Criminal Minds (2005–…): Season 5, Episode 8 - Outfoxed - full transcript
In Hampton, Virginia, the Downey family is murdered and buried in their backyard while the family patriarch, army Captain Joseph Downey, is deployed in Iraq. A similar mass murder of a military family while the father was on military deployment occurred a year earlier. Prints lifted at the murder scenes indicate that it is the same unsub. The unsub appears to be copying the murders committed by Karl Arnold aka The Fox. The BAU worked on the case of The Fox four years earlier. The unsub has tried to contact The Fox in prison. Hotch and Prentiss interview The Fox to try and understand his motivation so as to understand the unsub. Based on some information received from The Fox and by the way the bodies are laid out in their grave, the BAU have a clearer profile of the unsub, who is not a copycat of The Fox and who is not the person who tried to contact The Fox. The Fox has some parting words for Hotch about who tried to contact him.
Man: now,
from these experiments,
A few factors became evident.
One was the realization
That serial killers
have been with us
Since the dawn of man.
Please let him go.
Take whatever you want,
take anything,
But please let my son go.
My name is
professor james fallon.
I'm a scientist...
neuroscientist...
And i study the human brain.
It is a complex
and sometimes lethal machine.
In a blind experiment,
colleagues sent me
70 mri brain scans,
And i had no idea
who these brains belonged to.
Some were normals,
some were schizophrenics,
And some were killers.
I analyzed all of them,
5 of which i determined
were the brains of psychopaths.
And it turned out
that, indeed,
These 5 were the brains
of serial killers,
Some of whom you know.
In studies such as these,
One looks at
the biological factors...
[Gunshots]
That is, the genetics
and also the brain pathology.
The 5 brains we identified
All had damage
to the orbital cortex,
Which is right above the eyes.
Now, the high-Risk allele
of the monoamine oxidase a,
The maoa gene,
May also be present
in these people,
And that's key.
Now, one of the effects
of the high-Risk gene,
The brain of the psychopath
was bathed
In way too much serotonin
during fetal development.
As an adult,
This brain is now numb
To seratonin's calming effects.
The first dangerous elements
are now in place.
The damage is done.
Now, this is a recipe
for catastrophe.
So when the fetus reaches
the day of labor,
The potential
serial killer is born.
Mom! Uhh...
Mom! [Gasps]
[Airplane]
[Airplane]
Prentiss:
hey, how was your weekend?
Uh, scary yet informative.
Was the whole family killed?
Hudson, this is
dr. Spencer reid.
Field agent anne hudson.
The, uh, father
is serving in iraq.
3 nights ago the cops found
his family buried over there.
Buried?
The neighbors heard
the dog barking, came over,
He was scratching
at the grave.
Lucy, their oldest child,
she's still in her swimsuit.
What does the father know?
Hudson: some of it.
He was on patrol.
Took his unit a couple
of days to reach him.
He arrives today.
Last year
the williams family
Was killed and found
exactly the same way.
They lived in newport news.
The father, dan williams,
was also serving overseas.
Now, the police
are overwhelmed
And getting serious heat
from the military.
We need some answers fast.
Jj: as do the media.
They're already calling this
the work of a serial killer.
They're right. It is.
But why bury them?
I mean, it can't be
to hide the bodies.
Rossi:
it's a sign of remorse.
And when they're done
being remorseful,
This will happen again.
[Sobs]
[gasps]
Morgan: "man usually avoids
attributing cleverness to somebody else,
Unless it's an enemy."
Albert einstein.
Hotch:
no sign of a struggle.
Unsub holds a gun
to one of her kids' head.
What can she do?
Footprints belong to paul.
Somehow he managed to get away.
Mom gets it first,
then the youngest.
He hides in the master bedroom,
The unsub finds him
and shoots him.
And carries him out
to the backyard.
But not the mother.
She's dragged out.
It's quick and proficient.
For the mother
and the boys, maybe.
But lucy's drowned
and not shot.
Why the change in m.O.?
[Airplane]
Morgan: f-22 raptor.
Yeah. It's about to get
way louder and much busier.
Tomorrow is langley's
50th anniversary air show.
The father of the first
family killed...dan williams,
Where is he now?
He put in for
another tour of iraq.
An i.E.D. Killed him
2 months ago.
Whoever did this
Knew both fathers
were serving overseas.
Laura downey's wedding rings
are missing.
Any other valuables?
We'll have to ask the husband.
From the williams home,
Only jewelry and watches
were missing.
The unsub only took
what he can carry,
Which means he's most
likely on foot.
There was a photo
on the wall in the kitchen.
I'd like to see it.
Sure.
There's no sign
of sexual assault
In the williams case.
What about lucy?
Nothing on
the coroner's report.
Multiple suspects?
The mother was dragged
out of the house.
If it had been
multiple suspects,
They probably would have
carried her.
He knew the father
was absent,
Therefore the dominant
threat was absent.
So we could be looking
for a single suspect.
No sign of forced entry.
No need.
Lucy was in the pool,
Back door was open.
The unsub walked right in.
That means lucy
probably died last.
In both cases the girls
were suffocated
And not shot. I don't
think it's a coincidence.
[Cell phone rings]
Hey, garcia.
You're on speaker.
We just got a call
From virginia
supermax prison.
One of the inmates there
Has received 2 envelopes
in the last 2 days.
First envelope had clippings
of the newport news killings.
Second envelope had media
clippings of the downey family.
In the second envelope
was a note saying,
"Look at what i've done,"
and both pieces of mail
Have been signed by
"an admirer."
Who's the inmate?
That's the part that...
Karl arnold.
The fox?
Garcia: he's back.
Ok, thanks.
Family annihilator, absent
father, wedding rings.
It's similar.
To what?
4 years ago, karl arnold,
aka the fox,
Killed 8 families.
Just like this case,
he took wedding rings,
Only he took them
as trophies.
Morgan: he'd hide in the bushes
outside the homes.
And i watched them...
for a number of days.
Always at night.
Saw how they lived...
How they loved.
I would keep them apart
until the last night.
Then i would bring them,
one by one,
Down to the basement,
The youngest first.
The father last.
Why, karl?
So he could see
what happens...
To families
When the head of household
isn't strong.
Wives wither...
Children perish.
So, we're working with
a copycat here?
It's too early
to assume anything.
It could bias the profile.
Not to mention the police,
the media, and the military
Would jump all over it.
Until we're positive, none of this
information leaves the 7 of us.
Hotch, you gave evidence
at arnold's trial.
I think you should go see him.
I'd like to take
prentiss with me.
Let's go.
Have garcia check on all of
arnold's prison correspondence
And visitors for
the last 4 years.
Ok. Captain joseph downey
has arrived back at the station.
Jj: captain downey,
please, sit.
Thank you, i'm fine.
Tell me everything.
At around 9:30
3 nights ago,
Your neighbors called
police when...
I'm sorry.
Sir.
We believe it was the work
of a serial killer.
I'm sorry. My neighbors,
uh, jack and penny...
Captain downey...
Your family was murdered.
All of them.
[Gasping]
Is there someone
you'd like us to call?
Uh, call? Um, no, no.
I, uh...
I...i'd like to go home now.
Captain downey.
Captain downey. Captain dow...
Ok.
Ok.
I'm sorry.
I'm so sorry.
[Sobbing]
So why wait a year
to send karl a note,
Unless they were
communicating the whole time?
That's the first thing
we need to find out.
But karl has a big ego.
He's gonna want to answer
ever question with a question.
He'll try to gain
the advantage with me
By asking why i'm not
wearing my wedding ring.
And then he will turn
his attention to you.
So that's why you
brought me along.
Your presence
will throw him off guard.
Then he's gonna want to
describe to you in graphic detail
Every sexual act he
committed with the families.
To freak me out?
To pull you into
his fantasy.
Control, open on 16.
[Buzzer]
[Prisoners shouting]
All right.
Keep your eyes forward.
More than anything,
He's gonna want to see
the images of the children.
We can't give him that.
We have to give him something
or we'll get nothing from him.
What are you waiting for?!
Come on!
[Prisoners shouting]
[Banging on glass]
[Barking]
Isn't that, uh...
Garrett pain.
That's reinforced glass.
Easy for you to say.
He tore apart 14 women.
Guard: open on 15.
[Buzzer]
Prisoner:
come on, man!
Yeah!
Hello, karl.
Agent hotchner.
I wasn't informed
you were bring a, uh...
They just said two agents.
This is agent...
Emily...
Prentiss.
I know all about you.
If this unsub's
copying the fox,
Then we profile him
like the fox.
Karl arnold worked as a
psychologist's assistant, right?
Yeah. Which made it easy
for him to watch, target,
And learn about the victims
from a distance.
Yeah, it also made him
hard to find.
Like the fox,
our man here found a way
To hide in plain sight.
But he's pulling from
2 completely different units.
Williams a medic,
downey an army captain.
Someone knew of that
military connection.
Both families were attacked within a
month of the fathers being deployed.
Gave them time to settle in,
Get comfortable that
the fathers weren't there.
And once inside the home, the
fox would live with the families
And then become the father.
But not this unsub.
He just walked in and
dispensed with the family.
Living with them wasn't
part of the fantasy.
Hudson: agent rossi.
The picture you requested.
Thanks to you, we pulled
some prints off it.
And all the prints
were on lucy.
The bullet hit
the father dead center.
The prints match that
of the newport news killings.
It's the same killer.
Family annihilators like the
fox, they start with one victim.
And once they feel capable,
They move on
to a second victim.
They don't start
with entire families.
There are more victims.
We just haven't found them yet.
Karl, it appears
you have a fan.
Admirer.
Not a fan.
Big difference.
Right?
Is this the first time you've
been contacted by your admirer?
I have many fans.
Even my own website.
Don't you?
You'd be astounded
At some of the questions
they ask.
I make a log
of all of them.
Would you like
to read some?
I would love to.
You'd love to?
Yes.
Here.
Look.
Maybe later.
Your admirer
is taking wedding rings,
Just like you.
But maybe not
for the same reason.
Like how you took
all of mine.
You took mine.
But i see...
you lost yours.
8 rings, 4 families.
Or was it one ring
for each family?
How'd you come
to lose your ring?
[Laughs]
wait, don't tell me.
A casualty of the job.
My job is what
put you in here.
True.
But then,
it's the children
Who suffer most.
Wouldn't you agree?
You'd know more
about that than me.
Which is why
you came to me.
I can help you with that,
agent hotchner.
I certainly can.
But i'll need to see
those photos.
May i?
A word?
Is there a problem,
emily?
There is no problem, karl.
We cannot show him these.
These images
will be his undoing
And our way in.
But they're not just images.
That's exactly
what they are.
We can't use lucy
like that.
It's a tradeoff
we have to make.
So, we are using a dead
12-Year-Old girl in a bathing suit
As a bargaining chip?
For what?
To him it's not
just a photograph.
It's much, much more,
and we need to know what.
Look, i'm...
I've never done this
before.
And you don't have to now.
Yes, i do.
All right. When i feel
he's ready to talk,
I'll leave the room.
You get him talking.
Whatever he does,
whatever you feel,
Just stay on script.
We need to know why
he killed those families.
Garcia: he's had
a smattering of visits,
A couple of whack jobs
contact him,
But nothing as direct
as this admirer person.
Jj: how are we doing on
the prints from the picture?
Oh. I'm still running them.
How are you holding up?
Military families,
they always fear the worst.
They know their men
may not return.
But this...
To see a father
lose so much.
I wish i had something
for you.
I truly cannot find
a damn thing
That connects these families.
Geographically,
both of them
Are thousands of miles
away from their family.
Communication's
all they had...
Emails, phone calls,
letters.
But that's military
communication.
Even between families, it requires a
kind of juice i'm not allowed to use.
Come on. You hacked
into the fbi database.
And they gave me a job.
And i like my job.
And i like my life.
All right, i'll make
some inquiries.
Ok. Do that. Take care.
Bye.
So lucy dies last, alone.
This by itself doesn't
really mean anything,
But when we look again
at the williams file,
We notice that the majority
of the foreign fingerprints
Came from
karen williams' room,
Which means the unsub spent most
of his time in there with karen.
Then he must have separated her
from the rest of the family.
Lucy downey was
already in the pool.
That much was done
for the unsub.
Then this unsub is driven by
some other kind of compulsion,
Some other need.
Hotch was right.
This isn't a coincidence.
It's a possible signature.
Sir, i know that,
but two families have died.
No, i realize this breaks
protocol, but...
No, all we want is to stop
this from happening again.
Sir, i promise you, agent
garcia is the best we have.
Ok. Thank you.
We need to look at each
of the victims as a hub,
With lives outside
of their own families.
Well, each one of them has their
own connections outside the family.
School, friends, tutors,
business colleagues.
And each one of these
people
Are considered access points
back to the family.
That could take weeks.
Well, you have time.
From remorse to the desire
to kill again
The unsub will go through
a gamut of emotions.
It could be another year before the
unsub feels the desire to kill again.
As horrific
as these crimes are,
This city doesn't have the resources
to commit that amount of time.
We have full access to all
military records for the fathers.
Well, now at least
We have access to the main
hub between families.
The dads.
All right, well,
let's find out
What connects them.
Stand up.
You want to see,
don't you?
Very much.
We're gonna show you.
[Buzzer]
This is the home
of the downey family.
There were 3 children.
How old are the children?
12, 9, and 4.
A girl and two boys.
Where were they found?
Over there.
Buried.
Interesting.
Laura, the mother,
and the two boys were killed
In the house.
The daughter?
This is where the mother and
the youngest son were killed.
The other boy was shot
in the bedroom closet.
Where's the father?
Prentiss: overseas.
The killer knows this.
He knows everything
about this family,
And he watches
their every move
To be sure he achieves
what he needs.
[Chuckling]
You have no idea
how he knows
The father is gone
Or how he targets
these families
And the how.
That's the key.
The how...
Is why he...
Was able to catch me.
You watched the families
for days.
Weeks.
I got to know them.
But not your guy.
He doesn't need weeks.
If he did, he'd stay longer.
Why?
So he can enjoy them.
But what i don't understand...
Is why he didn't
separate the children.
Exactly.
That way you have more
control. No room for error.
Why he didn't put the boys
in separate rooms and say,
If you cry...
I'll have to kill mommy.
Tell me...
How did the girl die?
She was drowned.
Yet the others were shot.
May i see her?
What's so special
about the girl?
To suffocate her.
To feel the life
leave her body
Means everything
to the man who did this.
To you, maybe,
but not to this killer.
Not in the same way.
All i did was show them
how weak fathers could be.
That's all.
Every child you killed
you abused physically.
For this man, there is
no sexual gratification.
At least i spared
the fathers
The grief of living.
[Breathing hard]
Please...
Please don't do this.
Come on. Let's get you
cleaned up.
Dani! Didn't i tell you
to always lock the door?!
Nick, cleats off!
Dani! Where are you?
[Dani breathing hard]
Dani?
[Breathing hard]
Mom?
[Gasping]
Please don't...
Please...
Mom...
The girl was suffocated,
not shot, right?
Hudson: yes.
Just like the other two.
Her name is dani.
She's 14.
Morgan: and the father?
Afghanistan.
Does this rule out remorse?
Yes, it does.
So what is it now?
The escalation
between kills
Indicates a major
psychological break.
How is it escalated?
The timeframe between kills
Has gone from a year
to just 3 days.
For the unsub, something
has dramatically changed.
Some kind of major external
stressor forced this unsub
Into feeling the need to kill
again without any remorse.
Mirror neurons
and stressors
Relating to
the unsub's past
May have triggered this,
The strongest of which
is smell.
[Airplanes]
That sound.
The williams were killed
a year ago.
Were there any military maneuvers
going on at langley at that time?
The annual air show,
but nothing as big as this.
Arnold: he's killed again,
hasn't he?
Luckily for me.
Luckily?
Now we're alone.
You stated that the families
don't know the killer. Why?
Now we wait, right?
You and i,
See if my...admirer
contacts me.
He will.
Yours was one of the first
cases i studied.
Really?
Mm-Hmm.
I've been fascinated
ever since.
With what?
You.
[Chuckles]
[Chuckles]
And now...
You want to know
what i did...
To the children.
Don't you?
Yes.
I can show you.
I can show you exactly
what i did to them.
Tell me.
Children are so precious.
So clean.
But they need guidance.
Especially the girls.
Why?
Girls have much more
to lose...
Than boys.
It's a fact the female body
can handle pain much better.
What did you do to them?
I showed them
What men...
Their fathers and brothers...
Are capable of.
And what is that?
You sure you want to know?
Yes.
Morgan, if the langley
air show is the stressor,
Then karl's admirer
doesn't fit the profile.
A psychopath suffering
a major psychological break
Doesn't brag about it, hotch.
There was nothing
you could have done
That would have saved
that family today.
Well, that's if i'm right
about the profile.
I think you are.
Karl's admirer doesn't have
anything to do with these killings.
Well, either way,
we need to know who is.
Hotch, i want you to stay
with him and find out
So we can stop
this son of a bitch.
I plan to.
Once i killed the children,
It always amazed me
How little...
The father fought
the inevitable.
Which was what?
Dying.
I'm trolling through
the williamses' emails,
Satellite phone calls,
land line phone calls,
Family photos, their life,
all of it.
What about the downeys?
They're up next, and
there's a ton to go through.
Fingerprints, garcia?
Zip.
They...
there's nothing here.
I'm sorry, folks.
Garcia, widen the search.
Morgan, i already did.
Vicap combines every database
In this country. We're
as wide as we can go.
Abuse can have a long-Term
effect on any child's brain,
But for the abused child
who has the high-Risk gene
And the orbital cortex damage,
The combination is devastating.
All right, this air show
is military.
These fathers are all soldiers
fighting a war on foreign soil.
We know that none of these
graves are a sign of remorse.
Hey, guys.
Look at these graves.
What are they
reminiscent of?
Mass graves.
Exactly.
Which would indicate
The unsub experienced
early pubescent
3-Dimentional
mirror neurons
Reflecting events similar
to the one they're creating.
I think this unsub
was born into conflict.
But where was he born
into conflict?
When was the last time we saw
anything like mass graves in the u.S.?
We haven't.
Not in our lifetimes.
Not within our borders.
Vicap is national,
not international.
Garcia, international
databases?
Interpol is the biggest. If
they did it, they're in it.
It's pretty obvious
that he's done this before,
But the question is,
where and why?
Karl, i never thought
that you'd be this honest.
It takes a good woman
To make an honest man.
And anyway, let's face it...
She's prettier than you.
Karl, do you know why
you killed all those families?
I've already told you why.
No, you told me how,
not why.
Hotch: and the reasons why,
in this case,
Are very different
than they were for you.
Prentiss: they're
very, very different.
Hotch: and as you so eloquently have
been pointing out to agent prentiss,
All of your motivations
were about sex.
Prentiss: motivations you
learned from your father.
You really have
Done your research on me,
Emily.
I'm flattered.
You're also filled
with feelings
Of extreme self-Hatred.
It must be distracting
Working with someone
so beautiful.
You forced those men
to watch their children die,
And here's why, karl.
Here's why
you are what you are.
What i would
do to you.
By killing
the fathers last,
You were killing
your own father,
And ultimately yourself,
Over and over again.
This isn't over,
agent hotchner.
At least not for you.
Wait, hotch.
For karl, it's all about
the fathers.
In this case,
it's all about the girls.
They die last.
They're laid out last.
None of them are shot.
None of them show any signs
of sexual motive.
What if we applied that logic
to these killings?
That's something
we hadn't considered.
Why would we?
It's so rare.
What is?
The killer's a woman.
A woman?
I'll let morgan know.
Karl, just now you said
That this wasn't over
for me.
What did you mean by that?
[Chuckles]
He's just getting
warmed up.
It's just...
You don't see it.
But you will.
All right, we'll
work it in right now.
Prentiss thinks the unsub
might be a woman.
That's why we couldn't find
a sexual motive.
Wherever she's from, her
father's a military man.
Derek, i've got a hit.
Interpol.
2 hits. 3 hits. 3 crime
scenes. 3 different cities.
The first...zagreb, 1998.
A woman and her 8-Month-Old
baby are both killed.
And then 2 years later,
The same prints show up
in modena, italy,
Then 2007, london, england,
young couple, both shot.
You were right.
She's killed before.
Zagreb is the capital
city of croatia.
Is that significant?
Between 1991 and '95
they fought
A bitter battle
for independence.
Serbian forces
tried to ethnically cleanse
Over 40,000 bosnian
muslims.
Then at some point within the
last 2 years, she moved to america.
She's on the run.
And ran right into a city
Filled with
military families.
The only mass graves reminiscent
of the ones the unsubs created
Were found all over bosnia
after the war,
But none of them rival
that of srebrenica.
Garcia: dutch u.N. Forces
created a safe haven for refugees.
Reid: then in 1995, bosnian
serb forces surrounded the town.
Rossi: a psychopath born in
the middle of that conflict...
That's not a good mix.
Reid: she's exacting her life
experiences onto the victims.
You think this woman
was there?
Well, think about it. Langley's
filling up with civilians
And military vehicles
just like srebrenica.
Can you determine
her age?
Based on victimology,
Each of these girls
is no older than 15.
The balkan war lasted
between '93 and '95,
So if the girls
represent the unsub,
She's somewhere
in her late 20s.
Hudson: how did srebrenica end?
Reid:
it was a massacre.
[Shouting in croatian]
[Speaking croatian softly]
[Speaking croatian]
[Shouting]
Hotch: i don't think this woman
has anything to do with karl.
I encouraged him.
Ohh.
I flirted with him.
[Clears throat]
Made it personal.
Getting intimate
with a killer is...
So different.
It's what we do.
Yeah. But...
There's no fixing how i
feel right now, is there?
No.
But it helped the case.
And you did
what you had to.
Agent hotchner.
Before you go,
There's one final thing
i'd like to share with you.
[Sighs] let's just
get this over with.
This unsub is armed
and suffering
A major
psychological break,
And she will not
hesitate to kill again.
She's white
and in her 20s.
We believe she came to
the u.S. A few years ago.
She's likely on foot.
She could be
eastern european.
She may speak
little to no english.
Now, if you manage
to apprehend or corner her,
Do not underestimate
this woman.
She will try
to fight her way out.
The downeys live less than
a mile from the foresters,
Which means she's
somewhere in this area.
I see something.
Wait.
Wait a minute.
Could it be?
They're all connected
to the same site.
Every media outlet
is being informed
Of the clear and present
danger to the public.
Thank you very much.
Garcia: ok, guys,
i really have got something.
All of these photos,
every one of them,
Was uploaded to a user
website called photobug.
Photobug?
Yeah. Members can upload
photos, videos, email,
Webcam chats.
I use it all the time.
Every one of these families
extensively used this site
For months, even years.
All these family photos
were printed by photobug.
Isn't it protected?
Not from the people
who run it.
It's a great way for military
families to keep in touch.
And a perfect way
to target a family
Without anybody's
knowledge.
They outsource work
to people
All over the country.
So i took your profile,
Hacked into their
employee database,
Came up with this list
of potentials,
One of which is a match
that screams homicidal bitch.
Her name's miranda dracar,
she was an orphan,
Born in sarajevo
during 1982.
She was adopted by a family
in srebrenica.
Morgan: let's go.
Clear!
Clear.
The foresters.
Morgan.
The unsub's next victim.
He's a marine.
Usmc, first battalion,
engineer.
Jennifer,
call your contact.
Jj: sir, i'm gonna need access
to every piece of data
On u.S. Marine sergeant young.
It may save his family.
Girl: why are you always so
slow? We're late. Come on.
I am, i am.
So you think you found
my admirer.
A woman.
No. We found the killer.
With my help, of course.
Your admirer is exactly like
everyone who contacts you...lost.
My love, your guy
is far from lost.
We're done.
So is he.
"Look at what
i have done."
It's quite brilliant,
you know?
We will find
whoever sent you that.
No, agent hotchner,
i rather think
He's already found you.
[Shouting in croatian]
Uhh! Uhh!
Uhh!
Uhh!
[Gunshot]
[Labored breathing]
Jj: morgan?
I'm all right.
I'm all right.
Hotch.
Hotch.
I can't believe you
can't see what he's doing.
What is going on?
He's torturing him.
Who?
It's great to see you
squirm, agent hotchner.
Foyet.
[Arnold laughing]
He knew you'd come.
Ha ha ha ha ha!
[Prisoners shouting]
from these experiments,
A few factors became evident.
One was the realization
That serial killers
have been with us
Since the dawn of man.
Please let him go.
Take whatever you want,
take anything,
But please let my son go.
My name is
professor james fallon.
I'm a scientist...
neuroscientist...
And i study the human brain.
It is a complex
and sometimes lethal machine.
In a blind experiment,
colleagues sent me
70 mri brain scans,
And i had no idea
who these brains belonged to.
Some were normals,
some were schizophrenics,
And some were killers.
I analyzed all of them,
5 of which i determined
were the brains of psychopaths.
And it turned out
that, indeed,
These 5 were the brains
of serial killers,
Some of whom you know.
In studies such as these,
One looks at
the biological factors...
[Gunshots]
That is, the genetics
and also the brain pathology.
The 5 brains we identified
All had damage
to the orbital cortex,
Which is right above the eyes.
Now, the high-Risk allele
of the monoamine oxidase a,
The maoa gene,
May also be present
in these people,
And that's key.
Now, one of the effects
of the high-Risk gene,
The brain of the psychopath
was bathed
In way too much serotonin
during fetal development.
As an adult,
This brain is now numb
To seratonin's calming effects.
The first dangerous elements
are now in place.
The damage is done.
Now, this is a recipe
for catastrophe.
So when the fetus reaches
the day of labor,
The potential
serial killer is born.
Mom! Uhh...
Mom! [Gasps]
[Airplane]
[Airplane]
Prentiss:
hey, how was your weekend?
Uh, scary yet informative.
Was the whole family killed?
Hudson, this is
dr. Spencer reid.
Field agent anne hudson.
The, uh, father
is serving in iraq.
3 nights ago the cops found
his family buried over there.
Buried?
The neighbors heard
the dog barking, came over,
He was scratching
at the grave.
Lucy, their oldest child,
she's still in her swimsuit.
What does the father know?
Hudson: some of it.
He was on patrol.
Took his unit a couple
of days to reach him.
He arrives today.
Last year
the williams family
Was killed and found
exactly the same way.
They lived in newport news.
The father, dan williams,
was also serving overseas.
Now, the police
are overwhelmed
And getting serious heat
from the military.
We need some answers fast.
Jj: as do the media.
They're already calling this
the work of a serial killer.
They're right. It is.
But why bury them?
I mean, it can't be
to hide the bodies.
Rossi:
it's a sign of remorse.
And when they're done
being remorseful,
This will happen again.
[Sobs]
[gasps]
Morgan: "man usually avoids
attributing cleverness to somebody else,
Unless it's an enemy."
Albert einstein.
Hotch:
no sign of a struggle.
Unsub holds a gun
to one of her kids' head.
What can she do?
Footprints belong to paul.
Somehow he managed to get away.
Mom gets it first,
then the youngest.
He hides in the master bedroom,
The unsub finds him
and shoots him.
And carries him out
to the backyard.
But not the mother.
She's dragged out.
It's quick and proficient.
For the mother
and the boys, maybe.
But lucy's drowned
and not shot.
Why the change in m.O.?
[Airplane]
Morgan: f-22 raptor.
Yeah. It's about to get
way louder and much busier.
Tomorrow is langley's
50th anniversary air show.
The father of the first
family killed...dan williams,
Where is he now?
He put in for
another tour of iraq.
An i.E.D. Killed him
2 months ago.
Whoever did this
Knew both fathers
were serving overseas.
Laura downey's wedding rings
are missing.
Any other valuables?
We'll have to ask the husband.
From the williams home,
Only jewelry and watches
were missing.
The unsub only took
what he can carry,
Which means he's most
likely on foot.
There was a photo
on the wall in the kitchen.
I'd like to see it.
Sure.
There's no sign
of sexual assault
In the williams case.
What about lucy?
Nothing on
the coroner's report.
Multiple suspects?
The mother was dragged
out of the house.
If it had been
multiple suspects,
They probably would have
carried her.
He knew the father
was absent,
Therefore the dominant
threat was absent.
So we could be looking
for a single suspect.
No sign of forced entry.
No need.
Lucy was in the pool,
Back door was open.
The unsub walked right in.
That means lucy
probably died last.
In both cases the girls
were suffocated
And not shot. I don't
think it's a coincidence.
[Cell phone rings]
Hey, garcia.
You're on speaker.
We just got a call
From virginia
supermax prison.
One of the inmates there
Has received 2 envelopes
in the last 2 days.
First envelope had clippings
of the newport news killings.
Second envelope had media
clippings of the downey family.
In the second envelope
was a note saying,
"Look at what i've done,"
and both pieces of mail
Have been signed by
"an admirer."
Who's the inmate?
That's the part that...
Karl arnold.
The fox?
Garcia: he's back.
Ok, thanks.
Family annihilator, absent
father, wedding rings.
It's similar.
To what?
4 years ago, karl arnold,
aka the fox,
Killed 8 families.
Just like this case,
he took wedding rings,
Only he took them
as trophies.
Morgan: he'd hide in the bushes
outside the homes.
And i watched them...
for a number of days.
Always at night.
Saw how they lived...
How they loved.
I would keep them apart
until the last night.
Then i would bring them,
one by one,
Down to the basement,
The youngest first.
The father last.
Why, karl?
So he could see
what happens...
To families
When the head of household
isn't strong.
Wives wither...
Children perish.
So, we're working with
a copycat here?
It's too early
to assume anything.
It could bias the profile.
Not to mention the police,
the media, and the military
Would jump all over it.
Until we're positive, none of this
information leaves the 7 of us.
Hotch, you gave evidence
at arnold's trial.
I think you should go see him.
I'd like to take
prentiss with me.
Let's go.
Have garcia check on all of
arnold's prison correspondence
And visitors for
the last 4 years.
Ok. Captain joseph downey
has arrived back at the station.
Jj: captain downey,
please, sit.
Thank you, i'm fine.
Tell me everything.
At around 9:30
3 nights ago,
Your neighbors called
police when...
I'm sorry.
Sir.
We believe it was the work
of a serial killer.
I'm sorry. My neighbors,
uh, jack and penny...
Captain downey...
Your family was murdered.
All of them.
[Gasping]
Is there someone
you'd like us to call?
Uh, call? Um, no, no.
I, uh...
I...i'd like to go home now.
Captain downey.
Captain downey. Captain dow...
Ok.
Ok.
I'm sorry.
I'm so sorry.
[Sobbing]
So why wait a year
to send karl a note,
Unless they were
communicating the whole time?
That's the first thing
we need to find out.
But karl has a big ego.
He's gonna want to answer
ever question with a question.
He'll try to gain
the advantage with me
By asking why i'm not
wearing my wedding ring.
And then he will turn
his attention to you.
So that's why you
brought me along.
Your presence
will throw him off guard.
Then he's gonna want to
describe to you in graphic detail
Every sexual act he
committed with the families.
To freak me out?
To pull you into
his fantasy.
Control, open on 16.
[Buzzer]
[Prisoners shouting]
All right.
Keep your eyes forward.
More than anything,
He's gonna want to see
the images of the children.
We can't give him that.
We have to give him something
or we'll get nothing from him.
What are you waiting for?!
Come on!
[Prisoners shouting]
[Banging on glass]
[Barking]
Isn't that, uh...
Garrett pain.
That's reinforced glass.
Easy for you to say.
He tore apart 14 women.
Guard: open on 15.
[Buzzer]
Prisoner:
come on, man!
Yeah!
Hello, karl.
Agent hotchner.
I wasn't informed
you were bring a, uh...
They just said two agents.
This is agent...
Emily...
Prentiss.
I know all about you.
If this unsub's
copying the fox,
Then we profile him
like the fox.
Karl arnold worked as a
psychologist's assistant, right?
Yeah. Which made it easy
for him to watch, target,
And learn about the victims
from a distance.
Yeah, it also made him
hard to find.
Like the fox,
our man here found a way
To hide in plain sight.
But he's pulling from
2 completely different units.
Williams a medic,
downey an army captain.
Someone knew of that
military connection.
Both families were attacked within a
month of the fathers being deployed.
Gave them time to settle in,
Get comfortable that
the fathers weren't there.
And once inside the home, the
fox would live with the families
And then become the father.
But not this unsub.
He just walked in and
dispensed with the family.
Living with them wasn't
part of the fantasy.
Hudson: agent rossi.
The picture you requested.
Thanks to you, we pulled
some prints off it.
And all the prints
were on lucy.
The bullet hit
the father dead center.
The prints match that
of the newport news killings.
It's the same killer.
Family annihilators like the
fox, they start with one victim.
And once they feel capable,
They move on
to a second victim.
They don't start
with entire families.
There are more victims.
We just haven't found them yet.
Karl, it appears
you have a fan.
Admirer.
Not a fan.
Big difference.
Right?
Is this the first time you've
been contacted by your admirer?
I have many fans.
Even my own website.
Don't you?
You'd be astounded
At some of the questions
they ask.
I make a log
of all of them.
Would you like
to read some?
I would love to.
You'd love to?
Yes.
Here.
Look.
Maybe later.
Your admirer
is taking wedding rings,
Just like you.
But maybe not
for the same reason.
Like how you took
all of mine.
You took mine.
But i see...
you lost yours.
8 rings, 4 families.
Or was it one ring
for each family?
How'd you come
to lose your ring?
[Laughs]
wait, don't tell me.
A casualty of the job.
My job is what
put you in here.
True.
But then,
it's the children
Who suffer most.
Wouldn't you agree?
You'd know more
about that than me.
Which is why
you came to me.
I can help you with that,
agent hotchner.
I certainly can.
But i'll need to see
those photos.
May i?
A word?
Is there a problem,
emily?
There is no problem, karl.
We cannot show him these.
These images
will be his undoing
And our way in.
But they're not just images.
That's exactly
what they are.
We can't use lucy
like that.
It's a tradeoff
we have to make.
So, we are using a dead
12-Year-Old girl in a bathing suit
As a bargaining chip?
For what?
To him it's not
just a photograph.
It's much, much more,
and we need to know what.
Look, i'm...
I've never done this
before.
And you don't have to now.
Yes, i do.
All right. When i feel
he's ready to talk,
I'll leave the room.
You get him talking.
Whatever he does,
whatever you feel,
Just stay on script.
We need to know why
he killed those families.
Garcia: he's had
a smattering of visits,
A couple of whack jobs
contact him,
But nothing as direct
as this admirer person.
Jj: how are we doing on
the prints from the picture?
Oh. I'm still running them.
How are you holding up?
Military families,
they always fear the worst.
They know their men
may not return.
But this...
To see a father
lose so much.
I wish i had something
for you.
I truly cannot find
a damn thing
That connects these families.
Geographically,
both of them
Are thousands of miles
away from their family.
Communication's
all they had...
Emails, phone calls,
letters.
But that's military
communication.
Even between families, it requires a
kind of juice i'm not allowed to use.
Come on. You hacked
into the fbi database.
And they gave me a job.
And i like my job.
And i like my life.
All right, i'll make
some inquiries.
Ok. Do that. Take care.
Bye.
So lucy dies last, alone.
This by itself doesn't
really mean anything,
But when we look again
at the williams file,
We notice that the majority
of the foreign fingerprints
Came from
karen williams' room,
Which means the unsub spent most
of his time in there with karen.
Then he must have separated her
from the rest of the family.
Lucy downey was
already in the pool.
That much was done
for the unsub.
Then this unsub is driven by
some other kind of compulsion,
Some other need.
Hotch was right.
This isn't a coincidence.
It's a possible signature.
Sir, i know that,
but two families have died.
No, i realize this breaks
protocol, but...
No, all we want is to stop
this from happening again.
Sir, i promise you, agent
garcia is the best we have.
Ok. Thank you.
We need to look at each
of the victims as a hub,
With lives outside
of their own families.
Well, each one of them has their
own connections outside the family.
School, friends, tutors,
business colleagues.
And each one of these
people
Are considered access points
back to the family.
That could take weeks.
Well, you have time.
From remorse to the desire
to kill again
The unsub will go through
a gamut of emotions.
It could be another year before the
unsub feels the desire to kill again.
As horrific
as these crimes are,
This city doesn't have the resources
to commit that amount of time.
We have full access to all
military records for the fathers.
Well, now at least
We have access to the main
hub between families.
The dads.
All right, well,
let's find out
What connects them.
Stand up.
You want to see,
don't you?
Very much.
We're gonna show you.
[Buzzer]
This is the home
of the downey family.
There were 3 children.
How old are the children?
12, 9, and 4.
A girl and two boys.
Where were they found?
Over there.
Buried.
Interesting.
Laura, the mother,
and the two boys were killed
In the house.
The daughter?
This is where the mother and
the youngest son were killed.
The other boy was shot
in the bedroom closet.
Where's the father?
Prentiss: overseas.
The killer knows this.
He knows everything
about this family,
And he watches
their every move
To be sure he achieves
what he needs.
[Chuckling]
You have no idea
how he knows
The father is gone
Or how he targets
these families
And the how.
That's the key.
The how...
Is why he...
Was able to catch me.
You watched the families
for days.
Weeks.
I got to know them.
But not your guy.
He doesn't need weeks.
If he did, he'd stay longer.
Why?
So he can enjoy them.
But what i don't understand...
Is why he didn't
separate the children.
Exactly.
That way you have more
control. No room for error.
Why he didn't put the boys
in separate rooms and say,
If you cry...
I'll have to kill mommy.
Tell me...
How did the girl die?
She was drowned.
Yet the others were shot.
May i see her?
What's so special
about the girl?
To suffocate her.
To feel the life
leave her body
Means everything
to the man who did this.
To you, maybe,
but not to this killer.
Not in the same way.
All i did was show them
how weak fathers could be.
That's all.
Every child you killed
you abused physically.
For this man, there is
no sexual gratification.
At least i spared
the fathers
The grief of living.
[Breathing hard]
Please...
Please don't do this.
Come on. Let's get you
cleaned up.
Dani! Didn't i tell you
to always lock the door?!
Nick, cleats off!
Dani! Where are you?
[Dani breathing hard]
Dani?
[Breathing hard]
Mom?
[Gasping]
Please don't...
Please...
Mom...
The girl was suffocated,
not shot, right?
Hudson: yes.
Just like the other two.
Her name is dani.
She's 14.
Morgan: and the father?
Afghanistan.
Does this rule out remorse?
Yes, it does.
So what is it now?
The escalation
between kills
Indicates a major
psychological break.
How is it escalated?
The timeframe between kills
Has gone from a year
to just 3 days.
For the unsub, something
has dramatically changed.
Some kind of major external
stressor forced this unsub
Into feeling the need to kill
again without any remorse.
Mirror neurons
and stressors
Relating to
the unsub's past
May have triggered this,
The strongest of which
is smell.
[Airplanes]
That sound.
The williams were killed
a year ago.
Were there any military maneuvers
going on at langley at that time?
The annual air show,
but nothing as big as this.
Arnold: he's killed again,
hasn't he?
Luckily for me.
Luckily?
Now we're alone.
You stated that the families
don't know the killer. Why?
Now we wait, right?
You and i,
See if my...admirer
contacts me.
He will.
Yours was one of the first
cases i studied.
Really?
Mm-Hmm.
I've been fascinated
ever since.
With what?
You.
[Chuckles]
[Chuckles]
And now...
You want to know
what i did...
To the children.
Don't you?
Yes.
I can show you.
I can show you exactly
what i did to them.
Tell me.
Children are so precious.
So clean.
But they need guidance.
Especially the girls.
Why?
Girls have much more
to lose...
Than boys.
It's a fact the female body
can handle pain much better.
What did you do to them?
I showed them
What men...
Their fathers and brothers...
Are capable of.
And what is that?
You sure you want to know?
Yes.
Morgan, if the langley
air show is the stressor,
Then karl's admirer
doesn't fit the profile.
A psychopath suffering
a major psychological break
Doesn't brag about it, hotch.
There was nothing
you could have done
That would have saved
that family today.
Well, that's if i'm right
about the profile.
I think you are.
Karl's admirer doesn't have
anything to do with these killings.
Well, either way,
we need to know who is.
Hotch, i want you to stay
with him and find out
So we can stop
this son of a bitch.
I plan to.
Once i killed the children,
It always amazed me
How little...
The father fought
the inevitable.
Which was what?
Dying.
I'm trolling through
the williamses' emails,
Satellite phone calls,
land line phone calls,
Family photos, their life,
all of it.
What about the downeys?
They're up next, and
there's a ton to go through.
Fingerprints, garcia?
Zip.
They...
there's nothing here.
I'm sorry, folks.
Garcia, widen the search.
Morgan, i already did.
Vicap combines every database
In this country. We're
as wide as we can go.
Abuse can have a long-Term
effect on any child's brain,
But for the abused child
who has the high-Risk gene
And the orbital cortex damage,
The combination is devastating.
All right, this air show
is military.
These fathers are all soldiers
fighting a war on foreign soil.
We know that none of these
graves are a sign of remorse.
Hey, guys.
Look at these graves.
What are they
reminiscent of?
Mass graves.
Exactly.
Which would indicate
The unsub experienced
early pubescent
3-Dimentional
mirror neurons
Reflecting events similar
to the one they're creating.
I think this unsub
was born into conflict.
But where was he born
into conflict?
When was the last time we saw
anything like mass graves in the u.S.?
We haven't.
Not in our lifetimes.
Not within our borders.
Vicap is national,
not international.
Garcia, international
databases?
Interpol is the biggest. If
they did it, they're in it.
It's pretty obvious
that he's done this before,
But the question is,
where and why?
Karl, i never thought
that you'd be this honest.
It takes a good woman
To make an honest man.
And anyway, let's face it...
She's prettier than you.
Karl, do you know why
you killed all those families?
I've already told you why.
No, you told me how,
not why.
Hotch: and the reasons why,
in this case,
Are very different
than they were for you.
Prentiss: they're
very, very different.
Hotch: and as you so eloquently have
been pointing out to agent prentiss,
All of your motivations
were about sex.
Prentiss: motivations you
learned from your father.
You really have
Done your research on me,
Emily.
I'm flattered.
You're also filled
with feelings
Of extreme self-Hatred.
It must be distracting
Working with someone
so beautiful.
You forced those men
to watch their children die,
And here's why, karl.
Here's why
you are what you are.
What i would
do to you.
By killing
the fathers last,
You were killing
your own father,
And ultimately yourself,
Over and over again.
This isn't over,
agent hotchner.
At least not for you.
Wait, hotch.
For karl, it's all about
the fathers.
In this case,
it's all about the girls.
They die last.
They're laid out last.
None of them are shot.
None of them show any signs
of sexual motive.
What if we applied that logic
to these killings?
That's something
we hadn't considered.
Why would we?
It's so rare.
What is?
The killer's a woman.
A woman?
I'll let morgan know.
Karl, just now you said
That this wasn't over
for me.
What did you mean by that?
[Chuckles]
He's just getting
warmed up.
It's just...
You don't see it.
But you will.
All right, we'll
work it in right now.
Prentiss thinks the unsub
might be a woman.
That's why we couldn't find
a sexual motive.
Wherever she's from, her
father's a military man.
Derek, i've got a hit.
Interpol.
2 hits. 3 hits. 3 crime
scenes. 3 different cities.
The first...zagreb, 1998.
A woman and her 8-Month-Old
baby are both killed.
And then 2 years later,
The same prints show up
in modena, italy,
Then 2007, london, england,
young couple, both shot.
You were right.
She's killed before.
Zagreb is the capital
city of croatia.
Is that significant?
Between 1991 and '95
they fought
A bitter battle
for independence.
Serbian forces
tried to ethnically cleanse
Over 40,000 bosnian
muslims.
Then at some point within the
last 2 years, she moved to america.
She's on the run.
And ran right into a city
Filled with
military families.
The only mass graves reminiscent
of the ones the unsubs created
Were found all over bosnia
after the war,
But none of them rival
that of srebrenica.
Garcia: dutch u.N. Forces
created a safe haven for refugees.
Reid: then in 1995, bosnian
serb forces surrounded the town.
Rossi: a psychopath born in
the middle of that conflict...
That's not a good mix.
Reid: she's exacting her life
experiences onto the victims.
You think this woman
was there?
Well, think about it. Langley's
filling up with civilians
And military vehicles
just like srebrenica.
Can you determine
her age?
Based on victimology,
Each of these girls
is no older than 15.
The balkan war lasted
between '93 and '95,
So if the girls
represent the unsub,
She's somewhere
in her late 20s.
Hudson: how did srebrenica end?
Reid:
it was a massacre.
[Shouting in croatian]
[Speaking croatian softly]
[Speaking croatian]
[Shouting]
Hotch: i don't think this woman
has anything to do with karl.
I encouraged him.
Ohh.
I flirted with him.
[Clears throat]
Made it personal.
Getting intimate
with a killer is...
So different.
It's what we do.
Yeah. But...
There's no fixing how i
feel right now, is there?
No.
But it helped the case.
And you did
what you had to.
Agent hotchner.
Before you go,
There's one final thing
i'd like to share with you.
[Sighs] let's just
get this over with.
This unsub is armed
and suffering
A major
psychological break,
And she will not
hesitate to kill again.
She's white
and in her 20s.
We believe she came to
the u.S. A few years ago.
She's likely on foot.
She could be
eastern european.
She may speak
little to no english.
Now, if you manage
to apprehend or corner her,
Do not underestimate
this woman.
She will try
to fight her way out.
The downeys live less than
a mile from the foresters,
Which means she's
somewhere in this area.
I see something.
Wait.
Wait a minute.
Could it be?
They're all connected
to the same site.
Every media outlet
is being informed
Of the clear and present
danger to the public.
Thank you very much.
Garcia: ok, guys,
i really have got something.
All of these photos,
every one of them,
Was uploaded to a user
website called photobug.
Photobug?
Yeah. Members can upload
photos, videos, email,
Webcam chats.
I use it all the time.
Every one of these families
extensively used this site
For months, even years.
All these family photos
were printed by photobug.
Isn't it protected?
Not from the people
who run it.
It's a great way for military
families to keep in touch.
And a perfect way
to target a family
Without anybody's
knowledge.
They outsource work
to people
All over the country.
So i took your profile,
Hacked into their
employee database,
Came up with this list
of potentials,
One of which is a match
that screams homicidal bitch.
Her name's miranda dracar,
she was an orphan,
Born in sarajevo
during 1982.
She was adopted by a family
in srebrenica.
Morgan: let's go.
Clear!
Clear.
The foresters.
Morgan.
The unsub's next victim.
He's a marine.
Usmc, first battalion,
engineer.
Jennifer,
call your contact.
Jj: sir, i'm gonna need access
to every piece of data
On u.S. Marine sergeant young.
It may save his family.
Girl: why are you always so
slow? We're late. Come on.
I am, i am.
So you think you found
my admirer.
A woman.
No. We found the killer.
With my help, of course.
Your admirer is exactly like
everyone who contacts you...lost.
My love, your guy
is far from lost.
We're done.
So is he.
"Look at what
i have done."
It's quite brilliant,
you know?
We will find
whoever sent you that.
No, agent hotchner,
i rather think
He's already found you.
[Shouting in croatian]
Uhh! Uhh!
Uhh!
Uhh!
[Gunshot]
[Labored breathing]
Jj: morgan?
I'm all right.
I'm all right.
Hotch.
Hotch.
I can't believe you
can't see what he's doing.
What is going on?
He's torturing him.
Who?
It's great to see you
squirm, agent hotchner.
Foyet.
[Arnold laughing]
He knew you'd come.
Ha ha ha ha ha!
[Prisoners shouting]