Criminal Minds (2005–…): Season 3, Episode 6 - About Face - full transcript

Go on, Mudgie! Go on, boy. Attaboy.

Go on, boy.

Come. Come.

(CELL PHONE RINGING)

Strauss, I'm coming in to see you
this afternoon.

Well, then cancel it.
I'll be there at 2:30.

That's it. Come on, boy. Come on. Yeah.

-I really don't understand this, David.
-What's to understand, Erin?

You've been retired for nearly 10 years.

The BAU is a man down.
I'm offering to help.

You've written how many books?



World tours. Speaking engagements.
Big payday private consultations.

You've made quite a name for yourself.

-Well, this is getting boring.
-You know you won't be in charge.

Agent Hotchner's the SAC,
and I'll be seeking his endorsement.

I'm not looking
for anyone's permission here.

So, you're coming in,
in a subordinate position.

-Is that a question?
-The question is, why?

To help.

A completely selfless act.

-Is that so hard to believe?
-Yes.

I missed you, too, Erin.

You'll meet the team tomorrow.

CARROLLTON, TEXAS

MICHELLE: It was next to my front door
when I got home, Frank.



God, I hate Halloween.

-OFFICER: Here you go, sir.
-Halloween?

Police Department CARROLLTON, TEXAS

Less than a week away.
It's a prime time for stupid pranks.

So, you think it's just a prank?

(CHUCKLING) Well, you're obviously
not missing, Michelle.

-Where'd they get a picture of me?
-It's probably one of your friends.

I don't know anybody
that'd think this is funny.

Molly didn't think it was funny.

She's the one that told me
to come right down here.

If my wife had just called, I probably
could have saved you the trip.

I'm sure it's nothing, really.

-You're sure?
-Look,

I'll come by and check on you
after work, make sure you're safe.

I appreciate that, Frank.

Hey, serving and protecting is what I do.

No, no, I didn't say it was funny, Molly.
I said someone might...

I know she's your best friend.
That's why I'm here.

No, no, I don't think it's weird
she didn't call...

Look, I'm here already.
All the lights are out,

she's... She probably went to bed early.
I'll have her call you.

Yeah, 20 minutes. Love you, too.

This wasn't funny the first time.

Michelle?

Michelle?

(WATER RUNNING)

Michelle, it's Frank. Michelle?

Oh, my God.

Federal Bureau of Investigation
QUANTICO, VIRGINIA

HOTCH: Erasmus wrote,

"What else is the whole life of mortals
but a sort of comedy,

"in which the various actors, disguised
by various costumes and masks,

"walk on, and plays each one his part

"until the manager waves them
off the stage?"

(MUFFLED GROWLING)

I'm going to eat you.

MORGAN: Reid!
REID: Happy All Hallows' Eve, folks.

To paraphrase from Celtic mythology,

tomorrow night, all order is suspended,
and the barriers between the natural

and the supernatural
are temporarily removed.

See, that right there is why
Halloween creeps me out.

You're scared of Halloween?

I didn't say I was scared,
I said I was creeped out.

There's a difference there, youngster.
You should look it up.

What creeps you out about it?

I don't know, people wearing masks.
I don't like folks in disguises.

That's the best thing about Halloween.
You can be anyone you want to be.

No, I'm pretty good just being me.

Yeah, why is it that neither of those
points of view surprise me?

You know what, though? On the flip side,

it does provide a pretty good reason
to cozy up with a scary flick

and a little Halloween honey.

Ew! Halloween honey? Now I'm creeped out.

(SOFTLY) Guys, he's here.

Agent Hotchner, I'm sure you remember...

-Dave.
-How are you, Aaron?

-I'm good. I'm great.
-I'd say so.

I saw you on TV last week. I can't
believe you want to come back here.

Well, I'll let the two of you catch up.

-If you need anything, I'm in my office.
-Thanks.

-So, how long has it been?
-Dinner, almost three years ago.

But the last time I was in the BAU,
you were sharing a desk

with two other agents
in that God-awful bunker we were in.

-I remember.
-Congratulations.

Thanks. Well, there's one just like this
next door, if you're interested.

I'm ready to give the briefing.

Agent Jareau, this is SSA David Rossi.

Hi, everyone calls me JJ.

It is such an honor to meet you, sir.
I've heard a lot about you.

Well, thank you.
And what's your function here?

I'm the Communications
Coordinator and Liaison.

Pretty much the go-between for
the team and the rest of the world.

-So, I'll gather everyone.
-We'll be right there.

-It is so nice to have you here, sir.
-Great.

Wow. We didn't have that 10 years ago.

-What do you mean?
-Communications Coordinator.

Right. Oh, a lot's changed.
Come meet the team.

SSA David Rossi,
this is SSA Emily Prentiss.

-Sir.
-HOTCH: SSA Derek Morgan.

-It's an honor, Agent Rossi.
-Please, just Dave.

And Dr. Spencer Reid.

Sir, if I could talk to you later about
your work with the Scarsdale Skinner?

Psycholinguistics is
an incredibly dynamic field,

and the fact that your profile
of his reading habits

ultimately led to his capture
is something I find so incredibly...

Reid, slow down. He'll be here
for a while. Catch up with him later.

-Right. Sorry.
-No problem, Doctor.

-Maybe you guys can talk on the jet.
-Oh, yeah, that'd be great.

-The jet?
-We have a jet now.

-Are you serious?
-Yeah. Comes in pretty handy.

Come on, JJ's waiting.

Carrollton, Texas is a suburb
just outside of Dallas.

Four days ago, Michelle Colucci
found this flyer on her front door.

She found it?

-Meaning she wasn't actually missing.
-JJ: Yet.

She took the flyer to a friend's husband,

Detective Yarbrough at the Carrollton
PD, who told her it was probably just

a Halloween prank, and he sent her home.

Well, I don't blame him. Halloween
brings out the fool in everyone.

Still, he stopped by Michelle's house
later to check on her.

The door was open and
when he went inside, he found this.

Still thought maybe it could be
some kind of a prank, until yesterday.

Michelle was found floating in
a small creek just outside of Carrollton.

She had been sexually assaulted.
And her face had been removed.

Removed? It wasn't animals or fish?

The Dallas County M.E. said the edges
of the wounds were smooth, not torn.

A very sharp instrument had been used.
He also found water in her lungs.

(DOOR OPENING)

GARCIA: Oh, my God!

What is that?

Technical Analyst Penelope Garcia,
this is SSA David Rossi.

-Is it gone, JJ?
-Yeah. You're safe.

(SIGHING) Okay. Just to...

Carrollton, Texas has
nearly 117,000 residents.

A diverse population with a...
Well, it's all in there. I'm sorry.

Very happy to meet you, sir.
I'll be in my office.

Door. Sorry.

-She's different.
-You have no idea.

So, the UnSub tells her
she's going to go missing

to psychologically torture her,
then tortures her physically.

-Textbook sadist.
-A sophisticated one. That's elaborate.

Number one.

That particular mask
is known as a false face.

It's most commonly worn
during Halloween and Mardi Gras.

Creepy. I rest my case.

-False face.
-PRENTISS: Her face?

He mocks it, then destroys it?

Oh, and, Hotch, local media has
the story. It broke big.

Tell Carrollton we'll be there
first thing in the morning.

-Let's stop this one at one.
-JJ: Yes, sir.

If you want to take some time
to get situated,

maybe start on the next case?

I'm not back to get situated, Hotch.
I'm here to work.

Everybody get your things together.
We're going to Texas.

REPORTER: Abbey, what's the latest?

Police sources tell me
they have no leads in the case

they are calling
the "Have You Seen Me?" murder.

-Where the hell do you get this stuff?
-They are unable to determine why...

No. Not you, Agent Jareau. The television.

The press is saying
we gave this thing a stupid name.

Like it's some kind
of damn game or something.

(SIGHING) Just call me
when y'all get in tomorrow,

I'll take you wherever you need to go.
All right. Good night.

REPORTER: Abbey, do we know
when this flyer first surfaced?

We have heard reports
that Ms. Colucci received this flyer

late Tuesday afternoon
when she returned home from work.

KID: Score!
ENID: Never saw the point

in throwing an egg at anything.

DALLAS, TEXAS

Or even the connection to Halloween,
for that matter.

(DOG BARKING)

What the hell? Oh, my God, that's me.

(SCREAMING) Oh, my God!

(GIRL SCREAMING)

(MAN SHOUTING)

HOTCH: Let's go over victimology.
Would you like to join us, Dave?

Reid, what have you got?

Michelle Colucci was single, lived alone.

No boyfriend and no ex-husband.

PRENTISS: Dating?
MORGAN: There's nothing in the reports.

She was an architect,
friends and co-workers

says she's a classic workaholic.

Basically a loner
who rarely went out of the house.

So, she's extremely low-risk.

If it wasn't someone she knew personally,

it's possible she was being stalked.

-Interesting.
-What's that?

Oh, I'm just thinking out loud.

-Something to add?
-No. Sorry to interrupt.

Well, she's pretty. Could be
that the UnSub met her casually

and made her
a part of some kind of fantasy.

And he tries to act on it
and she rejects him?

-So he tortures her. Out of anger?
-Masks often represent a state of mind.

This one's blank, expressionless.
Doesn't really coincide with anger.

Reid, it's hard to imagine he did this
out of anything less than rage.

GARCIA: (ON COMPUTER) Hey, guys.

What's up? You got something for us?

A list of Michelle Colucci's clients.

She designed office space.
Mostly big corporate remodeling plans.

HOTCH: No private clients?
One-on-one contact?

-Doesn't look like it. No.
-Thanks, baby girl.

Yeah.

OFFICER: Yes, right this way, ma'am.

Police Department CARROLLTON, TEXAS

-Detective Yarbrough.
-FBI?

We got another flyer.
This time Metro Dallas.

Enid White. Her roommate
called Dallas PD this morning.

Enid never came home
after walking her dog last night.

So, she is missing?

Well, he wallpapered
the neighborhood with flyers

-for two blocks around their apartment.
-Outside. That's different.

No one saw him putting them up?

Dallas PD's still canvassing,
but nothing so far.

They're waiting for you on the new scene.

-Mind if I keep this?
-Not at all.

Morgan, you and Prentiss
go to Michelle Colucci's house.

JJ and I will talk to Enid's roommate.

Dave, do you mind
walking the disposal site

with the detective and Reid?

-Whatever you need.
-We'll regroup in an hour.

These houses sure are close together.

Yeah. So, how do I get a woman out of
her house without anyone seeing me?

MORGAN:
Well, he must have been watching her

for a long time and knew that it was safe.

There isn't a lot of cover on this street.

MORGAN: I have a vehicle.

Big enough so I can watch
without being seen.

MORGAN: But not so big
as to draw attention to itself.

No. Neighbors will notice
a strange vehicle

parked in front of their house
day after day, night after night.

MORGAN: It's human nature.

You would notice something out of
place in your own neighborhood.

PRENTISS: And you would
definitely notice a man

repeatedly standing on your street.

Yeah, it just doesn't make any sense.
He didn't watch from here.

FEMALE REPORTER: As we reported earlier,

Enid White is still considered missing.

-Big story.
-Leeches.

Haven't had something like this
big to play in a long time.

Did the press run with the story
about the mask?

Mask?

A mask was left
at Michelle Colucci's apartment.

-First time I'm hearing about it.
-Good. Let's make sure that stays ours.

Yeah.

Miss White's roommate says
that Enid walks her dog every night

at the same time, takes the same route,
right down this street.

Nothing a stalker likes
better than routine.

Well, she definitely would have seen this,

if this was here before she went missing.

BOWIE: A couple of neighbors said they
may have seen a guy putting up a flyer

during the day, but they really couldn't
remember anything about him.

Well, we're going to have to know
everything we can about the victim.

I know you sent some stuff
over to Quantico,

but it would help us if we could
interview the roommate ourselves.

We have her downtown now.

-Where's her dog?
-Excuse me?

She was abducted while she was
walking her dog. Where's her dog?

YARBROUGH: We went over this area
pretty thoroughly.

There's no evidence left.

I just want to stand where she was.

Dr. Reid, do we still keep all the old
files in the fourth-floor storeroom?

I think some are up there.

Most of our information's on computer now.

-Right.
-Have you had a chance to go through

any of our data since you've been back?

ROSSI: Not yet.
REID: Oh, you'll be amazed.

The original team, I mean,

you, interviewed something like
45 serial killers, right?

-Something like.
-Today we have interviews with over

1,000 offenders. Serial killers,
child abductors, sex offenders.

I'll go through it with you sometime
if you'd like.

-Answer any questions...
-Sounds good.

Michelle's body was found right here.
I really thought it was a prank.

You can't really blame yourself for that.

-She made herself dinner.
-Excuse me?

She had time to make herself dinner.

That means she was home
for a while before he...

-There was time to help her.
-Water.

Obliterates a body, destroys evidence.

MICHELLE: (CRYING) No! No! No! No!

But you weren't in the water that long,
were you, Michelle?

YARBROUGH: She had rocks
tied to her to weigh her down.

REID: She floated to the surface before
there was any other damage.

YARBROUGH: Just what was done
to her already.

The salient point is it was the first
thing the UnSub wasn't good at.

Green River dumped
most of the bodies in water.

But they weren't weighed down.

Well, yeah. We know now it's because
he didn't care if they were found.

He had no connection to them.

MORGAN: This is where I'd wait.

Yeah, I'd never be able to see you
from the house.

Prentiss, he was here a lot.

Watching everything she did.

(INDISTINCT CHATTERING)

HOTCH: We got anything?

Agent Rossi pointed out that
since the victims are weighted down,

it suggests the UnSub
didn't want them found,

which suggests some sort of
connection between them.

Detective, how long was Michelle missing?

She was found on the fourth day.

So, if she wasn't in the water long,
then he held her for three.

(PHONE BEEPING)

Garcia?

GARCIA: I've been running
all of Enid White's credit cards.

-HOTCH: And?
-She made a purchase at 9:00 a.m.

this morning,
at a sporting goods store in Dallas.

-This morning?
-What did she buy?

A shotgun.

HOTCH: Thanks.

REPORTER ON TV:
...Approximately six-feet tall.

The man was seen posting flyers
around the neighborhood

where Enid White was known
to walk her dog.

The police are still unable to give us
any information at this time,

and they are saying
they still have no possible leads.

We will continue to keep you posted

as we receive more details
about the hunt for Enid White...

-She can buy a gun that easily?
-This is Texas.

There's no license or waiting period
for most rifles or shotguns.

Is there video surveillance
of gun sales in sporting goods stores?

-There's supposed to be.
-JJ, call the store.

Find out if it was Enid
or the UnSub using her credit card.

Right away.

Detective Yarbrough? There's an
urgent call from a woman on 1.

Detective Yarbrough.

-My name is Enid White.
-Where are you, Enid?

ENID: The news report said that the
police didn't believe that other woman

-when she saw the missing flyers.
-That was a mistake, Enid.

I have a gun.

I don't think
I can stay awake very much longer.

Enid, this is Agent Hotchner of the FBI.
We believe you,

and we want to help you.
Can you tell us where you are?

El Royale Motel in Dallas.

It's Room 6.

I saw the flyers. Hurry, please.
He's going to kill me.

Don't move, Enid. We're on our way.

HOTCH: FBI!

-Clear.
-OFFICER: Clear.

PRENTISS: She's gone.

(SIREN WAILING)

20 minutes. We were here in
20 minutes. I can't believe we lost her.

We may not have lost her.
He kept Michelle for four days.

But we've got nothing.

HOTCH: That's not true.
Look at the difference in the scenes.

What do you mean?
There's a mask, there's flyers.

Yeah, but these flyers weren't tacked up.

They were just thrown around the room.

-So?
-He left in a hurry,

like he knew we were coming.

Okay, this was under the bed.
A 972 area code.

-That's Carrollton. The hotline number.
-She used a cell phone.

You can get a cell interceptor
at any electronics store.

-You can?
-Yeah, they don't cost that much.

He probably sat right out here
and heard everything she said.

YARBROUGH: But if he followed her
here from Dallas,

why wait till she calls us to move on her?

To make sure it was the police
who found the mask.

We need to gather your men
and give a profile.

He's a white male.
His shoe prints have been examined,

and put him at about 5'11'', 165.

So, we've narrowed it down to anyone
of average weight and height?

Exactly.

(PHONE RINGING)

Speak and be recognized
by your empress, mortal.

-Is this the Technical Analyst girl?
-Who is this?

Doctor Reid said this was
your direct line from the team.

It is.

This is Agent Dave Rossi.
We met yesterday?

Oh, of course. Of course. I'm sorry, sir.

Yeah. I already started processing

the footprint information
on Michelle Colucci's...

No, no, no. This is about something else.

All the past open cases the BAU
worked on are on computer now?

Well, most of them.
There may be a few left to catalog.

If I gave you a victim's name,
could you find the old records?

Oh, records are my specialty, sir.

The original case,
I'm going back 20 years.

Won't be a problem.

The name is Galen.
Diana and Richard Galen.

They had three children.

Okay. I will get back to you super-fast.
Scout's honor.

No, just put a file together.
I'll get it when I get back.

It's really no problem, sir.
I could just send it

-right now.
-Not necessary.

I'll look at it when I get back.

And let's keep this between us,
if you don't mind.

For now.

Okay.

-Thank you.
-My pleasure entirely, sir.

There's a sophistication and patience
in what this UnSub does

that suggests a level of maturity.

We believe this puts his age
in the mid-30s to 40s range.

Michelle Colucci was taken
from the primary crime scene

and disposed of at the tertiary
crime scene four days later.

That means she was held
somewhere for at least three days.

You can't really just hold a victim
anywhere for days on end,

so he most likely has access
to a house of some kind.

And he's also fairly tech savvy.

The flyers were made on a computer,
and it's probable that he used a device

to intercept Enid White's phone call.

HOTCH: Witnesses in
Enid White's neighborhood

say they may have seen
a white man putting up flyers,

but none of them could describe him,

even with all the media attention
this case has received.

-Great.
-Actually, what that tells us

is that there is absolutely nothing
remarkable about this man.

He is exceedingly average.

MORGAN: As you said, Detective Yarbrough,

average height, average build.

It extends
to his professional life as well.

He most likely works in a field
where he doesn't stand out.

Doesn't really make a mark.

HOTCH: His lack of distinction
is part of his psychopathy.

We have hundreds of interactions
with people every day.

Most of those involve someone
overlooking someone else.

Most of us don't pay any attention
to being ignored.

But, to this kind of UnSub,
each oversight is intentional.

Especially when it comes from
the object of his sexual desire.

He begins to obsess over her
until she's all he can think about.

And the rage builds
until he has to attack that person.

So, he's pissed off
that nobody notices him?

-"Have You Seen Me?"
-Wait, that's not about the women?

No, the masks are about the women.

Number one, number two.
The flyers probably refer to him.

Removing his victim's faces
transfers his feelings of being ignored

into a mission and it gives him
a sense of power.

And the power can make him arrogant,
but it doesn't make him notable.

So, how the hell do we catch
an invisible man?

I'm pretty sure we can get him

-to contact you.
-What?

The crime scenes show he wants
to deliver his message to the police.

-He isn't going public.
-Hopefully by playing on his anger...

TV REPORTER: Tell me they have...

(INAUDIBLE)

-JJ, how'd they get that?
-Not from me. Hotch,

I called all the local police departments
and I stressed withholding the mask.

-I called them.
-What?

I said the FBI thinks
the masks mean he's impotent.

Can I speak to you for a second?

Why would you do that?

It'll make him contact us.
He's screaming for it.

We aren't prepared.

-Prepared?
-We need to set up a trap and trace.

Trap and trace? They never stay
on the phone long enough for that.

Dave, they're a lot faster
than they used to be.

We also need to prep the detective
on what to say to him.

He's not going to want
to talk to the detective,

he's going to want to talk to the FBI.

We don't step over the local police
like that.

They called us in.

Yes, but if the perception is that
we're going to embarrass the locals

by telling the media that we're going to
fix things, then they'll stop calling us.

-Relax, Hotch. I've got this.
-You see, that's the problem, Dave.

There is no "I." We function as a team.

I've been doing this
before you were out of high school.

Probably before the rest of your team
was in school at all.

I know that. Things have changed.

The bells and whistles changed.
An UnSub is still an UnSub.

And I know how to deal with an UnSub.

-No, Dave, it's not just that...
-JJ: Hotch.

-What?
-Garcia found something.

Garcia, talk to us.

Michelle Colucci recently
drew up the plans

for a remodel of three floors of a company

called Techco Communications.

It's a hi-tech communications company
in downtown Dallas.

-HOTCH: And Enid White?
-Worked there until two months ago.

-He's on two.
-The UnSub?

Demanding to speak to the FBI.

This is FBI Supervisory Special Agent
David Rossi.

-MAX: You called me impotent.
-Did I?

-(WHISPERING) I am not impotent.
-Why are you whispering?

MAX: You lied. You lied.

Is someone around you? Are you at work?

You have to tell the news the truth.

I'll get you on the news
and you can correct me yourself.

No, you, you,

you correct it.

By the way, I was looking
at the police security tapes

for the day Michelle Colucci went missing.

What?

You watched her long enough to know
she didn't have visitors.

She was a loner.

Yet you knew that Detective Yarbrough
was coming over.

You must have been right here
in this station when he told her.

Now your face is going to be
on one of those tapes.

And when I find it,
I'm going to paper this city with it,

just like you did with those women.
Everyone will see it.

They won't be able to ignore you now.

But you won't inspire fear.
You'll inspire hatred and ridicule,

because the only power
someone like you has is a mask,

and once that mask is removed,

you'll be as insignificant
as you've always been. A loser.

You just signed Enid White's
death warrant.

(DIAL TONE)

Lieutenant, I need you to lock
the Techco building down tight.

Nobody in, nobody out. It's vital.

Rossi, you really think the UnSub's
still going to be there after that call?

Of course. He thinks he has
all the time in the world.

You think they got an image off the
police security camera yet?

The security camera doesn't work.
I lied about that.

-HOTCH: You lied about that?
-He doesn't know.

Dave, that was incredibly reckless.

Hotch, he didn't weigh the body down well.

What do you mean?

He didn't want Michelle found
so quickly. He screwed that up.

This kind of guy, when he plans
something, if he has the time,

if he's in control, he's meticulous.
But being on the edge of the river,

out in the open, he was not in control.

He was in a hurry and he made a mistake.

That's what you're hoping.

Trust me. With an UnSub like this,
you need to throw him off his game.

His hand needs to be forced.

I know that, Dave. But the point is
you did it by forcing ours.

-Is the building sealed?
-PRICE: Top to bottom.

Yarbrough, make sure it stays that way.

Garcia, which floors
did Michelle Colucci remodel?

Got it. Seven, eight, nine.
Morgan, take seven.

We're looking for a rank-and-file employee

who made a scene in the last 20 minutes,

or was here and gone.
Prentiss, eight. Reid, nine.

Don't approach him.
Just try to get a name, maybe a picture.

-He's somewhere in this lobby.
-HOTCH: What?

-Can't you feel it?
-Display your credentials. FBI.

He thinks we know what he looks like.

(CELL PHONE RINGING)

Yeah, Reid.

Got it.

Sir?

Sir?

Max Pool.

We have your address, Max.
There's no place to go.

This is Agent Rossi, Max.

If you do what you're thinking,
you won't get to tell them I lied.

Come on, Max. Slowly put your hands
on top of your head.

Listen to him, Max.

I know what you're thinking,
and you don't have to do it.

It doesn't have to end here, Max. Please.

Down!

-You okay?
-Yeah.

-He's gone.
-What about Enid White?

-We have his home address.
-YARBROUGH: Is she there?

Let's hope so.

(HOME PLAYING)

MAN: (SINGING)
I'm staring out into the night

Trying to hide the pain

I'm going to the place where love

And feeling good
don't ever cost a thing

And the pain you feel's
a different kind of pain

Well, I'm going home

Back to the place where I belong

And where your love
has always been enough for me

I'm not running from

No, I think you got me all wrong

I don't regret this life I chose for me

But these places and these faces
are getting old

So I'm going home

So I'm going home

I'm going home

You said out there,
"The team shares everything."

-That's right.
-There is no "I"?

Uh-huh.

Seems a big thing to withhold.

Separating from your wife, your child.

-What are you talking about?
-You used to call Haley 10 times a day.

We've been together 48 hours,
I haven't seen you call her once.

Haven't mentioned her.
And you're not going home now.

What's your point?

I guess you're just not used to sharing.

My private life is not the same as a case.

I'm just saying
sharing is a learned skill.

You know, when this all started,

there were only a few of us.
We'd go out on the road alone.

-We didn't group-think.
-We don't group-think.

We think as individuals and we share
the thoughts with the rest of the team.

We don't write them down in a little
notebook and keep them to ourselves.

Dave.

All this, the people we've helped,

the ones we've put away,
it's because of you

and the guys who started this unit.
Who believed, when nobody else did,

that there was a way of understanding

these crimes and getting ahead of them.

And?

I don't see that
you have anything to prove.

-You don't have to come back.
-I know that.

So why?

Maybe I have unfinished business.