Criminal Minds (2005–…): Season 12, Episode 5 - The Anti-Terror Squad - full transcript
The BAU team members travel to Winona, Minnesota, where three of the four members of the Bergstrom family are shot dead execution style in their home while they are sleeping, with the only surviving family member being high school student Amanda Bergstrom, who only survived because she broke curfew and thus was not home at the time of the murders. Despite being a model family on the surface, Garcia discovers that there were a few skeletons in their family closet which could have been the reason for the murders. Although she couldn't have committed the murders herself, Amanda is also under investigation if only because she is the sole beneficiary of her parents' life insurance policy. The team's other theory - that the Bergstroms were only a surrogate - becomes stronger when the Doherty family is similarly murdered in their home, the only survivor being Matt Doherty, a classmate of Amanda's, albeit without the two traveling in the same social circle. As Matt survived by hiding in a closet, the team begins to believe that who the unsub is actually targeting is the survivors, as both Amanda and Matt were known to have bullied other students at their high school, without any repercussions for their bullying. The theory is thus that the unsub wanted Amanda and Matt to feel the suffering that the unsub himself felt when he would have been their age. Because of the control shown in the murders, the team points the unsub to be in his late twenties or early thirties. But when a third family is targeted, the BAU has the profile figured out, with they needing to narrow down the possible individuals as being the unsub. Meanwhile, Garcia tries to make olive branch gestures to Alvez, which fall slightly flat.
(MUSIC PLAYING ON CAR STEREO)
(GIRLS LAUGHING AND CHATTERING)
Oh, I love this one.
(LAUGHING)
Turn it down. I don't want
my parents to hear us.
You're already busted. Your mom's been
blowing up your phone with texts.
Yeah. She hates when I break curfew.
-At least it was worth it.
-(LAUGHS)
Later, bitches.
Bye.
See you, Mandy.
(ALARM CLOCK BUZZING)
(WHISPERING) Damn.
(ALARM CLOCK BUZZING)
Daddy?
Mom...
(SCREAMING)
(ELEVATOR DINGS)
It's just a little something.
For me?
No, not for you. It's for Roxy.
But you have opposable thumbs,
so you can open it for her.
-Wow. Biscuits.
-Yeah. They're all organic.
Human grade. Quite delicious,
if I do say so myself.
Uh, plus...
It's a sweater.
Oh! Isn't it amazing?
It is... Amazing.
What was that?
Huh? What was what?
You paused.
-No, I didn't.
-You don't like it.
No, I didn't... I didn't say that.
Oh, you might be a profiler in training,
but I'm a profiler by association,
And I can tell a lie when I hear one,
And liar.
Okay. I'm sorry.
It...
It's the biscuits.
You know. Roxy, she's on a raw food diet.
Oh.
They're mostly peanut butter,
but my bad. Okay.
But this is great, huh?
(STAMMERING) Yeah. This is...
This is amazing.
It is.
And very, very thoughtful.
-It was, wasn't it?
-It was. Thank you.
You're welcome. Roxy's welcome.
I can't wait to see her in it.
-(CELL PHONE CHIMES)
-Oh.
We got a case.
The Bergstrom family was killed
in their home in Winona,
Minnesota, last night.
Mother, father, and little boy,
All shot execution style.
Any suspects?
Therein lies the mystery.
The Bergstrom family
-was as low-risk as they come.
-What about murder-suicide?
That was ruled out.
There was no murder weapon
found at the scene,
and both Bridget and Scott Bergstrom
were shot in their bed.
But there was a survivor.
A teenage daughter.
Yeah. 17-year-old Amanda.
She was out past her curfew
at the time of the murders,
And she's the one that found the bodies.
It almost seems like a hit man scenario.
Maybe a Mafia retaliation kill?
But that doesn't seem likely in
Winona, Minnesota.
But it does seem like a revenge killing.
If the UnSub expected
to wipe out the entire family,
he screwed up big time
leaving Amanda alive.
Unless she had something to do with it.
That's a question mark, but according
to the M.E.'s preliminary report,
she can't be the shooter,
based on alibi and time of deaths.
On the surface,
they were a well-liked family,
living a low-risk lifestyle.
The daughter, Amanda, where is she?
Protective custody,
In case the UnSub sees her
as unfinished business.
-We good?
-Mmm-hmm.
We fly.
(LOUD HEAVY METAL MUSIC PLAYS)
Hey, I want it, I need it
I want it, I want it, I want it
I need it, you get it, you get it
You get it, I want it,
I need it, I love it
I hate it, I want it, I need it, I love it
REID: "The malicious
have a dark happiness."
Victor Hugo.
Bridget and Scott Bergstrom
grew up in Winona
and have deep ties to the community.
Scott was a local
distributor of farm equipment.
Bridget cut hair at a salon in the mall.
Yet they were murdered
by a family annihilator.
GARCIA: Sad but true. The Bergstrom family
had their share of dirty laundry.
Though who of us does not?
Scott developed a Vicodin
habit a few years back
after a skiing accident.
So he could have been in
over his head with his dealer.
So Bridget was having an affair?
Yeah. I looked at their financials.
She's got a credit card, secret,
just in her name,
with charges to a motel
just outside of town, and nothing else.
She might have cut things off,
causing him to go off the deep end.
Can you get us a name?
Yeah, I'm already into it.
You'll have lover boy's ID ASAP.
What about Amanda,
the sole survivor? Any motive there?
Deep sigh. (SIGHS)
I hate that you're asking that.
And deep sigh again,
I am bound by duty to report the facts.
There's a modest insurance policy.
17-year-old Amanda is the beneficiary.
$100,000.
That would seem like
all the money in the world to a teenager.
People have been killed for a lot less.
That's an unlikely motive
for the daughter,
but we can't rule her out.
Whatever set this UnSub off,
he made the whole family pay for it.
Okay. JJ, Spencer, Emily,
you go directly to the crime scene.
Luke, you're with me.
We'll set up HQ at the local P.D.
WINONA, MINNESOTA
UnSub entered on the second floor
through the cut screen.
He had to be physically fit.
He knew the house well enough to know
this was the room to enter.
He went straight to the parents' room.
He wanted to remove
the greatest threat first.
PRENTISS: Based on the bullet trajectory,
he was standing here
at the foot of the bed when he fired.
He wanted to stare
at them both before firing.
And that woke Bridget up.
(SCREAMING)
She was attempting to flee
when the UnSub shot her.
Oh, no! (SCREAMING)
(GUNSHOT)
Did he enjoy watching
her terror and panic,
or was it inexperience on his part?
Bridget's scream...
-(SCREAMS)
-(GUNSHOT)
...is probably what woke Kevin.
So the UnSub heads down the hallway
where Kevin is coming out of his bedroom.
Mom?
Dad?
And he runs into the UnSub.
Who are you?
(GASPS)
So it seems this UnSub knew who lived here
and where each person slept
implying a personal
connection with the victims.
In spite of the home invasion,
there's no sign of burglary,
So he's mission oriented.
He's highly organized and sophisticated.
The big question is Amanda.
Did he think she was home,
or did he deliberately
strike when she was out?
We need to talk to her.
Poor kid was so distraught,
we took her to the ER.
They ended up sedating her.
She'll be coming around soon.
I've got a deputy stationed
outside her room over at County General.
Good. If the UnSub wanted
to wipe out the entire family,
she could be in danger.
What about the wife, Bridget?
We heard she might be
stepping out on her husband.
Yeah, that was an open secret.
She was seeing Ron Fergusson.
They met at the gym. He was a trainer.
-Was? What happened?
-Sticky fingers.
Ronnie got caught stealing
personal items from lockers.
They called us over,
but nobody pressed charges.
Just sent him packing.
Fergusson sounds like bad news.
He's no altar boy.
Couple of DUIs
and a few assault convictions.
Bar fights, mostly. But nothing like this.
You don't think he's
involved in this, do you?
The guy's got a temper
and he likes to drink.
That's not a good combo.
Where is he now?
Living off unemployment,
just outside town out by I-90.
Let's go talk to him.
So, knocking on doors
kind of remind you of fugitive hunting?
Yeah, a little bit.
That was a...
That was a one-man show, though.
And this is a team sport.
Yeah.
Yeah, well, that
could take a little getting used to.
A little bit, yeah.
This is it.
Ronald Fergusson.
FBI. Like to ask you a few questions.
(GLASS SHATTERS)
He bailed.
Where do you think you're going? Huh?
This takes me back.
I didn't do nothin'.
We want to know about Bridget Bergstrom.
I don't know, it was messed up.
But I didn't have nothin' to do with it.
Bridget and me broke up a while ago.
Okay. Where were you last night?
Out at the CC Club. In town.
My buddy Steve got in a fight, got cut,
so I took him to the hospital.
-What about afterward?
-I was there all night.
Waited with him while he got stitched up.
I didn't get home till almost 6:00 a.m.
And there were security
cameras in the waiting area.
You can check.
We will.
That's the truth.
No matter what that little liar says.
Who are you talking about?
Amanda.
Bridget's kid.
She knew you were
having an affair with her mother?
Yeah. And she blackmailed me
for almost a year.
Threatened to tell her dad all the time.
Amanda acts all innocent,
but she's always working some angle.
I was supposed to be home by 11:00.
That's my curfew.
But there was a party
and I stayed out all night.
My mom, she was really mad at me.
She texted me...
Sweetie, she wouldn't
have stayed mad at you.
Okay? Please believe that.
She said she was disappointed in me.
That's the last text she sent.
And I ignored it.
Teenagers break curfew. It's normal.
I'm sure she loved you very much.
Amanda, we need your help
to find whoever did this.
We need to ask you some
difficult questions, okay?
Okay.
Ron Fergusson said
that you knew about him and your mom.
Is that true?
Yeah.
He said you threatened
to tell your dad about the affair.
Well, that was just
to keep him away from my mom.
I didn't really want to tell my dad.
I didn't want him to know.
How come? Because of the pills?
Yeah.
Yeah, after my dad broke his leg,
he got addicted.
And, um...
It was really bad for a while.
And that's when your mom
started having the affair?
He was always yelling,
at everybody,
even Kevin.
And my mom and him almost split up.
Then he worked really hard to get clean.
I didn't want to tell him about Ron
because I didn't want him to give up.
He was doing NA and everything,
and he was doing really good,
and then my mom even thought so.
And so when he got his six-month chip,
she broke up with Ron.
How did Ron feel about that?
Okay, I guess. I mean, I'm pretty sure
he was already seeing somebody else.
Things were just
starting to get good again.
I thought I was getting my family back.
Why did this happen?
Why is my family dead?
(SOBBING)
Just got off the phone with Garcia.
Fergusson's alibi checks out.
I can't even begin to imagine it.
Her whole family gone
in the blink of an eye.
She's devastated.
Fergusson seems to think that Amanda
was some kind of conniving shrew.
Well, Amanda may well
have been hostile towards him,
but for good reason.
She wanted her parents
to stay together. Typical kid.
She was candid about what went on.
She was genuinely baffled
by who would do this and why.
Agreed. That last text from her mom,
that one's gonna haunt her.
ROSSI: What's gonna happen to her now?
She has an aunt and uncle in Seattle.
They flew in today. So it sounds like
she'll be going home with them.
We know Fergusson's way too disorganized
to pull this off,
so where does that leave us?
The family had their problems,
but they were getting back on track.
And yet someone wanted this family dead.
But it doesn't make sense that they'd be
targeted by a family annihilator.
What if it's not about this family?
What if it's just about families?
So the Bergstroms could be surrogates.
Meaning our UnSub
will probably strike again.
(DOG BARKING IN DISTANCE)
MAN: Hey.
(INDISTINCT CLATTERING)
(BARKING)
(DOG YELPS)
(CLATTERING CONTINUES)
(BARKING, YELPING)
(THUDS)
(WOMAN SCREAMING)
(GUNSHOT)
(RINGING)
OPERATOR: 911. What's your emergency?
Please help.
There's someone in my house.
-He's shooting.
-Sir, I can't hear you.
If you're unable to speak,
just press any button.
Are you there, sir?
-(BEEPS)
-Okay, we'll track your phone
and send someone to your address.
(SIRENS BLARING)
FBI!
Body down.
JJ: I have two bodies down back here.
ALVEZ: Let me see your hands.
Let me see your hands.
JJ: you're safe now, Matthew.
You're safe.
Matthew, we want to find who did this.
So if there's anything
you can remember seeing or hearing,
anything at all, it could help us.
What you did, calling 911, that was brave.
JJ: That call saved your life.
Anything?
He's traumatized.
I heard him walking.
Then he stopped.
He was in my room.
Right there.
Why am I alive?
Why me?
Wish we had an answer for him.
He's right. The UnSub
must have known he was there.
If he was in that bedroom,
he would have seen the puddle,
just like Alvez did.
The UnSub deliberately spared him.
But not out of compassion.
He wanted them
to feel the pain of losing their families.
I think we've inverted our victimology.
We've been focused
on the murdered family members.
We should be focusing on the survivors.
They are the real victims,
the ones the UnSub wants to hurt.
We believe the UnSub is a variation
of what we know as a family annihilator.
The garden variety family annihilator
is usually a narcissistic male patriarch
experiencing psychological stress.
This causes him to become
homicidal and then suicidal.
His narcissism often manifests as rage
directed at a specific family member,
prompting him to murder the entire family
as an act of punishment and revenge.
He then blames the object of his rage
for his violent outburst.
Once the entire family is dead,
the patriarch typically
commits or attempts to commit suicide.
But this UnSub is murdering families
that are not his own.
(GUNSHOTS)
There's a distinct
punishment component to the annihilation
that's driving this UnSub.
He's more organized than
the typical family annihilator,
with greater impulse control
and a high level of sophistication.
PRENTISS: His sophistication is apparent
in the fact that the object of his rage
is deliberately spared
rather than murdered.
(SCREAMING)
JJ: This allows the UnSub the satisfaction
of inflicting ongoing psychological pain
on the object of his rage.
We're looking for a male
in his late 20s, early 30s.
He's mature and highly intelligent.
Amanda Bergstrom
and Matthew Doherty may be surrogates
for individuals who wronged the UnSub
when he himself was an adolescent.
Amanda and Matt both attend
Pillsbury High School,
and we have not identified
any other connection
between them or their families.
Pay close attention to the faculty
and administrators of the high school.
A lot of the parents are wondering
if we should shut down the high school.
The school itself
has not been a scene of violence.
Closing it would not deter this UnSub.
We need you to beef up
patrols and warn the public
of the ongoing danger.
And we ask you to encourage
the entire Pillsbury High School community
to report any suspicious
individuals they may encounter.
Okay, that's it.
Hi, folks.
Thanks for showing up.
We will be holding these forums every day,
before and after school,
and I encourage all students
and parents to come
as often as you want.
Now I'll turn it over to Mr. Bakken,
our school counselor.
Thanks, Mrs. Dahl.
We welcome all members
of our Pillsbury family.
I'd like us all to start
by acknowledging the hurt
that each and every one
of of us has experienced this week.
Students, if you're here with a parent,
please turn to him or her now and just...
Just label your feelings.
Sad, scared, depressed, angry.
Whatever you're feeling.
Seriously?
I told you this would be stupid.
We don't want to label our feelings.
We want to know what you're doing
to protect our families and our kids.
We are in constant contact
with law enforcement,
but we just don't know
anything more than you do.
Then what are we doing here?
I want you to know that school is a safe
place for your kids.
I don't need some loser
in a cardigan sweater
telling me my kid's freaked out.
I need to know the son of a bitch
who did this
is going to jail.
(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
(LAUGHS) Good one, Austin.
(CHUCKLES) What are you looking at, loser?
(LAUGHS) Oh, man.
Shall we?
(BEEPS)
Boom, baby.
ROSSI: What's up, Garcia?
Do you have any idea how many selfies
the average teenager
posts on social media on any given day?
I'm gonna tell you
before you say anything.
So many. And like the guys, too.
Actually, some studies indicate that men
take twice as many selfies as women
'cause it's considered to be
an acceptable form of male vanity.
How many pictures of yourself
do you really need?
And they're basically
making the same expression...
Oh, my God.
Am I officially not young?
You, my dear,
are the portrait of everlasting youth.
I'm timeless, right. Good answer.
Okay. Back to my point.
I have been drilling
into the social media footprint
of both of our adolescent survivors.
Any connection between Amanda and Matt?
Yeah. Stay with me
while I go around here for a second.
So, basically,
both of their Facebook pages
are just an outpouring
of love and support from their peers.
And it's touching, really,
and it's very reassuring
for the hope of our species.
What did you mean, "basically"?
In between all the wonderfulness,
there's a tiny tributary of nasty comments
from some of their peers,
Saying that Matt and Amanda
got what they deserved.
Well, they're kids.
Kids can be cruel and thoughtless.
Right. But we all know that cruelty
Is sometimes inspired by previous action,
which made me wonder what Matt and Amanda
might have done to provoke
some of their peers
to saying some of these things
on their Facebooks.
So I looked into their school records,
and both Matt and Amanda
have complaints against them
for "harassing behavior."
They're bullies.
Were they disciplined?
No. To paraphrase the Violent Femmes song,
nothing went down
on their permanent record.
So the victims were also victimizers.
If the UnSub
was bullied himself as a teenager,
that could be the original
narcissistic wound
that's fueling his present day rage.
Turning his surrogate
victimizers into victims
is the point for our UnSub.
Bullying leaves lasting scars.
Our UnSub could be
a teacher or staff member at the school
who seems himself
as an avenger of students
who are current victims of bullying.
Someone who punishes
the bullies when no one else does.
From the UnSub's point of view,
the bullies themselves
are responsible for the violence
he's perpetrating against their families.
We need to dig into the backgrounds
of the teachers and staff
of Pillsbury High
and identify anyone
who was bullied as a kid.
Already got digital shovels
already throwin' up dirt.
We also need a list
of any other known bullies at the school
so that we can warn
and protect their families.
Oh, here's something.
There is a school counselor
there named Eric Bakken.
Not only is he the school administrator
who's in charge of handling
bullying complaints from the students,
but when he was 15,
he was charged with assault.
He was arrested. He claimed he was
provoked by a long-time bully,
but the charges were dropped.
Let's get him in here.
In theory, our community
has a zero tolerance policy on bullying.
But not in practice.
In practice, most of the bullying
that goes on at Pillsbury High
never makes it to my door.
Why not?
(SIGHS) Coming forward requires courage
and a willingness to claim the pain.
That's hard.
And sometimes, I'm sorry to say,
can make things worse for the victim.
It must be hard
for you to see kids being bullied,
knowing you can't do anything to stop it.
It is.
It must make you angry.
Angry?
Yes.
I bet some of these kids were best friends
with the people who started bullying them
in junior high and high school.
That's right.
And it only intensifies the pain for them.
Was that your experience
when you were bullied?
It was.
My best friend
all through elementary school
and junior high.
All of a sudden
he turned into a popular kid
and I didn't.
He never targeted me directly,
but he also never stopped
his new cool best friend
from tormenting me.
At first I fought, with my fists.
But that doesn't solve anything.
It just landed me in more trouble.
I've worked through my own experience.
I had to in order to work in a high school
so I wouldn't project my own experience
onto any of the students.
That sounds very healthy.
Thank you.
It was hard work,
But well worth it.
I know I can't help
every young person who needs it.
And I know I'm a joke
to lots of the students.
But I do help some of them,
and that makes everything worthwhile.
Is Bakken our guy?
No. He has none of the rage our UnSub has.
But he did give us some names.
Garcia sent the addresses
of six students to your phones.
They're the most notorious
bullies at the school.
Now, they and their families
are in immediate danger.
We need to warn them.
All right, let's go.
We've got five families
safely in protective custody.
Good.
That's the house up there.
The front door's open.
(CRYING) Austin. Austin, my son. My boy.
My boy's dead.
That's my boy.
Please help him.
M.E.'s preliminary time of death
confirms that we couldn't have missed him
by more than a few minutes.
There's extreme overkill here.
Victim was shot six times
and then bludgeoned.
He's decompensating.
ALVEZ: Or evolving.
Yeah, he doesn't care
about the family anymore.
He's going straight for the bully.
REID: Hey, guys.
Austin's room.
The other murders,
the UnSub left the homes undisturbed.
Well, it certainly looks like this
is what he bludgeoned the victim with.
He could have left it
in the living room with the body,
but instead, he brought it back in here
and destroyed
Austin's other sports trophies.
Yeah, you know, everything about this,
the overkill, trashing the room,
going after Austin's prizes,
it fights against our profile
of mission oriented
organization and impulse control.
He's more stressed now.
He knows we're closing in.
It's more than that.
His behavior reads juvenile.
Our UnSub isn't an adult, he's a child.
I can't believe there's
a psycho murderer out there.
I mean, nothing
ever happens here, and then this.
It's so weird.
Yeah. Maybe he's not a psycho.
Seriously, dude?
You know, I heard that Matt
cried in the closet
when his family was getting killed.
-For real?
-Yeah.
Where'd you hear that?
What difference does it make?
I don't know. It just makes you feel
sorry for him, that's all.
What?
His whole family got killed.
And from ninth grade
until about a week ago,
Matt Doherty made your life a living hell.
I know, but still...
No wonder you're a punching bag.
Do you even remember
why we started the Anti-Terror Squad?
To help protect each other
from bullies in school.
And we said the bullies are terrorists.
Do you remember that?
Yeah, but the Anti-Terror Squad
is just a name.
It's just something
we made up to feel less pathetic.
We're not the pathetic ones.
They are.
Zach, they are terrorists.
God.
(SIGHS) You know what
some politicians say.
The best way to handle terrorists
is to take out their whole families.
That's messed up, man.
Nobody's family deserves to die like that.
Not even the families of real terrorists.
(SCOFFS) Pull over.
Why? I can just drop you at your house.
Yeah, I'd rather walk.
-(BEEPS)
-Garcia, we need the records
of every student at Pillsbury
who filed a bullying complaint
against Amanda Bergstrom, Matt Doherty,
And Austin Settergren.
Also, anyone who received counseling
for being bullied by those students.
Wow. This is a really big pool.
I've got 27 names.
PRENTISS: Any of those
students bullied by all three?
No.
Like Bakken said, most
victims never come forward.
So I'm seeing the tip
of a really big iceberg.
Nobody wants to be a snitch.
Also, bullying
is often so widespread, it's normalized.
It would only amplify
the UnSub's feeling of powerlessness.
But he didn't actually say
he killed anybody, right?
He practically said it.
That's what I'm trying to tell you.
What did he say exactly?
He said Amanda and Matt
deserved what happened to them.
GIRL: I feel really bad
about what happened. I do.
But for like a nanosecond
I thought the same thing.
Don't judge. I already feel
guilty enough about it.
I get what Kyle's talking about.
I mean, just because something
awful happened to them
Doesn't make them good people
all of a sudden.
Amanda's still Amanda.
Her and all her friends
have been really
mean to me since, like, fifth grade.
So, you don't think
I should tell the cops about this?
We gotta tell somebody.
No, we don't.
People are dead.
But if you're wrong,
you could ruin Kyle's life.
Think about it. He could get railroaded
by all the hysterical
nut cases in this town
and end up on death row
And the star of Making a Murder, Season 8.
If Kyle's off the rails,
we need to tell somebody.
KYLE: Hey.
No one told me that the squad was meeting.
Oh, it's not really a meeting.
It kind of looks like one.
So, please, I don't want to interrupt.
What was that about
Kyle going off the rails?
The pool of suspects is still too big.
Garcia, can you
cross-check the names you pulled
with any mentions on
social media of bullying?
Oh, there's a boss idea.
I'm gonna do that right now, and...
Oh, this is interesting.
I pulled up six names from my list,
and they all belong
to a private chat group.
Some kind of bullying support group?
It's called the Anti-Terror Squad,
but, yeah, that's exactly what it is.
It's an apt analogy.
Ongoing bullying would feel like terrorism
to those experiencing it.
They warn each other
about which stairwells
and bathrooms to avoid on any given day.
They walk each other
to and from school. That kind of thing.
I tell Henry school's a safe place,
but for these kids it's anything but.
Are there any mentions
of retribution or payback, planning?
No. But there's a lot of content here.
I'll do a keyboard search.
It'll take a while.
Okay, so these kids took back some of
their power by banding together.
They call themselves
the Anti-Terror Squad,
so they see themselves as righteous.
The UnSub may be one
or all six of these kids.
Garcia, I need you to locate
their cell phones.
Sure. Um...
They're all in the exact same place.
All six of them are in
a classroom at Pillsbury High.
ALVEZ: All right, look,
there are five cell phones here
And there are six members of the club.
Garcia, what have you got?
These kids would never
voluntarily leave their phones.
Whoever's still got
their phone is our UnSub.
If his friends turned on him,
the UnSub would experience
that as a huge betrayal.
He's been killing for them
and he's just discovered
they're not grateful to him for it.
Okay. The kid whose phone isn't here
is Kyle Ecklund. He's our UnSub.
-But there's no signal.
-What do we know about him?
Bare bones biographical details.
He's an only child.
Mom left him as a toddler.
His dad's an alcoholic.
That explains why he's mature.
Without a reliable caretaker,
he was parentified at an early age.
And now he's switched
the focus of his rage
from bullies to his own peer group.
The family he's seeking
to annihilate has expanded.
Yeah, but if he wanted to kill them,
why wouldn't he do it here? Why move them?
He's making a statement.
ZACH: You don't have to do this, Kyle.
I didn't have to do any of it.
I did this for you, Zach.
And you, Megan. Sam, Ryan, Josh.
I did this for every time
that we got tripped or punched or spit on.
I did this for me.
-MEGAN: Please, Kyle!
-Shut up! Keep walking!
Kyle Ecklund has been
bullied for a lot of years
by a lot of kids. I mean, a lot of kids.
He unleashed on Austin Settergren.
What did Austin do to him?
Let's see. Oh, yes, yes, yes.
Okay, so Austin was the ringleader
of a particularly horrifying incident
that happened a few years back.
We need to know where it happened.
It happened right there
at the basketball courts of the school.
This place is a maze.
Garcia, can you guide us?
Absolutely.
Where are we going?
We're going to the court.
Come on, Kyle,
you don't want to go back there.
Oh, shut up, Zach.
You don't know what the hell I want, man.
I thought you did.
I thought you were my friend.
But you are just like everybody else.
I'm sorry, Kyle. I'm sorry.
You will be.
PRENTISS: You're under arrest! Stand down!
-Stay back! I've got a gun. I'll use it.
-(GUN COCKS)
You do what you have to do.
I'm ready.
-(CRYING)
-Shut up!
PRENTISS: Nobody's moving in, Kyle.
Nobody's gonna shoot you.
You are not in danger.
I know that I'm not getting out of here.
I am ready.
That's not how this has to go, Kyle.
I know what happened here.
I know what Austin did.
GIRL: You're a loser, Kyle.
Are you ready?
-(LAUGHTER)
-Yeah! Yeah!
I said, are you ready?
(ALL CHEER)
Here we go.
Austin, please, please don't.
GIRL: Go on, get him.
BOY: What a loser.
-Come on!
-Yeah! Yeah!
Let's do it again.
Yeah!
(CROWD CHATTERING)
Get him, Austin!
(SIRENS APPROACHING)
I know they left you out here all night,
and you weren't found
until the next morning,
and that nothing happened
to the people who did that to you.
You don't care.
Nobody cares.
I do care, and I'm sorry.
I'm sorry about what happened to you.
But nothing ever changes.
Mr. Bakken is a joke.
Everything he does
just screws everything up.
I know. You're right.
Bakken failed you. Everybody failed you.
And they made everything worse.
But, Kyle, what you're doing now,
this makes everything so much worse,
and I know you don't
want to be responsible for that.
I know you don't really
want to hurt your friends,
the only ones who truly
understand what it's like.
You're better than this.
Kyle, please let me go. (SOBBING)
REID: "Freedom is what you do
with what's been done to you."
Jean-Paul Sartre.
Heh. What's this?
It's a present for Roxy.
Are you gonna do this every day?
Although I am generous to a fault,
every day would be beyond the pale,
and I am nothing if not moderate.
I was just thinking about how your Roxy
Probably saw some pretty intense stuff
while you were with the rangers,
and maybe a pink sweater isn't her thing.
Not that pink isn't super bad-ass,
just sweaters are restrictive
and this may be more her jam.
Hey, this...
This is dope.
You like it?
Yes. Thank you.
Roxy thanks you.
Oh, good. I knew
I'd eventually get it right.
Feels good to get it right.
I may not be able to prevent myself.
From random acts of dog kindness.
Not every day, mind you,
because that would be excessive.
Oh, yeah. And you're
the queen of moderation.
I am the queen of it.
We're heading to O'Keefe's
for a drink. You in?
Oh, hell, yes.
I'm ready to call ahead for my margarita.
Luke, you joining us today?
No. This one doesn't
do the whole bonding over drinks thing.
I'm in.
What? Oh, you're not fooling me, Alvez.
He just wants us to think
he's a smoldering basket
of mystique and contradictions.
I don't buy it.
Hey, I just want a beer.
(SIGHS) Well, there may be
a glimmer of hope for you yet.
But just so you know, the new guy pays.
(GIRLS LAUGHING AND CHATTERING)
Oh, I love this one.
(LAUGHING)
Turn it down. I don't want
my parents to hear us.
You're already busted. Your mom's been
blowing up your phone with texts.
Yeah. She hates when I break curfew.
-At least it was worth it.
-(LAUGHS)
Later, bitches.
Bye.
See you, Mandy.
(ALARM CLOCK BUZZING)
(WHISPERING) Damn.
(ALARM CLOCK BUZZING)
Daddy?
Mom...
(SCREAMING)
(ELEVATOR DINGS)
It's just a little something.
For me?
No, not for you. It's for Roxy.
But you have opposable thumbs,
so you can open it for her.
-Wow. Biscuits.
-Yeah. They're all organic.
Human grade. Quite delicious,
if I do say so myself.
Uh, plus...
It's a sweater.
Oh! Isn't it amazing?
It is... Amazing.
What was that?
Huh? What was what?
You paused.
-No, I didn't.
-You don't like it.
No, I didn't... I didn't say that.
Oh, you might be a profiler in training,
but I'm a profiler by association,
And I can tell a lie when I hear one,
And liar.
Okay. I'm sorry.
It...
It's the biscuits.
You know. Roxy, she's on a raw food diet.
Oh.
They're mostly peanut butter,
but my bad. Okay.
But this is great, huh?
(STAMMERING) Yeah. This is...
This is amazing.
It is.
And very, very thoughtful.
-It was, wasn't it?
-It was. Thank you.
You're welcome. Roxy's welcome.
I can't wait to see her in it.
-(CELL PHONE CHIMES)
-Oh.
We got a case.
The Bergstrom family was killed
in their home in Winona,
Minnesota, last night.
Mother, father, and little boy,
All shot execution style.
Any suspects?
Therein lies the mystery.
The Bergstrom family
-was as low-risk as they come.
-What about murder-suicide?
That was ruled out.
There was no murder weapon
found at the scene,
and both Bridget and Scott Bergstrom
were shot in their bed.
But there was a survivor.
A teenage daughter.
Yeah. 17-year-old Amanda.
She was out past her curfew
at the time of the murders,
And she's the one that found the bodies.
It almost seems like a hit man scenario.
Maybe a Mafia retaliation kill?
But that doesn't seem likely in
Winona, Minnesota.
But it does seem like a revenge killing.
If the UnSub expected
to wipe out the entire family,
he screwed up big time
leaving Amanda alive.
Unless she had something to do with it.
That's a question mark, but according
to the M.E.'s preliminary report,
she can't be the shooter,
based on alibi and time of deaths.
On the surface,
they were a well-liked family,
living a low-risk lifestyle.
The daughter, Amanda, where is she?
Protective custody,
In case the UnSub sees her
as unfinished business.
-We good?
-Mmm-hmm.
We fly.
(LOUD HEAVY METAL MUSIC PLAYS)
Hey, I want it, I need it
I want it, I want it, I want it
I need it, you get it, you get it
You get it, I want it,
I need it, I love it
I hate it, I want it, I need it, I love it
REID: "The malicious
have a dark happiness."
Victor Hugo.
Bridget and Scott Bergstrom
grew up in Winona
and have deep ties to the community.
Scott was a local
distributor of farm equipment.
Bridget cut hair at a salon in the mall.
Yet they were murdered
by a family annihilator.
GARCIA: Sad but true. The Bergstrom family
had their share of dirty laundry.
Though who of us does not?
Scott developed a Vicodin
habit a few years back
after a skiing accident.
So he could have been in
over his head with his dealer.
So Bridget was having an affair?
Yeah. I looked at their financials.
She's got a credit card, secret,
just in her name,
with charges to a motel
just outside of town, and nothing else.
She might have cut things off,
causing him to go off the deep end.
Can you get us a name?
Yeah, I'm already into it.
You'll have lover boy's ID ASAP.
What about Amanda,
the sole survivor? Any motive there?
Deep sigh. (SIGHS)
I hate that you're asking that.
And deep sigh again,
I am bound by duty to report the facts.
There's a modest insurance policy.
17-year-old Amanda is the beneficiary.
$100,000.
That would seem like
all the money in the world to a teenager.
People have been killed for a lot less.
That's an unlikely motive
for the daughter,
but we can't rule her out.
Whatever set this UnSub off,
he made the whole family pay for it.
Okay. JJ, Spencer, Emily,
you go directly to the crime scene.
Luke, you're with me.
We'll set up HQ at the local P.D.
WINONA, MINNESOTA
UnSub entered on the second floor
through the cut screen.
He had to be physically fit.
He knew the house well enough to know
this was the room to enter.
He went straight to the parents' room.
He wanted to remove
the greatest threat first.
PRENTISS: Based on the bullet trajectory,
he was standing here
at the foot of the bed when he fired.
He wanted to stare
at them both before firing.
And that woke Bridget up.
(SCREAMING)
She was attempting to flee
when the UnSub shot her.
Oh, no! (SCREAMING)
(GUNSHOT)
Did he enjoy watching
her terror and panic,
or was it inexperience on his part?
Bridget's scream...
-(SCREAMS)
-(GUNSHOT)
...is probably what woke Kevin.
So the UnSub heads down the hallway
where Kevin is coming out of his bedroom.
Mom?
Dad?
And he runs into the UnSub.
Who are you?
(GASPS)
So it seems this UnSub knew who lived here
and where each person slept
implying a personal
connection with the victims.
In spite of the home invasion,
there's no sign of burglary,
So he's mission oriented.
He's highly organized and sophisticated.
The big question is Amanda.
Did he think she was home,
or did he deliberately
strike when she was out?
We need to talk to her.
Poor kid was so distraught,
we took her to the ER.
They ended up sedating her.
She'll be coming around soon.
I've got a deputy stationed
outside her room over at County General.
Good. If the UnSub wanted
to wipe out the entire family,
she could be in danger.
What about the wife, Bridget?
We heard she might be
stepping out on her husband.
Yeah, that was an open secret.
She was seeing Ron Fergusson.
They met at the gym. He was a trainer.
-Was? What happened?
-Sticky fingers.
Ronnie got caught stealing
personal items from lockers.
They called us over,
but nobody pressed charges.
Just sent him packing.
Fergusson sounds like bad news.
He's no altar boy.
Couple of DUIs
and a few assault convictions.
Bar fights, mostly. But nothing like this.
You don't think he's
involved in this, do you?
The guy's got a temper
and he likes to drink.
That's not a good combo.
Where is he now?
Living off unemployment,
just outside town out by I-90.
Let's go talk to him.
So, knocking on doors
kind of remind you of fugitive hunting?
Yeah, a little bit.
That was a...
That was a one-man show, though.
And this is a team sport.
Yeah.
Yeah, well, that
could take a little getting used to.
A little bit, yeah.
This is it.
Ronald Fergusson.
FBI. Like to ask you a few questions.
(GLASS SHATTERS)
He bailed.
Where do you think you're going? Huh?
This takes me back.
I didn't do nothin'.
We want to know about Bridget Bergstrom.
I don't know, it was messed up.
But I didn't have nothin' to do with it.
Bridget and me broke up a while ago.
Okay. Where were you last night?
Out at the CC Club. In town.
My buddy Steve got in a fight, got cut,
so I took him to the hospital.
-What about afterward?
-I was there all night.
Waited with him while he got stitched up.
I didn't get home till almost 6:00 a.m.
And there were security
cameras in the waiting area.
You can check.
We will.
That's the truth.
No matter what that little liar says.
Who are you talking about?
Amanda.
Bridget's kid.
She knew you were
having an affair with her mother?
Yeah. And she blackmailed me
for almost a year.
Threatened to tell her dad all the time.
Amanda acts all innocent,
but she's always working some angle.
I was supposed to be home by 11:00.
That's my curfew.
But there was a party
and I stayed out all night.
My mom, she was really mad at me.
She texted me...
Sweetie, she wouldn't
have stayed mad at you.
Okay? Please believe that.
She said she was disappointed in me.
That's the last text she sent.
And I ignored it.
Teenagers break curfew. It's normal.
I'm sure she loved you very much.
Amanda, we need your help
to find whoever did this.
We need to ask you some
difficult questions, okay?
Okay.
Ron Fergusson said
that you knew about him and your mom.
Is that true?
Yeah.
He said you threatened
to tell your dad about the affair.
Well, that was just
to keep him away from my mom.
I didn't really want to tell my dad.
I didn't want him to know.
How come? Because of the pills?
Yeah.
Yeah, after my dad broke his leg,
he got addicted.
And, um...
It was really bad for a while.
And that's when your mom
started having the affair?
He was always yelling,
at everybody,
even Kevin.
And my mom and him almost split up.
Then he worked really hard to get clean.
I didn't want to tell him about Ron
because I didn't want him to give up.
He was doing NA and everything,
and he was doing really good,
and then my mom even thought so.
And so when he got his six-month chip,
she broke up with Ron.
How did Ron feel about that?
Okay, I guess. I mean, I'm pretty sure
he was already seeing somebody else.
Things were just
starting to get good again.
I thought I was getting my family back.
Why did this happen?
Why is my family dead?
(SOBBING)
Just got off the phone with Garcia.
Fergusson's alibi checks out.
I can't even begin to imagine it.
Her whole family gone
in the blink of an eye.
She's devastated.
Fergusson seems to think that Amanda
was some kind of conniving shrew.
Well, Amanda may well
have been hostile towards him,
but for good reason.
She wanted her parents
to stay together. Typical kid.
She was candid about what went on.
She was genuinely baffled
by who would do this and why.
Agreed. That last text from her mom,
that one's gonna haunt her.
ROSSI: What's gonna happen to her now?
She has an aunt and uncle in Seattle.
They flew in today. So it sounds like
she'll be going home with them.
We know Fergusson's way too disorganized
to pull this off,
so where does that leave us?
The family had their problems,
but they were getting back on track.
And yet someone wanted this family dead.
But it doesn't make sense that they'd be
targeted by a family annihilator.
What if it's not about this family?
What if it's just about families?
So the Bergstroms could be surrogates.
Meaning our UnSub
will probably strike again.
(DOG BARKING IN DISTANCE)
MAN: Hey.
(INDISTINCT CLATTERING)
(BARKING)
(DOG YELPS)
(CLATTERING CONTINUES)
(BARKING, YELPING)
(THUDS)
(WOMAN SCREAMING)
(GUNSHOT)
(RINGING)
OPERATOR: 911. What's your emergency?
Please help.
There's someone in my house.
-He's shooting.
-Sir, I can't hear you.
If you're unable to speak,
just press any button.
Are you there, sir?
-(BEEPS)
-Okay, we'll track your phone
and send someone to your address.
(SIRENS BLARING)
FBI!
Body down.
JJ: I have two bodies down back here.
ALVEZ: Let me see your hands.
Let me see your hands.
JJ: you're safe now, Matthew.
You're safe.
Matthew, we want to find who did this.
So if there's anything
you can remember seeing or hearing,
anything at all, it could help us.
What you did, calling 911, that was brave.
JJ: That call saved your life.
Anything?
He's traumatized.
I heard him walking.
Then he stopped.
He was in my room.
Right there.
Why am I alive?
Why me?
Wish we had an answer for him.
He's right. The UnSub
must have known he was there.
If he was in that bedroom,
he would have seen the puddle,
just like Alvez did.
The UnSub deliberately spared him.
But not out of compassion.
He wanted them
to feel the pain of losing their families.
I think we've inverted our victimology.
We've been focused
on the murdered family members.
We should be focusing on the survivors.
They are the real victims,
the ones the UnSub wants to hurt.
We believe the UnSub is a variation
of what we know as a family annihilator.
The garden variety family annihilator
is usually a narcissistic male patriarch
experiencing psychological stress.
This causes him to become
homicidal and then suicidal.
His narcissism often manifests as rage
directed at a specific family member,
prompting him to murder the entire family
as an act of punishment and revenge.
He then blames the object of his rage
for his violent outburst.
Once the entire family is dead,
the patriarch typically
commits or attempts to commit suicide.
But this UnSub is murdering families
that are not his own.
(GUNSHOTS)
There's a distinct
punishment component to the annihilation
that's driving this UnSub.
He's more organized than
the typical family annihilator,
with greater impulse control
and a high level of sophistication.
PRENTISS: His sophistication is apparent
in the fact that the object of his rage
is deliberately spared
rather than murdered.
(SCREAMING)
JJ: This allows the UnSub the satisfaction
of inflicting ongoing psychological pain
on the object of his rage.
We're looking for a male
in his late 20s, early 30s.
He's mature and highly intelligent.
Amanda Bergstrom
and Matthew Doherty may be surrogates
for individuals who wronged the UnSub
when he himself was an adolescent.
Amanda and Matt both attend
Pillsbury High School,
and we have not identified
any other connection
between them or their families.
Pay close attention to the faculty
and administrators of the high school.
A lot of the parents are wondering
if we should shut down the high school.
The school itself
has not been a scene of violence.
Closing it would not deter this UnSub.
We need you to beef up
patrols and warn the public
of the ongoing danger.
And we ask you to encourage
the entire Pillsbury High School community
to report any suspicious
individuals they may encounter.
Okay, that's it.
Hi, folks.
Thanks for showing up.
We will be holding these forums every day,
before and after school,
and I encourage all students
and parents to come
as often as you want.
Now I'll turn it over to Mr. Bakken,
our school counselor.
Thanks, Mrs. Dahl.
We welcome all members
of our Pillsbury family.
I'd like us all to start
by acknowledging the hurt
that each and every one
of of us has experienced this week.
Students, if you're here with a parent,
please turn to him or her now and just...
Just label your feelings.
Sad, scared, depressed, angry.
Whatever you're feeling.
Seriously?
I told you this would be stupid.
We don't want to label our feelings.
We want to know what you're doing
to protect our families and our kids.
We are in constant contact
with law enforcement,
but we just don't know
anything more than you do.
Then what are we doing here?
I want you to know that school is a safe
place for your kids.
I don't need some loser
in a cardigan sweater
telling me my kid's freaked out.
I need to know the son of a bitch
who did this
is going to jail.
(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
(LAUGHS) Good one, Austin.
(CHUCKLES) What are you looking at, loser?
(LAUGHS) Oh, man.
Shall we?
(BEEPS)
Boom, baby.
ROSSI: What's up, Garcia?
Do you have any idea how many selfies
the average teenager
posts on social media on any given day?
I'm gonna tell you
before you say anything.
So many. And like the guys, too.
Actually, some studies indicate that men
take twice as many selfies as women
'cause it's considered to be
an acceptable form of male vanity.
How many pictures of yourself
do you really need?
And they're basically
making the same expression...
Oh, my God.
Am I officially not young?
You, my dear,
are the portrait of everlasting youth.
I'm timeless, right. Good answer.
Okay. Back to my point.
I have been drilling
into the social media footprint
of both of our adolescent survivors.
Any connection between Amanda and Matt?
Yeah. Stay with me
while I go around here for a second.
So, basically,
both of their Facebook pages
are just an outpouring
of love and support from their peers.
And it's touching, really,
and it's very reassuring
for the hope of our species.
What did you mean, "basically"?
In between all the wonderfulness,
there's a tiny tributary of nasty comments
from some of their peers,
Saying that Matt and Amanda
got what they deserved.
Well, they're kids.
Kids can be cruel and thoughtless.
Right. But we all know that cruelty
Is sometimes inspired by previous action,
which made me wonder what Matt and Amanda
might have done to provoke
some of their peers
to saying some of these things
on their Facebooks.
So I looked into their school records,
and both Matt and Amanda
have complaints against them
for "harassing behavior."
They're bullies.
Were they disciplined?
No. To paraphrase the Violent Femmes song,
nothing went down
on their permanent record.
So the victims were also victimizers.
If the UnSub
was bullied himself as a teenager,
that could be the original
narcissistic wound
that's fueling his present day rage.
Turning his surrogate
victimizers into victims
is the point for our UnSub.
Bullying leaves lasting scars.
Our UnSub could be
a teacher or staff member at the school
who seems himself
as an avenger of students
who are current victims of bullying.
Someone who punishes
the bullies when no one else does.
From the UnSub's point of view,
the bullies themselves
are responsible for the violence
he's perpetrating against their families.
We need to dig into the backgrounds
of the teachers and staff
of Pillsbury High
and identify anyone
who was bullied as a kid.
Already got digital shovels
already throwin' up dirt.
We also need a list
of any other known bullies at the school
so that we can warn
and protect their families.
Oh, here's something.
There is a school counselor
there named Eric Bakken.
Not only is he the school administrator
who's in charge of handling
bullying complaints from the students,
but when he was 15,
he was charged with assault.
He was arrested. He claimed he was
provoked by a long-time bully,
but the charges were dropped.
Let's get him in here.
In theory, our community
has a zero tolerance policy on bullying.
But not in practice.
In practice, most of the bullying
that goes on at Pillsbury High
never makes it to my door.
Why not?
(SIGHS) Coming forward requires courage
and a willingness to claim the pain.
That's hard.
And sometimes, I'm sorry to say,
can make things worse for the victim.
It must be hard
for you to see kids being bullied,
knowing you can't do anything to stop it.
It is.
It must make you angry.
Angry?
Yes.
I bet some of these kids were best friends
with the people who started bullying them
in junior high and high school.
That's right.
And it only intensifies the pain for them.
Was that your experience
when you were bullied?
It was.
My best friend
all through elementary school
and junior high.
All of a sudden
he turned into a popular kid
and I didn't.
He never targeted me directly,
but he also never stopped
his new cool best friend
from tormenting me.
At first I fought, with my fists.
But that doesn't solve anything.
It just landed me in more trouble.
I've worked through my own experience.
I had to in order to work in a high school
so I wouldn't project my own experience
onto any of the students.
That sounds very healthy.
Thank you.
It was hard work,
But well worth it.
I know I can't help
every young person who needs it.
And I know I'm a joke
to lots of the students.
But I do help some of them,
and that makes everything worthwhile.
Is Bakken our guy?
No. He has none of the rage our UnSub has.
But he did give us some names.
Garcia sent the addresses
of six students to your phones.
They're the most notorious
bullies at the school.
Now, they and their families
are in immediate danger.
We need to warn them.
All right, let's go.
We've got five families
safely in protective custody.
Good.
That's the house up there.
The front door's open.
(CRYING) Austin. Austin, my son. My boy.
My boy's dead.
That's my boy.
Please help him.
M.E.'s preliminary time of death
confirms that we couldn't have missed him
by more than a few minutes.
There's extreme overkill here.
Victim was shot six times
and then bludgeoned.
He's decompensating.
ALVEZ: Or evolving.
Yeah, he doesn't care
about the family anymore.
He's going straight for the bully.
REID: Hey, guys.
Austin's room.
The other murders,
the UnSub left the homes undisturbed.
Well, it certainly looks like this
is what he bludgeoned the victim with.
He could have left it
in the living room with the body,
but instead, he brought it back in here
and destroyed
Austin's other sports trophies.
Yeah, you know, everything about this,
the overkill, trashing the room,
going after Austin's prizes,
it fights against our profile
of mission oriented
organization and impulse control.
He's more stressed now.
He knows we're closing in.
It's more than that.
His behavior reads juvenile.
Our UnSub isn't an adult, he's a child.
I can't believe there's
a psycho murderer out there.
I mean, nothing
ever happens here, and then this.
It's so weird.
Yeah. Maybe he's not a psycho.
Seriously, dude?
You know, I heard that Matt
cried in the closet
when his family was getting killed.
-For real?
-Yeah.
Where'd you hear that?
What difference does it make?
I don't know. It just makes you feel
sorry for him, that's all.
What?
His whole family got killed.
And from ninth grade
until about a week ago,
Matt Doherty made your life a living hell.
I know, but still...
No wonder you're a punching bag.
Do you even remember
why we started the Anti-Terror Squad?
To help protect each other
from bullies in school.
And we said the bullies are terrorists.
Do you remember that?
Yeah, but the Anti-Terror Squad
is just a name.
It's just something
we made up to feel less pathetic.
We're not the pathetic ones.
They are.
Zach, they are terrorists.
God.
(SIGHS) You know what
some politicians say.
The best way to handle terrorists
is to take out their whole families.
That's messed up, man.
Nobody's family deserves to die like that.
Not even the families of real terrorists.
(SCOFFS) Pull over.
Why? I can just drop you at your house.
Yeah, I'd rather walk.
-(BEEPS)
-Garcia, we need the records
of every student at Pillsbury
who filed a bullying complaint
against Amanda Bergstrom, Matt Doherty,
And Austin Settergren.
Also, anyone who received counseling
for being bullied by those students.
Wow. This is a really big pool.
I've got 27 names.
PRENTISS: Any of those
students bullied by all three?
No.
Like Bakken said, most
victims never come forward.
So I'm seeing the tip
of a really big iceberg.
Nobody wants to be a snitch.
Also, bullying
is often so widespread, it's normalized.
It would only amplify
the UnSub's feeling of powerlessness.
But he didn't actually say
he killed anybody, right?
He practically said it.
That's what I'm trying to tell you.
What did he say exactly?
He said Amanda and Matt
deserved what happened to them.
GIRL: I feel really bad
about what happened. I do.
But for like a nanosecond
I thought the same thing.
Don't judge. I already feel
guilty enough about it.
I get what Kyle's talking about.
I mean, just because something
awful happened to them
Doesn't make them good people
all of a sudden.
Amanda's still Amanda.
Her and all her friends
have been really
mean to me since, like, fifth grade.
So, you don't think
I should tell the cops about this?
We gotta tell somebody.
No, we don't.
People are dead.
But if you're wrong,
you could ruin Kyle's life.
Think about it. He could get railroaded
by all the hysterical
nut cases in this town
and end up on death row
And the star of Making a Murder, Season 8.
If Kyle's off the rails,
we need to tell somebody.
KYLE: Hey.
No one told me that the squad was meeting.
Oh, it's not really a meeting.
It kind of looks like one.
So, please, I don't want to interrupt.
What was that about
Kyle going off the rails?
The pool of suspects is still too big.
Garcia, can you
cross-check the names you pulled
with any mentions on
social media of bullying?
Oh, there's a boss idea.
I'm gonna do that right now, and...
Oh, this is interesting.
I pulled up six names from my list,
and they all belong
to a private chat group.
Some kind of bullying support group?
It's called the Anti-Terror Squad,
but, yeah, that's exactly what it is.
It's an apt analogy.
Ongoing bullying would feel like terrorism
to those experiencing it.
They warn each other
about which stairwells
and bathrooms to avoid on any given day.
They walk each other
to and from school. That kind of thing.
I tell Henry school's a safe place,
but for these kids it's anything but.
Are there any mentions
of retribution or payback, planning?
No. But there's a lot of content here.
I'll do a keyboard search.
It'll take a while.
Okay, so these kids took back some of
their power by banding together.
They call themselves
the Anti-Terror Squad,
so they see themselves as righteous.
The UnSub may be one
or all six of these kids.
Garcia, I need you to locate
their cell phones.
Sure. Um...
They're all in the exact same place.
All six of them are in
a classroom at Pillsbury High.
ALVEZ: All right, look,
there are five cell phones here
And there are six members of the club.
Garcia, what have you got?
These kids would never
voluntarily leave their phones.
Whoever's still got
their phone is our UnSub.
If his friends turned on him,
the UnSub would experience
that as a huge betrayal.
He's been killing for them
and he's just discovered
they're not grateful to him for it.
Okay. The kid whose phone isn't here
is Kyle Ecklund. He's our UnSub.
-But there's no signal.
-What do we know about him?
Bare bones biographical details.
He's an only child.
Mom left him as a toddler.
His dad's an alcoholic.
That explains why he's mature.
Without a reliable caretaker,
he was parentified at an early age.
And now he's switched
the focus of his rage
from bullies to his own peer group.
The family he's seeking
to annihilate has expanded.
Yeah, but if he wanted to kill them,
why wouldn't he do it here? Why move them?
He's making a statement.
ZACH: You don't have to do this, Kyle.
I didn't have to do any of it.
I did this for you, Zach.
And you, Megan. Sam, Ryan, Josh.
I did this for every time
that we got tripped or punched or spit on.
I did this for me.
-MEGAN: Please, Kyle!
-Shut up! Keep walking!
Kyle Ecklund has been
bullied for a lot of years
by a lot of kids. I mean, a lot of kids.
He unleashed on Austin Settergren.
What did Austin do to him?
Let's see. Oh, yes, yes, yes.
Okay, so Austin was the ringleader
of a particularly horrifying incident
that happened a few years back.
We need to know where it happened.
It happened right there
at the basketball courts of the school.
This place is a maze.
Garcia, can you guide us?
Absolutely.
Where are we going?
We're going to the court.
Come on, Kyle,
you don't want to go back there.
Oh, shut up, Zach.
You don't know what the hell I want, man.
I thought you did.
I thought you were my friend.
But you are just like everybody else.
I'm sorry, Kyle. I'm sorry.
You will be.
PRENTISS: You're under arrest! Stand down!
-Stay back! I've got a gun. I'll use it.
-(GUN COCKS)
You do what you have to do.
I'm ready.
-(CRYING)
-Shut up!
PRENTISS: Nobody's moving in, Kyle.
Nobody's gonna shoot you.
You are not in danger.
I know that I'm not getting out of here.
I am ready.
That's not how this has to go, Kyle.
I know what happened here.
I know what Austin did.
GIRL: You're a loser, Kyle.
Are you ready?
-(LAUGHTER)
-Yeah! Yeah!
I said, are you ready?
(ALL CHEER)
Here we go.
Austin, please, please don't.
GIRL: Go on, get him.
BOY: What a loser.
-Come on!
-Yeah! Yeah!
Let's do it again.
Yeah!
(CROWD CHATTERING)
Get him, Austin!
(SIRENS APPROACHING)
I know they left you out here all night,
and you weren't found
until the next morning,
and that nothing happened
to the people who did that to you.
You don't care.
Nobody cares.
I do care, and I'm sorry.
I'm sorry about what happened to you.
But nothing ever changes.
Mr. Bakken is a joke.
Everything he does
just screws everything up.
I know. You're right.
Bakken failed you. Everybody failed you.
And they made everything worse.
But, Kyle, what you're doing now,
this makes everything so much worse,
and I know you don't
want to be responsible for that.
I know you don't really
want to hurt your friends,
the only ones who truly
understand what it's like.
You're better than this.
Kyle, please let me go. (SOBBING)
REID: "Freedom is what you do
with what's been done to you."
Jean-Paul Sartre.
Heh. What's this?
It's a present for Roxy.
Are you gonna do this every day?
Although I am generous to a fault,
every day would be beyond the pale,
and I am nothing if not moderate.
I was just thinking about how your Roxy
Probably saw some pretty intense stuff
while you were with the rangers,
and maybe a pink sweater isn't her thing.
Not that pink isn't super bad-ass,
just sweaters are restrictive
and this may be more her jam.
Hey, this...
This is dope.
You like it?
Yes. Thank you.
Roxy thanks you.
Oh, good. I knew
I'd eventually get it right.
Feels good to get it right.
I may not be able to prevent myself.
From random acts of dog kindness.
Not every day, mind you,
because that would be excessive.
Oh, yeah. And you're
the queen of moderation.
I am the queen of it.
We're heading to O'Keefe's
for a drink. You in?
Oh, hell, yes.
I'm ready to call ahead for my margarita.
Luke, you joining us today?
No. This one doesn't
do the whole bonding over drinks thing.
I'm in.
What? Oh, you're not fooling me, Alvez.
He just wants us to think
he's a smoldering basket
of mystique and contradictions.
I don't buy it.
Hey, I just want a beer.
(SIGHS) Well, there may be
a glimmer of hope for you yet.
But just so you know, the new guy pays.