Criminal Minds (2005–…): Season 2, Episode 5 - Aftermath - full transcript

Doesn't anybody ever go home?

-ELLE: You're here.
-Exactly. Trust me.

You don't want to model
your social life on mine.

If it makes you feel any better,
Hotch and Morgan took off.

Hotch is married
and Morgan's, you know, Morgan.

What's this?

Police in Dayton, Ohio
need help with a serial rapist.

What's the story?

JJ: Three months ago he raped five
students at a small Bible college.

Roughly an attack a week,
then suddenly, nothing.

Until nine days ago
when he suddenly reappeared



with a whole new victim pattern.

Both those women are in their 30s.
They were raped about five days apart.

Where have the new attacks
taken place?

Opposite ends of the city.

He was waiting for them
when they got home.

How do we know it's the same guy?

He leaves voice mails for them.

Freezing them with fear
before they even see him.

-They don't recognize the voice?
-No.

Cops even have DNA,
but it's just not in the system.

Why does someone attacking college
students suddenly widen his net?

Serial rapists hardly ever change
victimology once it's established.

It's based on a fantasy
that's very specific.

Maybe he's telling these women
that no one's safe.



Call Hotch and Morgan.

Tell them wheels up as soon
as we're cleared to take off.

Yes, sir.

Well. Thanks.

MAN: I think we're ready to meet.

Trust me. I know what you want.

-You came home early tonight.
-(GASPS)

ALICIA: Oh, God. No. No!

(SOFT MUSIC PLAYING)

GIDEON: Helen Keller once said,

"Although the world is full of suffering,
it is also full of overcoming it."

You tend to forget, don't you?

-What?
-All the different moods on the plane.

I think the mindset's different
when the victims are still alive.

Okay. We got new information
on last night's victim.

Alicia Jordan, 38. MO is the same.
He was waiting for her to get home.

He broke in through the back,
subdued her with a gun.

Answering machine?

JJ: Left a message
about an hour or so before.

I can't imagine being taunted like that
in my own house, you know?

Well, the messages aren't taunts.

They're overtures. "I think we're ready."
"Trust me." He's being sincere.

Sounds like we're dealing
with a power-reassurance rapist.

To him, the messages are courtships.
He is introducing himself to the victims.

If that's the case,
he must have stalked them

to know so much about their lives.

The first victims were
all college students, all religious.

Why change?

Have the police found any connection
between the latest victims?

No, nothing yet.

We have to figure out
what made him go off script.

Maggie Callahan.
I'm the detective on this job.

-Hi. Jason Gideon. How are you?
-Aaron Hotchner.

As soon as he changed victims,
I knew I could use your help.

Your thoughts?

Serial rapists usually
have a set fantasy.

I figured if we can get a handle
on what made him change,

it would give us our best shot
at nailing this guy.

Is there a place
our team could set up?

You got it. In the conference room.

-Thank you.
-Thank you.

Agent Gideon. You're going to
have to talk to a lot of victims.

It'd be helpful to have
an extra female presence.

Can you promise me
you'll be sensitive?

As long as you promise to stay
pissed off at what happened to them.

I've been on this case since day one.

-I don't want to have to step aside.
-You will not have to. Thank you.

WOMAN ON PA:
Dr. Rittman, call the main operator.

MALE TECH: Can you roll over
to your other side, please?

Pull your gown down just a little.

HOTCH: Excuse us, please.
MALE TECH: Thank you.

Alicia, we're from the FBI.

I realize you've already spoken
to the police,

but we were hoping
there were a few questions

that you could answer for us.

Every time I think it's over,
someone else wants to photograph me

or touch me or ask me to relive it.

We will keep this short, I promise.

HOLY TRINITY UNIVERSITY OF OHIO

When the attacks first started,

they put guards at all the campus gates
on campus,

but that man still somehow
got in the dorm rooms.

Had you noticed anyone new
on campus?

We've already talked about this.

CALLAHAN: I know it's hard,
but sometimes it helps to go through it.

Maybe someone quiet

who seemed like
he was always just a little too close.

I don't think so.

What about anyone
that's suddenly not around anymore?

Before that man did what he did,

he told me I should get a dog
for protection. And then he said,

"Or maybe you could let your parents
have Dexter stay with you."

HOTCH: You said that your attacker
knew the things you thought.

What did you mean by that?

He said that
we weren't the type of people

to just stay inside and read books.

And he talked about taking me away
to Positano, Italy

and drinking white wine
and listening to Al Green.

Is there any significance to that?

My favorite place in the world,

the only alcohol I drink,
and my favorite singer.

I don't understand
how he could know any of it.

Any males in your life that you may
have told about the family dog?

I don't have any experience with boys.

There's no one I would have told.

You need a second?

-It's hard to focus sometimes.
-I know.

The police all act like
just because he didn't kill you,

he didn't somehow end your life.

Did you take my advice
and talk to someone?

There's always a priest
available on campus.

I mean a woman.

I don't know.
Maybe that would be good.

So many lives have been ruined here.

When I went to the doctor,
he said that my injuries were minor.

And you think if they were
somehow worse, it'd be better?

I don't know.

Look at me.

If someone hands over
a wallet at gunpoint,

everyone thinks that's
the best thing to do.

You did what you had to do to survive.

Don't let anyone tell you different.
All right?

It's okay.

I'm sorry, but I'm going to have
to ask you to listen to this

and tell me if the man's attitude
sounds the same

as when he was in your house.

MAN: I think we're ready to meet.

Trust me. I know what you want.

-ALICIA: He sounded different.
-How so?

More nervous.

Even though he had a gun,
it was like he was afraid to talk.

Thank you.

What difference does it matter
how he sounded?

On the phone, he can rehearse.
In the flesh, he can't hide his true self.

I don't understand.

In this delusion, the man thinks of
these attacks as dates.

I didn't do anything
to make him think that.

We know you didn't.

-This is enough.
-Thank you very much.

Everybody get some sleep.
We got a big day tomorrow.

(CAR HORN HONKS)

What's up?

Oh, I think I left my glasses
in the car.

I'll keep you company.

No, it's all right. We got to get sleep.

(CAMERA SHUTTER CLICKING)

(KNOCKING AT DOOR)

Be right there.

I figured
you wouldn't be sleeping either.

-What are you doing here?
-I took a room on the hall.

But you live four blocks away.

Exactly. Why be separated
from the work?

-You stole a bathrobe?
-Complimentary.

I can't get something out of my head.

Cheryl, on campus today. She said,
"So many lives here have been ruined."

-Yeah?
-Only 20% of rapes are even reported.

You think there are more victims
out there?

You figure, a Catholic school,
the percentages are bound to hold.

UnSub's stressor might've been a rape
that never got reported.

Something made him change victims.

Maybe he almost got caught,
maybe he's religious and felt guilty.

Maybe a victim reminded him
of his sister.

Something. What do you think?

(CHUCKLES)

I think you got good instincts.

(RHYTHMIC KNOCKING AT DOOR)

-Hey.
-Hey.

-Are you okay?
-Yeah. Why wouldn't I be?

No. Really. Come right in.

You want to check my ID?

I thought maybe you might want to talk.

(SCOFFS)

Don't go all profiler on me.

Elle, you got shot in your own home

and then you came back to the BAU
like nothing even happened.

Thinking you might want to talk
isn't profiling.

It's Psych 101.

Please?

After he shot me,

he reached into my wound so
he could write on the wall in my blood.

I was barely conscious, but I...
I could feel his hand in there.

And sometimes it's like
I can still feel it.

Elle, he's dead.

You're... You're right here. You won.

Then here's to winning.

Morning.
Thanks for coming in a little early.

-Good morning.
-Lousy coffee's up.

We just want you to hear
what the FBI has gathered

and get you on the streets.

MORGAN: You guys, listen up.

So the guy we're looking for
is a classic power-reassurance rapist.

This differs
from a power-assertive rapist,

who attempts to humiliate
and traumatize his victims.

As well as the anger-retaliatory rapist
and the sexual sadist,

whose attacks are also random
and excessively brutal.

The reason that's important for you
to know,

he's the only kind of rapist
who targets a specific victim.

He fantasizes that he's in a relationship
with these women.

Now, he doesn't come across them
by accident.

This is someone with access.

He's the cable guy, or the locksmith.

He's the guy who reads the gas meter.

He can describe exactly what these
women wear and how they smell.

These details are
what feed his fantasy.

We need you to look for the
overlap between the sets of victims.

Delivery men, lawn crew, handymen.

Did the school share workers
with any of the recent victims?

Because he sees these
as relationships,

he most likely lives alone.

And living alone allows him
to indulge his delusion

he's in a relationship
with these women.

Because of the discrepancy
in the victims' ages,

we can only pinpoint his age

somewhere between
20 and 40 years old.

It's possible that he has a profession
that he finds emasculating.

So look for someone in their lives
with a job

deviating from normal gender roles.

Something like a secretary.

We're sure that there is some overlap.

This guy is a shadow at the edges
of each of these women's lives.

All right, that's square one.

Re-canvass and be sure
to relay information on shift change.

Thanks very much.

What's up?

I looked into the idea of rapes
that went unreported,

-like you asked.
-And?

Two months ago, a female student
at Holy Trinity committed suicide.

She wasn't one
of the reported victims,

but her suicide corresponds
almost exactly

to when the campus attacks stopped.

Maybe there are more victims
out there.

I don't understand how our
daughter's death is FBI business.

We're investigating
a series of sexual assaults

that took place on Shelly's campus.

CALLAHAN:
Were you aware of the attacks?

Of course. It was horrible.

There's no good way to say this,
so I'm just going to ask.

Is it possible that Shelly was raped
and that led to her suicide?

No, it's not.

Did Shelly have any history
of depression?

She put a lot of pressure on herself.

She got A's,
volunteered with a youth group,

played varsity volleyball in high school.

But she always handled it with grace.

Did she leave a note?

And if so, would it be possible for us
to take it and analyze it?

There wasn't a note.

We will return it.

And with all due respect, this isn't
something I'm asking lightly.

With all due respect to you,

you walk into my home,
you ask if my daughter,

who we buried two months ago,
was also sexually violated.

I'm sorry.

I have a little girl, and I can't say how
I'd react if something happened to her.

But I would like to believe I would do
whatever necessary to make sure

that no other family went through
that same pain.

I'd like to go lie down.

Thank you for your time.

I'll see you out.

I love my wife.

I'm sure you do.

She was raped?

The UnSub got her pregnant.

"I'm choosing the sin of suicide over
the sin of abortion

"because I can't bring his baby
into the world.

"Please don't hate me. Shelly."

The attacks at the college
stopped two months ago,

right after Shelly's suicide.
That had to have been the stressor.

He thinks of these as relationships.
In his mind, Shelly killed their baby.

Jason. Hotch.

We need to go back to the last victim
and ask one more question.

Did he say anything to you
about children, family?

No.

REID: Did he mention anything
about suicide?

He would have referred to it
as though a personal tragedy,

somebody he was maybe
in a relationship with?

Why are you asking me this?

One of the victims took her own life

when she realized
the rapist got her pregnant.

What is it?

I'm trying to have a baby.

For how long?

I had an appointment at the clinic
to talk about insemination

a few days before I was attacked.

REID:
Did anyone else know about that?

I'd just decided. I'm 38.

I figured I couldn't afford to just wait
around for the right man to show up.

Hey. I talked to the other two victims
in their 30s.

They'd both gone to a fertility clinic
within five days of their attack.

-ELLE: Same one each time?
-Yep.

Have Garcia run down
employment records.

We might be looking
at someone who works there

or who has access
to their medical records.

You got it. What's the significance
of the five days?

The most popular fertility drug
is clomiphene.

The clinic would most likely have
a policy not to attempt insemination

until the drug regimen was complete.

So, then getting there before
they begin the insemination process

would guarantee the UnSub paternity.

He's trying to get them pregnant.

He hasn't changed his fantasy.
He's merely found a way to perfect it.

Well, it explains
the change in victimology.

He's targeted young,
ultra-religious girls

who he assumed
wouldn't want to have an abortion.

So when Shelly killed herself,
he decided to change it up

and go after women
who were desperate to have a baby.

If the UnSub knew Shelly Norvell
was pregnant,

it means he's still watching
his past victims.

GIDEON: Elle. Elle.

Elle.

Talk to Callahan.

Tell her we need patrols
monitoring everyone on that victim list.

You got it.

You ever seen anything
like this before?

Gary Heidnik in Philadelphia.

He kept women in a dungeon prisoner
for years

with the hopes of impregnating them.

GIDEON: Heidnik was a sexual sadist.

He tortured the women
and even ended up eating one of them.

This is a power-reassurance rapist.

So in this guy's twisted mind,
these are love stories?

Of course they are.
He's starting families.

DR: WAGNER: I'm sorry. But whoever's
committing these crimes

couldn't work at this clinic.
I'm the only man here.

HOTCH: But that doesn't mean
that there isn't a connection.

We need your help
to figure out what it might be.

Can you excuse me just a minute?

Can you just fill that out?

That's great. Just right there.

Look, what's happening
is just horrible.

But the margins on a clinic like this
are incredibly slim.

And if word gets out that
there's a connection to this rapist,

my practice would be ruined.

To be honest,
I don't care about your practice.

Three women were raped
after coming here.

That's not a coincidence, it's a pattern.

If you're implying
that I could be a suspect,

I should let you know
that I had a vasectomy 25 years ago.

We just want to know if there's anyone

in and out of this clinic
who fits the profile.

Quiet, lives alone,
awkward with women,

yet hangs around the office
a little too long just to be near them.

No. It's just a small clinic.
I only hire women.

My patients are just much more
comfortable around them.

What about outsourcing,
computer support? Janitor?

My daughter handles
all the technical business.

And I have a cleaning crew
of two women. I'm sorry.

What is that, Doctor?

It's just a questionnaire we hand out
to learn more about our client base.

This is everything
the UnSub knew about the victims.

Who else sees these?

I don't compromise
the medical privacy of my patients.

Who else sees these?

Well, I sell the forms
to a direct marketing company

called First Hand Media.
They just target buying habits.

No medical information
changes hands.

It's not illegal.

Yeah, but the margins
on a place like this.

Word gets out,
your practice would be ruined.

(PHONE RINGING)

Dayton, Ohio, you're on the air.

I'd like to make a request.

With that sultry voice? You name it.

(LAUGHS)

All right, listen. It's a marketing firm
by the name of First Hand Media.

I want you to see
if they have any connection

to the colleges from
the first set of victims.

Behold. First Hand Media processes

all the freshman
orientation questionnaires.

That's a beautiful thing.

Oh, one last favor.

Look up the words "sexy" and "brilliant"
in that computer of yours

and tell me what you come up with.

Look at that. It's me.

You're a goddess, woman. Good job.

(LAUGHS)

It was a... It was a work call.

CROWD: First Hand Media.

You really think this rapist
is one of my guys?

Well, he's used to being
in strangers' homes,

always on the phone.
That's how he's confident.

Thanks to your research,
he feels like he knows these women.

We're going to need a list of
any employees you have

that worked on the fertility clinic
and university questionnaires.

I give every employee complete access
to all of our materials.

It helps keep them fresh if they can
alternate between types of calls.

So, I fill out
my intimate personal information

and then you just share it
with everyone

you have working here
for minimum wage?

I sense an attitude.

We need copies of
every single questionnaire

that you got from the clinic.

We can get a warrant here
in about an hour, if you prefer.

Look, if you think about it,

all I'm doing is profiling,
just like you guys.

Well, let's not think about it.

All of these?

We cover the entire
Great Lakes region.

Let's narrow it down.
The guy we're looking for

is a male, white,
between the ages of 20 and 40,

socially awkward,
and unable to make connections easily.

I have 250 employees.

Most of those are men

and every single one of them match
the description you just gave me.

Wow. I heard you ran
into a wall of paper.

You can lock your doors, but these
people still find a way into your home.

Elle, it might be worth going back
to the victims.

It's a long shot,
but maybe somebody remembers

a first name from a telemarketing call.

Yeah, the UnSub feels a connection
with them.

So he wouldn't lie or use an alias.

We know this guy's DNA's
not in the system,

but I'll cross check employment records
against sexual misdemeanors.

-Peeping, exposure...
-Good.

I've separated the Dayton forms
from the rest of the region.

Thanks.

HOTCH: So what do we know
from the latest set of victims?

They're all single and all over 35.

Each of them also indicated
recently buying books

on babies and child-rearing.

So he knows they're committed
to having children,

which means they're much less likely
to abort, even in the cases of rape.

Get this. Each of the victims
also checked the "yes'" box

when asked if it would be okay
to contact them

on special deals on pediatric items.

In the UnSub's mind,
they've consented.

He thinks he's doing them a service.

Check those forms
for each of those elements.

If we can narrow down the potential list
of victims, we can be waiting for him.

-Any hits?
-I've got one.

-Reid?
-Nothing.

-Is this the only one?
-It's a small city.

There can't be very many
single women in their late 30s

going to the exact same fertility clinic.

So we know who he's going after next.

POLICEMAN: Hello. Police.
Anybody there?

(POUNDING AT DOOR)

I guess no one's home.

CALLAHAN: There was no forced entry.
We're still not sure how he got in.

-MO's the same?
-Yeah.

-I'm going to take a look inside.
-All right.

-What the hell are your men doing?
-Excuse me?

Well, you can have men
outside the door,

but a woman can still get raped inside.

-Elle.
-They knocked, there was no answer.

-There was no legal cause to enter.
-So they just walked away?

No, they left messages that
it was urgent she contact the police.

Which must be on the machine
right after that creep left a message

-saying he was gonna rape her.
-MORGAN: Elle, come on now.

-Elle, what the hell are you doing?
-They did everything in their power.

-You just keep telling yourself that.
-Elle!

Excuse me.
How bad were her injuries?

-She's lucky. They're relatively minor.
-Do me a favor.

Don't tell her that she's lucky.

HOTCH: There's not a potential victim
in the questionnaires.

Who knows when we're gonna
get another shot at him.

Noose is tightening.

You saw that stack of forms.

This company handles
the entire Great Lakes region.

If he thinks we're close, he can take off

and he's got a whole new list of victims
in another city.

What do you think?

When he started with college students,
he raped one a week.

Now, he has to wait for the right set
of circumstances.

But he wants more victims.

Then let's give him one.

-Do you think Elle's ready for it?
-We'll be there for her.

-What's my story?
-GIDEON: You're a legal secretary.

Thirty-six. Divorced.

We backdated the questionnaires
two days, so in the UnSub's mind,

he's already behind
his normal schedule.

This guy's itching
for another victim, Elle.

Once he sees that form,
he's gonna want to stake you out.

You need to let him see you.

He wants to know when you leave,
when you come home,

when you have friends over.

He breaks into these houses
when the women are away.

So he needs to see you leave.

All we need to do
is get him to breach that door.

Once we get him
on breaking and entering,

we got reason to get DNA
and his ass is ours.

Another thing. Don't go out
with your gun on. It's too risky.

-If he sees it, we might lose him.
-Okay.

Keep it someplace inside
so you can get to it easily.

I'm gonna be right out front.

Hotch and Gideon are gonna
be around the corner

in a surveillance van.

And don't forget, you're wired,
so we'll be with you at all times.

Hey. Good?

I'm good.

She's in.

Why isn't she leaving?
She needs to get out of there.

(FAITH HOPE LOVE PLAYING)

What is that?

Morgan, call her.

(PHONE RINGING)

Come on. Pick up. Pick up.

I think we might have company.

(PHONE RINGING)

GARCIA: Talk to me, tiger.

MORGAN: Garcia, I need you
to run a plate for me.

Peter, Mary, six, eight, yellow, three.

GARCIA: William Lee.
10308 Pinehurst Avenue.

Okay. Can you get me
where he works?

Feel my speed.

He works for First Hand Media.

All right. I got it, thanks.

It's him.

-Bingo.
-Alpha Bravo, she's on the move.

What's she doing with her gun on?

Just get in the car.
Don't let him know that you see him.

What the hell's she doing? Easy, baby.

-She's panicking.
-Easy, easy.

No, come on, Elle.
Elle, back off. Back off.

We got no reason to bring him in.

Don't blow it. Don't blow it.

-Go, go! Go!
-HOTCH: Everybody go!

FBI! Put your hands
where I can see them.

Get out of the car! Right now.
Get on the ground!

-LEE: I didn't do anything.
-Put your palms up!

-LEE: I was just checking my...
-Shut up!

LEE: I was just stopping
to look at my map.

You got no reason to keep me here.

We know you work
with First Hand Media

and you had access to information
about all these women.

-But I didn't do anything wrong.
-We know that.

I apologize.

We know how much you care
about these women.

You do care about them, don't you?

He's 28 years old
and has a high school diploma,

but he's had 12 jobs
in the past ten years.

-Home life?
-He lived with his mother

until she was diagnosed
with pancreatic cancer six months ago.

One last chance to make Mama proud
by starting a family.

-How are they playing it?
-Deep empathy.

-Smart.
-Yeah, well, it better work.

If they don't get him to confess,
we got no reason to hold him.

HOTCH: We know that dating
those younger girls was a mistake.

They were just too immature.

Older ones are...
They're looking to start families.

I mean, they were even willing
to shell out a lot of money

just to have kids.

Well, let's just say that that's true.

Then whoever would have been
with them would have been helping.

That's what we were saying.

You're the best thing
that's ever happened to them.

-MAN: Excuse me, where do I find...
-Who's this?

This way? Thank you. Thank you.

Oh, no, no, no. Son of a bitch.

Why don't you volunteer
a DNA sample?

If you were the kid,

wouldn't you want to know
who your father was?

-Don't say another word.
-This is over.

I'm advising my client
not to answer any more questions.

I'm assuming that we're free to go.

Just keep moving.

-ELLE: You're letting him walk?
-Back off, Elle.

You don't know what he's done!

The only reason he's walking
is because you panicked.

I'm supposed to believe
that you've got my back?

What are you saying to me?

The last time you sent me home,
Hotch, you got me shot.

Walk with me. Right now.

You need to get some air.

And while you do,
I want you to think about this job,

what you've been through,
what you're capable of.

Do you understand me?

So, what happens now? Do you stay?

You have your man.
You just have to wait for him to slip up.

You said yourself,

he has access to information
on women for an eight-state region.

Look, you're a good cop.
My money's on you.

Get some rest, my friend.
Wheels up tomorrow at noon.

Is this what you do?
You wait for them until they get home?

You're not supposed to be here.

Oh, you can't talk to a woman
without a gun in your hand?

You and I both know what you are

and you're not gonna
hurt women anymore.

I would never hurt them. You know that.

-It's why you let me go.
-I didn't let you do anything.

You're very pretty.

What did you just say to me?

Why do you choose to do a job
that is so dangerous?

You should find a man
to take care of you.

Oh, like you took care of those women?

Now you're trying to interrogate me.

You know you're not supposed
to do that.

I'm just here to let you know that
I'm not gonna rest until you go away.

No. You're here
because you want me to say thank you.

-You're sick.
-Really?

Because without you,
I would still be locked up.

I didn't let you walk.

Thank you.

You've made a lot of women
very happy.

Hey, Lee.

What happened?

I was having a conversation with him,
he drew his weapon, and I fired.

CALLAHAN: You all right?

ELLE: I am. Thank you.

I can't let you speak to her
until she's been processed. Procedure.

-What happened?
-She came to stake his place out.

He saw her. He had a gun.

Don't worry.
It's cut-and-dry, self-defense.

She'll have her badge back
by tomorrow.

Thank you.

CALLAHAN: Come on, Elle. Let's go.