Criminal Minds (2005–…): Season 2, Episode 7 - North Mammon - full transcript
In North Mammon, a close small town, a man abducts three girls who return from the boys football pep rally, and tells them to chose which of them will be killed. Girls soccer player Polly Chambers' mother gets Quantico agent Judy Homefeldt to convince the team to take the case and local Sheriff Yates to officially invite them, but on arrival he states the girls aren't even officially missing, as the mother is an unreliable depression patient. The elaborate preparation, including soothing messages to the parents mentioning Friday, convince the team it's the work of a local, who plausibly plans something relating to the football game, a long-awaited finale. This leaves various suspects to be eliminated, and it looks like the kidnapper planted false forensic material to incriminate innocent men. When Brooke gets sick, the other two decide to sacrifice her- they are given hammers to kill her, then released near the police...
Thirteen and oh! Thirteen and oh!
Next Friday,
our children will be asked a question.
How they answer that will define us all.
The question is,
when victory and defeat,
life and death, hang in the balance,
what are you capable of?
State championship!
Number one! Number one!
Thank you for all your support.
It's the same speech he gives every year.
Because it works every year.
What are you doing? You hate football.
- My brother's on the team.
- You hate your brother.
Besides, did I ask you
not to go to the pep rally?
Did I ask you to dump the quarterback?
Very nice.
Come on, guys. We're all tired.
We're all hungry.
We all know the second
you get some of this pizza,
you'll remember
how much you love each other.
You okay?
Yeah, it's just a little cough.
It's not going to kill me.
- Thanks for hanging with me.
- Always.
Besides, thank your daddy
for leaving us the house all weekend.
Give me this.
- Polly.
- Yeah.
Go on. I'll be right in.
- Okay, I'm going to go shower.
- Okay.
Third down, seven to go for Pittsburgh.
Hey, garbage girl, you better not forget
to wash your hands!
Do what I say, Polly,
or Brooke and Kelly die.
Now, get dressed.
Are you okay?
- What does this guy want?
- I don't know.
- Did you tell him our names?
- What?
He called us by name. Did you tell him?
No!
- She's right. He knew our names.
- What does that mean?
That he knows us?
That he's someone we know?
Well, if he knows us,
why hasn't he talked to us?
Because he's some kind of freak!
If he comes back,
we have to fight him together.
Right. This time we fight.
No matter what. Okay?
He can't take all three of us
at the same time.
We all attack him at once.
Are you sure you're okay?
God! What does this guy want?
To choose.
Choose what?
Two of you will leave this room alive.
One of you will die.
You choose.
Mrs. Homefeldt? Hi. I'm Agent Jareau.
Thank you for seeing me.
My aunt said it was an emergency?
Yeah. She said to give this to you.
You played soccer.
I don't understand.
My daughter Polly plays soccer, too.
For North Mammon.
The varsity team.
She got a scholarship to Penn State.
Forgive me, ma'am.
My aunt didn't really explain to me
the nature of this emergency.
No one is looking for them.
Here. My daughter and her two friends.
They've been missing for five days
and I know someone took them,
but no one will believe me.
- Missing?
- Yeah.
This... This here. This is you, right?
I mean, you found this girl, right?
No, no, not just me.
The... The team here did.
It's been five days now.
Can you ask them to help me?
Because no one is looking for my Polly.
As much as we want
to take this case,
we have to be invited
by local authorities.
I'm sure that this friend of your aunt's
is very concerned,
- but it doesn't work that way.
- I called the chief.
He faxed over an official request
for our assistance.
This is Brooke Chambers.
Her father, Peter, a widower,
left her home alone for the weekend.
Polly Homefeldt and Kelly Seymour
were sleeping over Saturday night.
At 9:35 p.m., during the town's pep rally
for the high school football team,
both Kelly and Polly called home.
It's me. I know this is last minute,
but please don't be angry.
Brooke, Kelly, and I are going to
take off on a road trip for a few days.
Sort of our last adventure
before graduation.
We'll be back Friday night.
Love you. Bye.
Kelly Seymour left this message on
her parents' machine 44 seconds later.
It's me. I know this is last minute,
but please don't be angry.
Brooke, Polly, and I are going to
take off on a road trip for a few days.
Sort of our last adventure
before graduation.
We'll be back Friday night.
Love you. Bye.
- Exactly the same.
- Word for word.
Both calls were made from Brooke's
cell, which has since been turned off.
And there's been no activity
on their cell phones
or ATM cards since Saturday.
Well, it does sound like
they were reading from a script.
And obviously
since the phone's turned off,
I can't use it to locate the girls.
But I have an open trap on the number
in case it gets turned back on.
Okay, guys, guys, not for nothing.
I remember my senior year in high school.
Isn't it possible these girls
took a road trip?
No.
Absolutely not.
Polly accepted an athletic scholarship
to Penn State.
I was a high school athlete
just like these girls.
I was these girls. They don't smoke.
They don't do drugs.
They don't drink during the season.
And they do not jeopardize
a full-ride scholarship
by cutting school and missing practice.
Okay. I hear you, JJ.
It has been five days.
There's a chance these girls...
There's a chance we may not find them.
- I don't think so.
- Why not?
The phone messages.
If they were reading from a script,
they said, "I'll see you next Friday."
Not two days, not two weeks. Friday.
Why be that specific?
My guess is
we have until Friday to find them.
Two days.
So are we taking this case?
Wheels up in 30 minutes.
Legendary basketball coach,
John Wooden said...
"It's not so important who starts
the game but who finishes it."
Hi. I'm Sergeant Sikes. Tom, if you want.
Derek Morgan.
Agent Gideon, Doctor Reid.
- Hi.
- Jason Gideon. How are you?
Hope we haven't brought you
out here for nothing.
You don't believe the girls are missing?
It's not really the kind of thing
that happens around here.
You'd be surprised
how many times we hear that.
Still, I've been through the house myself.
Nothing looks out of place at all.
Have you talked to Chambers? The father?
- Haven't located him yet.
- Is that unusual?
Chambers is a lawyer.
He's always out of town on business.
November 3rd, that's tomorrow.
State Championship football game.
North Mammon's finally back in it.
Show us inside?
- Chief Yates?
- Yeah.
Jennifer Jareau. We spoke on the phone.
- Hi.
- This is Agent Hotchner.
Hi. Jeff Yates. Hi, Judy.
Hey, why don't you...
Why don't you go on inside
and make yourself comfortable.
- We'll be in, in a minute.
- Okay.
Chief Yates,
there's not much of a case file yet.
Listen, I can't get anyone
to agree the girls are actually missing.
Mrs. Homefeldt certainly believes it.
Yeah, well, I wouldn't put too much
stock in what Judy Homefeldt thinks.
Why is that?
She's got a history of mental problems.
What kind of history?
Depression. I just heard
she's even on medication.
Didn't she raise Polly on her own
after her husband abandoned her,
- what, 12 years ago?
- That's right. Yep.
If you were in her place, don't you think
you'd be a little depressed?
Point taken.
Chief, if you're not sure
the girls are missing,
why would you request our help?
Listen, something happened
I'm just not sure what.
And if it's bad,
I'll take all the help I can get.
Plus, your Agent Jareau
can be pretty convincing.
- Are the parents inside?
- Well, Kelly's parents are in there.
We still haven't been able to
track down Brooke's father, Pete.
He's... Well, he travels a lot.
Listen, these people are...
They're my friends, okay?
I mean, they're...
They're my neighbors. Good people.
I don't want anybody assuming
that they're involved, okay?
We just got here,
we're not assuming anything.
Go ahead.
You were right, Sergeant.
No forced entry. No sign of struggle.
If someone did attack these girls,
they chose to comply pretty fast.
If.
There are only two ways
to immediately get compliance
without the use of force,
that's either the threat of force
or a previously established trust.
Whoever it was,
it took a lot of planning.
Detailed information about the girls.
When Brooke's father was gone,
when the other parents were out.
How do you mean?
He knew
they'd have to leave messages.
With that script, they couldn't
have talked to the parents directly.
Close family friend or a stalker.
No, folks here look after each other.
There's no way outsiders stalked
these girls without being noticed.
We have to assume the people
who abducted these girls
are members of the community
who would have needed a spot
to watch her from.
Should we expect a ransom demand?
Kidnappers who want money
contact the families
to prove they have possession
of the victim.
They don't call to conceal it.
Kidnappers?
Are we sure they just haven't run off?
It's pretty unusual the girls
left identical messages.
- They feel scripted.
- Why would Kelly run off?
Here's the thing. This is a football town.
Kelly plays girls' soccer.
Our son is on the football team.
This week
football is all anyone cares about.
- That didn't always sit right with Kelly.
- Should it, Gill?
Should her being told that she's not
as important "sit right" with her?
- I didn't say she wasn't as important.
- You never said it.
No. Shh, shh.
It's... It's going to be all right.
She'll be back after the game. You'll see.
Come on, Gill,
I've got some tissue in the office.
You can see all the windows from here.
- Someone spent a lot of time here.
- Damn.
- Has it rained since Saturday night?
- No.
He who seeks the Queen of All
Knowledge, speak and be recognized.
Garcia, we're sending you some cigarettes.
Why not a flesh-eating virus?
It'll be faster and far less painful.
We need some butts rushed to the lab
for DNA analysis.
Oh, Reid, I love it when you say butts.
Send away, sugar. Bang-bang for now.
You really think someone
from our town's involved in this?
You said yourself
an outsider would have been noticed.
Sergeant Sikes.
What?
It looks like Chief Yates won himself
a title back in the day.
- They do like their football.
- Trust me, it's like a religion.
Do you think it's strange that with three
girls missing
nobody's talked about canceling
tomorrow night's game?
Oh, come on, Hotch, it's football.
Don't you know
they can play without girls?
Just found Brooke's car. Abandoned.
I'm freezing.
We're all cold. We're all hungry.
She has a fever.
Complaining about it
isn't gonna make it any better.
- Do you have to be so mean?
- Mean?
Some jerk locks us in a box and I'm mean?
You don't see Brooke and me
jumping on you about it!
I don't see you or Brooke
doing a damned thing!
Guys! This is what he wants.
How long have we been down here?
We don't even know where here is.
He doesn't want us to know.
He wants to break us down.
It's called sensory deprivation.
Well, it's not going to work!
You hear me, you son of a bitch!
It's not going to work!
Yes! It will.
If he doesn't give us water and food,
it will work.
We could die down here.
It's covered in dust. It must
have been here for quite a while.
So much for the spontaneous road trip.
- This isn't a very traveled area.
- Not really.
So the car is left in town
where it would eventually be found.
- Eventually.
- Gideon.
It's from the football team.
It says "KE" on the brim.
- It could be Kip Engler.
- Who?
He's the quarterback.
Him and Brooke were an item.
What, you think
he had something to do with this?
Was he at the pep rally Saturday night?
- Yeah, he was the star of it.
- Then, no.
But I think we know the kind of person
we're looking for.
Brooke, Kelly, and Polly
have been missing for five days.
Usually, in cases like this
we wouldn't expect to find them alive.
However in this case,
we don't believe that to be true.
The person responsible
spent considerable time and energy
planning the abduction.
He did not do all this work to simply
to kill the girls once he had them.
Otherwise he would have done it
at the Chambers' house.
He certainly seemed to know
he had the time.
And he had Kelly and Polly
reference "Friday" in the messages
that they left for their parents.
We think the UnSub has something planned
for the night of your championship game.
We are certain the UnSub
is someone from this community.
How do you know that?
Because, Mr. Chambers,
he didn't have your daughter leave you
a phone message or a note, did he?
No, not that I know of.
Because he knew
you'd be out of town for a while.
Just like he knew the dump site
for the car would eventually be found.
Everything points to him
giving himself time.
Time for what?
- Don't know yet, sir.
- Well, what's being done about it?
Sir, I'm with the FBI.
We're going to need some information.
No, wait a minute. Someone from
this town's taken my Brooke.
I want to know
what the hell's being done about it!
Yes, I know, sir. If you would just
come with me, I will explain everything.
All right? Thank you.
Predatory abductors like this UnSub
are intelligent, patient, and cautious.
They like to watch everything.
The victims. The families. The police.
He's surely watching us now
and may even attempt to inject himself
into our investigation.
We also know that predatory abductors
prepare a nest prior to the abduction.
A remote cabin.
An underground bunker.
A secret, secure place
only he has access to,
designed to confine and conceal
his prey once his hunting is done.
- Should we be looking for this nest?
- You'd never find it.
For his nest,
predatory abductor John Jamelske
built a sophisticated dungeon complex
under a suburban Syracuse home
where he documented
every detail of the torture
he carried out upon the victims that
he kept there for up to three years.
The man who kidnapped these girls
has a relationship or a job
that permitted them to get
close enough to watch them.
We must focus on those people
who had access.
A family member. A teacher.
A next-door neighbor.
It sounds clichéd, but often
it is the person you least suspect.
One more thing to remember,
we're looking for someone
who was not at the pep rally.
Ask the community.
I'm sure somebody videotaped it.
- You can go through the tapes...
- Reid here.
Start eliminating townspeople.
I'm... I'm sorry, sir.
Mr. Chambers just took off.
- Where'd he go?
- I don't know.
That was Garcia.
She just ran the cigarette butts through
CODIS and got a name. Donald Haas.
Don Haas is the girls' soccer coach.
Was Coach Haas at the pep rally?
I don't remember seeing him there. No.
Where would Coach Haas be right now?
Now, I know we're all upset
about Polly and Brooke and Kelly.
But it is important
that we keep a positive attitude.
Those girls, they'd want you
to be strong. They'd want your prayers.
Where's my daughter, you son of a bitch?
I get the charges dropped
and this is what you do for me?
Hey!
Take it easy! Take it easy.
He did it before! In Pittsburgh.
He was arrested and I got him off.
I got you off, you son of a bitch!
- That's enough!
- Okay, let's go, Don.
Little help!
Are you okay?
They're all turning on each other.
I'm hungry.
Shh.
Remember when we played Ashland
and you stopped like a hundred shots
on goal?
It wasn't a hundred.
You were on fire that day.
You're the great player, Polly.
You're the one going to Penn State.
You're going to come visit me, right?
There's got to be a way
to get him to come down here.
He's not coming down.
You know, some of us are trying
to come up with solutions, Brooke.
Don't! She's sick.
Sick? She's sick? What about me? I'm sick!
I'm sick of trying to come up with a plan
while Little Miss Perfect over here
just whines.
She has a plan.
- What are you talking about?
- She already has a plan.
Why hasn't she told us?
Because I'm not sick enough yet.
What the hell is wrong with Pete, huh?
Going crazy like that.
Like I had something to do with this.
Mind if I smoke?
Yes.
You smoke Morley One Hundreds, Mr. Haas?
Yeah.
We found 13 Morley One Hundred
cigarette butts with your DNA on them
across the street
from the Chambers' house.
This is a mistake.
Somebody has made a mistake!
You smoked those cigarettes,
and left some of yourself on them.
Sir. That's a fact.
Yeah, but I did not leave them there.
- Can you tell me who did?
- How the hell should I know?
All right, thanks.
You can go back to work now.
All right.
- Here's the guest registry.
- All right.
I'll get started running these names
through the computer.
There's a name in there. John Sherman.
You're not going to find it
in the state computer.
He stays here once a month,
and he pays me $100 cash
over the rate so I'll look the other way.
And you don't ask for ID?
Well, I don't have to.
See because I know the guy.
Only his name's not Sherman.
It's Chambers. Peter Chambers.
Don Haas kidnapped my daughter!
Now why are you wasting time
talking to me?
He's being questioned in another room.
Tell me why you're so convinced
that it was him.
You said it was someone
from this community.
The only person I know capable
of doing something like this is Don.
What do you mean capable?
He's a sex offender.
His record is clean.
Yeah, well, six years ago,
Don called me from Pittsburgh.
He'd been arrested
for soliciting an underage prostitute.
- Why did he call you?
- Because I'm a lawyer.
We've been friends for 30 years.
We played football together
in high school, we...
So why did you agree to help him?
Because Don swore it was a one-time thing.
The guy was going through a divorce,
the girl had a record.
I made sure that a sex offender
could still spend all his working hours
around young girls.
My God,
I practically gave him my daughter!
Chambers represented Haas in
a minor sex offense case six years ago.
Had the record expunged.
- What kind of sex offense?
- Underage prostitute.
- Sound like the right kind of crime?
- Could be.
Well, Haas swears
he didn't put the cigarette butts there.
Does it strike anyone else
as grossly inconsistent
that an UnSub
this sophisticated and methodical
would leave an obvious pile
of his DNA at the crime scene?
Don Haas was at the pep rally.
I saw him on two different videotapes.
I guess I must have missed him then.
All three of the victim's soccer jerseys
were found behind the motel
Peter Chambers has been staying at
for the last week.
Don Haas has an alibi for the night
your daughter was taken.
- What?
- Video.
At the exact time the other girls
were leaving their scripted messages
he was at the pep rally.
Oh, my God.
You said you were in Philadelphia
on business last week?
- I'm sorry?
- Were you in Philadelphia?
You think I hurt my daughter?
We just found the girls' soccer
uniforms behind the Saginaw Motel.
What?
Were you in Philadelphia
on business last weekend?
No.
Where were you?
I was at the Saginaw Motel.
What were you doing there?
I meet a friend there once a month.
Actually he's more than a friend.
This is a small town.
These are small town people.
They're wonderful in many ways,
but there's some things
they just don't understand.
- I need a name.
- Glenn Donahue.
He lives on Rittenhouse Square
with his wife and his two little boys.
- These men are innocent.
- You're sure?
UnSub planted evidence to implicate them.
Forensic countermeasures.
So, we've got no suspects,
no reliable evidence.
We've got nothing.
We have the behavior.
Fact of the countermeasures.
He tried to implicate
Haas and Chambers.
That would mean Haas and Chambers
have significance to him, right?
Who he's implicated may be
as important as who he's abducted.
He's been watching them all
for a long time. Seething.
We need to bring the parents
and the people he implicated in.
They, along with the girls,
are his targets,
and they may be the key
to finding him before it's too late.
He's ahead of us. Has been all along.
I got a bad feeling about this one.
Me, too.
I know it's terrible, but she's sick.
And pretty soon, we will be, too.
- I'm not listening to this.
- She's dying already.
- What? You don't know that.
- Look at her, Polly.
She isn't going to make it.
We have to face facts. She's dying.
- No, she's not!
- Yes! She is. But we don't have to.
So all we have to do
is sacrifice our friend and we're safe.
We didn't do that to her, Polly. Okay?
How do you know he'll let us go
anyway? Did you ever think of that?
What if he's just some evil twisted psycho
who gets off watching people
fight with each other?
Maybe we can get her help
if we just get out of here.
He said one of us has to die!
If we don't choose, we are never
going to see our families again! Ever!
No one will ever know what happened to us.
We will starve to death
and no one will ever know.
You will never see
your mother again, ever.
My mom would be totally alone.
Totally alone.
- There's no other choice, is there?
- No.
Polly, I'm sorry,
but there is no other way.
She's going to die anyway, right?
That's right, that's right.
But we don't have to.
- All right.
- Okay.
Hey, mister, we made our choice.
God!
No!
What's happening?
Nothing, Brooke. Nothing.
Go back to sleep.
This UnSub or unknown subject
is someone you know.
He's someone from your past
and he is someone
who thinks that you have wronged him.
We'd like for you to think
about who might fit that description.
Don't you think if we knew who did this
or why, we would have told you?
Please, let him talk, Gill.
Oh, I'm going to take advice from
somebody on mental medication?
What?
Everyone knows, Judy.
Look, can we...
Can we just stay focused, please?
The man who took your daughters,
he framed Peter Chambers
and Don Haas for a reason.
This is an attack on you.
I've made mistakes in my life,
but why take it out on Brooke?
You know, it's one thing for Brooke
to pay for your mistakes,
but if my daughter has to pay
for them, too.
Mr. Seymour, that's not helping.
That's not fair, Gill.
Fair? You shut the hell up!
You are nothing but a pervert!
You will never get near the children
of this town again!
We need to keep this as civil as possible.
Gill, are you even listening?
It wasn't Don.
He had nothing to do with it!
You knew he was a deviant.
You didn't tell us!
You let him coach our girls!
His arrest was a misunderstanding, okay?
We talked to the hotel manager, Peter.
We know about you.
Maybe this is God's punishment.
Punishment? Okay.
At least I didn't spent the week
my daughter was missing
focusing on my son
and a damn football game!
No, we know what you spent the week doing.
I blame myself
for ever letting Kelly be friends
with Brooke and Polly to begin with.
- Low breeding always shows through!
- Low breeding?
They're bad seeds. They always have been.
Don't talk about my daughter like that!
All right?
- Ma'am, please sit down.
- All right, that's enough!
What is the matter with you people?
This is exactly what he wants.
He is attacking all of you.
He's turning all of you
against each other,
and you're just letting him do it.
Your daughters are best friends.
And you all have known each other
most of your lives. As friends.
Don't let this man beat you this way.
What do you want us to do?
Listen to these agents. All right?
They came here to help.
Let them do that.
We're going to split you up,
go over your histories,
and see if there's a name
from your past in common.
It probably won't be
a casual acquaintance.
He knows your secrets.
Don't just think of people
you've knowingly wronged.
Yeah.
It may be something
you aren't even aware of
or you may have forgotten, or...
Agent Gideon? It's Penelope Garcia
from Quantico. She says it's urgent.
Put it on speaker. Go ahead, Garcia.
Brooke Chambers' phone
just switched back on.
Tell me you got a trace.
And a location. Downtown North Mammon,
within 100 meters
of the intersection of Main and First.
That's right outside.
- Morgan!
- Yeah.
Keep the parents back.
There are only two of them.
What's going on?
- Hey, Peter...
- Polly!
It's okay. We're with the FBI.
Are... Are you all right?
Polly, are you hurt?
She's bleeding.
It's not her blood.
Brooke, where's Kelly Seymour?
Let me get you some more water.
I'll get it.
Polly, do you know who did this to you?
Whatever happened,
you're a very brave woman.
Not many people can face what you did
and make it out the other side.
It wasn't Polly's fault.
She didn't do anything.
Nothing's happened.
I'm just getting her some water.
- Is she talking?
- Did she say where Kelly is?
- We're working on it.
- Agent Jareau?
When you said
that we all grew up together,
something struck me.
- What's that?
- We all played football together.
Don, Pete, even Chief Yates.
We were all on
the last championship football team.
The championship game's tonight.
Do you know where Kelly Seymour is?
Where's the water?
- Hotch, would you mind if I...
- No, please.
Hi, Polly. My name's JJ.
I grew up in East Allegheny,
just right up the road.
I was captain of the varsity soccer team
my senior year.
Got me a scholarship to Pittsburgh.
It's a pretty good school,
but it's not exactly Penn State.
I know that's where you're going
because your mom told me.
You know,
your mom carried a picture of you
all the way up to the FBI academy
in Quantico, Virginia,
so that me and these agents here
could help find you.
And believe me,
she was not leaving
until we said we'd come.
So no matter what happened
over the past six days...
No matter what,
this will all be a memory someday.
But you will always have a mother
that loves you that much.
I want to show you a photograph, Polly.
I want you to look at the men
in the picture
and tell me if you see the man
that did this to you.
Okay?
Okay.
It's okay.
We were so hungry.
So thirsty.
So cold.
He wants us to do it?
If that's what it takes
to get out of this alive...
- No way. I can't.
- We don't have a choice.
I can't. I can't.
Listen! It's like those soccer players
who crashed in the Andes.
They were starving. They had no food.
Nothing to eat except for their friends
who had died.
They were good people,
but they didn't have a choice.
They did what they had to do.
You killed her?
I didn't have any choice.
They had already decided to...
But it wasn't Polly's fault.
It was him. He said we had to choose.
Who is he, Brooke? Who made you choose?
I never saw him.
He made us choose.
Who did?
Good job.
Hotch, that's the guy
who found the soccer jerseys.
That's the garbage man.
- Marcus Younger.
- Polly just ID'd him.
He was the star of our team.
Blew his knee out in the first quarter
of the championship,
lost a full-ride scholarship
to Notre Dame.
- Do you know where he lives?
- Come on.
Clear!
Guys! There's a storm cellar outside.
Don't move!
I got him!
Marcus Younger? FBI.
I never touched her.
Put your hands where I can see them.
- I never hurt them.
- Get up, Marcus.
I never even came into the room, Jeff.
They did this. Brooke and Polly.
All I did was show them
who they really are.
What they were truly capable of.
People pretending to be decent.
When it came down to it, they...
They reacted
just the way I knew they would.
They turned on each other.
Just like when I got hurt.
You all couldn't wait to run over me
to take my position. To take my life.
And to forget all about me.
Marcus, I'm not going to ask you again.
Get up!
You don't know what it's like, Jeff.
You all had lives,
and I just cleaned up after you.
Now you have to clean up after me.
You get him out of here.
Let's go.
"The ultimate choice for a man
"inasmuch as he is given
to transcend himself
"is to create or destroy,
to love or to hate."
Erich Fromm.
Can't sleep?
You can't imagine
the pressure a small town creates.
To play. To win. Everyone pushing.
Everyone watching. I hated it.
Why'd you play?
Athletic scholarship was the only way
I was getting to college.
It was my only way out.
Besides, having a thick skin
when it comes to pressure
is a good thing
in this line of work, right?
You did exceptional work,
last couple of days.
Thank you. It's nice to be noticed.
Yeah, we don't usually, do we?
Yeah, that's all right.
It's not why I do it.
Ever thought about taking the classes?
Becoming a profiler?
No. No. I admire what you guys do,
but I like my role.
I like being the...
The person the family can turn to.
Being the voice the poor, overworked
homicide detective can call
when he runs out of leads.
- Really?
- Yeah.
I thought
everyone wanted to be a profiler.
Sorry.
What's all that?
New cases. I got to figure out
where we're going to next.
Hey, wait a minute, we're the profilers.
I thought we made those decisions.
Sure you do.
All right, well, I've got to find
someplace to get some sleep.
- Yeah, good luck with that.
- Thanks.
Next Friday,
our children will be asked a question.
How they answer that will define us all.
The question is,
when victory and defeat,
life and death, hang in the balance,
what are you capable of?
State championship!
Number one! Number one!
Thank you for all your support.
It's the same speech he gives every year.
Because it works every year.
What are you doing? You hate football.
- My brother's on the team.
- You hate your brother.
Besides, did I ask you
not to go to the pep rally?
Did I ask you to dump the quarterback?
Very nice.
Come on, guys. We're all tired.
We're all hungry.
We all know the second
you get some of this pizza,
you'll remember
how much you love each other.
You okay?
Yeah, it's just a little cough.
It's not going to kill me.
- Thanks for hanging with me.
- Always.
Besides, thank your daddy
for leaving us the house all weekend.
Give me this.
- Polly.
- Yeah.
Go on. I'll be right in.
- Okay, I'm going to go shower.
- Okay.
Third down, seven to go for Pittsburgh.
Hey, garbage girl, you better not forget
to wash your hands!
Do what I say, Polly,
or Brooke and Kelly die.
Now, get dressed.
Are you okay?
- What does this guy want?
- I don't know.
- Did you tell him our names?
- What?
He called us by name. Did you tell him?
No!
- She's right. He knew our names.
- What does that mean?
That he knows us?
That he's someone we know?
Well, if he knows us,
why hasn't he talked to us?
Because he's some kind of freak!
If he comes back,
we have to fight him together.
Right. This time we fight.
No matter what. Okay?
He can't take all three of us
at the same time.
We all attack him at once.
Are you sure you're okay?
God! What does this guy want?
To choose.
Choose what?
Two of you will leave this room alive.
One of you will die.
You choose.
Mrs. Homefeldt? Hi. I'm Agent Jareau.
Thank you for seeing me.
My aunt said it was an emergency?
Yeah. She said to give this to you.
You played soccer.
I don't understand.
My daughter Polly plays soccer, too.
For North Mammon.
The varsity team.
She got a scholarship to Penn State.
Forgive me, ma'am.
My aunt didn't really explain to me
the nature of this emergency.
No one is looking for them.
Here. My daughter and her two friends.
They've been missing for five days
and I know someone took them,
but no one will believe me.
- Missing?
- Yeah.
This... This here. This is you, right?
I mean, you found this girl, right?
No, no, not just me.
The... The team here did.
It's been five days now.
Can you ask them to help me?
Because no one is looking for my Polly.
As much as we want
to take this case,
we have to be invited
by local authorities.
I'm sure that this friend of your aunt's
is very concerned,
- but it doesn't work that way.
- I called the chief.
He faxed over an official request
for our assistance.
This is Brooke Chambers.
Her father, Peter, a widower,
left her home alone for the weekend.
Polly Homefeldt and Kelly Seymour
were sleeping over Saturday night.
At 9:35 p.m., during the town's pep rally
for the high school football team,
both Kelly and Polly called home.
It's me. I know this is last minute,
but please don't be angry.
Brooke, Kelly, and I are going to
take off on a road trip for a few days.
Sort of our last adventure
before graduation.
We'll be back Friday night.
Love you. Bye.
Kelly Seymour left this message on
her parents' machine 44 seconds later.
It's me. I know this is last minute,
but please don't be angry.
Brooke, Polly, and I are going to
take off on a road trip for a few days.
Sort of our last adventure
before graduation.
We'll be back Friday night.
Love you. Bye.
- Exactly the same.
- Word for word.
Both calls were made from Brooke's
cell, which has since been turned off.
And there's been no activity
on their cell phones
or ATM cards since Saturday.
Well, it does sound like
they were reading from a script.
And obviously
since the phone's turned off,
I can't use it to locate the girls.
But I have an open trap on the number
in case it gets turned back on.
Okay, guys, guys, not for nothing.
I remember my senior year in high school.
Isn't it possible these girls
took a road trip?
No.
Absolutely not.
Polly accepted an athletic scholarship
to Penn State.
I was a high school athlete
just like these girls.
I was these girls. They don't smoke.
They don't do drugs.
They don't drink during the season.
And they do not jeopardize
a full-ride scholarship
by cutting school and missing practice.
Okay. I hear you, JJ.
It has been five days.
There's a chance these girls...
There's a chance we may not find them.
- I don't think so.
- Why not?
The phone messages.
If they were reading from a script,
they said, "I'll see you next Friday."
Not two days, not two weeks. Friday.
Why be that specific?
My guess is
we have until Friday to find them.
Two days.
So are we taking this case?
Wheels up in 30 minutes.
Legendary basketball coach,
John Wooden said...
"It's not so important who starts
the game but who finishes it."
Hi. I'm Sergeant Sikes. Tom, if you want.
Derek Morgan.
Agent Gideon, Doctor Reid.
- Hi.
- Jason Gideon. How are you?
Hope we haven't brought you
out here for nothing.
You don't believe the girls are missing?
It's not really the kind of thing
that happens around here.
You'd be surprised
how many times we hear that.
Still, I've been through the house myself.
Nothing looks out of place at all.
Have you talked to Chambers? The father?
- Haven't located him yet.
- Is that unusual?
Chambers is a lawyer.
He's always out of town on business.
November 3rd, that's tomorrow.
State Championship football game.
North Mammon's finally back in it.
Show us inside?
- Chief Yates?
- Yeah.
Jennifer Jareau. We spoke on the phone.
- Hi.
- This is Agent Hotchner.
Hi. Jeff Yates. Hi, Judy.
Hey, why don't you...
Why don't you go on inside
and make yourself comfortable.
- We'll be in, in a minute.
- Okay.
Chief Yates,
there's not much of a case file yet.
Listen, I can't get anyone
to agree the girls are actually missing.
Mrs. Homefeldt certainly believes it.
Yeah, well, I wouldn't put too much
stock in what Judy Homefeldt thinks.
Why is that?
She's got a history of mental problems.
What kind of history?
Depression. I just heard
she's even on medication.
Didn't she raise Polly on her own
after her husband abandoned her,
- what, 12 years ago?
- That's right. Yep.
If you were in her place, don't you think
you'd be a little depressed?
Point taken.
Chief, if you're not sure
the girls are missing,
why would you request our help?
Listen, something happened
I'm just not sure what.
And if it's bad,
I'll take all the help I can get.
Plus, your Agent Jareau
can be pretty convincing.
- Are the parents inside?
- Well, Kelly's parents are in there.
We still haven't been able to
track down Brooke's father, Pete.
He's... Well, he travels a lot.
Listen, these people are...
They're my friends, okay?
I mean, they're...
They're my neighbors. Good people.
I don't want anybody assuming
that they're involved, okay?
We just got here,
we're not assuming anything.
Go ahead.
You were right, Sergeant.
No forced entry. No sign of struggle.
If someone did attack these girls,
they chose to comply pretty fast.
If.
There are only two ways
to immediately get compliance
without the use of force,
that's either the threat of force
or a previously established trust.
Whoever it was,
it took a lot of planning.
Detailed information about the girls.
When Brooke's father was gone,
when the other parents were out.
How do you mean?
He knew
they'd have to leave messages.
With that script, they couldn't
have talked to the parents directly.
Close family friend or a stalker.
No, folks here look after each other.
There's no way outsiders stalked
these girls without being noticed.
We have to assume the people
who abducted these girls
are members of the community
who would have needed a spot
to watch her from.
Should we expect a ransom demand?
Kidnappers who want money
contact the families
to prove they have possession
of the victim.
They don't call to conceal it.
Kidnappers?
Are we sure they just haven't run off?
It's pretty unusual the girls
left identical messages.
- They feel scripted.
- Why would Kelly run off?
Here's the thing. This is a football town.
Kelly plays girls' soccer.
Our son is on the football team.
This week
football is all anyone cares about.
- That didn't always sit right with Kelly.
- Should it, Gill?
Should her being told that she's not
as important "sit right" with her?
- I didn't say she wasn't as important.
- You never said it.
No. Shh, shh.
It's... It's going to be all right.
She'll be back after the game. You'll see.
Come on, Gill,
I've got some tissue in the office.
You can see all the windows from here.
- Someone spent a lot of time here.
- Damn.
- Has it rained since Saturday night?
- No.
He who seeks the Queen of All
Knowledge, speak and be recognized.
Garcia, we're sending you some cigarettes.
Why not a flesh-eating virus?
It'll be faster and far less painful.
We need some butts rushed to the lab
for DNA analysis.
Oh, Reid, I love it when you say butts.
Send away, sugar. Bang-bang for now.
You really think someone
from our town's involved in this?
You said yourself
an outsider would have been noticed.
Sergeant Sikes.
What?
It looks like Chief Yates won himself
a title back in the day.
- They do like their football.
- Trust me, it's like a religion.
Do you think it's strange that with three
girls missing
nobody's talked about canceling
tomorrow night's game?
Oh, come on, Hotch, it's football.
Don't you know
they can play without girls?
Just found Brooke's car. Abandoned.
I'm freezing.
We're all cold. We're all hungry.
She has a fever.
Complaining about it
isn't gonna make it any better.
- Do you have to be so mean?
- Mean?
Some jerk locks us in a box and I'm mean?
You don't see Brooke and me
jumping on you about it!
I don't see you or Brooke
doing a damned thing!
Guys! This is what he wants.
How long have we been down here?
We don't even know where here is.
He doesn't want us to know.
He wants to break us down.
It's called sensory deprivation.
Well, it's not going to work!
You hear me, you son of a bitch!
It's not going to work!
Yes! It will.
If he doesn't give us water and food,
it will work.
We could die down here.
It's covered in dust. It must
have been here for quite a while.
So much for the spontaneous road trip.
- This isn't a very traveled area.
- Not really.
So the car is left in town
where it would eventually be found.
- Eventually.
- Gideon.
It's from the football team.
It says "KE" on the brim.
- It could be Kip Engler.
- Who?
He's the quarterback.
Him and Brooke were an item.
What, you think
he had something to do with this?
Was he at the pep rally Saturday night?
- Yeah, he was the star of it.
- Then, no.
But I think we know the kind of person
we're looking for.
Brooke, Kelly, and Polly
have been missing for five days.
Usually, in cases like this
we wouldn't expect to find them alive.
However in this case,
we don't believe that to be true.
The person responsible
spent considerable time and energy
planning the abduction.
He did not do all this work to simply
to kill the girls once he had them.
Otherwise he would have done it
at the Chambers' house.
He certainly seemed to know
he had the time.
And he had Kelly and Polly
reference "Friday" in the messages
that they left for their parents.
We think the UnSub has something planned
for the night of your championship game.
We are certain the UnSub
is someone from this community.
How do you know that?
Because, Mr. Chambers,
he didn't have your daughter leave you
a phone message or a note, did he?
No, not that I know of.
Because he knew
you'd be out of town for a while.
Just like he knew the dump site
for the car would eventually be found.
Everything points to him
giving himself time.
Time for what?
- Don't know yet, sir.
- Well, what's being done about it?
Sir, I'm with the FBI.
We're going to need some information.
No, wait a minute. Someone from
this town's taken my Brooke.
I want to know
what the hell's being done about it!
Yes, I know, sir. If you would just
come with me, I will explain everything.
All right? Thank you.
Predatory abductors like this UnSub
are intelligent, patient, and cautious.
They like to watch everything.
The victims. The families. The police.
He's surely watching us now
and may even attempt to inject himself
into our investigation.
We also know that predatory abductors
prepare a nest prior to the abduction.
A remote cabin.
An underground bunker.
A secret, secure place
only he has access to,
designed to confine and conceal
his prey once his hunting is done.
- Should we be looking for this nest?
- You'd never find it.
For his nest,
predatory abductor John Jamelske
built a sophisticated dungeon complex
under a suburban Syracuse home
where he documented
every detail of the torture
he carried out upon the victims that
he kept there for up to three years.
The man who kidnapped these girls
has a relationship or a job
that permitted them to get
close enough to watch them.
We must focus on those people
who had access.
A family member. A teacher.
A next-door neighbor.
It sounds clichéd, but often
it is the person you least suspect.
One more thing to remember,
we're looking for someone
who was not at the pep rally.
Ask the community.
I'm sure somebody videotaped it.
- You can go through the tapes...
- Reid here.
Start eliminating townspeople.
I'm... I'm sorry, sir.
Mr. Chambers just took off.
- Where'd he go?
- I don't know.
That was Garcia.
She just ran the cigarette butts through
CODIS and got a name. Donald Haas.
Don Haas is the girls' soccer coach.
Was Coach Haas at the pep rally?
I don't remember seeing him there. No.
Where would Coach Haas be right now?
Now, I know we're all upset
about Polly and Brooke and Kelly.
But it is important
that we keep a positive attitude.
Those girls, they'd want you
to be strong. They'd want your prayers.
Where's my daughter, you son of a bitch?
I get the charges dropped
and this is what you do for me?
Hey!
Take it easy! Take it easy.
He did it before! In Pittsburgh.
He was arrested and I got him off.
I got you off, you son of a bitch!
- That's enough!
- Okay, let's go, Don.
Little help!
Are you okay?
They're all turning on each other.
I'm hungry.
Shh.
Remember when we played Ashland
and you stopped like a hundred shots
on goal?
It wasn't a hundred.
You were on fire that day.
You're the great player, Polly.
You're the one going to Penn State.
You're going to come visit me, right?
There's got to be a way
to get him to come down here.
He's not coming down.
You know, some of us are trying
to come up with solutions, Brooke.
Don't! She's sick.
Sick? She's sick? What about me? I'm sick!
I'm sick of trying to come up with a plan
while Little Miss Perfect over here
just whines.
She has a plan.
- What are you talking about?
- She already has a plan.
Why hasn't she told us?
Because I'm not sick enough yet.
What the hell is wrong with Pete, huh?
Going crazy like that.
Like I had something to do with this.
Mind if I smoke?
Yes.
You smoke Morley One Hundreds, Mr. Haas?
Yeah.
We found 13 Morley One Hundred
cigarette butts with your DNA on them
across the street
from the Chambers' house.
This is a mistake.
Somebody has made a mistake!
You smoked those cigarettes,
and left some of yourself on them.
Sir. That's a fact.
Yeah, but I did not leave them there.
- Can you tell me who did?
- How the hell should I know?
All right, thanks.
You can go back to work now.
All right.
- Here's the guest registry.
- All right.
I'll get started running these names
through the computer.
There's a name in there. John Sherman.
You're not going to find it
in the state computer.
He stays here once a month,
and he pays me $100 cash
over the rate so I'll look the other way.
And you don't ask for ID?
Well, I don't have to.
See because I know the guy.
Only his name's not Sherman.
It's Chambers. Peter Chambers.
Don Haas kidnapped my daughter!
Now why are you wasting time
talking to me?
He's being questioned in another room.
Tell me why you're so convinced
that it was him.
You said it was someone
from this community.
The only person I know capable
of doing something like this is Don.
What do you mean capable?
He's a sex offender.
His record is clean.
Yeah, well, six years ago,
Don called me from Pittsburgh.
He'd been arrested
for soliciting an underage prostitute.
- Why did he call you?
- Because I'm a lawyer.
We've been friends for 30 years.
We played football together
in high school, we...
So why did you agree to help him?
Because Don swore it was a one-time thing.
The guy was going through a divorce,
the girl had a record.
I made sure that a sex offender
could still spend all his working hours
around young girls.
My God,
I practically gave him my daughter!
Chambers represented Haas in
a minor sex offense case six years ago.
Had the record expunged.
- What kind of sex offense?
- Underage prostitute.
- Sound like the right kind of crime?
- Could be.
Well, Haas swears
he didn't put the cigarette butts there.
Does it strike anyone else
as grossly inconsistent
that an UnSub
this sophisticated and methodical
would leave an obvious pile
of his DNA at the crime scene?
Don Haas was at the pep rally.
I saw him on two different videotapes.
I guess I must have missed him then.
All three of the victim's soccer jerseys
were found behind the motel
Peter Chambers has been staying at
for the last week.
Don Haas has an alibi for the night
your daughter was taken.
- What?
- Video.
At the exact time the other girls
were leaving their scripted messages
he was at the pep rally.
Oh, my God.
You said you were in Philadelphia
on business last week?
- I'm sorry?
- Were you in Philadelphia?
You think I hurt my daughter?
We just found the girls' soccer
uniforms behind the Saginaw Motel.
What?
Were you in Philadelphia
on business last weekend?
No.
Where were you?
I was at the Saginaw Motel.
What were you doing there?
I meet a friend there once a month.
Actually he's more than a friend.
This is a small town.
These are small town people.
They're wonderful in many ways,
but there's some things
they just don't understand.
- I need a name.
- Glenn Donahue.
He lives on Rittenhouse Square
with his wife and his two little boys.
- These men are innocent.
- You're sure?
UnSub planted evidence to implicate them.
Forensic countermeasures.
So, we've got no suspects,
no reliable evidence.
We've got nothing.
We have the behavior.
Fact of the countermeasures.
He tried to implicate
Haas and Chambers.
That would mean Haas and Chambers
have significance to him, right?
Who he's implicated may be
as important as who he's abducted.
He's been watching them all
for a long time. Seething.
We need to bring the parents
and the people he implicated in.
They, along with the girls,
are his targets,
and they may be the key
to finding him before it's too late.
He's ahead of us. Has been all along.
I got a bad feeling about this one.
Me, too.
I know it's terrible, but she's sick.
And pretty soon, we will be, too.
- I'm not listening to this.
- She's dying already.
- What? You don't know that.
- Look at her, Polly.
She isn't going to make it.
We have to face facts. She's dying.
- No, she's not!
- Yes! She is. But we don't have to.
So all we have to do
is sacrifice our friend and we're safe.
We didn't do that to her, Polly. Okay?
How do you know he'll let us go
anyway? Did you ever think of that?
What if he's just some evil twisted psycho
who gets off watching people
fight with each other?
Maybe we can get her help
if we just get out of here.
He said one of us has to die!
If we don't choose, we are never
going to see our families again! Ever!
No one will ever know what happened to us.
We will starve to death
and no one will ever know.
You will never see
your mother again, ever.
My mom would be totally alone.
Totally alone.
- There's no other choice, is there?
- No.
Polly, I'm sorry,
but there is no other way.
She's going to die anyway, right?
That's right, that's right.
But we don't have to.
- All right.
- Okay.
Hey, mister, we made our choice.
God!
No!
What's happening?
Nothing, Brooke. Nothing.
Go back to sleep.
This UnSub or unknown subject
is someone you know.
He's someone from your past
and he is someone
who thinks that you have wronged him.
We'd like for you to think
about who might fit that description.
Don't you think if we knew who did this
or why, we would have told you?
Please, let him talk, Gill.
Oh, I'm going to take advice from
somebody on mental medication?
What?
Everyone knows, Judy.
Look, can we...
Can we just stay focused, please?
The man who took your daughters,
he framed Peter Chambers
and Don Haas for a reason.
This is an attack on you.
I've made mistakes in my life,
but why take it out on Brooke?
You know, it's one thing for Brooke
to pay for your mistakes,
but if my daughter has to pay
for them, too.
Mr. Seymour, that's not helping.
That's not fair, Gill.
Fair? You shut the hell up!
You are nothing but a pervert!
You will never get near the children
of this town again!
We need to keep this as civil as possible.
Gill, are you even listening?
It wasn't Don.
He had nothing to do with it!
You knew he was a deviant.
You didn't tell us!
You let him coach our girls!
His arrest was a misunderstanding, okay?
We talked to the hotel manager, Peter.
We know about you.
Maybe this is God's punishment.
Punishment? Okay.
At least I didn't spent the week
my daughter was missing
focusing on my son
and a damn football game!
No, we know what you spent the week doing.
I blame myself
for ever letting Kelly be friends
with Brooke and Polly to begin with.
- Low breeding always shows through!
- Low breeding?
They're bad seeds. They always have been.
Don't talk about my daughter like that!
All right?
- Ma'am, please sit down.
- All right, that's enough!
What is the matter with you people?
This is exactly what he wants.
He is attacking all of you.
He's turning all of you
against each other,
and you're just letting him do it.
Your daughters are best friends.
And you all have known each other
most of your lives. As friends.
Don't let this man beat you this way.
What do you want us to do?
Listen to these agents. All right?
They came here to help.
Let them do that.
We're going to split you up,
go over your histories,
and see if there's a name
from your past in common.
It probably won't be
a casual acquaintance.
He knows your secrets.
Don't just think of people
you've knowingly wronged.
Yeah.
It may be something
you aren't even aware of
or you may have forgotten, or...
Agent Gideon? It's Penelope Garcia
from Quantico. She says it's urgent.
Put it on speaker. Go ahead, Garcia.
Brooke Chambers' phone
just switched back on.
Tell me you got a trace.
And a location. Downtown North Mammon,
within 100 meters
of the intersection of Main and First.
That's right outside.
- Morgan!
- Yeah.
Keep the parents back.
There are only two of them.
What's going on?
- Hey, Peter...
- Polly!
It's okay. We're with the FBI.
Are... Are you all right?
Polly, are you hurt?
She's bleeding.
It's not her blood.
Brooke, where's Kelly Seymour?
Let me get you some more water.
I'll get it.
Polly, do you know who did this to you?
Whatever happened,
you're a very brave woman.
Not many people can face what you did
and make it out the other side.
It wasn't Polly's fault.
She didn't do anything.
Nothing's happened.
I'm just getting her some water.
- Is she talking?
- Did she say where Kelly is?
- We're working on it.
- Agent Jareau?
When you said
that we all grew up together,
something struck me.
- What's that?
- We all played football together.
Don, Pete, even Chief Yates.
We were all on
the last championship football team.
The championship game's tonight.
Do you know where Kelly Seymour is?
Where's the water?
- Hotch, would you mind if I...
- No, please.
Hi, Polly. My name's JJ.
I grew up in East Allegheny,
just right up the road.
I was captain of the varsity soccer team
my senior year.
Got me a scholarship to Pittsburgh.
It's a pretty good school,
but it's not exactly Penn State.
I know that's where you're going
because your mom told me.
You know,
your mom carried a picture of you
all the way up to the FBI academy
in Quantico, Virginia,
so that me and these agents here
could help find you.
And believe me,
she was not leaving
until we said we'd come.
So no matter what happened
over the past six days...
No matter what,
this will all be a memory someday.
But you will always have a mother
that loves you that much.
I want to show you a photograph, Polly.
I want you to look at the men
in the picture
and tell me if you see the man
that did this to you.
Okay?
Okay.
It's okay.
We were so hungry.
So thirsty.
So cold.
He wants us to do it?
If that's what it takes
to get out of this alive...
- No way. I can't.
- We don't have a choice.
I can't. I can't.
Listen! It's like those soccer players
who crashed in the Andes.
They were starving. They had no food.
Nothing to eat except for their friends
who had died.
They were good people,
but they didn't have a choice.
They did what they had to do.
You killed her?
I didn't have any choice.
They had already decided to...
But it wasn't Polly's fault.
It was him. He said we had to choose.
Who is he, Brooke? Who made you choose?
I never saw him.
He made us choose.
Who did?
Good job.
Hotch, that's the guy
who found the soccer jerseys.
That's the garbage man.
- Marcus Younger.
- Polly just ID'd him.
He was the star of our team.
Blew his knee out in the first quarter
of the championship,
lost a full-ride scholarship
to Notre Dame.
- Do you know where he lives?
- Come on.
Clear!
Guys! There's a storm cellar outside.
Don't move!
I got him!
Marcus Younger? FBI.
I never touched her.
Put your hands where I can see them.
- I never hurt them.
- Get up, Marcus.
I never even came into the room, Jeff.
They did this. Brooke and Polly.
All I did was show them
who they really are.
What they were truly capable of.
People pretending to be decent.
When it came down to it, they...
They reacted
just the way I knew they would.
They turned on each other.
Just like when I got hurt.
You all couldn't wait to run over me
to take my position. To take my life.
And to forget all about me.
Marcus, I'm not going to ask you again.
Get up!
You don't know what it's like, Jeff.
You all had lives,
and I just cleaned up after you.
Now you have to clean up after me.
You get him out of here.
Let's go.
"The ultimate choice for a man
"inasmuch as he is given
to transcend himself
"is to create or destroy,
to love or to hate."
Erich Fromm.
Can't sleep?
You can't imagine
the pressure a small town creates.
To play. To win. Everyone pushing.
Everyone watching. I hated it.
Why'd you play?
Athletic scholarship was the only way
I was getting to college.
It was my only way out.
Besides, having a thick skin
when it comes to pressure
is a good thing
in this line of work, right?
You did exceptional work,
last couple of days.
Thank you. It's nice to be noticed.
Yeah, we don't usually, do we?
Yeah, that's all right.
It's not why I do it.
Ever thought about taking the classes?
Becoming a profiler?
No. No. I admire what you guys do,
but I like my role.
I like being the...
The person the family can turn to.
Being the voice the poor, overworked
homicide detective can call
when he runs out of leads.
- Really?
- Yeah.
I thought
everyone wanted to be a profiler.
Sorry.
What's all that?
New cases. I got to figure out
where we're going to next.
Hey, wait a minute, we're the profilers.
I thought we made those decisions.
Sure you do.
All right, well, I've got to find
someplace to get some sleep.
- Yeah, good luck with that.
- Thanks.