
What if it's poison?
Mom, it's not poison. Remember when
you first started taking it in Texas?
It helped. You felt so
good that we were able to go
on that trip to San Antonio.
It's not poison.
Just wait right here.
I put it in some orange juice
so it wouldn't taste so bad.
Mom, come on.
Are you going to stand there
and watch me?
Yes.
Ahh.
You don't have to do that.
Of course I do.
I have to do whatever you want.
So the babysitter probably wasn't
just hearing things that night,
the unsub broke into the house.
And stole the sleeping pills
he later forced Helen to take.
The police report says a
stuffed animal was found
in the front of Helen's
car when she died.
Yeah. It belonged to
their daughter Crystal.
And the police just assumed it
was left from an earlier trip.
Maybe the unsub stole
more than pills that night.
He took something he
knew he could use later
to coerce Helen into
swallowing the pills.
Do it, or I will harm your little girl.
And here's exhibit "A"
to show I'm not bluffing.
Hey, what say the mean streets of Tampa?
The streets might be mean,
but George Findley wasn't.
Everybody I talked to loved the guy.
No drug issues?
No, just the opposite.
He was a street liaison
for a drug rehab center
that focused on substance
abuse among the homeless.
So he and Helen Bollinger
did have something in common.
They were both held in especially
high esteem by their peers.
One thing was kind of strange.
Findley's body was found
10 miles outside of town
in an abandoned construction site,
nowhere near any of his usual haunts.
Lab results on the heroin syringe.
George Findley's prints
and DNA were found on it
and nobody else's.
He shot himself up with heroin?
That makes no sense.
Unless it was under duress,
like Helen with the pills.
So for some reason, it's
critical to our unsub's ritual
that his victims die by their own hand.
We need to figure out why.
No! No!
Owen, please don't!
Please, don't.
Owen, please don't. Don't. Don't do it.
I love you, Beth.
I will always love you.
[Sobbing] No!
[Gunshot]
[Sobbing]
No! [Sobbing] Owen, please!
Please, no! No!
Owen!
Please, Owen!
Please, Owen!
[Gunshot]
Owen Sims. Officer said he's the husband
of the female vic at the house.
Let's see what we have.
Yep.
Well, that's definitely
the work of our unsub,
but why draw the symbol on
Owen and not on the wife?
Owen must have been
the principal target.
His wife was collateral damage.
Plus, he went to the trouble to
drag him all the way out here.
Gunshot wound to the head,
pointblank range, large caliber.
Probably the .44 Magnum we
found in the living room.
But the female's wound was smaller.
9-millimeter, maybe.
Two guns. I mean, that's
a big step up in violence
from sleeping pills and a syringe.
Well, maybe our killer's getting closer
to the true source of his rage.
So why, why does the unsub
move Owen from the house to this spot?
I don't know.
Maybe our killer sees
something out here we don't.
[Door buzzer]
All right, Mom, I just
want you to meet her, ok?
Just meet her and
tell me what you think.
I already know what I think.
Come on, Mom, let's go. Let's go say hi.
Mom... [Grunts]
Mother.
Maybe you can show her
your scrapbook, huh?
What for?
[Door buzzer]
Miss Campbell? Dr. Reid.
Yes. Thank you so much for
coming on such short notice.
On such short notice.
Thanks. Oh, come in.
No problem.
My goodness.
You must be quite a reader.
Yeah, yeah, I am.
And I'm so sorry about the mess.
We had a, uh, we had a
little bit of an accident.
Come, meet my mom.
Mom, this is miss
Campbell from the agency.
Miss Campbell, this is
my mother Diana Reid.
Very nice to meet you, ma'am.
Mom.
Mom. Just say hi to her. All you...
Mother, you are behaving like a...
Mom, come out...
It's all right. Let it go. Let it go.
I'm so sorry. She's not...
She's been really upset,
but I know if I talk to her...
This happens a lot.
Come and sit and tell me
more about your mother.
All right. Thank you.
Only Owen Sims' prints
were on the .44 Magnum.
And the positioning and trajectory
of the entry wound to the temple
is consistent with suicide.
So he forced Owen to kill himself,
just like the others.
A photo of his children
was found on the floor
near the wife's body.
What do you know about Owen?
Superintendent of schools in Clearwater.
Co-workers couldn't say
enough good things about him.
And his wife Beth?
Oh, sketchier history.
Drugs and alcohol issues.
Even did jail time for a DUI
hit-and-run a few years back.
But she cleaned up her act.
Her life was back on track.
So these could all be finalists
for citizen of the year,
except for Beth.
And all the victims were
marked with the ink drawing,
except for Beth.
Another small line was added
to the marking on Sims' body.
It's like with each new victim,
he connects a new dot.
[Telephone rings]
What do you got, Garcia?
Hey, hey, remember how I told you
that Helen Bollinger was
big-time into charity work?
Turns out she worked a lot
at a soup kitchen downtown
that George Findley
was known to frequent.
Did Owen or Beth Sims do
any volunteering there?
No. But Owen ran an annual
Thanksgiving canned food drive
in his school district.
He was a real hands-on kind of guy.
Turns out he would personally
deliver the donated food
to various shelters
in the Tampa bay area.
We may have just found
our unsub's hunting ground.
Garcia, make a list of
anyone who either volunteered
or worked in a salaried capacity
at Tampa homeless shelters.
We need to make sure
everyone's accounted for.
On it.
That's when I made the decision
to bring her back to Washington with me.
It's a very difficult thing
you're attempting to do, Dr. Reid.
The Anderson clinic is one of
the best facilities in the world.
Yes, I know. In terms of conventional
treatment, I entirely agree.
And that's why I sent her to
Houston in the first place,
but there's a vast amount
of literature and research
on the workings of the human brain,
and we have not even begun
to scratch the surface.
Personally, I believe that great
breakthroughs, especially in medicine,
often come from thinking
outside the box, which...
Yes, but the box is there
for a reason, Dr. Reid.
I mean, safety, quality of life,
controlled environment.
Your mother needs that.
My strong recommendation
is that you put her in
an assisted care facility.
I'm not gonna do that.
You're not gonna do that. [Chuckles]
I'm not.
Well...
That being the case,
I'd be happy to help
you with your mother.
Y-you... are you serious?
Oh, my gosh, thank you! You've no...
I'm so sorry. Sorry. Thank you.
You've no idea how
much this means to me.
I won't be able to start until tomorrow.
I understand.
But in the meantime, I'll hire someone
who can cover the night
shifts when you're traveling.
Oh, that would be so perfect. Thank you.
Now, one more thing.
I need to see the medications
she's currently taking.
Yeah, ok.
Of course, yeah.
It's something we monitor
carefully for obvious reasons.
Of course.
Haloperidol, Doxepin,
Galantamine.
Fairly standard for the treatment
of schizophrenia and Alzheimer's.
She's not taking anything else?
No.
Ok, then.
I'll work out the
details of the contract
and send it over later tonight.
You have a nice day, Dr. Reid.
You, too. Thank you so much.
You're welcome.
There must be some sort of logic
as to how this unsub
chooses his disposal sites,
because it's certainly not convenience.
Notice in every location the
earth is damaged in some way.
Damaged how?
Dug up. Gone to seed.
Findley was left at this
abandoned construction site.
Owen was dragged to
this ratty little area,
and Helen Bollinger's car was
parked at the edge of a landfill.
Rossi: You're right.
He could have gone to less risky areas
if all he was doing was disposing
of them outside the city.
Alvez: I'm going to go
back to these locations,
take a closer look.
Do you see something?
Yeah. Look at the demarcation line
of the earth here, where
the damaged terrain begins.
Yeah, what is that?
I've got a pretty good hunch.
Back in an hour.
Huh.
I wonder what Reid's doing.
I know. He's been on my mind, too.
Ironic, isn't it?
What?
How eventually we become
parents to our parents.
[Tapping on door]
Must be time for the profile.
The person we're looking
for is targeting victims
of high moral character,
manipulating them into
killing themselves,
marking them, and then
disposing of the bodies
in secondary locations.
Rossi: All the victims
crossed in some way
with the homeless
community here in Tampa.
The killer may be homeless himself
or possibly connected to the
charitable outreach community.
We believe this person is a loner.
Evidence found on the victims
indicates he may
himself be a burn victim.
Lewis: The killer left substantial DNA
and other trace evidence
at two of the crime scenes.
This indicates either he's
sloppy, he's not in the system,
or he just doesn't care.
Walker: The last possibility
is the most concerning.
It means he's resigned himself
to being caught eventually
and already has an end game in mind.
The secondary disposal
sites are located in areas
where the surrounding landscape
has been disturbed in some way.
It's possible the unsub
is making a statement
about the damage mankind
is doing to the Earth.
The victims may have been
placed there on purpose
as symbolic offerings.
This could explain why the
unsub forces the victims
to kill themselves. The
hand that defiled the Earth
is turned on itself.
Lewis: It could also explain
why he's marking people
of exceptionally high moral character.
Hey, you're done already?
All right, we'll see you next time.
In ancient societies, only
the purest of mind and spirit
were offered up as sacrifices.
So the unsub may believe
that what he is doing
is actually both noble
and morally right.
In philosophy it's called
the doctrine of double effect,
which states that it is
permissible to do something harmful
if it results in a greater good.
The most recent killing shows
a disturbing uptick in violence
and the killer's
willingness to take risks.
This could be a sign he's devolving,
and with this unraveling,
the danger to the public
is likely to escalate.
Thank you.
Hey, good afternoon, sir.
Um, what would you like today?
What sounds good?
We have beef and chicken.
Uh, why don't we go with the beef.
There you go.
Um, you know, I'm gonna
sneak in some chicken, too,
because you look hungry.
Have a nice day.
It's what I thought.
Heavy concentration of silky clay
mixed with gravel and rock.
And it's not a natural
soil composite for the area,
but it was present at
all 3 disposal sites.
Which tells us what?
Well, it's used to repair sinkholes.
And all of the victims, they were
placed just inside the transition area.
You hear that, Reid?
I did, and, you know,
it fits with our profile
about the unsub making a
statement about environmental ruin.
You know, sinkholes have been
on the rise, actually, worldwide,
due to urbanization, drilling, fracking.
Prentiss: Garcia?
She's here. Feed the beast.
What can you tell us
about sinkholes in Florida?
I can tell you that...
Jinkies. Tread lightly,
there are a gazillion of them.
Over 500 in the Tampa Bay area alone
since records started being
kept in 1974. Why are you asking?
We think our unsub is taking his victims
to current or former sinkholes.
We're trying to anticipate which
one he might pay a visit to next.
Guys, are they cover-subsidence
or cover-collapse sinkholes?
Given their shallow layer of repair,
I'd say they're cover-subsidence.
I'd chime in with an opinion as well
if I knew what the hell
you two were talking about.
Cover-subsidence is where
the ground very gradually
begins to form a
depression, usually circular,
over the course of weeks or months.
Cover-collapse is the nasty one.
That's when the earth just suddenly
goes out from under your
feet like a trapdoor.
We can find out for sure what
these 3 were, but does it matter?
It might. I'm basically
just looking for parameters
to narrow down the search. I did a
latitude/longitude study of a few locations,
but I couldn't find a numerical pattern.
Let me try a few more
algorithms, though.
Maybe the date that the
sinkholes formed means something
or the dates they were repaired.
I don't know. I'm just
grasping at straws.
We don't want to keep you
from your algorithms, kid.
Get back to us if you find something.
All right. Thank you, bye.
Mom?
Mom?
Mom.
Mom, can you hear me?
Mom, answer me.
Mom, don't do that!
Don't do that! Stop that!
Leave me alone! Stop, stop!
Give it back to me! Ohh!
- Stop!
- Aah!
Give it to me!
Stay away from me! Ohh!
Aah! Leave me alone!
What are you doing? Give it to me!
Leave me alone!
For God's sake, leave me alone!
Mom!
No! Stop!
Why did you do that? Why?!
I hate that stuff! And I hate you!
Do you have any idea what I went
through to get that medicine, Mom?
It can't be replaced.
Do you realize that?
Good! I want to go back home.
- This is home.
- No, it isn't!
I want to go back to where I was before!
You said you hated Houston!
No, I want to go back to
where I was before before!
Before!
Well, that was just what I needed.
Hmm?
My nap. It really did the trick.
Oh, my goodness.
My scrapbook.
Oh, I've been keeping this
since I don't know when.
I have no idea how it got here, but...
Ohh, honey.
What did you do to your face?
It's all red.
Probably bumped into something.
Oh, you need to be more
careful. It's really awful.
I will.
You know, you always were so clumsy.
Smart as a whip.
But I used to call you Crash.
You were always bumping into things.
Ohh...[Groans]
Good news.
We got a hit on the unsub's DNA.
How is that not great news?
What's his name?
That's why it's not great news.
We don't have a name.
The DNA match was to a series of 6
unsolved murders in the
Tampa/St. Pete region
stretching back nearly 3 years.
Who were these victims?
Local women. Mostly in their early 20s,
appeared to be victims of opportunity.
Sexually assaulted, strangled,
and then dumped by the
side of the interstate.
Was there any ritualistic
behavior associated
with these earlier murders?
None. These killings were as
straightforward as it gets.
And then 10 months ago,
the murders stopped.
A shift in M.O. this dramatic
doesn't just happen on its own.
Something seismic
rocked our unsub's world.
A woman named Eleanor
Parsons is missing.
She worked as a volunteer
at a local homeless shelter.
Honey, what is this?
Oh, it's a ticket stub.
What is that?
A ticket stub? When you
go to a concert or a movie
you get a ticket so they'll let you in.
You saw Elvis in concert?
I don't know.
I did many things when I was young.
Who is he?
Elvis Presley.
He's a very famous rock and roll singer.
Ah! Oh, my gosh!
I'd almost forgotten about this.
What is that?
When you were a little boy,
I took you to the
circus, and after that,
all you could talk about
is you wanted to be a tightrope walker
when you grew up.
I thought I wanted to be a magician.
You did. That was later. This was first.
Really? I don't remember that at all.
Oh, no wonder.
You were no more than 3 or 4.
What's on its head?
[Laughs] It's you!
That's me?
Yes. You glued that on there yourself.
[Laughs] Why did I do that?
Well, here.
See this little scar
right there on your wrist?
That's from where you fell
when you were trying to
balance on our backyard fence.
Oh, you were so determined
to make it the whole way.
And I'll never forget looking
out the kitchen window,
watching you out there
as you were trying to make
a balancing pole from a broomstick.
Calculating how long it should be
and making adjustments.
My little budding genius.
Did I ever make it?
No. And you were heartbroken.
You see, the problem
was, you were so smart,
you were so brilliant,
you really believed that
you could solve anything
if you just put your brain into it.
But that tightrope...
No, you just couldn't figure that out.
But you were meant for
bigger things, Spencer.
Now, how do you tell
that to a 4-year-old boy?
Mmm.
[Chuckles]
Walker: Our current profile of the unsub
doesn't apply to his earlier killings.
Those had no ritual and
a strong sexual component.
Ok, so something
happened in the 10 months
between here and here.
Something big.
Because when the unsub emerged
to start killing again,
his victimology and M.O.
had done a complete 180.
We think he may have
burned himself, right?
Maybe he was in some sort
of accident during that time.
What kind of accident?
No idea.
What? Alvez doesn't have a
monopoly on grasping at straws.
Well, we know sinkholes
suddenly became important.
Let's start there.
[Telephone rings]
Garcia, please tell
us you found something.
Garcia: Did I ever, and
right in the 10-month
sweet spot between murders.
Turns out, one not-so-fine
morning, April 2015,
a sinkhole opened up in St. Petersburg,
swallowing the humble home
of Fred and Marnie Jarvis,
with them in it.
Did they survive?
Heavens, no. They got sucked
into the bowels of the Earth,
never to be seen again.
However, that had an adult son
living with them at the time, Bryce.
He was able to scramble out before
the whole place went bye-bye.
Why do I have a sense there's
more to the Jarvis family history?
Because there is, and
the road is strange,
so set your tasers to weird.
It turns out the Jarvises
ran some sort of
discount spiritual center
out of their two-car garage.
It was a mish-mash of, I don't know,
like old testament fire and brimstone
mixed with Halloween goblins
and snake oil commerce.
Was Bryce involved with
the family business?
Mm-mmm. Bryce hated his parents,
his parents loathed him.
Back in the day, local child services
had the Jarvis residence on speed dial.
There was rumors of sexual
abuse. It was never proven.
But he continued to live
with them as an adult?
Yeah. Bryce could not hold down
a job. He had no place to go.
Anyway, a couple of
years ago, Fred and Marnie
got put in county lockup for 6 months.
On what charge?
Fraud. It turns out that the Jarvises
were selling ointment that they claimed
when spread liberally on
one's face and arms and hands,
would repel Satan.
And, yes, you heard that correctly.
No need to adjust your headsets.
While they were locked up,
Bryce had a nervous breakdown.
He spent time in the state hospital.
Let me guess. Shortly after his release,
the murders of the 6
young women started.
Exactly two weeks later.
Do we know where Bryce is now?
No. That's what made me
stand up and pay attention.
Because when I can't
find somebody, that means
that someone doesn't
want to be findable,
and I'm gonna keep searching.
[Groaning]
[Gasps]
Time to go.
[Gasping]
There's one more trip you have to take.
Hey. I made you some tea.
How are you feeling?
Who are you?
Spencer.
Hmm?
Your son.
It's been a really long day.
You should probably sleep now.
Emily.
What is it, Reid?
I think our unsub is trying to literally
send his victims to hell.
What are you talking about?
Sinkholes don't just exist
in a geologic context.
They also have a symbolic history.
In Mexico they're called
cenotes, and the ancient Mayans
believed them to be
portals to the underworld.
They even made human
sacrifices to certain cenotes.
The suicide aspect of the unsub's ritual
makes sense now.
That is a sin, right?
And you can't go to hell
unless you've sinned.
In Bryce's mind, the devil opened up
the Earth and swallowed his parents.
Now this is his way of
showing his gratitude.
That's why he must be choosing
especially virtuous victims,
people who have tickets to
a front-row seat in heaven.
Until Bryce stamped them null and void
and sent them in the other direction.
Reid: There's more. I think the mark
he's making on his victims' arms
is a rough rendering of
the Ophiuchus star cluster.
Prentiss: Which is?
The Ophiuchus star cluster
is the constellation of the devil.
3 of the disposal sites correlates with
a 3-star section of the constellation.
So he could be using that as
a guide to dumping the bodies.
Is there a discernible
pattern of progression?
It's hard to say for
sure, but my guess is
he'll be heading to a
sinkhole in the vicinity
of latitude 27.75,
longitude minus 82.25.
Meaning here, here, or here.
We'll split the team. Let's move.
Come on!
[Gasping] Oh! Ow! Ow!
Get up! Get up. Get up.
[Sobbing] Why are you doing this?
Jump.
No!
Do it! Do it!
I won't!
You have a granddaughter named Tess.
Ohh...
Jump or she dies tomorrow.
No. You'll kill her anyway.
I'm not jumping.
You're just gonna have to kill me first.
If that's what you want.
Alves: Bryce Jarvis, FBI!
Step away from the cliff!
[Gunfire]
[Grunting]
Don't.
No, let me go!
No, not quite, not quite.
Hey.
Can I try some?
Help yourself.
I'm a white wine kind of gal, but...
Whoo, yeah, that just woke
up my back molars, thank you.
Like the best things in life,
an acquired taste.
Do you think Spence is making a mistake
bringing his mom home?
It's hard to say.
Not long ago I told
him he shouldn't waste
the precious time he has left with her.
I guess he took it to heart.
I worry about him, you know?
Yeah, it'll be fine.
If it proves too
difficult, he'll adjust.
I just have a bad feeling...
About what?
I don't even know.
I can't put my finger on it.
JJ, we have enough problems in this life
that are real and present.
Let's not bring imagined
ones to the table, too.
Ok. I will drink to that.
Oh, in spirit.
[Chuckles]
♪ Lying here with all my thoughts ♪
♪ inside this empty bed ♪
♪ wishing for an empty head ♪
♪ to think things through ♪
♪ everything is simple like ♪
♪ the hand that needs to heal ♪
♪ to feel the walls of all the tunnels ♪
♪ that lead to you ♪
♪ and even though you'll have to fight ♪
♪ for every hour every day ♪
♪ I swear that you and me
will never fear the end ♪
♪ of what we've made
and I'll miss you ♪
♪ really miss you ♪
♪ but I can't find you in my dreams ♪
♪ where I will take you
when they break you ♪
♪ and life shakes you to your knees ♪
♪ the stars may die then ♪
♪ but I'll still shine for you ♪
Reid: "Time moves in one direction",
memory in another."
Aah!
Capricorn? Really? Me, too.
Let me buy you a drink.
[Laughing]
I think he really likes you.
What's the matter with you, Kevin?
I almost had a heart attack.
Yeah, not much of a pickup line,
but then again, he is a corpse.
Seriously, you can be such a jerk.
Just relax. I was just trying to...
Grayson's coming.
Come, help! Help me here.
[Door opens]
Everything all right in here?
Yes, ma'am. I thought
I'd come in early to prep.
Save you some time.
Mr. Hilliard, have you
ever heard of Eddie Haskell?
No, ma'am.
I think you might be
a direct descendant.
Well, thank you, ma'am.
Mm-hmm.
Let's get started.
- Oh!
- [Buzzing]
Are you ok?
Yes. It's just...
I never worked on a real person before.
Cadavers aren't people,
Ms. Flanagan, they're things.
Slabs of flesh we briefly
inhabit, like motel rooms.
You check in, you stay
a while, you check out.
Well, that's a weird place for a tattoo.
This is Joan Grayson with
the county coroner's office.
I need to speak with
Detective Trejo in homicide.
Right now.
Hey! Welcome back.
- Hi.
- Mmm!
I missed you so much.
You must be Walker.
Great to finally meet you.
It's really great to finally meet you.
I've heard nothing but wonderful things.
Uh, ok, speaking of wonderful things,
let's have it. How's your mom doing?
She's ok. You know, we
have good days and bad days.
So, are you still going
to be going to Houston
on the weekends to visit her?
- [Cell phone rings]
- No, actually, I...
Excuse me.
Dr. Reid here.
What?
All right, stay there. I'll be right...
I'm on my way, ok? Thanks.
Sorry, guys, I have to go.
Everything all right?
A water pipe broke at my apartment.
Tell Prentiss I'll call her when I can.
What was that all about?
Reid apparently has a
plumbing emergency at home.
Oh, no, what a pain.
We'll need to bring
him up to speed later.
Right now we have a case.
Last night, in Tampa,
this semi sort of doodle
was discovered on the arm of a cadaver
that was being dissected
in an anatomy class.
What is it, some kind of tattoo?
No, it's an ink pen drawing.
Yeah, and luckily for law enforcement,
the teacher of the anatomy class
is also the county coroner,
and she recognized the marking.
She'd also seen it on...
Helen Bollinger.
Helen was found dead in
her car 10 days earlier
with 50 sleeping pills in her system
and it was ruled a suicide.
With that scribbled on her arm?
Please tell me there was an
equivocal death investigation.
There was, but the M.E.
determined that the evidence
didn't meet the threshold
to rule it a homicide.
The marking on the second body
has an extra line added to it.
The design could be a work in progress.
Do we have an identity on the cadaver?
Yes. George Findley.
He's a Gulf war vet.
He lived on the street for years.
He died of a heroin overdose.
Marking looks like an initial,
an "A", maybe.
It could also be a partial triangle.
Or the unsub's got a brand all his own
and he's sending a message...
"these victims belong to me."
If it's a message, why place it
on such an obscure part of the body?
A sophisticated staging like
this takes time and practice.
This unsub's killed before.
Which means we need to move fast.
Reid can meet us later in Florida.
Wheels up in 10.
Don't worry, I'm never coming back!
Whoa, what are you doing?
Leaving.
You can't leave. We have an agreement.
You signed a contract.
The contract didn't say anything
about a crazy person
threatening my life.
She did this on purpose. Goodbye.
Is she gone?
Mom, what did you say to her?
She was trying to get
information from me.
Kept asking questions!
Of course she was. She's supposed to.
I told you to be careful about the
people you bring into this house.
There are spies everywhere!
She's not a spy.
She was here to help you.
Shh! [Whispering] She might
still be out there listening.
Don't ever let her come
back in here again, please.
Promise me.
I will promise you that,
because she is never coming back!
She walked out!
Good.
Because we can only
trust each other now.
Nobody else. Just you and me.
Criminal Minds - 12x11 - Surface Tension
Reid: "We must remember that
Satan has his miracles, too."
John Calvin.
Ok. Bye.
So?
Short version... Spence took his mom
out of the clinical study
study in Houston early
and brought her home with him.
Lewis: Did he say why?
Evidently the experimental
medicine isn't working.
Which facility is he
putting her in up here?
He isn't. He said that
he is bringing his mom
to stay with him.
At his apartment?
The instinct is admirable,
but does Reid have any idea
how difficult that's gonna be?
Well, if he didn't before,
he is gonna get a crash course now.
This morning his mom got into a fight
with the new caretaker,
then she left the
bathroom faucet running,
flooded the apartment,
the caretaker quit,
but Spence still wants to be patched in
for the video conferencing now.
Garcia's standing by.
Be careful not to slip.
I have to jump on a
conference call for work.
Are you gonna be ok for a few minutes?
Spencer, I'm sorry. This is a mess.
It's ok. I know it was an accident.
[Sighs] Your books are ruined.
Just a few of them. It's ok.
No, it's not.
Destroying a book is like...
Destroying a whole world.
[Sighs deeply]
You want to maybe lie
down for a little while
and get some rest?
Yes, that's a good idea, honey.
I need rest.
Hey-o. Beaming Reid
into the starship BAU.
Hey, there's my favorite
genius. Welcome back.
It's good to be back. I'm
sorry about all this trouble.
No, don't be silly.
And if there's anything
we can do to help, just let us know.
Thank you. I had a chance
to look over the case files.
Do we know anything new about
the two victims in Tampa?
Only about how little there is to learn,
and Garcia can't find any connection
between Helen Bollinger
and George Findley.
Which isn't that surprising.
Homeless vet,
upper-middle-class suburban mom.
Not much overlap there.
What about their personal lives?
Well, George was homeless,
so his personal life
was sort of problematic.
Helen, on the other
hand, ticks every box
on the wholesome soccer mom checklist.
President of her PTA,
super active at church,
heavily involved in charity work.
Spence, have you looked
at the ink markings yet?
I did. Whatever it is,
it doesn't come from traditional sources
of art, mythology, and literature.
Except for the incomplete
base of a triangle,
the design is evocative of
the pagan symbol for earth.
Garcia, look into other
questionable suicides
and accidental deaths in
the Tampa area recently.
Searching the sad stuff. On it.
Rossi, when we land, you and
Lewis check in with the M.E.
Alvez, see what you can find
out about George Findley.
JJ, Helen Bollinger's husband
is coming in.
I'd like you to talk to him to see
if he can fill in some of the blanks.
Walker and I will set
up with the local P.D.
_
I knew it. Helen would
never have killed herself.
Can you tell me about the day she died?
It was a...
It was a day like any other day.
You know, she got up, headed
off to her pilates class.
Um, our daughter Crystal had a
ballet recital at school that evening.
I was just gonna meet
her there after work.
And how old is Crystal?
9.
And you're certain she didn't
take those sleeping pills
with her when she left?
Positive!
Honestly, I forgot she even had them.
Ok.
And the mark on her arm?
Was not there when she left.
I told the police that.
Whoever killed her
must have put it there.
Mr. Bollinger, has your house
been burglarized recently?
No. Why?
Has anyone new had access to your home?
A repairman, a delivery person,
that kind of thing?
Nobody.
Wait.
Two nights before Helen died,
we came back from a dinner party,
and our babysitter said
she thought she heard a noise upstairs.
Did you investigate?
Yeah, I checked the whole house.
Nothing was out of place,
nothing stolen.
Helen and I, we didn't
give it another thought.
Oh, my God.
Could that have been him?
I understand you teach anatomy
class every Tuesday evening?
Every other Tuesday.
Just pure luck this body
was sent over that night.
Otherwise nobody'd be the wiser.
You were involved in the
equivocal death investigation
of Helen Bollinger?
Mm-hmm. I was the one
who raised a red flag
to begin with when I saw the arm.
Her husband didn't
recognize the marking,
and he said she hadn't
expressed any suicidal ideation.
And yet you still
determined it was a suicide,
even after foreign DNA was
recovered inside the vehicle?
When the threshold
for homicide isn't met,
I have to go with what I'm left with.
There was no evidence indicating
Helen had been forced
to consume the pills.
Did you compare ink
samples from both victims?
Yes, and they matched. Not just the ink,
but the writing instrument as well.
Every pen develops unique
characteristics with use.
Like ballistics matching
bullets with guns.
Exactly. Unfortunately, in
this case it was a felt-tip pen
you could buy at any office
supply store anywhere.
Were you able to collect
DNA from around the ink area?
Yes, sir. It's being analyzed.
This is a heroin overdose?
I'm not seeing any needle tracks.
There aren't any. Except for the one
that killed him, of course.
Findley wasn't a chronic I.V. drug user.
Something else I discovered
before you arrived.
Take a look?
What am I looking at?
Microscopic burnt hairs
found on George Findley's torso.
From what?
Since there were no burn or
scorch marks on the victim,
I'm assuming they came from the killer.
Hey. How'd you sleep?
I'm... Ok, I guess.
Look what arrived
while you were sleeping.
What is that?
It's your old scrapbook.
I had uncle Gordon send
it from Las Vegas. Look.
What's it for?
It's a scrapbook, Mom.
You started this one in high school.
See?
Hmm.
Put pictures and things in it
that you want to keep forever.
I thought it might help
bring back some nice memories.
It's time to take your medicine.
No. No. It tastes terrible.
What if it's poison?
Mom, it's not poison. Remember when
you first started taking it in Texas?
It helped. You felt so
good that we were able to go
on that trip to San Antonio.
It's not poison.
Just wait right here.
I put it in some orange juice
so it wouldn't taste so bad.
Mom, come on.
Are you going to stand there
and watch me?
Yes.
Ahh.
You don't have to do that.
Of course I do.
I have to do whatever you want.
So the babysitter probably wasn't
just hearing things that night,
the unsub broke into the house.
And stole the sleeping pills
he later forced Helen to take.
The police report says a
stuffed animal was found
in the front of Helen's
car when she died.
Yeah. It belonged to
their daughter Crystal.
And the police just assumed it
was left from an earlier trip.
Maybe the unsub stole
more than pills that night.
He took something he
knew he could use later
to coerce Helen into
swallowing the pills.
Do it, or I will harm your little girl.
And here's exhibit "A"
to show I'm not bluffing.
Hey, what say the mean streets of Tampa?
The streets might be mean,
but George Findley wasn't.
Everybody I talked to loved the guy.
No drug issues?
No, just the opposite.
He was a street liaison
for a drug rehab center
that focused on substance
abuse among the homeless.
So he and Helen Bollinger
did have something in common.
They were both held in especially
high esteem by their peers.
One thing was kind of strange.
Findley's body was found
10 miles outside of town
in an abandoned construction site,
nowhere near any of his usual haunts.
Lab results on the heroin syringe.
George Findley's prints
and DNA were found on it
and nobody else's.
He shot himself up with heroin?
That makes no sense.
Unless it was under duress,
like Helen with the pills.
So for some reason, it's
critical to our unsub's ritual
that his victims die by their own hand.
We need to figure out why.
No! No!
Owen, please don't!
Please, don't.
Owen, please don't. Don't. Don't do it.
I love you, Beth.
I will always love you.
[Sobbing] No!
[Gunshot]
[Sobbing]
No! [Sobbing] Owen, please!
Please, no! No!
Owen!
Please, Owen!
Please, Owen!
[Gunshot]
Owen Sims. Officer said he's the husband
of the female vic at the house.
Let's see what we have.
Yep.
Well, that's definitely
the work of our unsub,
but why draw the symbol on
Owen and not on the wife?
Owen must have been
the principal target.
His wife was collateral damage.
Plus, he went to the trouble to
drag him all the way out here.
Gunshot wound to the head,
pointblank range, large caliber.
Probably the .44 Magnum we
found in the living room.
But the female's wound was smaller.
9-millimeter, maybe.
Two guns. I mean, that's
a big step up in violence
from sleeping pills and a syringe.
Well, maybe our killer's getting closer
to the true source of his rage.
So why, why does the unsub
move Owen from the house to this spot?
I don't know.
Maybe our killer sees
something out here we don't.
[Door buzzer]
All right, Mom, I just
want you to meet her, ok?
Just meet her and
tell me what you think.
I already know what I think.
Come on, Mom, let's go. Let's go say hi.
Mom... [Grunts]
Mother.
Maybe you can show her
your scrapbook, huh?
What for?
[Door buzzer]
Miss Campbell? Dr. Reid.
Yes. Thank you so much for
coming on such short notice.
On such short notice.
Thanks. Oh, come in.
No problem.
My goodness.
You must be quite a reader.
Yeah, yeah, I am.
And I'm so sorry about the mess.
We had a, uh, we had a
little bit of an accident.
Come, meet my mom.
Mom, this is miss
Campbell from the agency.
Miss Campbell, this is
my mother Diana Reid.
Very nice to meet you, ma'am.
Mom.
Mom. Just say hi to her. All you...
Mother, you are behaving like a...
Mom, come out...
It's all right. Let it go. Let it go.
I'm so sorry. She's not...
She's been really upset,
but I know if I talk to her...
This happens a lot.
Come and sit and tell me
more about your mother.
All right. Thank you.
Only Owen Sims' prints
were on the .44 Magnum.
And the positioning and trajectory
of the entry wound to the temple
is consistent with suicide.
So he forced Owen to kill himself,
just like the others.
A photo of his children
was found on the floor
near the wife's body.
What do you know about Owen?
Superintendent of schools in Clearwater.
Co-workers couldn't say
enough good things about him.
And his wife Beth?
Oh, sketchier history.
Drugs and alcohol issues.
Even did jail time for a DUI
hit-and-run a few years back.
But she cleaned up her act.
Her life was back on track.
So these could all be finalists
for citizen of the year,
except for Beth.
And all the victims were
marked with the ink drawing,
except for Beth.
Another small line was added
to the marking on Sims' body.
It's like with each new victim,
he connects a new dot.
[Telephone rings]
What do you got, Garcia?
Hey, hey, remember how I told you
that Helen Bollinger was
big-time into charity work?
Turns out she worked a lot
at a soup kitchen downtown
that George Findley
was known to frequent.
Did Owen or Beth Sims do
any volunteering there?
No. But Owen ran an annual
Thanksgiving canned food drive
in his school district.
He was a real hands-on kind of guy.
Turns out he would personally
deliver the donated food
to various shelters
in the Tampa bay area.
We may have just found
our unsub's hunting ground.
Garcia, make a list of
anyone who either volunteered
or worked in a salaried capacity
at Tampa homeless shelters.
We need to make sure
everyone's accounted for.
On it.
That's when I made the decision
to bring her back to Washington with me.
It's a very difficult thing
you're attempting to do, Dr. Reid.
The Anderson clinic is one of
the best facilities in the world.
Yes, I know. In terms of conventional
treatment, I entirely agree.
And that's why I sent her to
Houston in the first place,
but there's a vast amount
of literature and research
on the workings of the human brain,
and we have not even begun
to scratch the surface.
Personally, I believe that great
breakthroughs, especially in medicine,
often come from thinking
outside the box, which...
Yes, but the box is there
for a reason, Dr. Reid.
I mean, safety, quality of life,
controlled environment.
Your mother needs that.
My strong recommendation
is that you put her in
an assisted care facility.
I'm not gonna do that.
You're not gonna do that. [Chuckles]
I'm not.
Well...
That being the case,
I'd be happy to help
you with your mother.
Y-you... are you serious?
Oh, my gosh, thank you! You've no...
I'm so sorry. Sorry. Thank you.
You've no idea how
much this means to me.
I won't be able to start until tomorrow.
I understand.
But in the meantime, I'll hire someone
who can cover the night
shifts when you're traveling.
Oh, that would be so perfect. Thank you.
Now, one more thing.
I need to see the medications
she's currently taking.
Yeah, ok.
Of course, yeah.
It's something we monitor
carefully for obvious reasons.
Of course.
Haloperidol, Doxepin,
Galantamine.
Fairly standard for the treatment
of schizophrenia and Alzheimer's.
She's not taking anything else?
No.
Ok, then.
I'll work out the
details of the contract
and send it over later tonight.
You have a nice day, Dr. Reid.
You, too. Thank you so much.
You're welcome.
There must be some sort of logic
as to how this unsub
chooses his disposal sites,
because it's certainly not convenience.
Notice in every location the
earth is damaged in some way.
Damaged how?
Dug up. Gone to seed.
Findley was left at this
abandoned construction site.
Owen was dragged to
this ratty little area,
and Helen Bollinger's car was
parked at the edge of a landfill.
Rossi: You're right.
He could have gone to less risky areas
if all he was doing was disposing
of them outside the city.
Alvez: I'm going to go
back to these locations,
take a closer look.
Do you see something?
Yeah. Look at the demarcation line
of the earth here, where
the damaged terrain begins.
Yeah, what is that?
I've got a pretty good hunch.
Back in an hour.
Huh.
I wonder what Reid's doing.
I know. He's been on my mind, too.
Ironic, isn't it?
What?
How eventually we become
parents to our parents.
[Tapping on door]
Must be time for the profile.
The person we're looking
for is targeting victims
of high moral character,
manipulating them into
killing themselves,
marking them, and then
disposing of the bodies
in secondary locations.
Rossi: All the victims
crossed in some way
with the homeless
community here in Tampa.
The killer may be homeless himself
or possibly connected to the
charitable outreach community.
We believe this person is a loner.
Evidence found on the victims
indicates he may
himself be a burn victim.
Lewis: The killer left substantial DNA
and other trace evidence
at two of the crime scenes.
This indicates either he's
sloppy, he's not in the system,
or he just doesn't care.
Walker: The last possibility
is the most concerning.
It means he's resigned himself
to being caught eventually
and already has an end game in mind.
The secondary disposal
sites are located in areas
where the surrounding landscape
has been disturbed in some way.
It's possible the unsub
is making a statement
about the damage mankind
is doing to the Earth.
The victims may have been
placed there on purpose
as symbolic offerings.
This could explain why the
unsub forces the victims
to kill themselves. The
hand that defiled the Earth
is turned on itself.
Lewis: It could also explain
why he's marking people
of exceptionally high moral character.
Hey, you're done already?
All right, we'll see you next time.
In ancient societies, only
the purest of mind and spirit
were offered up as sacrifices.
So the unsub may believe
that what he is doing
is actually both noble
and morally right.
In philosophy it's called
the doctrine of double effect,
which states that it is
permissible to do something harmful
if it results in a greater good.
The most recent killing shows
a disturbing uptick in violence
and the killer's
willingness to take risks.
This could be a sign he's devolving,
and with this unraveling,
the danger to the public
is likely to escalate.
Thank you.
Hey, good afternoon, sir.
Um, what would you like today?
What sounds good?
We have beef and chicken.
Uh, why don't we go with the beef.
There you go.
Um, you know, I'm gonna
sneak in some chicken, too,
because you look hungry.
Have a nice day.
It's what I thought.
Heavy concentration of silky clay
mixed with gravel and rock.
And it's not a natural
soil composite for the area,
but it was present at
all 3 disposal sites.
Which tells us what?
Well, it's used to repair sinkholes.
And all of the victims, they were
placed just inside the transition area.
You hear that, Reid?
I did, and, you know,
it fits with our profile
about the unsub making a
statement about environmental ruin.
You know, sinkholes have been
on the rise, actually, worldwide,
due to urbanization, drilling, fracking.
Prentiss: Garcia?
She's here. Feed the beast.
What can you tell us
about sinkholes in Florida?
I can tell you that...
Jinkies. Tread lightly,
there are a gazillion of them.
Over 500 in the Tampa Bay area alone
since records started being
kept in 1974. Why are you asking?
We think our unsub is taking his victims
to current or former sinkholes.
We're trying to anticipate which
one he might pay a visit to next.
Guys, are they cover-subsidence
or cover-collapse sinkholes?
Given their shallow layer of repair,
I'd say they're cover-subsidence.
I'd chime in with an opinion as well
if I knew what the hell
you two were talking about.
Cover-subsidence is where
the ground very gradually
begins to form a
depression, usually circular,
over the course of weeks or months.
Cover-collapse is the nasty one.
That's when the earth just suddenly
goes out from under your
feet like a trapdoor.
We can find out for sure what
these 3 were, but does it matter?
It might. I'm basically
just looking for parameters
to narrow down the search. I did a
latitude/longitude study of a few locations,
but I couldn't find a numerical pattern.
Let me try a few more
algorithms, though.
Maybe the date that the
sinkholes formed means something
or the dates they were repaired.
I don't know. I'm just
grasping at straws.
We don't want to keep you
from your algorithms, kid.
Get back to us if you find something.
All right. Thank you, bye.
Mom?
Mom?
Mom.
Mom, can you hear me?
Mom, answer me.
Mom, don't do that!
Don't do that! Stop that!
Leave me alone! Stop, stop!
Give it back to me! Ohh!
- Stop!
- Aah!
Give it to me!
Stay away from me! Ohh!
Aah! Leave me alone!
What are you doing? Give it to me!
Leave me alone!
For God's sake, leave me alone!
Mom!
No! Stop!
Why did you do that? Why?!
I hate that stuff! And I hate you!
Do you have any idea what I went
through to get that medicine, Mom?
It can't be replaced.
Do you realize that?
Good! I want to go back home.
- This is home.
- No, it isn't!
I want to go back to where I was before!
You said you hated Houston!
No, I want to go back to
where I was before before!
Before!
Well, that was just what I needed.
Hmm?
My nap. It really did the trick.
Oh, my goodness.
My scrapbook.
Oh, I've been keeping this
since I don't know when.
I have no idea how it got here, but...
Ohh, honey.
What did you do to your face?
It's all red.
Probably bumped into something.
Oh, you need to be more
careful. It's really awful.
I will.
You know, you always were so clumsy.
Smart as a whip.
But I used to call you Crash.
You were always bumping into things.
Ohh...[Groans]
Good news.
We got a hit on the unsub's DNA.
How is that not great news?
What's his name?
That's why it's not great news.
We don't have a name.
The DNA match was to a series of 6
unsolved murders in the
Tampa/St. Pete region
stretching back nearly 3 years.
Who were these victims?
Local women. Mostly in their early 20s,
appeared to be victims of opportunity.
Sexually assaulted, strangled,
and then dumped by the
side of the interstate.
Was there any ritualistic
behavior associated
with these earlier murders?
None. These killings were as
straightforward as it gets.
And then 10 months ago,
the murders stopped.
A shift in M.O. this dramatic
doesn't just happen on its own.
Something seismic
rocked our unsub's world.
A woman named Eleanor
Parsons is missing.
She worked as a volunteer
at a local homeless shelter.
Honey, what is this?
Oh, it's a ticket stub.
What is that?
A ticket stub? When you
go to a concert or a movie
you get a ticket so they'll let you in.
You saw Elvis in concert?
I don't know.
I did many things when I was young.
Who is he?
Elvis Presley.
He's a very famous rock and roll singer.
Ah! Oh, my gosh!
I'd almost forgotten about this.
What is that?
When you were a little boy,
I took you to the
circus, and after that,
all you could talk about
is you wanted to be a tightrope walker
when you grew up.
I thought I wanted to be a magician.
You did. That was later. This was first.
Really? I don't remember that at all.
Oh, no wonder.
You were no more than 3 or 4.
What's on its head?
[Laughs] It's you!
That's me?
Yes. You glued that on there yourself.
[Laughs] Why did I do that?
Well, here.
See this little scar
right there on your wrist?
That's from where you fell
when you were trying to
balance on our backyard fence.
Oh, you were so determined
to make it the whole way.
And I'll never forget looking
out the kitchen window,
watching you out there
as you were trying to make
a balancing pole from a broomstick.
Calculating how long it should be
and making adjustments.
My little budding genius.
Did I ever make it?
No. And you were heartbroken.
You see, the problem
was, you were so smart,
you were so brilliant,
you really believed that
you could solve anything
if you just put your brain into it.
But that tightrope...
No, you just couldn't figure that out.
But you were meant for
bigger things, Spencer.
Now, how do you tell
that to a 4-year-old boy?
Mmm.
[Chuckles]
Walker: Our current profile of the unsub
doesn't apply to his earlier killings.
Those had no ritual and
a strong sexual component.
Ok, so something
happened in the 10 months
between here and here.
Something big.
Because when the unsub emerged
to start killing again,
his victimology and M.O.
had done a complete 180.
We think he may have
burned himself, right?
Maybe he was in some sort
of accident during that time.
What kind of accident?
No idea.
What? Alvez doesn't have a
monopoly on grasping at straws.
Well, we know sinkholes
suddenly became important.
Let's start there.
[Telephone rings]
Garcia, please tell
us you found something.
Garcia: Did I ever, and
right in the 10-month
sweet spot between murders.
Turns out, one not-so-fine
morning, April 2015,
a sinkhole opened up in St. Petersburg,
swallowing the humble home
of Fred and Marnie Jarvis,
with them in it.
Did they survive?
Heavens, no. They got sucked
into the bowels of the Earth,
never to be seen again.
However, that had an adult son
living with them at the time, Bryce.
He was able to scramble out before
the whole place went bye-bye.
Why do I have a sense there's
more to the Jarvis family history?
Because there is, and
the road is strange,
so set your tasers to weird.
It turns out the Jarvises
ran some sort of
discount spiritual center
out of their two-car garage.
It was a mish-mash of, I don't know,
like old testament fire and brimstone
mixed with Halloween goblins
and snake oil commerce.
Was Bryce involved with
the family business?
Mm-mmm. Bryce hated his parents,
his parents loathed him.
Back in the day, local child services
had the Jarvis residence on speed dial.
There was rumors of sexual
abuse. It was never proven.
But he continued to live
with them as an adult?
Yeah. Bryce could not hold down
a job. He had no place to go.
Anyway, a couple of
years ago, Fred and Marnie
got put in county lockup for 6 months.
On what charge?
Fraud. It turns out that the Jarvises
were selling ointment that they claimed
when spread liberally on
one's face and arms and hands,
would repel Satan.
And, yes, you heard that correctly.
No need to adjust your headsets.
While they were locked up,
Bryce had a nervous breakdown.
He spent time in the state hospital.
Let me guess. Shortly after his release,
the murders of the 6
young women started.
Exactly two weeks later.
Do we know where Bryce is now?
No. That's what made me
stand up and pay attention.
Because when I can't
find somebody, that means
that someone doesn't
want to be findable,
and I'm gonna keep searching.
[Groaning]
[Gasps]
Time to go.
[Gasping]
There's one more trip you have to take.
Hey. I made you some tea.
How are you feeling?
Who are you?
Spencer.
Hmm?
Your son.
It's been a really long day.
You should probably sleep now.
Emily.
What is it, Reid?
I think our unsub is trying to literally
send his victims to hell.
What are you talking about?
Sinkholes don't just exist
in a geologic context.
They also have a symbolic history.
In Mexico they're called
cenotes, and the ancient Mayans
believed them to be
portals to the underworld.
They even made human
sacrifices to certain cenotes.
The suicide aspect of the unsub's ritual
makes sense now.
That is a sin, right?
And you can't go to hell
unless you've sinned.
In Bryce's mind, the devil opened up
the Earth and swallowed his parents.
Now this is his way of
showing his gratitude.
That's why he must be choosing
especially virtuous victims,
people who have tickets to
a front-row seat in heaven.
Until Bryce stamped them null and void
and sent them in the other direction.
Reid: There's more. I think the mark
he's making on his victims' arms
is a rough rendering of
the Ophiuchus star cluster.
Prentiss: Which is?
The Ophiuchus star cluster
is the constellation of the devil.
3 of the disposal sites correlates with
a 3-star section of the constellation.
So he could be using that as
a guide to dumping the bodies.
Is there a discernible
pattern of progression?
It's hard to say for
sure, but my guess is
he'll be heading to a
sinkhole in the vicinity
of latitude 27.75,
longitude minus 82.25.
Meaning here, here, or here.
We'll split the team. Let's move.
Come on!
[Gasping] Oh! Ow! Ow!
Get up! Get up. Get up.
[Sobbing] Why are you doing this?
Jump.
No!
Do it! Do it!
I won't!
You have a granddaughter named Tess.
Ohh...
Jump or she dies tomorrow.
No. You'll kill her anyway.
I'm not jumping.
You're just gonna have to kill me first.
If that's what you want.
Alves: Bryce Jarvis, FBI!
Step away from the cliff!
[Gunfire]
[Grunting]
Don't.
No, let me go!
No, not quite, not quite.
Hey.
Can I try some?
Help yourself.
I'm a white wine kind of gal, but...
Whoo, yeah, that just woke
up my back molars, thank you.
Like the best things in life,
an acquired taste.
Do you think Spence is making a mistake
bringing his mom home?
It's hard to say.
Not long ago I told
him he shouldn't waste
the precious time he has left with her.
I guess he took it to heart.
I worry about him, you know?
Yeah, it'll be fine.
If it proves too
difficult, he'll adjust.
I just have a bad feeling...
About what?
I don't even know.
I can't put my finger on it.
JJ, we have enough problems in this life
that are real and present.
Let's not bring imagined
ones to the table, too.
Ok. I will drink to that.
Oh, in spirit.
[Chuckles]
♪ Lying here with all my thoughts ♪
♪ inside this empty bed ♪
♪ wishing for an empty head ♪
♪ to think things through ♪
♪ everything is simple like ♪
♪ the hand that needs to heal ♪
♪ to feel the walls of all the tunnels ♪
♪ that lead to you ♪
♪ and even though you'll have to fight ♪
♪ for every hour every day ♪
♪ I swear that you and me
will never fear the end ♪
♪ of what we've made
and I'll miss you ♪
♪ really miss you ♪
♪ but I can't find you in my dreams ♪
♪ where I will take you
when they break you ♪
♪ and life shakes you to your knees ♪
♪ the stars may die then ♪
♪ but I'll still shine for you ♪
Reid: "Time moves in one direction",
memory in another."