Criminal Minds (2005–…): Season 15, Episode 9 - Face Off - full transcript

Everett lynch.

The media has christened him
"the chameleon."

He is a con man and a murderer,
who has targeted

vulnerable middle-aged women,
single mothers.

He's cut off their faces
and kept them as his trophies.

A year ago, we nearly caught him,
but his daughter grace...

Aah!
Aah!

She sacrificed herself

so that he could get away.

He broke grace out of jail...

And again...



Don't move. We almost caught him,

if it hadn't been
for his daughter.

She'd do anything for him.

But that wouldn't matter
because lynch

couldn't bring himself
to take grace with him.

Maybe he couldn't bring
himself to keep using her

the way his mother Roberta
had once used him.

Oh, god!

Everett lynch remains at large.

He is the FBI's most wanted,

but there hasn't been any sign
of him for months.

Hey. What's up?

So I wanted you to be
the first to know

that my name is on
a short list of candidates



being considered to fill
the director's chair.

Emily, that's incredible.

Oh, my... God.

You're gonna be the
next director of the FBI.

That still remains
a definite maybe.

Oh. But I do know
that I want the job.

But I would feel much better
if my first directive as director

was to appoint you
unit chief of the bau.

And I... I told you before,
that really does mean a lot.

Enough to turn down
being special agent in charge

of the New Orleans field office?

Um... I'm not sure.

Now I feel like I'm... i'm pressuring
you into staying, and that's not what I...

Oh, no, no, no, see, and I'm
feeling like if I do go to New Orleans,

you might not decide
to make history

as the first female
head of the FBI.

Oh, no, it's... don't worry.

If given the chance,
I'm making history.

The truth is, I don't think Lisa

ever got over what
happened to Phil.

I mean, how could she, really?

I'm so sorry, Luke.

Lisa and I'll still be friends,
I mean, you know.

We were always honest
with each other.

So, unfortunately, rossi
can't make it tonight,

but jj just texted to say that she and
Emily are on their way over right now.

Great, and thanks
for hosting, Spence.

Well, thank you for coming. I'm
embarrassed that it's taken me this long

to have you guys over to
my house to hang out.

Guys, I have something to say.

An opportunity has
presented itself to me,

and it is in the silicon valley.

Global strategem development.

They're a private research group
that's expanding their strategem

to include combating
global environmental change.

Wow, that sounds
perfect for you.

You get to do all the good
work you do at the bau.

WITHOUT THE GORE.GARCIA: Yeah,

ok,
but... Are you trying to get rid of me?

No.

I don't want anybody
going anywhere.

Right,
and I don't want to go anywhere.

I love... I mean,
this is my home. Not this room,

but, you know,
the bau is

and... come on.

We're family.

Yeah,

we're family,

and our relationship to
each other is not bound

by wherever we show up
to go to work.

If you have the
opportunity to do something you love,

Penelope, you should
absolutely explore it.

You know why you lasted
longer in this job than I ever did?

You never really let the
unsub get inside your head.

Is that your way of saying you
were better than me, Jason?

You tell me.
I'm inside your head.

I'm the unsub.

What do I want?

You know, I never
liked your games.

I know. Remember?

You and me?
My yin to your Yang?

We were like Martin and Lewis.

Forget the unsub.
What do you want?

I want you to ask yourself
that fundamental question

that's been nagging
at you this whole time.

I already answered it.

I'm the unsub.

Why didn't I kill you
when I had the chance?

You kill me, you killed a federal agent,
and that brings down...

That's the wrong answer.

You'd never been
in that situation before.

He had you on the ground,

knife to your face.

You resigned yourself
to the thought of dying.

It scared the hell out of me.

Everett lynch didn't kill you

because he looked in your
eyes and saw something

of his father.

Sons kill their fathers, Jason.

Sure, they do,
but not typically

if they still have
issues to work out.

Lynch's dad is dead.

His name was Douglas Moore.
He was an insurance man.

Lynch's mother was
trying to grift him

and got careless
and got pregnant.

The guy drowned
in a boating accident.

Drowned, huh?

Kind of like how lynch would
describe grace drowning.

Oh, look,
the Moore story checked out,

unless...

Roberta lied to me...

And if she lied to me, she
probably lied to her son,

and if he found out, he'd
want to find his father,

don't you think?

I need you to find my father.

You start by tracking
down these names.

Consider it done,

Mr. Myles.

- Marilyn?
- Eddie,

I need you.
It's Jimmy. He, um,

he... he hit me again, and I...

Slow down. Where are you?

Olivia and I are on
our way to a motel,

but I... I was just wondering

if maybe the offer was still
good for us to move in together?

Uh, well... I know.

I should... I should have never left
you hanging and gone back to him...

It's not that. It's just I'm out
of town. I get back tomorrow.

All right, so...

So I'll come by and pick up you and
Olivia sometime tomorrow afternoon.

Thanks, baby.

I owe you.

Bye.

You have the most
remarkable facial structure.

Has anyone ever told you that?

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"Damaged people are dangerous."

- "They know they can survive."
- Josephine hart.

I don't know why it didn't
occur to me yesterday

that you'd come
down here to recharge.

It's been a year since
we first encountered lynch.

Yeah, I'll probably forget
my wedding anniversary,

but I'll never forget that day.

And this is where the bau began.

It's the one place I can
still hear Gideon's voice

prodding me to, um,
"think outside the box."

Something like, uh,
"I am the unsub."

"Who's my daddy?"

That's what we've been missing.

Roberta gave us the name... Roberta lied.

She just wants to appear

to be helpful to everybody.

She's got her own agenda.

What are you thinking...
Get paroled, find her son,

and get revenge for the death
of her granddaughter grace?

The trifecta.

Killing her own child is far more
common than most people think,

and in filicide cases, mothers are
just as likely as fathers to be killers.

Which is why Roberta doesn't
want us to get in the way

of her taking care
of family business.

Still, filicide not only requires
that she harbor deep resentment,

but also that she disassociates

from her relationship
to her only child.

Which she did when I showed
her the photo of grace's dead body.

Were you gonna share all
this with the rest of the team?

It's just theories.

Dave, I completely understand

your personal stake in this,
but you and Gideon started

something pretty good down here,
and I think it's time

that you let that legacy do
what it's always done best...

Work together as a team.

Oh. Oh, wow.

What do you think? Oh, my gosh!

- Thank you.
- Yeah.

Thank you,
thank you. Mwah! Thank you.

Yeah. You are truly a godsend.

Well, I rearranged some
things inside the way I think

you might like them; You
should go check them out.

Ok. Great. Olivia,

let Eddie help you with that.

Here, let me get this for you.

No. I can handle my own stuff.

Sorry.

Hey, don't be.
I get it.

This can't be easy for you.

Yeah. Mom's been
a lot worse, so...

Maybe this can be,
like, a chance

at a fresh start?
I don't know. Maybe?

You mind telling me something?

Ok.

What do you see in her?

I see a sparkle

that's trying real
hard to shine bright.

I wish I could see that.

Oh, you will.

So, can I please help
you with some of this stuff?

Ok.

So, rossi gave me the heads-up,

and I was able to
find stuff that confirms

our very own silver fox's theory

that Everett lynch is on the
lookout for his long-lost father.

You see, in all of the cities

that lynch has committed
a heinous crime, I have

uncovered an alias linked to
a wired payment to a p.I.

Who was retained to conduct
searches for men we know were

associated in a naked way
with lynch's mother, Roberta.

Including Douglas Moore,
the man she claims is lynch's real dad.

But all these searches are recent,
like within the last 8 weeks.

Yeah, it looks as though they
began a week after we found grace's body.

It's fascinating. He might
not be a complete sociopath after all.

It could also explain
his dormancy.

Wait a second, Spence. You
don't think he feels guilty, do you?

Not guilt. I think it's
more like fear, as if maybe

something in the act of taking his child
triggered some deeply buried memory

of his own father's
violence towards himself.

If lynch never really
knew who his father was,

or if he had reason to
doubt what Roberta told him,

then that would motivate
him to search for the truth.

Well, there's only one person
we know that knows the whole

truth, and that's Roberta,
and so she's been

manipulating everything
in order to get out of jail.

Then... it worked,
at least as far

as the Louisiana state
parole board goes.

I have just been notified that,
despite our objections,

Roberta is being
granted parole, however,

her lawyer is telling me
he's willing to let us

speak with her one last time.

Emily, I'd like
to talk to Roberta.

I would prefer you
observe, actually;

I'd like to take her out
of her comfort zone.

That means jj, Tara,
you two get to do the honors.

Hello, Roberta.

I'm ssa Jennifer jareau.

This is
Dr. Tara Lewis.

Remember him?

Uh, Dr. Lewis,
let me remind you

that Ms. Lynch is
here of her own volition.

I don't understand why you
are taking a tone with her.

Tone?

Your adversarial tone,

when she has done nothing
but try to help you

apprehend her very unstable son.

Do either one
of you have children?

We're not here
to talk about our families.

We're here because,
while the state of Louisiana

believes you've been very
helpful in this investigation,

we know the truth.

The truth is that I'm
profoundly sorry for what

my granddaughter grace did to you,
agent jareau.

But it is my sincere
belief that it was my son

who really pulled that trigger.

Look, we know you
think you're gonna get out of here

and go punish your son
for what he did to grace.

And, I got to be honest with you,
there is a real side

of me that's sayin',
"you go, girl."

You're the one that
brought him into this world,

yeah, you should be the
one to take him out of it.

But I'm an officer of the law,

and it's my duty
to see that justice

is served here, not revenge.

Ladies...

As far as I'm concerned,

my son is already dead to me.

Damn, lady.

You are good.

Ok, I would say
we are done here.

Yeah, it looks like I got a solid lead
on this guy named delvin Weaver.

Oh, he wasn't on the list
that I gave you.

Yeah, I know.
I'm just that good.

So he was supposedly just a
friend of a friend of your Roberta,

but actually there was
a lot more than that.

Anyway, delvin was,
like, the bad sheep

of the wealthiest
mining family in Nevada.

About 20 years ago, he beat a man
to death in a bar in west wendover.

So, sounds like the guy we're looking for,
am I right?

Yeah. Where is he now?

Yeah, I'm still working on
that. I'll get back to you. Ciao.

Don't worry.
Diabetes, not drugs.

Ah, come to me,
my pretty.

Ok, I set up some
digital tripwires

for online searches and background
checks on any names associated

with Everett or grace
or Roberta lynch.

And somebody just tripped...

The light fantastic?
They did, sir.

Somebody has a keen interest
in Roberta lynch's aliases.

Can you tell who that
somebody is? I cannot yet,

but I can tell you that the I.P.
Address of our mysterious searcher

is coming from... Reno, Nevada.

So, it looks like some of us
are gonna be taking a field trip.

Godspeed, sir.

Do you see this? Can you
believe it? What'd I tell you?

I mean, this has got
to be close to 70 grand.

I'd say that's more than enough
to take us wherever we want.

I told you we make a good team.

Want me to tie up our loose end?

Shh.

Your girlfriend, Charlotte,

did you love her?

Yeah, I... I guess so. Why?

Maybe you'll understand

why I have to do this.

You should never have been born.

You should never have been born.

Oh, ho ho ho...

Fret not,
my intrepid crime fighters.

You're no longer flying blind
into the silver state.

I have matched our mysterious searcher's
I.P. Address to a business in Reno

that touts itself as a
"private security firm,"

and it's christened
castle security.

Says here the company is owned
and operated by Orlando gaines.

What a piece of work.

He's a former Concord bay
narcotics cop

who spent 5 years in prison for
selling police-confiscated drugs.

It looks like 8 months ago,
his company received

a wire transfer for $25,000
from an offshore account

connected to our old friend,
Arthur Terrell.

Terrell was still
alive back then.

He was,
but that account has since transferred

into the hands
of an Edward Myles,

and Mr. Myles is turning
out to be very elusive.

Yeah, 'cause although that
could be a very likely alias

for Mr. Lynch, that name isn't
popping up anywhere in Reno.

Jj, Luke, Matt,
check in with Reno pd,

also our FBI field office.

Dave and Spence, see if you can
get a sit-down with Orlando gaines.

What do you got?

Well, I got what looks like federal
agents poking around my business.

Thanks for the heads-up.

You're welcome,
but I do have something else for you...

Home address for delvin Weaver.

Which means I have the rest of
your money waiting here for you.

I'm on my way.

You found
a missing persons report?

Coming across the wire now.

Ok, Marilyn irwin,
45 years old.

Cocktail waitress
at the tangiers in Reno.

She has a 15-year-old
daughter, Olivia.

Here's the kicker: Two days ago,
Marilyn gets in this fight

with her live-in abusive boyfriend,
then she calls her mom,

and then she tells her mom she's
moving out and she's moving in

with a guy named... wait for it...

Edward Myles, aka Everett lynch.

So Everett lynch is no longer
dormant and he's escalating.

Letter copy.

Do you know where my mom went?

Huh? Uh, no.

I don't.
Tried calling her?

I would, but I can't
find my phone.

Hmm.

Did you guys get into a fight?

Yeah, yeah, we did.
I... I tried to stop her,

but she hopped in her car
and she peeled out of here...

Of course she did,
because that's what she does.

She runs from boyfriend
to freaking boyfriend.

Couples, they fight... Eddie.

Come on. Did you honestly believe
that you guys were, like, a couple?

Hey, Olivia, if you
want, I got no problem

taking you to your grandma's
place in Carson city.

No.

No, it's fine.
I'll just wait here.

She'll be coming back
eventually.

Ok. Yeah, sure.

Hey, delvin.

Bobbie?

Yep. Heh!

Found myself passing
through, and so I got

a little bit nostalgic, and...

I just thought I'd come by,
see if you're still here.

Been a long time.

Yeah.

Come on in.

You know, I found this guy snoopin'
around my property this morning.

Hmm, kinda looked
like this p.I. Type.

Now he wasn't with you,
was he?

He was not.

It's just awfully weird,

you dropping in out
of the clear blue sky

after... Like, 30 years,

especially the way
we... we ended it.

That was not pretty.

Yeah, well, what's done is done,
can't be undone,

so nothin' I can say is
gonna change anything.

What about your son?

As far as I'm concerned,

bringing him into this
world was your decision.

It's not mine.

You know,
after we separated...

I lied to the boy
about who his father was.

But now I hear that
he knows the truth...

And he's lookin' for you,

wants to reconnect.

I got nothin' to say to him.

Your son has grown up to
be a real chip off the old block.

He hurts women.

He's even killed a few.

Why are you telling me
all this, Bobbie?!

'Cause every time I think about it,
I think about that night

that you tried to drown
him in our bathtub,

and I cannot stop
hearing your voice,

screamin'...

"You should have
never been born!"

So it sounds like I
was right, right?!

You're a son of a bitch.

Mr. Stinson,
your misguided affection

for Roberta lynch has
driven you into a blind

and inconceivably
stupid loyalty.

Apparently,
after Roberta took care of business,

you were planning
to rendezvous at the

zalvos resort in
the Cayman Islands.

We know Roberta
skipped out on her parole

to catch up with her son's
biological father,

and we know he lives
somewhere near Reno.

We don't know
his name, but you do.

I do not have anything
to say to you today.

I have no knowledge of Ms.
Lynch's current whereabouts.

I'd say Roberta was
definitely planning

for her life
after prison with you

and with others.

What are you talking about?

Open it.

Roberta solicited
many male admirers

with those... what are they called again,
boudoir photos?

Mm-hmm.
Mmm.

She said she loved me.

They always do.

Who's Everett lynch's father?

Stinson, voice-over:
His name is delvin Weaver.

That is what they call overkill.

At least 14 gunshot wounds,

which suggests the killer reloaded,
and then followed up

with 47 stab wounds.

Yeah, this is
Roberta's handiwork.

Doesn't take an expert
to recognize that all this violence

is most likely rooted in her
own history of victimization.

But the overall message?
That's for her son.

He took away grace from her,

so she's taking away
his father from him.

Basically denying whatever
answer he thought he

might be able to salvage
from their reunion.

But when lynch finds out about this,
it'll just confirm

what he already suspects
about his father's violent past,

and that could help us
because if killing grace

did trigger some sort
of terrible memory,

he might try to suppress whatever
urges make him feel like his dad.

He might even try
to prove that to himself

by fostering
a surrogate for grace,

like Olivia irwin.

I'll check in with
Luke and Matt.

Rossi.

Agent rossi.

Is my father dead?

Yes, he is.

Your mother killed hm.

My mother?

She charmed her way out of jail,

and now she's out
for blood... yours.

I'm sure she is. Listen,
I need to talk to you,

face to face. You tell me where

I can find Marilyn and Olivia,
then we can talk.

Marilyn's gone, but Olivia,

she's somewhere safe, for now.

All right.

Jasper's Ridge in 30 minutes.

Just you and me, and then maybe
I'll tell you where you can find Olivia.

I can't believe we're
even considering this.

We can't negotiate
with a sociopath.

I'm with jj. It'll only
embolden his sense of power.

It might,
but lynch is clearly

in a very vulnerable
emotional state of mind,

and that provides us with an
opportunity to manipulate him.

How so? Reid: We can give him hope,

basically hope for redemption.

Lynch knows that his
impulses are wrong

and that they make him just
like his father, and he hates that,

so he's looking to a surrogate
father... in this case, rossi...

To tell him that he can overcome
his past and become a better man.

Spence, you give him
way too much credit

for being able to feel
human emotion.

Well, I'm not sure
about his emotional vulnerability,

but I do think we should try to
take advantage of what's going to be

his physical vulnerability
on Jasper's Ridge.

If he senses Dave's got back-up,

the psychological
games are over.

And we still don't have one clue
as to where he's holding Olivia irwin.

I just think
there's a way that we

can get the best
of both worlds here.

Emily, what do you want?

I want you to talk to him.

Come shoot with me.

You imagine that
little bottle was me?

I think,
if it weren't for you not knowing where

to find Olivia, you'd think
about turning that weapon on me.

In self-defense, of course,
not in cold blood

'cause you're able to control...
Those impulses in yourself, right?

You can, too.
You're doing it now.

I don't have many
memories of my real dad,

actually, just one.

I was 4 years old, and he was

washing me up in the tub.

I don't know what happened,
but all of a sudden,

he's got his hands
around my neck

and he's holding me underwater

and he's cursing me:

"You should never
have been born!

You should never
have been born!"

And I'll bet those
were the same words

you heard yourself telling
grace before you took her life.

Yes, sir...

Only she didn't have
Roberta to come

fly in and save her like I did.

After all these years,
I've never been able

to figure out why she did that.

She didn't love me.

All I know, Everett, is that if
you surrender right now, you live.

In a cage.

Just to be clear...

Give me a reason.

If anything happens to me,

and I'm unable to return to Olivia,
she's gonna die.

Poor kid's got
type 1 diabetes, and I

spiked a dose of her Insulin.

Not back around dinner...

Well, it's not gonna be pretty.

Just let me go.

You know, this doesn't
have to end the way you think it does.

How does it end, agent rossi?

You let Olivia go, and you
realize you're not your father's son.

I'm still my mama's boy.

You made the right call, jj.

If... we can keep
our eyes on him.

They lost him.
They lost lynch.

Reno pd and the park rangers.

They blocked the access roads, but lynch's
Mercedes is still up there on Jasper's Ridge.

So he's got to be on foot
somewhere in that wilderness.

Yeah, that's what
I thought, too, but

there's these abandoned
mining tunnels

that were dug out in the 1800s.

Maybe he took advantage of that.

Great. First my phone,
and now this.

You left it in the kitchen.

Thanks.

Sure.

Um...

Has my mom called you?

No, not yet, you know,
and I really just think

it's best if I drop you off at
your grandma's because...

Because your mother
is never comin' home, little girl.

Isn't that right, Everett?

Who the hell are you?

Olivia, this is my mom.

You are
gonna tell this child the truth.

Garcia find something? Garcia: Yeah, I did.

It looks like Roberta lynch spent a
significant part of her teenage years

bouncing from family members
to family friends,

including the duggans of Reno.

Now, they made all their money
in the gaming industry,

most of them moved away
except for one... Alexandria duggan.

Jj, Reid, Garcia, sending
you the address now.

All right, we got it.

Also, FBI SWAT officers are
on their way to meet you.

You may not make it there in
time to save lynch from Roberta.

I'm only concerned with saving
Olivia irwin's life right now.

I know Roberta thinks
she can kill her son,

but when it comes down to it,
she won't pull the trigger.

I think she will. You didn't see
her react to that photo of grace.

No, but I did see her sentimental side,
and it's hard to see

how she'd be able to
completely disassociate

from her relationship
to her only child.

But if lynch figures that out,
he'll have the advantage,

and I'm sure he won't
hesitate to kill her.

You want the truth, huh?

You want the truth?
This is it.

No!

No, mom. No, no!
You didn't!

Oh, yeah, and you...
You need to see this.

I didn't want to do this.

Something came over me.

I don't know what it is.

Something inside. It's like a part
of me and it's a part of you, too!

You're a monster.

Hmm. Mmm.

Ah, I bet you're wishing you let
daddy drown me now, huh? Ha ha ha!

Van to montero. We need to
surround and secure the perimeter.

Yes, ma'am.

No, no, no, no!

Shh, shh. Relax.

Relax, ok?

This is the FBI.

No, no, no, no, no. No,
I'm gonna talk to them.

On the ground.
Ok.

Is this agent rossi?

No, Roberta, my name is
Dr. Spencer Reid,

and it's important that
you listen to me right now.

Even though you have the gun,
the moment your son realizes

you're not gonna shoot him,
he's gonna get the upper hand.

You're wrong...

'Cause my son

is going to pay

for what he did to grace.

Yes, but first you need
to let Olivia walk out of there, ok?

Yeah.

Olivia.

Go. Hurry, go. Now, wait a second...

Roberta?

Don't you worry. She's
on her way out to you.

Roberta, that warning shot is what's
about to give you away, but we can help.

Are you ready for us to come in?
We can save you both.

Ha!

Dave, they found this bag

discarded on the side
of the road.

Looks like
it's Roberta's.

You realize how this has
to end, right? Right?

Roberta?
Hey.

Yes...
I'm ready.

I'm ready.

Captain montero, breach.

Rossi?

Jj, Roberta isn't
there to kill lynch.

She's there to die with him.

Spence! Stop!

Spence, are you ok?

No, no, no, no.
Stay down, stay down.

Deputy director barbour.

Yeah, I was wondering if you had
at least a preliminary assessment

of the losses
at the lynch scene.

6 FBI SWAT officers
are confirmed dead.

It appears, at some point,
lynch was able to detach a gas line.

The explosion itself seemed to
have been triggered by a gunshot.

Bau never profiled
suicidal ideations

in either Everett
or Roberta lynch.

I mean, how could you miss that?

Based on the behavior,
we were able to evaluate

there was never any
indication of that predisposition.

Who gave the order to breach?

Any action taken by
a member of my team

is executed under my order.

The buck stops with me, always.

Well, as you can imagine,

the idea that we would
promote you after...

Deputy director
barbour, am I still

the unit chief of the bau?

Yes.

Fine. Then if you'll
excuse me...

Reid, voice-over:
It doesn't make sense to me.

Captain montero, breach.

I don't understand.

It doesn't make sense to me.

I don't understand how
that kind of personality

can choose to blow itself up.

If Roberta gave in to him...

Just breathe, mom.

And if he took the gun away...

Aah!

If he could get to a tunnel...

Lynch.

He's still alive.

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