Criminal Minds (2005–…): Season 15, Episode 3 - Spectator Slowing - full transcript

Hey, Mom, can Amber come over tonight?

I don't know. What about your homework?

I already did it in school.

- Really?
- Yeah.

Well, let's talk about it after dinner.

Ok, Mom.

We still got left over meatloaf.

You want to do that?

Sure.

What's wrong?

- Mom! Mom!
- Mom!



Hi, guys.

You don't look sick, Mom.

Oh, I'm not, sweetie.

I'm... I’m just resting.

Are you going to throw up?

No, no, I'm fine.

Here, Mommy.

Ahh.

She made you a sandwich.

Heh. Why, thank you, Lily.

It's tuna fish. And peanut butter.

Yeah, I see that.

All right, kids. That's enough.

Come on, your mom needs
some peace and quiet.



Let's go. Come on.

I want to play monopoly.

- Phew.
- Mm-hmm.

Yikes.

All right, so you
remember the ground rules?

The doctor said 24 to 48 hours

complete bed rest.

Not here and there bed rest, complete.

Oh.

And if you need anything...

Just ring and I will
come and take care of it.

Well, let's test this thing out.

I need a kiss.

I'm telling Mom. And I'm telling Dad.

You sure you're up to this?

Well, administrative day
at school, no sitters,

so I better be up to it.

Ugh.

I might be the first woman
to give birth to a beach ball.

Well, just hang in there.

Number 5.

Number 5.

Have we totally lost our minds?

You start resting.

Now.

- I'm gonna...
- Yeah, thanks.

Appreciate that.

You're back.

Hi. Yeah, thought I'd get in early,

stake out my spot.

Mmm.

Feels like old times.

It does.

That's good, right?

It's great.

JJ, oh, my god, oh, my god, oh, my god.

JJ! Oh, my god. Look at that.

- Look at you.
- Ohh, hey.

- Hi. ‭
- It's me.

Hi.

Missed you.

Hey, there.

Hey. Welcome back. So
good to have you back.

Great to be here.

We did discuss you maybe easing back

into things slowly.

Emily, I'm good to go, really.

I even brought a permission
slip from my doctor.

Promise me,

no jumping out of helicopters.

Only as a last resort.

You have my word.

So what have we got?

Well, the two mail bombing deaths
we've been monitoring in Ohio

and Kentucky, third one
just happened in Memphis.

We aren't monitoring anymore.

This case is now our top priority.

Two victims are Rhonda Kirkman

and her daughter Sophia,

but unlike Joseph Ainsworth
and Sheila Stecher,

both of these sweet souls have survived.

Apparently that blast wasn't
as strong as the others.

Mother and daughter are in
critical condition, though.

And we still don't know
how these bombs were sent?

None of the traditional mail
carriers sent any packages

to the victims on the
days of the attacks.

Well, good chance he
dropped them off himself.

Well, that'd be a significant deviation

from the traditional
M.O. of a mail bomber.

Most don't get anywhere
near their victims.

And I wonder why the third
bomb didn't pack the same punch.

Device malfunction, maybe?

That would be my guess.

Guys like this don't usually
dial down the violence,

they escalate.

Well, if this latest
bomb was less powerful,

hopefully we have more forensic
evidence to sift through.

What I'm worried about
is a pissed off unsub.

He botched this one.

We can be damn sure the next
attack will get the job done

and then some.

Kristy's on mandated bed rest,

so Matt will stay behind
and consult by phone.

His military experience with
munitions should be helpful.

For the rest of us, wheels up in 10.

It's 250, right?

Plus tip, if you're so inclined.

Ok, let's do this.

One red hot, stone cold cadaver

coming up.

You said this would be a woman.

Body stealing business,
sometimes you take the...

No, man, we agreed that
this would be a woman.

Dead's dead. What the
hell's the difference?

Oh, you don't got to
go this route, buddy.

They've got online dating sites now.

Spruce up a little. You're
not a bad-looking guy.

Learn a little ballroom dancing.

I'm joking, man. Just
yanking your chain.

Ok, uh, this transaction,

the merchandise being what it is,

all sales are final.

So you want the stiff or not?

Yeah, put it in.

Mm-mmm. Free shipping stops here.

Put it in yourself.

"Life is under no obligation"

"to give us what we expect."

Margaret Mitchell.

Rhonda Kirkman and her daughter

are still in the ICU.

Friends, packaging received
from the latest bombing

had U.S. postage, but
curiously, no cancellation marks.

Well, the unsub put them on
just to make them look legit.

So it's what we theorized.

He's hand delivering the bombs.

Risky business exposing
yourself like that.

Most bombers are cowards who do their

dirty work from the shadows.

You know, there's something else missing

that we usually find with
this type of killer...

A manifesto,

some sort of cause they wish to espouse.

Ted Kaczynski, Eric Rudolph,

Timothy McVeigh, bombers
tend to be fanatics

driven by extreme ideologies.

Victimology's also tough on this one.

Garcia, still nothing
to connect the victims?

They are homo sapiens
on the planet earth,

but besides that... age, race,
ethnicity... it's one big mash up.

Well, they had one thing in common...

The unsub wanted them all dead.

Tara, you and Luke go take a
look at the latest crime scene.

Reid, JJ, you'll head to the hospital.

Dave and I will set up
with local law enforcement

once we land.

So how's Kristy’s bed rest going?

She's complying, but
she's not happy about it.

And I am being that
hard-ass hall monitor

that everybody hates.

Have you had a chance to
review that bomb evidence

we sent you?

Yeah, that's why I'm calling.

So we're definitely
dealing with one unsub here.

The assembly and packaging in
all 3 attacks are identical.

Those bombs didn't look
especially sophisticated.

No, they're not.

You stumble across the right website,

and your average person could
probably put these together.

One more thing. It looks
like each package contained

a book of some kind.

Maybe that's what set off the explosive.

You open the cover, boom.

That was my initial thought, too,

but I'm not seeing any
spring-loaded triggers.

Then what then, a timer?

No, no timing devices, either.

I think these explosives
are being detonated

via remote control.

Ok, I'll let you go.

So what are your kiddie plans for today?

Oh, we're gonna go big.

Uh, cook a fancy meal,
maybe play a board game.

Board game?

Yeah, I've got one here I bought

in Thailand years ago,
haven't opened yet.

Attenzione alla varieta.

Translation?

Roughly, deviate from video games

at your own risk.

Thanks.

Buona fortuna.

Photo album. This must be the
book Matt was talking about.

Yeah, similar albums
were pieced together

at the other crime scenes.

We're trying to track down
where they were purchased.

Any actual photographs recovered?

Only this one from Rhonda's house.

But check this out.

He sent Rhonda a
picture of her own house.

Her house, but...

What else?

So what do you think? Huh?

We're gonna choose something
we've never eaten before,

we're gonna make it
from scratch together.

Why can't we eat something normal?

Like pizza.

Because we eat normal all the time.

Come on, you guys, it'll be fun.

We'll make extra for your mommy.

We're gonna surprise her.

Here's what we'll do.
I'm gonna close my eyes

and move my finger,
and when you say "stop,"

the book I'm pointing
to, no matter what,

we'll fix what's on the cover.

Sound good?

Loving the enthusiasm.

Ok, here we go.

Mmm.

Stop.

"Modern Moroccan."

Basilla with dejaj... dajaj... daja...

All right, it's a little complicated.

We're gonna check and see
what the ingredients are.

Ginger, ok. Turmeric,
crumbled saffron threads?

Crumbled saffron threads.

How does pizza sound, you guys?

Yeah, let's do... let's do pizza.

- Yeah.
- Yeah!

Pizza.

Mr. and Mrs. Kirkman, I'm Dr. Reid.

I'm SSA Jennifer Jareau.
We're with the FBI.

The doctors said you'd be coming.

We're very sorry about what happened

to your daughter and grandchild.

Thank you.

We know that this is
a difficult time, but...

No, no, ask your questions.

Neither one of us has
had much sleep, though.

Flights were all booked so
we drove down from Michigan.

Yeah, straight through the night.

Do you have any idea
who might have done this?

Not at all.

Everybody loves Rhonda.

She didn't have an enemy in the world.

Mr. Kirkman?

My wife cuts people too much slack.

Rhonda's got an ex
you need to check out.

Fred.

No, these people need to know, Laura.

Randall Gilman.

Rhonda divorced that SOB last summer,

and when she got custody of Sophia,

he said he was gonna make her pay.

That's not what he meant by that.

No, no, exact words. Make her pay.

Excuse me, Mr. and Mrs. Kirkman.

Rhonda's still in surgery,

but if you want to see your
granddaughter for a few minutes,

come with me.

Oh, my god, Sophia.

Please find who did this.

Please.

Ok, so we spoke to Rhonda's neighbors,

and they echo what people said
about the previous victims...

Quiet and well liked.

Yeah, she worked a normal job,

middle of the road politics,

not involved in any
controversial causes.

Ok, so we have no obvious
shared ideology among the victims

that might have angered our unsub.

Well, maybe it's an internal ideology

unique to him.

You know, they crossed some
line only he understands.

It's rare with bombers,

but maybe our killer's
choosing his victims randomly.

JJ said Rhonda had an
ex we were looking at.

Looked at and cleared. Solid alibi.

And he had no motive to
kill the other two victims.

So we're back to square one.

Reid's working up a geo profile,

but for now, it's anyone's guess

where our unsub will strike next.

So it looks like this resists
traditional geo profiling.

Attack sites are often like spokes

emanating from a single hub,
but that isn't the case here.

It's more random, scattershot.

I think the unsub lives in a different
part of the country altogether.

That might be why he's
reluctant to mail his packages.

He's out of his element.

He's also sadistic.

He wants to watch his
victims die with his own eyes.

Agents?

I went to the post office
to pick up Rhonda's mail,

and...

"Your presence is requested"

"at the funeral of Rhonda Kirkman.

Fun and games to follow."

This was enclosed.

We contacted the family members

of the first two bombing victims.

They found posthumous funeral notices

in the mail as well.

Same message?

"Fun and games to follow."

Well, let's just hope it's a taunt

and not a warning of things to come.

Matt, how are things
going on the home front?

So far so good.

And how'd that
Michelin-starred meal pan out?

Well, it's hard to go wrong
with pepperoni and cheese.

So listen, I took another
look at the evidence

from the Rhonda Kirkman crime scene.

And while the dimensions of the device
look the same as the previous bombs...

Height, width, and length...

The actual blast radius had
diminished by almost half.

The thing is, I'm not seeing
anything that suggests a misfire.

So he deliberately made
the bomb less powerful?

And less deadly.

The shrapnel from the first
two bombs were nasty...

Thumbtacks, razors, nails...

But Rhonda's bomb was
filled with ball bearings,

small ones, like BB gun pellets.

Increasing the chance that
Rhonda and Sophia would survive.

I don't know why he'd do this
except to prolong the trauma.

If they don't survive, how
can they suffer? Thanks, Matt.

Another bomb just went off
about an hour south of here.

One confirmed fatality. ATF is
on site. It looks like our guy.

Back-to-back attacks on
consecutive days. He's accelerating.

Law enforcement's
breathing down his neck.

He must know his window
to wreak havoc is closing.

Apparently our unsub's
back in the saddle.

This blast was full octane,

so whatever the hiccup
was with Rhonda Kirkman,

he fixed it.

Not laughing now, are you?

Not so funny, huh?

I don't hear you laughing.

Aah!

What's so funny?

Stop! No!

Mom!

Help me!

Ok.

Garcia still can't find a
link between the victims.

Maybe we're looking in the wrong place.

What are you thinking?

There's no logic in
sending funeral notices

to people he already killed.

I think they were
meant for somebody else.

That's why Garcia's coming up empty.

The connection here
isn't among the victims,

but in the pool of surviving loved ones.

Exactly.

Couple of hours ago, police responded

to a noise complaint in Millington,

about 10 miles north of here.

They found a blown-up shed in a field.

There was a male cadaver inside.

I just wanted to see that
stunningly handsome face

and admire those broad,
squared off shoulders.

No.

No what?

No, you can't get up and move around

for just 5 minutes.

Fine.

How's the board game going?

Labor intensive.

For starters, the
instructions are in Thai.

Then the dice turned out
just to be blank cubes

that you have to lick
and stick dots on by hand.

You're kidding.

No, and it took us half an hour,

then the very first roll, they just

Fluttered off like confetti.

So now Jake's trying to
draw them on with a pen,

but the ink won't stick.

Something else is bothering you.

Uhh.

We have a little girl in Tennessee

who's fighting for her life.

Sometimes I wish I could just...

Snap my fingers and make all the bad

in the world go away.

Dad! Oh!

They're playing my song.

I love you.

Now go out there and show them

how to do it old school.

Ok.

Will do.

What did you do?

I didn't do anything!

Ok.

Is everything ok, Dad?

Yeah, everything's fine, son.

Ok, let's start with Lily.

I think we need to find another game.

There's nothing on the dice.

Of course there is.

You're just not looking hard enough.

Ok. All right, Lily.

5.

Thank you so much for coming in.

They said you wanted us to
take a look at some pictures.

If you don't mind,
they're right in here.

I don't recognize any of these people.

Me, neither.

Take your time.

Try focusing on one group

before moving on to the next.

Who are they, anyway?

Family members of the
other 3 victims, like you.

So I think... 2, 3, 4...

Lily has 8 to win.

Yeah, but 2, 6, or 7,

and you're dead.

No pressure.

Here you go.

8!

We have a winner!

Nice!

Yes!

I'll be damned.

Fred.

Yeah.

How did you do this?

How do you know these people?

We met on a cruise last month.

Went up the St.
Lawrence river in Canada.

Yeah, the boat docked
for the day in Montreal,

and the 5 of us decided to rent a car,

go drive around the
countryside on our own.

So here's what we know.

These 5 people rented a car together

in Montreal on October 2.

And within weeks,

all of them had loved ones

who were attacked by our unsub...

Joseph Ainsworth, Colin's father,

Sheila Stecher, the sister of Wanda,

and Joel Reynolds, Meg's father.

And this is the route they took.

They stopped for lunch,
then went back to the boat.

Somewhere along the way,
they encountered the unsub.

Must have.

We should bring Fred and Laura in

for a cognitive with Dave.

We should also place them
in protective custody.

We don't know who's next,
but this unsub isn't finished.

Ok, do you remember the male cadaver

they retrieved from that shed?

Not the sort of thing one forgets.

Well, allow me to make him
a little more unforgettable.

Turns out our boy was
wearing a bright yellow dress,

and they retrieved
vintage lady's sunglasses.

So the unsub dressed him
up to resemble a woman...

A surrogate.

And then blew him to smithereens...

Overkill.

Yeah, this guy's approaching
the ultimate source of his rage.

We could be looking at an end game here.

Ok, Luke, get down to the
hospital, beef up security.

Got it.

Getting some coffee. Want some?

Mm-mmm.

Visiting someone?

Yeah, my, uh, daughter
and granddaughter.

I'm here for my mom.

She was in an accident.

Oh, I'm sorry.

I'm hoping maybe this
might cheer her up.

I'm sure it will.

Which doctor do you guys have,

um, your daughter and granddaughter?

Dr. Delaney.

That's my mom's doctor, too, actually.

Everyone says he's amazing.

Good.

You have a nice evening.

You, too.

All right, let's see if you can have

one of your officers post
up here in the waiting room.

I don't want anybody
going into this room

that's not authorized medical personnel,

no exceptions.

We're gonna need a police officer

to take Mr. and Mrs. Kirkman
down to the police station,

make sure that they
understand what's going on.

Yes, sir.

What's that?

I don't know. It wasn't there

when I made my rounds a minute ago.

Get the patient out of here now,

and clear this entire floor now.

Shouldn't we wait until
the bomb squad gets here?

No, there's no time.

He's using a remote.

Let's go. Get her out.

Hang on a second. JJ's walking in.

Does anybody know what happened?

No, Luke was there,

and then everybody started evacuating,

and then no one was there but Luke,

and I don't know what happened to him.

The hospital's on lockdown,

but there's no signs of an explosion.

Emily and Dave should be there by now.

I'll let you know if I find anything.

You let me know if you find anything,

but we need to find something.

Luke, are you ok?

I'm fine.

I won't need any caffeine
for a while, though.

Did it misfire?

No, it was never rigged to go off.

I think it was just for show.

He came out of Sophia's
room. He's got to be our guy.

Laura already ID'd
him as the man who sat

and talked with her in the waiting room.

She'd never seen him before?

Nope, not here, not in Canada.

If the unsub's goal
all this time has been

to punish and eventually
kill Rhonda and her daughter,

he just had his best
chance to finish the job.

Why didn't he take it?

The same reason he made their
initial bomb less lethal.

He wants them to survive
in order to suffer,

string out the pain.

Why only them, not the other victims?

We're missing something.

Well, Dave's about
to start his cognitive

with Fred Kirkman.

Maybe we'll find some answers there.

You rented a car in Montreal

and you left right away.

Yeah.

Everybody wanted to go
see the leaves changing.

Did you stop along the way?

Yeah, lots of times.

Everybody had to get
out and take pictures.

Well, where did you stop for lunch?

A little mom and pop
type place off by itself.

Now picture the man your wife
talked to at the hospital.

Is he there?

Could have been an employee

or someone else who was having lunch.

No. Uh-uh.

All right, um, after lunch,

then what, you drove
back to return the car?

Yes, I was nervous we'd be late

getting back to the cruise ship.

Were you feeling anxious
about that during lunch?

No.

Then what happened to
make you start worrying?

I don't know. Uh...

Wait, I remember now.

This other guy that was with us,

we were practically back to Montreal,

maybe 10 minutes away, uh,

he made us stop and
take another picture.

Other guy, as in Colin Ainsworth?

Yeah, I guess that was his name, yeah.

What did Colin want
to take a picture of?

It was... it was just this house.

There was tape around it.

- Tape?
- Yeah.

You mean police tape?

Yeah. I didn't pay that much attention,

but this guy, this Colin, he...

He said the place was famous.

Let's take a little break, Fred.

You're right, they would have
gone right past manner street.

- That has to be it.
- I don't understand.

What's manner street?

A couple of months ago Canadian police

found 8 bodies in the
basement of a house there.

Murdered?

Poisoned.

The homeowner rented a spare room

to pensioners and people on disability,

killed them, and kept cashing
their government checks.

What happened to the guy?

When the police zeroed in,

he blew himself up in front of his house

using a homemade explosive.

Garcia's on it. We need to find out

everything about the people
connected to that case...

The killer, victims,
friends, and family.

Let's see if I can get
some more from Fred.

Ok.

Let's get back to the house.

Yes?

This is she.

Well, they told me I needed to stay here

at the police department.

All right, Dr. Delaney. I understand.

I'm on my way.

He didn't say anything.

All he wanted was his damn picture.

He had a regular camera,

not one of those... those phone things,

so he needed one of us to take it.

Thank you.

This is so cool.

Ok. yeah.

Laura said she'd do it.

Ok.

Your wife took a picture of Colin?

Yeah.

Damn near broke her ankle doing it, too.

How?

The lawn was all overgrown,

and she tripped over a clump of grass.

You all right?

Yeah.

Now, this is very
important, Mr. Kirkman.

I want you think very hard.

Was there anybody else there?

Wait. Wait, there was somebody,

off by himself,

on the other side of the yard,

standing next to a car.

He was staring over towards Laura.

Towards Laura or at Laura?

Not right at her. He was staring down,

like where she was walking.

Where she tripped?

Yes, where she stomped on the...

It was a bouquet of flowers.

Mr. Kirkman, what was
your wife wearing that day?

Wearing? Um...

A yellow dress.

Rhonda and Sophia were
never the ultimate targets.

He's after Laura.

Where's Mrs. Kirkman?

Mrs. Kirkman was supposed
to be in police custody.

What the hell happened?

Miscommunication during shift change.

So apparently the
unsub posed as a doctor

to lure her out, said she
needed to sign some forms

at the hospital

What is it, Garcia?

I think I got the who,
but I don't have the where.

I looked into everybody involved

in the Manner Street murders,

and nothing interesting has come up

until I got to the final victim,

Sally Baker.

What's interesting about
her is she's a total blank.

Why is she a blank? Turns out
Sally Baker's not her name,

but Audrey Mattson.

An assumed name? Why,
was she in trouble?

Eh, more like getting out of trouble.

30 years ago she falls in
love with this guy, Karl Blair.

Karl is a total drunk,
he's an abusive stalker.

She tries to get away from him,

the system fails her, so
she has to change her name,

go underground, move up to Canada.

Karl Blair profiles too
old to be our unsub, though.

But their 26-year-old
son Shelby does not.

According to child services,
he did everything he could

to try to protect his mom,

but unfortunately, he inherited
his father's violent nature

and he's been in and out of jail.

Here is his most current mug shot.

And we don't have Shelby's address?

No, that's the only thing I
haven't been able to figure.

He was born in Texas, but he's
been a drifter his whole life.

Ok, thanks, Garcia.

The mother he adored
and tried to protect

ended up murdered anyway.

He must have brought the flowers

to commemorate the spot.

Only to find a group of lookie-loos

using the tragedy as a
backdrop to a photo op,

trampled his flowers, and
continued on their merry way.

So he found out who they were

and decided to give them
a dose of the same pain.

This is Agent Prentiss.

I need to speak with the security detail

at the Kirkman crime scene asap.

What is it?

They've been trying
to contact the officer

guarding the crime scene
for the past 10 minutes.

He isn't responding.

Please don't do this.

Have you ever been to New Orleans?

Listen to me.

Well, when I was a kid, I lived
there with my mom for a little bit,

like it was right after
Katrina, like right after.

I mean, this place was
like you can't even imagine.

And, uh, she worked in
one of those fancy hotels,

and her job was to pack the lunches

for the hotel's disaster tours.

What... what are you talking about?

Seriously. I mean, they
didn't call them that,

but that's what they were, you know.

You pile in a minibus, and you go gawk.

Bourbon Street, check.
Garden District, check.

Its human misery, double check.

Please!

These lunches, they were gourmet.

You know, they even had
little Chardonnay bottles,

you know, something nice to sip
on down there in the lower ninth.

Hey, look, that's where so
and so drowned like a rat,

next to the old lady
who starved to death!

I don't know who you
think you're talking to,

but you have the wrong person.

No.

I have the right person.

But the sad thing is that I could get

pretty much any person off the street

and I'd kind of have the right person,

because people are all the same.

Everybody loves bad stuff

when it happens to someone else.

It's like when there's a car crash

and everyone's got to
stop and rubberneck.

You know, my mom said that, um,

making those lunches

is the most shameful
thing she ever had to do.

What are you gonna do?

Take a photo

and scrapbook of my own.

No!

No.

No.

Shelby Mattson, FBI.

Hands in the air now!

You come any closer and I'm
gonna release this trigger.

Don't do it.

I release this,

none of us are going
anywhere ever again.

I swear to God!

Go ahead.

What?

Go ahead.

Need an ambulance now.

You ok?

Yeah, I'm good.

Rhonda's also out of surgery.

Doctor says they're both gonna be ok.

That's really great news.

So how did you know
Mattson was bluffing?

I wondered the same thing.

What if the device he was holding

had been the actual detonator.

"Fun and games to follow."

Shelby Mattson wasn't
suicidal, he was on a mission.

And if we hadn't shown up,

it wasn't gonna end in
Rhonda Kirkman's front yard.

Me, too, Grandma.

I love you more.

Dad?

Hey.

What's up?

Is Mom gonna be ok?

Your mom's gonna be fine.

She's just getting
strong for when your new

brother or sister shows up.

You really couldn't see the
numbers on the dice, could you?

No.

I couldn't.

That'll be our little secret, ok?

But, hey, it was fun anyway, wasn't it?

Yeah. Right?

Mm-hmm. Yeah, it was.

Yeah.

I am being summoned.

Hey, hey.

I love you.

I love you, too.

Ok.

I could get used to this.

Emily called from the jet,

and the little girl I told you about

is going to be ok.

- Aw.
- And her mom, too.

That's wonderful news.

Yeah.

Nice music.

Mm-hmm.

Before bed Lily asked me what opera was,

so I told her the whole story.

Of Madame butterfly?

Mm-hmm.

How an American sailor came
to Japan and they fell in love,

they had a baby, but back in those days,

it was hard for the two
cultures to come together.

And did Lily understand?

I don't think so. Mm-mmm.

Because at the end of the story,

she asked me if the
American sailor was Popeye.

Oh, don't do that, you'll
make my water break.

I can't...

I was just out there thinking

about how much trust
our children have in us.

And how at the age they are now,

their lives are totally in our hands.

What prompted that?

A pair of dice without any dots.

I'll tell you about it later.

Well, I've been doing
some thinking of my own.

After this one,

what do you say we call it a day,

kid-making-wise?

5 is a nice round number.

Hmm?

- Mm-hmm.
- Sure.

I'll drink to that.

Ahh.