Criminal Minds (2005–…): Season 5, Episode 5 - Cradle to Grave - full transcript
The team hunts a suspect who impregnates young women and has them give birth before murdering them.
Ooh, it hurts!
Please... Help me.
Oh, my god! Stop!
Take me to a hospital.
Aah!
Help me!
Stop!
Oh, my god, stop!
Ohh! Ohh!
Ohh!
Is everything ok?
Oh, god.
Oh, god.
Hey, you.
How are you doing?
Give me the baby.
Wait.
It's a girl.
Don't! No! Let me just--
Give me back my baby!
What's next?
Baton Rouge thinks they have a
white supremacist problem.
What's your take?
Really?
Yeah, I'd like to hear it.
We're dealing with
an individual, not a group.
Why?
The angry letters.
The writer switches pronouns
from plural to singular.
"We are a heavily
armed militia,"
followed by, "I will be
forced to take action."
Good. Send it back
to the police with our analysis.
What else?
You need to be somewhere?
Um...Henry's just going
through a clingy stage.
It's one less 3 a.m. diaper
change when I put him down.
Why don't you go home?
Oh, no, no, no. We only have 5 more
cases. We can crank 'em out.
We can do this tomorrow.
Please go home.
Ok. Thank you.
I just have one last distribution
and I'm out of here.
Good night.
Good night.
Chief Strauss.
Aaron.
We need to talk.
Close the door.
I need to review this
with the director.
Agent Jareau.
Ma'am.
Hotch.
Yes?
Is everything ok?
Yes, everything's fine.
Good night.
Good night.
Reid, what did i miss?
Oh, man, you're not
gonna believe this.
Some moron just posted a blog called
"What would Carl Sagan do?"
No, Reid, the case.
What's the case?
What are you talking about?
These emails from Hotch.
"Take a look at this,"
"New case to review."
Emails from Hotch?
I didn't get any emails
from Hotch, did I?
Nothing.
Come in.
Did you, uh, get a chance
to look at the files?
I just got them.
What's so important
you couldn't send it
to the rest of the team?
I just needed
a second pair of eyes.
I'll review it right now.
Just give me an hour.
That's not necessary.
We're ready.
Kristie Taylor,
runaway, drug addict,
reported missing from
Farmington, New Mexico
3 years ago.
Yesterday, she turned up
off a freeway
outside of Rio Rancho.
Sexual assault combined with ligaturemarks
on her wrists and ankles.
She was asphyxiated.
3 victims in 5 years.
All the women
are connected by marks.
He likes chains.
Definite sexual sadist.
He sticks to his type. 16- to
19-year-old girls, all blond.
Hangs on to them
for a while, too.
Look at this.
Average of 2 years
between abducting them
and killing them.
Low body count,
long time frame.
This guy's in control
of his urges.
Too controlled.
Sadists need new victims,
new ways to torture.
There are a lot of guys
out there who like chains.
Are we sure this is
the same unsub?
Kristie Taylor's
autopsy report
also indicates a second
connection between these victims.
She was pregnant.
She'd given birth. Very soon
after, the unsub killed her.
How soon after?
Minutes.
This unsub isn't your
typical sexual sadist.
Captivity and assault
we've seen before.
What we haven't seen
is this signature--
The role he forces these women
to fulfill before he kills them.
Motherhood.
Journalist
William D. Tammeus wrote,
"You don't really
understand human nature
"unless you know why a child
on a merry-go-round
"will wave at his parents
every time around
and why his parents
will always wave back."
So why would a sexual sadist
make women carry his children?
Gary Heidnik kept a harem
in a dungeon.
His goal was to create
a large family
as a replacement for
his own broken home.
Josef Fritzl kept his daughter
in a cell in his own house,
and they had several kids
together.
Squalid conditions
are part
of a control fantasy
these men had.
If he's keeping these women
in a similar location,
he'd need
a lot of privacy.
He probably
built it himself.
Makes him good with his hands.
Why blondes, and what
significance do they have to him?
Maybe, uh, the woman
who rejected him
or the woman who wouldn't
bear his children?
If that were true, he'd be
the same age as these girls--
Late teens.
This unsub is too skilled
for that.
His own mother, then?
She could be a runaway,
just like these victims.
Which makes his compulsion
Psych 101--
Killing his mother over and over
again for giving birth to him.
Yeah, but then why wait
until after she gives birth?
Now he has a body
and a baby to get rid of.
That troubles me, too. We found
the mothers but not the infants.
Uh, I hate to say this,
but what if the women are
just a means to an end?
What if the babies are really
the ones he's exploiting?
If Kristie Taylor
just surfaced,
it means he has her
baby right now.
JJ, check with the parents.
See if there are any similarities
in the runaways' patterns,
where the unsub's finding them.
Reid and Prentiss,
go to the latest dump site.
We need to look
at victimology.
How he treats these women
in the final moments of their lives
might tell us what he's
doing to the children.
Doctor, you wrote
in your report
that Kristie had had
several miscarriages.
How was that evident?
There were a number of abrasions
in her uterine lining.
Around the third trimester,
her water would break.
So she never
carried to term?
No, last time she did.
There was a high level
of pitocin in her blood.
It's an artificial hormone.
you give it to induce labor.
She was on a tight schedule?
If she lost the baby, he would get
her pregnant again immediately.
Childbirth is tough enough.
Imagine if your life
depends upon it.
All 3 moms had records.
Drug abuse,
drunk and disorderlies.
But what's more interesting
is what he does after he kidnaps them.
This is Kristie Taylor 2 weeks
before she was abducted.
He got her healthy.
Well-fed and off
the habit.
Not completely.
These drugs in Kristie's system--
what are they?
Tamoxifen, Metoclopramide,
Domperidone, Progesterone.
Progesterone's a prenatal
medication, isn't it?
They all are. The first two help
carry the baby to term.
The last two
help with lactation.
What kind of sexual sadist
gives his victims
prenatal drugs?
The kind who takes care
of the kids he's having.
He gets his rocks off
killing the moms,
but the babies he protects.
You think he's keeping them?
If he despises the moms,
he'd despise
their children, too.
New Mexico's
right on the border.
A lot of human
trafficking going on.
This tight schedule
he keeps the moms on--
He could be breeding.
Call child protection
services.
We need to find out about
existing black markets for infants.
Thank you.
There's no tire tracks.
The body wasn't dumped
that far from the road.
This guy doesn't
care about them,
not enough to even
hide them very well.
That's why this doesn't
make any sense.
Dump sites reveal something
about the unsub, you know?
At the very least,
a geographic familiarity,
a place he knows
he won't get caught.
Ok, so he knows this road.
Yeah, except he abducted
Kristie in Farmington
and then dumps her here
in Rio Rancho.
It's a 175-mile drive.
Why drive that far just to
dump a body by the side of the road?
A forensic countermeasure?
Covering his tracks by sheer distance?
So the geographical profile
won't do us much good.
No, it will,
just not
with the victims.
We profiled that it's the babies
that he's interested in.
That's where
he'll reveal himself.
The adoption company
he sells through
and whatever network
of resources he uses.
He makes shortcuts
there for convenience.
No one's gonna drive
100 miles for diapers
or for a public notary
for legal paperwork.
If the babies are in the
system, they'll lead us to him.
Child trafficking
is huge
in other countries,
but here
it's mostly a myth.
Why is that?
There's an easier
and legal path--
Adoption.
There'd be a paper trail,
though, wouldn't there?
There are ways
to hide your tracks.
There must be a way
to identify all these kids.
There's a court record
for every adoption.
Give us the records.
We'll start weeding
them out by date.
The adoptions
in this state are closed.
The files are sealed.
so it'll take time.
That's a luxury
we don't have.
There's a child
at risk right now.
All children who go in
and out of the adoption system
get basic genetic screenings
for pre-existing conditions.
We have their DNA.
We can use that. We
can match the maternal DNA
with the babies
in the system.
We're still talking
hundreds of kids.
What if we give you
one of the babies' DNA?
That would make it
go faster, yeah.
He kills these moms so soon
after they give birth,
secondary DNA could
still be on their bodies.
I'll call the M.E.
I understand.
Thank you, doctor.
Agent Jareau?
I'm Conrad Winmar.
This is my wife Jane.
Thank you
for coming in.
Why don't we talk
privately?
You--you want to
dig up our daughter?
We think the unsub
might have left DNA on her.
The last 2 victims
didn't have any,
but because Monica
was the first,
he might have
made a mistake.
Back when they found her,
the detectives said that
they did not find his DNA.
It's not his DNA
we're looking for.
We suspect your daughter
gave birth while she was captive.
What?
The unsub has gotten all
of his victims pregnant.
He might be
putting the babies
in the adoption system.
The baby's alive?
Possibly.
If we could find placental
tissue on Monica,
we can test the DNA
against the state's records.
Give us the release.
The first time I saw her,
saw her record, too.
Thought she was just
another girl on the street,
not caring what
she did to herself.
I never even thought
to look for this.
What is it?
It's a baby's umbilical cord.
The child should be
about 4 now.
I hope you find him or her.
I really do.
Thank you.
Mm.
Ok, know this--
most adoption folk
are like the nicest,
most dedicated people
in the world.
There are, however,
one or two skeezy ones.
How skeezy?
Super skeezy. I've got
a spread sheet from one of them
expecting compensation
for the baby I'm having.
Something you want
to tell me, Garcia?
Oh, that's the sad part,
my prince.
The genetically perfect
offspring
of Penelope Garcia
and Derek Morgan
wouldn't fetch top dollar.
Who does?
White babies
are in higher demand
than minorities.
Boys are more popular
than girls,
at least this year, anyway.
And then there's
the Swedish supermodel rule.
The what?
If I were to deliver a blond-haired,
blue-eyed bundle of joy,
i'd be set for life.
I would.
Garcia,
did the baby's DNA
turn up in New Mexico's
adoption records?
No. There's no hits
on her profile.
and it is a her,
by the way.
This unsub could still
be selling babies,
just not through the system.
That's gonna make him
a lot harder to catch.
All right. It's late.
Let's get some rest. We'll hit
this fresh in the morning.
Garcia out.
Morgan.
I'd like for you to write up
a preliminary profile.
We don't have enough
for that.
Well, that's why
it's preliminary.
A work in progress profile helps
show us what we're missing.
Ok.
Sure.
How you holding up?
We just wasted a day
looking into a black market
that probably doesn't exist.
That's not what I mean.
I've heard whispers.
You're getting some heat.
I'm taking care of it.
So, you, uh, think we have
a tunnel vision problem?
I think
we'd like to believe
that we could
save those kids,
but look what he does
to the mothers.
A lot of anger.
He's probably doing the same
thing to the children.
His own children.
Maybe.
Garcia said something
interesting.
Blond-haired, blue-eyed
babies get top dollar
in the adoption system.
All the mothers...
Have blond hair
and blue eyes.
You're gonna love this.
This guy,
he has like the best.
Like there is no better.
He has like
this access to God.
He doesn't want
to hang on to it.
He wants to give it away.
How much further?
Not much.
Because that's what God's
love is, you know, it's sharing.
It's giving everything
you have of yourself away
and not expecting
anything in return.
Where are we?
Right here, baby,
Right where
we need to be.
Aah!
Aah! Aah!
She's good, right?
That's the kind
of chick you want?
She's perfect.
I know it's a long shot,
but Monica's parents
said that she was heading west.
Maybe she made it part of
the way when she was kidnapped.
So why not run her DNA against adoption
records in surrounding states?
Are you kidding?
I think you're brilliant.
Hey, JJ, if we find
this little girl,
what's gonna happen to her?
If something illegal
transpires
during the adoption process,
the court nullifies it,
the child gets returned
to the closest blood relative.
Huh.
If it helps,
I have met with
the grandparents.
They're
wonderful people.
Oh, I'm sure they are.
It's just...
I don't know, I...
I lost my parents.
Granted, I was older
than she is, but...
what got me through were
the people closest to me, and...
If Monica's daughter
is with a good family
and we take her away
from them...
Are we doing
more harm than good?
Yeah.
Garcia, I don't think
we have a choice.
These people have a right
to their granddaughter.
You're right.
Yeah.
This sucks.
Yes, right away, please.
Thank you.
Hey. I just called CPS, asked them
to send over infant mortality files.
Another group
for us to eliminate.
Good.
What's that?
Your profile. I disagree
with your analysis.
Hotch, are you serious?
It's not a law review
article,
it's just something
for us to brainstorm.
But you only focused
on one angle, Morgan,
that the prenatal drugs
indicate the presence
of a wife or a girlfriend.
We need more options.
Which I can give you once we
make the proper deductions.
Hotch, you're asking me
to guess.
Morgan, in order for
the profile to be useful,
it has to generate
multiple scenarios
about what the unsub
is doing.
Rewrite it.
We got her.
Monica Winmar's daughter.
She was adopted 4 years ago.
She's Lisa now.
How did Garcia find her?
She cross-referenced
the entire New Mexico system.
She wasn't in New Mexico.
She was in Arizona.
So all the mothers were abducted
and dumped in New Mexico,
but he keeps the babies
in Arizona.
He knows the police with
stop looking at the state line.
The adoption agency's gonna be
our best lead to the unsub.
Who handled the case?
That's bombshell
number 2.
She didn't go through
an agency.
She was dropped off
anonymously at a church.
Hospitals and churches
are safe havens.
You can drop a baby off,
no questions asked.
Child protection services
would look for the closest relative.
Another search that ends
at the state line.
And if CPS doesn't find one,
the baby will go into foster care,
which is what happened
to Lisa.
She was lucky.
The adoption process
happened within a month.
So, this unsub
had the opportunity
to make money off this infant.
He doesn't,
drops it off at a church
because he knows the state
will take good care of it.
That's awfully considerate.
Outside the murders,
nothing about this unsub's
behavior profiles
like a sexual sadist...
As I wrote.
Yeah, Morgan's right.
It's the actions of a caretaker,
a mother.
Could our unsub be a woman?
Uh, only a man would torture
his victims this much.
Men get off on this kind
of violence. Women don't.
He could be married,
though, his wife being
a passive participant,
taking care of the moms.
And the babies.
All right.
We need to split up.
We'll give the profile
to the Arizona
and the New Mexico
state police.
Rossi, Reid, and Prentiss,
I want you to head to Phoenix.
Morgan, you're here with me.
We'll finalize the profile.
Ohh.
How are you feeling?
Terrible.
What are you on?
What?
What are you talking about?
When he takes us,
we're all on something.
I was an alcoholic.
So, what are you on?
Uh...crack.
I'm Carol.
I'm Julie.
Here. Here's some water.
Come drink some.
Um...is this some kind of
tough love detox?
Oh, what is that?
It's like the sun.
It gives us vitamin D.
It keeps us healthy.
Well, they can't make us
stay here.
Hey! Hey, let me out!
I want to go home!
I want my clothes!
I want my phone!
Let me out of here!
Let me out!
Why is he doing this?
What does he want?
Your baby.
I'm not pregnant.
You will be.
The unsubs that we are
looking for are a couple.
Now, the man in the relationship
most likely has a history
of sexual violence.
He started with stalking, and then
moved his way up to assault and rape.
And that violent streak
ended temporarily
when he found his wife.
For the first years
of their marriage,
she submitted to his torture.
Look for wives who came
into the E.R. repeatedly
and with obvious signs
of spousal abuse,
but you are gonna have to
go back about 5 years.
That's because around the time
of the first abduction,
the visits stopped.
The sexual sadist
can't find satisfaction
from a willing participant.
He eventually got to a place
where he couldn't escalate
his violence against her
without killing her,
so she made him a deal.
He gets to kidnap,
rape, and kill
each of the runaways,
and she gets to keep
the children.
She's been giving the victims
a series of prescription prenatal drugs.
So you're gonna want to look
at the obstetric fields, uh,
Nurses, O.B.S.
The wife needs
these children.
At first, they were
the lifeline that kept her alive.
As long as he had other
targets for his abuse,
she avoided his rage.
So if these children
protect her from abuse,
why is she putting them
up for adoption?
We believe the unsubs want
children who resemble them physically,
who no one would question
as their own.
All of the runaways
have been blond,
which means the unsub
may be as well.
But the first child we found
in the system was a brunette.
Whatever the physical
characteristic--
the color of the eyes,
the skin type--
if the baby doesn't have it,
he or she ends up
in the foster care system.
Wives of sexual sadists
need outlets
as a denial mechanism to cope
with what their partners are doing.
And motherhood, especially
taking care of a helpless infant,
is this woman's
way of coping.
You found her?
We have.
How is she?
She's great.
She was adopted
by a young couple.
No reports of physical
or emotional trauma.
So when can we take her?
Right now we're in touch with
her adoptive parents' lawyer,
But the law is on your side.
Can we talk
to the parents?
We could discuss this
with them.
They don't want
to initiate contact.
They've been through
a lot right now.
They're her parents.
Of course they don't
want to give her up.
Well, if she wants to see them,
then we can work that out,
but we are her family.
Yes, absolutely.
No, wait.
What are the risks here?
If we claim her,
are we hurting her?
It's impossible to tell.
Some kids do great.
Others have trouble.
But why are we
talking about risks?
She's Monica's daughter.
Conrad...
She's not their blood.
Stop it.
Thank you, agent Jareau.
But my husband and I,
we need to discuss this.
What's this?
It's the pattern
I've been looking for.
The unsubs hid their
tracks with the mothers,
but they weren't so careful
with the abandoned babies.
Did you find
more children?
DNA-wise, no,
but deductively, yes.
I gathered all the records
for all infants who entered into foster care
in a 2-week window
following each mother's death.
Then I narrowed it down to babies
that were abandoned at churches.
This is where
the guesswork begins.
Monica Winmar's daughter was
abandoned at a Presbyterian church.
Let's assume the unsub,
or the wife at least, is Presbyterian.
That means all other
unwanted children
are gonna be left at
the same denomination, right?
That narrows it down
to 3 babies
left at 3 different
Presbyterian churches
all within this 20-mile radius.
This is where they live.
These kids
you deduced to--
Have you looked
at their files?
No. Right now I've only
been tracking churches. Why?
Because you just uncovered
another pattern.
Yeah,
We're packing up now.
We can be in Phoenix
in about 2 hours.
You sure about this?
The names of the babies
Reid found tells us everything.
Lisa, Elizabeth, Amanda.
We profiled there'd
be a type they'd keep
and a type they'd put
into foster care.
They're keeping the boys.
It's time.
What are you doing?
What are you doing?!
Hey, where are you going?
Come back!
You have to come back!
Please!
They never stay
for this part.
No, no, no, no.
You're not actually--
Yes...I am.
They've induced.
What am I supposed to do?
You help me.
1-1,000...
Ohh!
2-1,000...
No, no, no, I'm sorry,
I can't.
3-1,000...
I can't help you.
I can't. I'm sick.
I'm not well.
I need a...
I can't do it.
Julie, listen to me.
Are you listening to me?
Yes. Yes.
If this baby
doesn't make it...
They are going
to kill me.
And once they've
killed me,
they are going
to move on to you.
Do you understand?
Ok.
Ok. What do we do?
JJ, I need you to call
these fertility specialists
and get them over here
for interviews.
Whoa.
Yeah, I know.
Hotch wants to focus
on the prenatal drugs
the unsubs are giving
the victims.
He thinks we can build
a new suspect pool,
and he wants it done
yesterday.
There's 2 pages of names here.
Shouldn't we narrow it down?
JJ, just do it, ok?
I'm sorry.
Is everything ok?
Hotch has been on me
ever since we got here,
and for the life of me,
I can't figure out why.
Oh, I might know.
The night before
Hotch picked this case,
chief Strauss
stopped by the B.A.U.
They were behind
closed doors,
and it seemed like
it got a little tense.
Well, the bureau's
been on him for a while.
He must have known
this was gonna happen.
Except now they're making him
justify every decision.
For Hotch, that's...hell.
Dr. Dekeyser,
we don't think
she's getting these prenatal
drugs as a patient.
You're thinking she's writing
the scrip for these herself.
Something like that.
Then she wouldn't be
very knowledgeable
about what she's doing.
Some of these drugs
have serious side effects.
There's dozens of meds
I would prescribe before these,
all of them more effective.
So why would she use these?
My guess--these are the ones
she had access to.
Fertility drugs
are a cocktail,
and you keep remixing the
cocktail until you get pregnant.
The information is out there
on the internet.
She found the right one.
So the woman was
prescribed these drugs
maybe for
some other illness
and figured out that
they helped carry a baby to term.
Exactly.
Then the real question is,
what other diseases
do these drugs treat?
Ok. I can do this.
I can do this.
What?
Nothing.
You remind me of me.
Carol? Hey.
Carol, please,
Please stay awake.
Please?
Ok, just--just focus
On the sound of my voice, ok?
Can you do that?
I'm here.
Carol, tell me
about the woman
who was here before me.
What happened to her?
She miscarried...
A lot.
Then she gave birth
to a girl.
They don't like girls.
This isn't your
first time, is it?
No.
What happened?
He didn't make it.
I'm sorry.
They let you live
even if you lose him.
They want those boys.
Ok. Ok, hey. Hey.
Listen, I don't know
what to do, ok,
so please, please,
just tell me what to do.
How dilated am I?
Wh-what? I don't know
what that means.
Just put your fingers
in a row and...
Measure me.
Wait...
Oh, my god.
Ok...
Oh, my god.
Ok. Um...
It's 4. It's 4 fingers.
And I--oh, god,
is that the head?
Mm-hmm.
Oh, my god,
What does that mean?
It means...
It's time to push.
What is this?
It's a tactical
arrest plan.
I'd like you to write
it up for this case.
You want me to write up
how we apprehend these unsubs
without risking the lives
of the children.
Yes.
Hotch, I've led
dozens of tactical assaults.
You've never made me
write up one of these before.
That's because I always
do it for you after each case.
You know what?
I'm sorry Strauss
is coming down on you.
This is not about Strauss.
Really? I disagree.
Look, I understand
that you're under the gun.
But I gotta say it. I'm really not
all that surprised.
I've watched you walk away from a
bunch of cops gunning down unsubs in D.C.
You walked in unprotected to a
hostage situation in Louisville.
Of course the bureau's
worried about you.
Man, I'm worried about you.
But just because you're the one who's
under the magnifying glass,
that doesn't mean
I can't do my job.
Morgan, there's a big part
of your job that I do for you
because I don't need you worried
about paperwork and politics.
I need you in the field and focused
and catching the next unsub.
But I can't do that anymore.
I don't have to justify
my orders to you,
and you do have to
follow them.
I've always followed your orders
when they made sense.
Well, if you have a problem
with this one, tell me now.
You're the boss.
Garcia needs to talk
to us ASAP.
Ok, so the gold star of the
day goes to agent David Rossi
and his short list
of one disease
These prenatal drugs
also treat.
Breast Cancer. Progesterone,
Tamoxifen slow the spread,
Metoclopramide
and Domperidone--
are for anti-nausea
if I remember correctly.
If this woman has breast cancer,
would she be able to get pregnant?
She could.
She'd have to be dedicated.
How dedicated?
Well, she'd have to
go off chemotherapy.
She'd be in a lot of pain.
But she'll try anyway.
Her whole life is children.
That's her goal.
The first runaway,
Monica Winmar,
When was she abducted?
5 years ago.
How many breast cancer
patients in Arizona
got pregnant
5 to 6 years ago?
Uh, let me see.
Not a lot. 7.
How many of those patients
are married to a man
with a history
of sexual violence?
Just one--
Robert and Linda Reimann.
Oh, jeez.
What?
She lost the baby
in month 8.
She had to go through
labor anyway.
Well, that kind of physical and
emotional trauma, there's our stressor.
Garcia,
was the baby a boy?
Yeah. They even
named him--Michael.
There has to be a name
on the death certificate.
Doctors encourage bonding
between mothers and stillborns.
I...volunteer with
a new mom counseling group.
They say it helps them
cope with feelings of loss.
Well, this unsub can't cope,
so she's recreating them.
Ok, come on, you're
almost there. Just push.
Push!
Oh, my god.
Is it a boy or a girl?
Ha! It's a boy.
Oh...
You're here.
You made it.
No.
Don't.
No! No, please, leave
her alone. Please!
Please, please, please,
Just wait one minute.
Please, please!
It's a boy.
Michael.
Ok, commander, this here
is the unsub's address.
Now, 5 years ago
when the wife lost their child,
the husband started paying
for home renovations
with his credit card.
Shower, toilet, tile,
and mesh fencing
which he did not put up
in his backyard.
He was building
his dungeon.
No permits were filed for additional
building on the property,
so the entrance
must be inside the house.
How many doors
are there to cover?
There's 2--one in the front,
one in the back.
We have the arrest warrants?
Faxed over
20 minutes ago.
Morgan, what's your plan?
I think we should do
a soft entry.
See if we can get
the kids out
before the parents
even know what's happening.
You'd be in the door first?
Do you have another idea?
Send Prentiss and JJ
in first.
Children are more likely to trust
a woman, and we need that presence.
We don't know how many kids
are in the house.
I mean, the parents
could take a hostage.
But if we go in hot,
that would
definitely happen.
Hotch is right.
This is the way.
Hi.
It's ok.
It's ok.
We're the police.
We're the good guys.
Can you come outside
with me?
Ok. Ok.
Hotch, we've got one boy
accounted for.
He's on his way out
to you,
but there could still
be more in the basement.
FBI.
Where's your wife?
In the nursery.
Rossi.
Hotch.
Go.
I knew this would end.
I always knew
you'd come to our door
and take this away.
Ma'am, why don't you
give me the baby.
We can talk about it.
Why would I want
to do that?
What you've been doing
is wrong.
You must know that.
Oh, god, please, please
get us out of here!
Oh! Oh, thank god.
Thank god.
We're all clear here.
Ohh!
It's ok. It's ok, you're safe.
Come with me.
But no, I can't leave her.
All secure,
but we need medical.
This is all I have left.
Do you understand?
My husband hates me.
There's nobody here
that can help me with him,
with this,
with any of it.
He's all I have.
Linda.
Please.
I need you to think about
the baby right now.
You're suffering from
stage 4 breast cancer.
You've given your medication
to the women
that have been locked up
downstairs.
You don't have
a lot of time left.
I know you want somebody who will
always remember you, don't you?
The baby's name
is Michael, right?
Yeah.
Michael will remember you.
He's gonna know that
you helped bring him into the world.
That's a part of him now.
and he will always
ask about you,
long after you're gone.
Do you really
believe that?
I do.
I would have been
a wonderful mother.
Then prove it.
Let him go.
Where's my son?
We're looking for him.
Please, don't let
anything happen to him.
Look, he's here.
He's fine.
He's ok.
Ohh...
You are beautiful,
aren't you?
* it took 40 days
and 40 nights *
* to get myself
feeling right... *
I spoke with Lisa's
adoptive parents.
They've agreed
to talk to you.
They're not willing
to give up custody,
but they do want Lisa to know
her grandparents.
Yeah, we--
we can live with that.
The reason why
I wanted you to come by
was...a year before
giving birth to Lisa,
Monica had a son.
We've already matched
his DNA to your daughter.
The closest relative
should take custody.
Would you like
to meet him?
* there are no words
to describe... *
What's his name?
Michael.
Michael.
* no, there are no words
to describe *
* such a beautiful thing *
Have a seat.
The bureau thinks
that my ability
to lead this team
has been compromised.
What do you think?
Sometimes I question you,
Hotch.
But at the end of the day,
I do respect you.
You're the leader
of this team,
and my job
is to have your back.
Well, that's not important
to the bureau.
They've been questioning me
since Foyet's attack.
And they're not
entirely wrong.
I've tried to do my best,
but what matters now
is if Strauss replaces me,
this whole unit
will come under scrutiny.
Members will be reassigned,
budgets will be cut.
Come on, Hotch,
nobody's gonna replace you.
Fight Strauss.
I'll go to the mat for you.
So will everybody else.
You know that.
Morgan, it won't work.
Decisions like this have
their own momentum...
Unless I step down.
Step down?
What are you talking about?
I'm resigning as unit chief
at the end of the week.
What?
No!
Hotch, look, yeah, ok,
sometimes your actions,
I may disagree with them,
but it's not enough
for you to leave this team.
I'm not leaving
the team,
I'm just no longer
in charge.
You are.
Me?
Look, I had the chance
to be unit chief in New York,
and I said no.
I turned it down
because I like this team.
Strauss can't just
fire you like this.
She can reassign me.
And we can avoid that
if I promote internally.
This is wrong.
It's the only way
to keep the team together.
So all of this--
This is why you've been
pushing me so hard, huh?
I haven't been
pushing you that hard.
Wow.
Morgan, I need to know
Right now--
Will you do this?
This would be temporary.
Once we catch Foyet,
all this goes back
to normal.
Let's get started.
What's all this?
This is the job,
unless you have
other plans.
Not tonight.
Please... Help me.
Oh, my god! Stop!
Take me to a hospital.
Aah!
Help me!
Stop!
Oh, my god, stop!
Ohh! Ohh!
Ohh!
Is everything ok?
Oh, god.
Oh, god.
Hey, you.
How are you doing?
Give me the baby.
Wait.
It's a girl.
Don't! No! Let me just--
Give me back my baby!
What's next?
Baton Rouge thinks they have a
white supremacist problem.
What's your take?
Really?
Yeah, I'd like to hear it.
We're dealing with
an individual, not a group.
Why?
The angry letters.
The writer switches pronouns
from plural to singular.
"We are a heavily
armed militia,"
followed by, "I will be
forced to take action."
Good. Send it back
to the police with our analysis.
What else?
You need to be somewhere?
Um...Henry's just going
through a clingy stage.
It's one less 3 a.m. diaper
change when I put him down.
Why don't you go home?
Oh, no, no, no. We only have 5 more
cases. We can crank 'em out.
We can do this tomorrow.
Please go home.
Ok. Thank you.
I just have one last distribution
and I'm out of here.
Good night.
Good night.
Chief Strauss.
Aaron.
We need to talk.
Close the door.
I need to review this
with the director.
Agent Jareau.
Ma'am.
Hotch.
Yes?
Is everything ok?
Yes, everything's fine.
Good night.
Good night.
Reid, what did i miss?
Oh, man, you're not
gonna believe this.
Some moron just posted a blog called
"What would Carl Sagan do?"
No, Reid, the case.
What's the case?
What are you talking about?
These emails from Hotch.
"Take a look at this,"
"New case to review."
Emails from Hotch?
I didn't get any emails
from Hotch, did I?
Nothing.
Come in.
Did you, uh, get a chance
to look at the files?
I just got them.
What's so important
you couldn't send it
to the rest of the team?
I just needed
a second pair of eyes.
I'll review it right now.
Just give me an hour.
That's not necessary.
We're ready.
Kristie Taylor,
runaway, drug addict,
reported missing from
Farmington, New Mexico
3 years ago.
Yesterday, she turned up
off a freeway
outside of Rio Rancho.
Sexual assault combined with ligaturemarks
on her wrists and ankles.
She was asphyxiated.
3 victims in 5 years.
All the women
are connected by marks.
He likes chains.
Definite sexual sadist.
He sticks to his type. 16- to
19-year-old girls, all blond.
Hangs on to them
for a while, too.
Look at this.
Average of 2 years
between abducting them
and killing them.
Low body count,
long time frame.
This guy's in control
of his urges.
Too controlled.
Sadists need new victims,
new ways to torture.
There are a lot of guys
out there who like chains.
Are we sure this is
the same unsub?
Kristie Taylor's
autopsy report
also indicates a second
connection between these victims.
She was pregnant.
She'd given birth. Very soon
after, the unsub killed her.
How soon after?
Minutes.
This unsub isn't your
typical sexual sadist.
Captivity and assault
we've seen before.
What we haven't seen
is this signature--
The role he forces these women
to fulfill before he kills them.
Motherhood.
Journalist
William D. Tammeus wrote,
"You don't really
understand human nature
"unless you know why a child
on a merry-go-round
"will wave at his parents
every time around
and why his parents
will always wave back."
So why would a sexual sadist
make women carry his children?
Gary Heidnik kept a harem
in a dungeon.
His goal was to create
a large family
as a replacement for
his own broken home.
Josef Fritzl kept his daughter
in a cell in his own house,
and they had several kids
together.
Squalid conditions
are part
of a control fantasy
these men had.
If he's keeping these women
in a similar location,
he'd need
a lot of privacy.
He probably
built it himself.
Makes him good with his hands.
Why blondes, and what
significance do they have to him?
Maybe, uh, the woman
who rejected him
or the woman who wouldn't
bear his children?
If that were true, he'd be
the same age as these girls--
Late teens.
This unsub is too skilled
for that.
His own mother, then?
She could be a runaway,
just like these victims.
Which makes his compulsion
Psych 101--
Killing his mother over and over
again for giving birth to him.
Yeah, but then why wait
until after she gives birth?
Now he has a body
and a baby to get rid of.
That troubles me, too. We found
the mothers but not the infants.
Uh, I hate to say this,
but what if the women are
just a means to an end?
What if the babies are really
the ones he's exploiting?
If Kristie Taylor
just surfaced,
it means he has her
baby right now.
JJ, check with the parents.
See if there are any similarities
in the runaways' patterns,
where the unsub's finding them.
Reid and Prentiss,
go to the latest dump site.
We need to look
at victimology.
How he treats these women
in the final moments of their lives
might tell us what he's
doing to the children.
Doctor, you wrote
in your report
that Kristie had had
several miscarriages.
How was that evident?
There were a number of abrasions
in her uterine lining.
Around the third trimester,
her water would break.
So she never
carried to term?
No, last time she did.
There was a high level
of pitocin in her blood.
It's an artificial hormone.
you give it to induce labor.
She was on a tight schedule?
If she lost the baby, he would get
her pregnant again immediately.
Childbirth is tough enough.
Imagine if your life
depends upon it.
All 3 moms had records.
Drug abuse,
drunk and disorderlies.
But what's more interesting
is what he does after he kidnaps them.
This is Kristie Taylor 2 weeks
before she was abducted.
He got her healthy.
Well-fed and off
the habit.
Not completely.
These drugs in Kristie's system--
what are they?
Tamoxifen, Metoclopramide,
Domperidone, Progesterone.
Progesterone's a prenatal
medication, isn't it?
They all are. The first two help
carry the baby to term.
The last two
help with lactation.
What kind of sexual sadist
gives his victims
prenatal drugs?
The kind who takes care
of the kids he's having.
He gets his rocks off
killing the moms,
but the babies he protects.
You think he's keeping them?
If he despises the moms,
he'd despise
their children, too.
New Mexico's
right on the border.
A lot of human
trafficking going on.
This tight schedule
he keeps the moms on--
He could be breeding.
Call child protection
services.
We need to find out about
existing black markets for infants.
Thank you.
There's no tire tracks.
The body wasn't dumped
that far from the road.
This guy doesn't
care about them,
not enough to even
hide them very well.
That's why this doesn't
make any sense.
Dump sites reveal something
about the unsub, you know?
At the very least,
a geographic familiarity,
a place he knows
he won't get caught.
Ok, so he knows this road.
Yeah, except he abducted
Kristie in Farmington
and then dumps her here
in Rio Rancho.
It's a 175-mile drive.
Why drive that far just to
dump a body by the side of the road?
A forensic countermeasure?
Covering his tracks by sheer distance?
So the geographical profile
won't do us much good.
No, it will,
just not
with the victims.
We profiled that it's the babies
that he's interested in.
That's where
he'll reveal himself.
The adoption company
he sells through
and whatever network
of resources he uses.
He makes shortcuts
there for convenience.
No one's gonna drive
100 miles for diapers
or for a public notary
for legal paperwork.
If the babies are in the
system, they'll lead us to him.
Child trafficking
is huge
in other countries,
but here
it's mostly a myth.
Why is that?
There's an easier
and legal path--
Adoption.
There'd be a paper trail,
though, wouldn't there?
There are ways
to hide your tracks.
There must be a way
to identify all these kids.
There's a court record
for every adoption.
Give us the records.
We'll start weeding
them out by date.
The adoptions
in this state are closed.
The files are sealed.
so it'll take time.
That's a luxury
we don't have.
There's a child
at risk right now.
All children who go in
and out of the adoption system
get basic genetic screenings
for pre-existing conditions.
We have their DNA.
We can use that. We
can match the maternal DNA
with the babies
in the system.
We're still talking
hundreds of kids.
What if we give you
one of the babies' DNA?
That would make it
go faster, yeah.
He kills these moms so soon
after they give birth,
secondary DNA could
still be on their bodies.
I'll call the M.E.
I understand.
Thank you, doctor.
Agent Jareau?
I'm Conrad Winmar.
This is my wife Jane.
Thank you
for coming in.
Why don't we talk
privately?
You--you want to
dig up our daughter?
We think the unsub
might have left DNA on her.
The last 2 victims
didn't have any,
but because Monica
was the first,
he might have
made a mistake.
Back when they found her,
the detectives said that
they did not find his DNA.
It's not his DNA
we're looking for.
We suspect your daughter
gave birth while she was captive.
What?
The unsub has gotten all
of his victims pregnant.
He might be
putting the babies
in the adoption system.
The baby's alive?
Possibly.
If we could find placental
tissue on Monica,
we can test the DNA
against the state's records.
Give us the release.
The first time I saw her,
saw her record, too.
Thought she was just
another girl on the street,
not caring what
she did to herself.
I never even thought
to look for this.
What is it?
It's a baby's umbilical cord.
The child should be
about 4 now.
I hope you find him or her.
I really do.
Thank you.
Mm.
Ok, know this--
most adoption folk
are like the nicest,
most dedicated people
in the world.
There are, however,
one or two skeezy ones.
How skeezy?
Super skeezy. I've got
a spread sheet from one of them
expecting compensation
for the baby I'm having.
Something you want
to tell me, Garcia?
Oh, that's the sad part,
my prince.
The genetically perfect
offspring
of Penelope Garcia
and Derek Morgan
wouldn't fetch top dollar.
Who does?
White babies
are in higher demand
than minorities.
Boys are more popular
than girls,
at least this year, anyway.
And then there's
the Swedish supermodel rule.
The what?
If I were to deliver a blond-haired,
blue-eyed bundle of joy,
i'd be set for life.
I would.
Garcia,
did the baby's DNA
turn up in New Mexico's
adoption records?
No. There's no hits
on her profile.
and it is a her,
by the way.
This unsub could still
be selling babies,
just not through the system.
That's gonna make him
a lot harder to catch.
All right. It's late.
Let's get some rest. We'll hit
this fresh in the morning.
Garcia out.
Morgan.
I'd like for you to write up
a preliminary profile.
We don't have enough
for that.
Well, that's why
it's preliminary.
A work in progress profile helps
show us what we're missing.
Ok.
Sure.
How you holding up?
We just wasted a day
looking into a black market
that probably doesn't exist.
That's not what I mean.
I've heard whispers.
You're getting some heat.
I'm taking care of it.
So, you, uh, think we have
a tunnel vision problem?
I think
we'd like to believe
that we could
save those kids,
but look what he does
to the mothers.
A lot of anger.
He's probably doing the same
thing to the children.
His own children.
Maybe.
Garcia said something
interesting.
Blond-haired, blue-eyed
babies get top dollar
in the adoption system.
All the mothers...
Have blond hair
and blue eyes.
You're gonna love this.
This guy,
he has like the best.
Like there is no better.
He has like
this access to God.
He doesn't want
to hang on to it.
He wants to give it away.
How much further?
Not much.
Because that's what God's
love is, you know, it's sharing.
It's giving everything
you have of yourself away
and not expecting
anything in return.
Where are we?
Right here, baby,
Right where
we need to be.
Aah!
Aah! Aah!
She's good, right?
That's the kind
of chick you want?
She's perfect.
I know it's a long shot,
but Monica's parents
said that she was heading west.
Maybe she made it part of
the way when she was kidnapped.
So why not run her DNA against adoption
records in surrounding states?
Are you kidding?
I think you're brilliant.
Hey, JJ, if we find
this little girl,
what's gonna happen to her?
If something illegal
transpires
during the adoption process,
the court nullifies it,
the child gets returned
to the closest blood relative.
Huh.
If it helps,
I have met with
the grandparents.
They're
wonderful people.
Oh, I'm sure they are.
It's just...
I don't know, I...
I lost my parents.
Granted, I was older
than she is, but...
what got me through were
the people closest to me, and...
If Monica's daughter
is with a good family
and we take her away
from them...
Are we doing
more harm than good?
Yeah.
Garcia, I don't think
we have a choice.
These people have a right
to their granddaughter.
You're right.
Yeah.
This sucks.
Yes, right away, please.
Thank you.
Hey. I just called CPS, asked them
to send over infant mortality files.
Another group
for us to eliminate.
Good.
What's that?
Your profile. I disagree
with your analysis.
Hotch, are you serious?
It's not a law review
article,
it's just something
for us to brainstorm.
But you only focused
on one angle, Morgan,
that the prenatal drugs
indicate the presence
of a wife or a girlfriend.
We need more options.
Which I can give you once we
make the proper deductions.
Hotch, you're asking me
to guess.
Morgan, in order for
the profile to be useful,
it has to generate
multiple scenarios
about what the unsub
is doing.
Rewrite it.
We got her.
Monica Winmar's daughter.
She was adopted 4 years ago.
She's Lisa now.
How did Garcia find her?
She cross-referenced
the entire New Mexico system.
She wasn't in New Mexico.
She was in Arizona.
So all the mothers were abducted
and dumped in New Mexico,
but he keeps the babies
in Arizona.
He knows the police with
stop looking at the state line.
The adoption agency's gonna be
our best lead to the unsub.
Who handled the case?
That's bombshell
number 2.
She didn't go through
an agency.
She was dropped off
anonymously at a church.
Hospitals and churches
are safe havens.
You can drop a baby off,
no questions asked.
Child protection services
would look for the closest relative.
Another search that ends
at the state line.
And if CPS doesn't find one,
the baby will go into foster care,
which is what happened
to Lisa.
She was lucky.
The adoption process
happened within a month.
So, this unsub
had the opportunity
to make money off this infant.
He doesn't,
drops it off at a church
because he knows the state
will take good care of it.
That's awfully considerate.
Outside the murders,
nothing about this unsub's
behavior profiles
like a sexual sadist...
As I wrote.
Yeah, Morgan's right.
It's the actions of a caretaker,
a mother.
Could our unsub be a woman?
Uh, only a man would torture
his victims this much.
Men get off on this kind
of violence. Women don't.
He could be married,
though, his wife being
a passive participant,
taking care of the moms.
And the babies.
All right.
We need to split up.
We'll give the profile
to the Arizona
and the New Mexico
state police.
Rossi, Reid, and Prentiss,
I want you to head to Phoenix.
Morgan, you're here with me.
We'll finalize the profile.
Ohh.
How are you feeling?
Terrible.
What are you on?
What?
What are you talking about?
When he takes us,
we're all on something.
I was an alcoholic.
So, what are you on?
Uh...crack.
I'm Carol.
I'm Julie.
Here. Here's some water.
Come drink some.
Um...is this some kind of
tough love detox?
Oh, what is that?
It's like the sun.
It gives us vitamin D.
It keeps us healthy.
Well, they can't make us
stay here.
Hey! Hey, let me out!
I want to go home!
I want my clothes!
I want my phone!
Let me out of here!
Let me out!
Why is he doing this?
What does he want?
Your baby.
I'm not pregnant.
You will be.
The unsubs that we are
looking for are a couple.
Now, the man in the relationship
most likely has a history
of sexual violence.
He started with stalking, and then
moved his way up to assault and rape.
And that violent streak
ended temporarily
when he found his wife.
For the first years
of their marriage,
she submitted to his torture.
Look for wives who came
into the E.R. repeatedly
and with obvious signs
of spousal abuse,
but you are gonna have to
go back about 5 years.
That's because around the time
of the first abduction,
the visits stopped.
The sexual sadist
can't find satisfaction
from a willing participant.
He eventually got to a place
where he couldn't escalate
his violence against her
without killing her,
so she made him a deal.
He gets to kidnap,
rape, and kill
each of the runaways,
and she gets to keep
the children.
She's been giving the victims
a series of prescription prenatal drugs.
So you're gonna want to look
at the obstetric fields, uh,
Nurses, O.B.S.
The wife needs
these children.
At first, they were
the lifeline that kept her alive.
As long as he had other
targets for his abuse,
she avoided his rage.
So if these children
protect her from abuse,
why is she putting them
up for adoption?
We believe the unsubs want
children who resemble them physically,
who no one would question
as their own.
All of the runaways
have been blond,
which means the unsub
may be as well.
But the first child we found
in the system was a brunette.
Whatever the physical
characteristic--
the color of the eyes,
the skin type--
if the baby doesn't have it,
he or she ends up
in the foster care system.
Wives of sexual sadists
need outlets
as a denial mechanism to cope
with what their partners are doing.
And motherhood, especially
taking care of a helpless infant,
is this woman's
way of coping.
You found her?
We have.
How is she?
She's great.
She was adopted
by a young couple.
No reports of physical
or emotional trauma.
So when can we take her?
Right now we're in touch with
her adoptive parents' lawyer,
But the law is on your side.
Can we talk
to the parents?
We could discuss this
with them.
They don't want
to initiate contact.
They've been through
a lot right now.
They're her parents.
Of course they don't
want to give her up.
Well, if she wants to see them,
then we can work that out,
but we are her family.
Yes, absolutely.
No, wait.
What are the risks here?
If we claim her,
are we hurting her?
It's impossible to tell.
Some kids do great.
Others have trouble.
But why are we
talking about risks?
She's Monica's daughter.
Conrad...
She's not their blood.
Stop it.
Thank you, agent Jareau.
But my husband and I,
we need to discuss this.
What's this?
It's the pattern
I've been looking for.
The unsubs hid their
tracks with the mothers,
but they weren't so careful
with the abandoned babies.
Did you find
more children?
DNA-wise, no,
but deductively, yes.
I gathered all the records
for all infants who entered into foster care
in a 2-week window
following each mother's death.
Then I narrowed it down to babies
that were abandoned at churches.
This is where
the guesswork begins.
Monica Winmar's daughter was
abandoned at a Presbyterian church.
Let's assume the unsub,
or the wife at least, is Presbyterian.
That means all other
unwanted children
are gonna be left at
the same denomination, right?
That narrows it down
to 3 babies
left at 3 different
Presbyterian churches
all within this 20-mile radius.
This is where they live.
These kids
you deduced to--
Have you looked
at their files?
No. Right now I've only
been tracking churches. Why?
Because you just uncovered
another pattern.
Yeah,
We're packing up now.
We can be in Phoenix
in about 2 hours.
You sure about this?
The names of the babies
Reid found tells us everything.
Lisa, Elizabeth, Amanda.
We profiled there'd
be a type they'd keep
and a type they'd put
into foster care.
They're keeping the boys.
It's time.
What are you doing?
What are you doing?!
Hey, where are you going?
Come back!
You have to come back!
Please!
They never stay
for this part.
No, no, no, no.
You're not actually--
Yes...I am.
They've induced.
What am I supposed to do?
You help me.
1-1,000...
Ohh!
2-1,000...
No, no, no, I'm sorry,
I can't.
3-1,000...
I can't help you.
I can't. I'm sick.
I'm not well.
I need a...
I can't do it.
Julie, listen to me.
Are you listening to me?
Yes. Yes.
If this baby
doesn't make it...
They are going
to kill me.
And once they've
killed me,
they are going
to move on to you.
Do you understand?
Ok.
Ok. What do we do?
JJ, I need you to call
these fertility specialists
and get them over here
for interviews.
Whoa.
Yeah, I know.
Hotch wants to focus
on the prenatal drugs
the unsubs are giving
the victims.
He thinks we can build
a new suspect pool,
and he wants it done
yesterday.
There's 2 pages of names here.
Shouldn't we narrow it down?
JJ, just do it, ok?
I'm sorry.
Is everything ok?
Hotch has been on me
ever since we got here,
and for the life of me,
I can't figure out why.
Oh, I might know.
The night before
Hotch picked this case,
chief Strauss
stopped by the B.A.U.
They were behind
closed doors,
and it seemed like
it got a little tense.
Well, the bureau's
been on him for a while.
He must have known
this was gonna happen.
Except now they're making him
justify every decision.
For Hotch, that's...hell.
Dr. Dekeyser,
we don't think
she's getting these prenatal
drugs as a patient.
You're thinking she's writing
the scrip for these herself.
Something like that.
Then she wouldn't be
very knowledgeable
about what she's doing.
Some of these drugs
have serious side effects.
There's dozens of meds
I would prescribe before these,
all of them more effective.
So why would she use these?
My guess--these are the ones
she had access to.
Fertility drugs
are a cocktail,
and you keep remixing the
cocktail until you get pregnant.
The information is out there
on the internet.
She found the right one.
So the woman was
prescribed these drugs
maybe for
some other illness
and figured out that
they helped carry a baby to term.
Exactly.
Then the real question is,
what other diseases
do these drugs treat?
Ok. I can do this.
I can do this.
What?
Nothing.
You remind me of me.
Carol? Hey.
Carol, please,
Please stay awake.
Please?
Ok, just--just focus
On the sound of my voice, ok?
Can you do that?
I'm here.
Carol, tell me
about the woman
who was here before me.
What happened to her?
She miscarried...
A lot.
Then she gave birth
to a girl.
They don't like girls.
This isn't your
first time, is it?
No.
What happened?
He didn't make it.
I'm sorry.
They let you live
even if you lose him.
They want those boys.
Ok. Ok, hey. Hey.
Listen, I don't know
what to do, ok,
so please, please,
just tell me what to do.
How dilated am I?
Wh-what? I don't know
what that means.
Just put your fingers
in a row and...
Measure me.
Wait...
Oh, my god.
Ok...
Oh, my god.
Ok. Um...
It's 4. It's 4 fingers.
And I--oh, god,
is that the head?
Mm-hmm.
Oh, my god,
What does that mean?
It means...
It's time to push.
What is this?
It's a tactical
arrest plan.
I'd like you to write
it up for this case.
You want me to write up
how we apprehend these unsubs
without risking the lives
of the children.
Yes.
Hotch, I've led
dozens of tactical assaults.
You've never made me
write up one of these before.
That's because I always
do it for you after each case.
You know what?
I'm sorry Strauss
is coming down on you.
This is not about Strauss.
Really? I disagree.
Look, I understand
that you're under the gun.
But I gotta say it. I'm really not
all that surprised.
I've watched you walk away from a
bunch of cops gunning down unsubs in D.C.
You walked in unprotected to a
hostage situation in Louisville.
Of course the bureau's
worried about you.
Man, I'm worried about you.
But just because you're the one who's
under the magnifying glass,
that doesn't mean
I can't do my job.
Morgan, there's a big part
of your job that I do for you
because I don't need you worried
about paperwork and politics.
I need you in the field and focused
and catching the next unsub.
But I can't do that anymore.
I don't have to justify
my orders to you,
and you do have to
follow them.
I've always followed your orders
when they made sense.
Well, if you have a problem
with this one, tell me now.
You're the boss.
Garcia needs to talk
to us ASAP.
Ok, so the gold star of the
day goes to agent David Rossi
and his short list
of one disease
These prenatal drugs
also treat.
Breast Cancer. Progesterone,
Tamoxifen slow the spread,
Metoclopramide
and Domperidone--
are for anti-nausea
if I remember correctly.
If this woman has breast cancer,
would she be able to get pregnant?
She could.
She'd have to be dedicated.
How dedicated?
Well, she'd have to
go off chemotherapy.
She'd be in a lot of pain.
But she'll try anyway.
Her whole life is children.
That's her goal.
The first runaway,
Monica Winmar,
When was she abducted?
5 years ago.
How many breast cancer
patients in Arizona
got pregnant
5 to 6 years ago?
Uh, let me see.
Not a lot. 7.
How many of those patients
are married to a man
with a history
of sexual violence?
Just one--
Robert and Linda Reimann.
Oh, jeez.
What?
She lost the baby
in month 8.
She had to go through
labor anyway.
Well, that kind of physical and
emotional trauma, there's our stressor.
Garcia,
was the baby a boy?
Yeah. They even
named him--Michael.
There has to be a name
on the death certificate.
Doctors encourage bonding
between mothers and stillborns.
I...volunteer with
a new mom counseling group.
They say it helps them
cope with feelings of loss.
Well, this unsub can't cope,
so she's recreating them.
Ok, come on, you're
almost there. Just push.
Push!
Oh, my god.
Is it a boy or a girl?
Ha! It's a boy.
Oh...
You're here.
You made it.
No.
Don't.
No! No, please, leave
her alone. Please!
Please, please, please,
Just wait one minute.
Please, please!
It's a boy.
Michael.
Ok, commander, this here
is the unsub's address.
Now, 5 years ago
when the wife lost their child,
the husband started paying
for home renovations
with his credit card.
Shower, toilet, tile,
and mesh fencing
which he did not put up
in his backyard.
He was building
his dungeon.
No permits were filed for additional
building on the property,
so the entrance
must be inside the house.
How many doors
are there to cover?
There's 2--one in the front,
one in the back.
We have the arrest warrants?
Faxed over
20 minutes ago.
Morgan, what's your plan?
I think we should do
a soft entry.
See if we can get
the kids out
before the parents
even know what's happening.
You'd be in the door first?
Do you have another idea?
Send Prentiss and JJ
in first.
Children are more likely to trust
a woman, and we need that presence.
We don't know how many kids
are in the house.
I mean, the parents
could take a hostage.
But if we go in hot,
that would
definitely happen.
Hotch is right.
This is the way.
Hi.
It's ok.
It's ok.
We're the police.
We're the good guys.
Can you come outside
with me?
Ok. Ok.
Hotch, we've got one boy
accounted for.
He's on his way out
to you,
but there could still
be more in the basement.
FBI.
Where's your wife?
In the nursery.
Rossi.
Hotch.
Go.
I knew this would end.
I always knew
you'd come to our door
and take this away.
Ma'am, why don't you
give me the baby.
We can talk about it.
Why would I want
to do that?
What you've been doing
is wrong.
You must know that.
Oh, god, please, please
get us out of here!
Oh! Oh, thank god.
Thank god.
We're all clear here.
Ohh!
It's ok. It's ok, you're safe.
Come with me.
But no, I can't leave her.
All secure,
but we need medical.
This is all I have left.
Do you understand?
My husband hates me.
There's nobody here
that can help me with him,
with this,
with any of it.
He's all I have.
Linda.
Please.
I need you to think about
the baby right now.
You're suffering from
stage 4 breast cancer.
You've given your medication
to the women
that have been locked up
downstairs.
You don't have
a lot of time left.
I know you want somebody who will
always remember you, don't you?
The baby's name
is Michael, right?
Yeah.
Michael will remember you.
He's gonna know that
you helped bring him into the world.
That's a part of him now.
and he will always
ask about you,
long after you're gone.
Do you really
believe that?
I do.
I would have been
a wonderful mother.
Then prove it.
Let him go.
Where's my son?
We're looking for him.
Please, don't let
anything happen to him.
Look, he's here.
He's fine.
He's ok.
Ohh...
You are beautiful,
aren't you?
* it took 40 days
and 40 nights *
* to get myself
feeling right... *
I spoke with Lisa's
adoptive parents.
They've agreed
to talk to you.
They're not willing
to give up custody,
but they do want Lisa to know
her grandparents.
Yeah, we--
we can live with that.
The reason why
I wanted you to come by
was...a year before
giving birth to Lisa,
Monica had a son.
We've already matched
his DNA to your daughter.
The closest relative
should take custody.
Would you like
to meet him?
* there are no words
to describe... *
What's his name?
Michael.
Michael.
* no, there are no words
to describe *
* such a beautiful thing *
Have a seat.
The bureau thinks
that my ability
to lead this team
has been compromised.
What do you think?
Sometimes I question you,
Hotch.
But at the end of the day,
I do respect you.
You're the leader
of this team,
and my job
is to have your back.
Well, that's not important
to the bureau.
They've been questioning me
since Foyet's attack.
And they're not
entirely wrong.
I've tried to do my best,
but what matters now
is if Strauss replaces me,
this whole unit
will come under scrutiny.
Members will be reassigned,
budgets will be cut.
Come on, Hotch,
nobody's gonna replace you.
Fight Strauss.
I'll go to the mat for you.
So will everybody else.
You know that.
Morgan, it won't work.
Decisions like this have
their own momentum...
Unless I step down.
Step down?
What are you talking about?
I'm resigning as unit chief
at the end of the week.
What?
No!
Hotch, look, yeah, ok,
sometimes your actions,
I may disagree with them,
but it's not enough
for you to leave this team.
I'm not leaving
the team,
I'm just no longer
in charge.
You are.
Me?
Look, I had the chance
to be unit chief in New York,
and I said no.
I turned it down
because I like this team.
Strauss can't just
fire you like this.
She can reassign me.
And we can avoid that
if I promote internally.
This is wrong.
It's the only way
to keep the team together.
So all of this--
This is why you've been
pushing me so hard, huh?
I haven't been
pushing you that hard.
Wow.
Morgan, I need to know
Right now--
Will you do this?
This would be temporary.
Once we catch Foyet,
all this goes back
to normal.
Let's get started.
What's all this?
This is the job,
unless you have
other plans.
Not tonight.