Criminal Minds (2005–…): Season 6, Episode 12 - Corazon - full transcript
While the BAU are in Miami investigating a series of bizarre ritualistic murders, Reid suffers from intense migraines which makes him concerned about his health.
We're almost ready for you,dr. Reid.
Just a few questions.
Are you having one of
your headaches right now?
Yeah,i am.
How long have you had it?
Um... not really that long.
Can you be more specific?
Uh,maybe 2 days.
And the lights hurt your eyes.
- Any hallucinations?
-No.
Hey,you ok?
Yeah. Why?
You're never late.
Have we started the briefing yet?
Just about to.
Then I'm not late.
Oh. Yeah.
Attention,intrepid bau adventurers.
The land of bermuda
shorts,white leisure suits,
And sansabelt slacks
requests your presence.
- Arizona. Vegas?
- Please. Palm springs.
I was going to say miami,but point well
made about the dizzying number of locales
With unfortunate fashion tendencies.
Here we go.
Shells in the eyes and mouth.
You don't see that every day.
Not even in miami.
3 victims,the last one found with a...
a decapitated cat?
All were found within
a mile of each other
In a mostly latino neighborhood
in miami called allapattah.
Eduardo guzman,homeless. He
was shot to death 7 days ago.
Yanira espinal,prostitute,bludgeoned
to death 3 days ago.
And then victor cabrera,he
was an unemployed janitor.
He was slashed with a machete
yesterday,as was his cat.
You know,considering the
homeless man lived in that alley,
All of the victims essentially
were killed in their homes.
This took some time.
In the open.
You know,cowrie shells
And ritual offerings are common to
a number of afro-Caribbean religions.
But the upside-Down
cross looks like satanism.
The first two victims
had fingers missing,
But on this one,he took both hands.
All of this could have been religious?
This could have specific
religious meaning
Or it could just be part
of the unsub's signature.
Either way,his timetable's accelerating.
We have a day,maybe
2,before the miami p.D.
Has another body on its hands.
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The first victim was
frail and an easy target,
And yet the unsub shot him
from behind and at a distance.
By the second victim,the unsub
chose not to use a gun anymore.
He got up close and personal.
4 days is a rapid
increase in confidence.
By the third victim,he was
comfortable enough to use a machete.
But still from behind.
So he's not invested in
watch his victims suffer.
Which fits what the m.E. Said
About the mutilations being postmortem.
So we're back around a religious ritual.
Reid?
Anything helpful?
Yeah. Yeah.
The afro-Caribbean
syncretic religions began
With slaves,who mixed
their traditional religions
With catholicism in
order to camouflage them.
The elements in this altar...
look to me like santeria.
It's a yoruban-Based
religion developed in cuba.
Practitioners worship orishas,deities that
roughly correspond with catholic saints.
And what about the shells?
Let's see. This is ellegua,the
deity of the crossroads,
A trickster and the
impartial enforcer of justice.
So,is the unsub sacrificing
the victims to him?
None of these religions openly call
for human sacrifice,only animals.
We need to determine whether these
killings are part of an existing ritual.
Or whether he's using religion
to cover his own psychopathology.
The last victim used to frequent
a local community center.
It might be a good way
to get some background.
Good. Take reid with you.
Prentiss and I will go
to the last crime scene.
Dave and seaver,get set up with the p.D.
This the line?
Uh,for coffee. Sorry.
Oh,no. No,I'm just thinking.
Aren't you always?
Hey,what's the weather
like in miami right now?
I don't know exactly,but
my guess-75 and sunny.
Miami,florida
Hey,what's the matter with you?
You're not gonna give me a bunch of
facts about the area and the demographics?
The allapattah
neighborhood is named after
The native american word for alligator.
There you go. There's the kid I know.
All right,5372 seminole street.
This can't be it.
Excuse me,sir. Do you know
where the community center is?
It's down there.
This is seminole alley.*****
- Reid,you all right?
-Yeah. I'm fine.
A lot better than that goat.
Yeah,you got that right.
You see a lot of animal
sacrifices,detective?
Roosters,goats,even
possums,but,uh,a cat is new to me.
He turned the victim's
crucifix upside down.
Well,he brought the shells
and the murder weapon with him.
He must have brought gloves,too.
The only fingerprints they
found belonged to the victim.
Older,organized.
Yeah,except he left a footprint.
That's something only an
inexperienced unsub would do.
It's almost as though he planned
this whole thing very carefully,
But then reality was
nothing like his imagination.
That throws him off balance
and he makes a mistake.
But he is getting used to it.
Each kill is more
precise and well-Executed.
The first killing,he had to
saw to take the finger off.
He made sure he brought
something sharp enough this time.
Right. He knows what he
needs to bring with him
And what's already here.
He's been here before.
There's no signs of forced entry.
The victim let him in.
These chalk designs on the floor...
They were made before the blood spatter,
And they're not smudged at all.
And no sign of a struggle.
Maybe the victim chose
to be part of the ritual.
After the murder,the unsub
turned the victim's body over.
His face was clean,so
he wiped the blood off.
Remorse?
Or he feels conflicted
about harming the victims.
They may represent somebody to him.
These shells...
They look like "see
no evil,speak no evil."
He's symbolically silencing his victims
So they can't tell anyone about him.
By posing the bodies,he
is sending a message.
He may not want the
victims to see or hear him,
But he wants somebody to.
Victor was my best friend.
We were like brothers.
We're sorry for your loss,mr. Mercado.
He was sick for a long time,
But he was finally feeling better.
He was sick?
His men's part,down there.
The cancer.
Where was he being treated?
No,no,no. No doctors.
They don't do nothing
but make you worse.
Throw radiation on you,poison you.
He did his cleaning every day.
That's why he was feeling better.
What do you mean by cleaning?
He clean his head,his body.
But he got one of the saints mad.
Maybe he forgot to feed ellegua.
***erminaste?
Si.
Tuti.
I must go.
Excuse me.
You run this place?
I don't talk to cops,unless
you got a warrant.
Well,one thing's for sure is this
community does not trust outsiders.
They barely trust insiders.
And none of the residents
are gonna want to tell us
What's ritual and what isn't.
Garcia?
Hey,garcia.
Where you at?
I'm...
I'm here. I'm right...
I'm right-I'm right here.
I'm always right here.
All right,listen,we need
you to find us and expert
On afro-Caribbean religions,someone
outside of the community
Who might be willing to talk.
If he or she exists,yours
truly will find him or her.
- Thanks,garcia.
- Yes.
So not only do all the
victims know the unsub,
But they participate with him in a
consensual ritual before he kills them.
He poses the bodies after death.
He wants them to be found.
The question is,who is he
trying to communicate with?
And what's he trying to say?
The professor has a morning
class,but he'll be with you shortly.
Thank you.
I've never seen a first
edition "tractatus" before.
Yeah,hotch.We got another one.
Well,that didn't take long.
Jimmy mercado,friend of the last victim.
Jimmy mercado?
- Wait a minute. Reid,isn't jimmy mercado the shaved ice man?
- Yeah.
Hotch,we just interviewed
this guy yesterday.
All right,so anyone talking
to us could be at risk.
We'll send photos.
Mercado was killed?
Psychopathic hubris.
This unsub's success is
making him feel invincible.
Hi. Sorry I'm late.
The lady that called said you're
investigating these murders
We've been seeing on tv.
Awful. Just awful.
So,how can I be of assistance?
We were hoping you could
help us analyze these.
They're difficult to look at
even when you're used to them.
Well...
you have several different
religions manifesting here.
Most of the elements are
from santeria healing rituals,
But the upside-Down crucifix
and the chalk drawings...
They're from a much darker religion.
Unbaptized palo mayombe.
This is a significant
change in the unsub's m.O.
He subdued the victim in the hallway
prior to dragging him in here.
It doesn't suggest a consensual ritual.
He wanted the victim to
know exactly what was coming.
And he took the head
as well as the hands.
Not exactly.
He took the brain.
And what is that?
His tongue.
Just when you think
it can't get any worse.
And that?
Is that a dog?
He had a chihuahua.
Does that mean anything
to you,professor?
Santeros don't sacrifice house pets,
But there are palo mayombe
rituals that use dogs.
Palo is a secretive religion.
Very hard to research.
Mine will be the first
academic work on the subject.
Earlier you called it dark,
But aren't all the african-Based
syncretic religions amoral?
I mean,it can be used for good or evil
depending on the practitioner,right?
They're nature religions.
Nature knows no right or
wrong,only balance or imbalance.
So what makes palo darker
than other religions?
All the others achieve their
goals by pleasing the orishas.
Palo is the only one that
harnesses the spirits of the dead
To accomplish its ends.
This is an nganga,
The primary tool of a
palero,a palo priest.
Now,at its core is the nkisi,
The spirit of the
deceased who inhabits it.
Many paleros believe that the
fresher the brain in the skull,
The more powerful the nganga is.
So what are you saying,this
actually calls for a human sacrifice?
No,no,no,not at all. Usually a fresh
brain means digging up a recent grave
Or getting one through donation.
I've never heard of a
palero killing to obtain one.
Well,this may be a first.
Does anything look out of place to you?
Outside of the human head,it
all seems fairly traditional.
Well,he cut off the victim's tongue
And put it in a dish.
Does that have some
kind of ritual meaning?
It may be a sacrifice to
ellegua to silence informants,
People who talk to outsiders,but
usually you use a cow tongue.
Let me ask you this. All of the victims
either had hands or fingers removed.
That's not good.
He maybe be building an
nganga to kadiembempe,
The deity that some call the devil.
It requires finger bones
from 7 different corpses.
So far,he only has 4.
We believe that our
unsub is a lone male.
There is no evidence to
suggest more than one individual
At any of the crime scenes.
He is behaviorally
young,probably between 17 and 22.
Behaviorally?
If he spent time in jail
or been institutionalized,
He could be chronologically older.
Those lost years retard behavioral age.
He's part of the community,most
likely hispanic or black.
We believe that he uses some
sort of religious connection
To get close to his victims.
Either santeria or palo mayombe.
Obviously this is a very sensitive
issue within the community.
He may be a practitioner whom
people trust and rely on for healing.
Instead,he uses their
vulnerability to prey on them.
He's highly organized in his planning,
But then impulsive in his execution.
Indicating that his emotions
take over once he gets started.
This tell us that while he may think
That he has an objective
reason for the killings,
He actually has a compulsion which
is the real reason behind them.
And this has resulted in a rapid
escalation of his m.O. And his timeframe.
He's become more
efficient and more violent.
This makes him unpredictable
and even more dangerous.
He focuses on victims who
are fragile and vulnerable
And then creates
relationships with them.
You need to look for someone who
has close access to people in need.
He may work in a government aid
office or a community center.
- Talk to me,garcia.
- His coworkers will describe him...
girl genius does it again.
According to the sign-In logs,all
of the victims were patrons
At that soup kitchen you
visited yesterday. Huh?
You know I love you,right?
What's not to love?
He will have become
moody and preoccupied,
Maybe even exhibited flashes of temper.
Because of the age of his victims,
We believe he may have
been abused as a child
And is taking revenge
on parental figures.
Look for someone who's
been in the juvenile system
Or in foster care. Thank you.
Laroye!
Laroye!
Laroye.
Laroye.
Laroye!
We're with the FBI. We're
not here to cause any trouble.
But,sir,please put that knife down.
This is a house of god.
You have no right to be here.
We just would like to
ask you some questions.
We'd appreciate it if you
came with us voluntarily.
We're not here to create a spectacle.
I will go with you.
Laroye!
Ok,your bad boy grew up in foster care.
He did 15 years in
apalachee correctional
For attempting to
murder a police officer.
He was also a member of a violent
street gang known as los machetes.
- Subtle.
- Damn.
They like to cut off the hands and
sometime the heads of their victims.
Can you get us some crime
scene photos to look at?
I'll get someone on it.
Anything else,garcia?
I can tell you that julio
did his time without incident.
He was released in 2003. He
regularly visited his parole officer.
There are no waves in these
crime waters since he got out.
All right,thanks,baby girl.
I shall await further instruction.
This guy's been eyeballing
the mirror since he got here.
Let's see what he has to say.
Wait,morgan. I think
maybe I should go in first.
What?
Do you remember at the community center,
He said he would come with me?
If they already have a rapport...
you want morgan to come with you?
No,I'm all right. Thanks.
Dave,you want to go to the soup
kitchen and check out his living space,
Take prentiss and seaver with you?
There was a teenager.
Looked like his assistant.
He took over when we left.
My name is dr. Spencer reid.
Did you know these people?
They are my godchildren.
They all came to me to be healed.
And you healed them.
You think I killed them.
The saints don't need a human
sacrifice.That is a man's sickness.
Maybe it's not about sacrifice.
Maybe someone needs body
parts to build a nganga.
What do you know about palo?
This light... is no good.It
gives you a headache.
That's got prison corners.
15 years inside makes an impression.
Is that blood?
You wanted to see some
of what los machetes does?
That remind you of your youth?
It's some pretty ugly
things to be involved in.
Did you help,or did you just watch?
It looks like a kid lives here.
Morgan said that julio had an
assistant during the ritual.
A teenager.
Look. More blood.
It looks like the kid
had a side business.
Smack.
Is that what you call religion?
What kind of man does
that to another man?
Not a man of faith.
And interesting hobbies.
Eggun buruku ni
Ki ori baje ni
Iche paraldo tete tete!
What the hell was that?
I think I just witnessed a
classic case of transpossession.
It's a form of religious hysteria.
He wholeheartedly believes he was
being occupied by some form of deity.
He wasn't faking it?
Up close you can see
physiological signs.
His body actually changed
in response to the belief.
There have been a lot of
studies of this phenomenon.
There was one case where
an 80-Year-Old woman
Was able to lift a
grown man above her head
When she believed she
was occupied by her saint.
Detective,did you understand
what he was saying at the end?
Brother,look,I'm a puerto rican
catholic that grew up in orlando.
That wasn't any language I ever heard.
I remember the words. I'm sure
he'll be able to translate them.
- You sure?
- That I remember them?
That you want to go back in.
Yeah.
Is he all right?
Yeah,i think so.
But something weird was
definitely going on in there.
What happened?
You have no recollection?
I remember talking about the lights.
You were talking about lights,
And then you were
talking about headaches.
That was my saint.
You're lucky ellegua spoke
to you. What did he say?
Eggun buruku ni ki ori baje ni.
You have bad eggun on top of
you that's spoiling your head.
Iche peraldo tete tete.
Do a cleansing quickly.
What are eggun?
Spirits of the dead.
- Why would you say
that - I-I didn't.
Well,why would your saint say
that they're spoiling my head?
Now,that's a question
only you can answer.
Something's wrong.
Can you feel it?
Yeah. 4 people are dead.
I think maybe the fifth one
is safe with you in here.
No,he's not.
Someone's about to get hurt.
Listen with your heart,not your head.
Your helper,the kid that took over
your ritual when we brought you in here?
Elian.
My associates just found
sale-Weight heroin in his room.
And an nganga.
Where is he?
He's running.
Hey. Calm down.
That was genuine.
You sound surprised.
And he cares about the kid.
Well,he's no psychopath.
No,but maybe the boy is.
Do we have a last name for elian?
Morales.
Prentiss,have garcia
find out what she can.
Please,i gotta find him.
He's got nobody but me.
Do you think it's possible
that elian is our palero?
No. No,he's a good kid.
Then why did he run?
He must be using again.
His mama and papa were junkies.
I took him in,got him
clean,taught him right from wrong.
Please. I gotta find
him before he gets hurt.
The entire police force
is out looking for him.
He's of the streets.
He's gonna go so far
under,he'll be gone for good.
I'm your best chance to find him.
Just small stuff shoplifting,loitering...
Wait.
Uh,he was thrown in juvie
hall for assault last month.
Complainant was julio ruiz.
Tough love?
Charges were dropped.
Elian got out last week.
Which is when the murders started.
Thanks,garcia.
Yeah.
Elian's dependent on him,so
he can't get revenge directly.
His rage against julio and his junkie
parents could be taken out on the victims.
So,uh,the blood on
the head thing is goat.
But the pot that the kid
had has 4 human fingers
And parts of a human brain in it.
And it's human blood on the
sneaker. And one more thing...
The tongue and the hands
were cut off antemortem.
The guy's torturing them now.
You know,you can't
protect him if he did this.
I'm not protecting him.
Then what are you not telling us?
If you want to help elian,
You're gonna have to give us
something that we don't know.
I'll ask the orishas to
help find this killer.
We don't have time for this,do we?
If he ends with him
helping us,yes,we do.
The orishas are with us now.
Ok,we have 4 victims,all with cowrie
shells in their mouths and eyes.
Eleggua is called to find justice.
Two of the victims had fingers cut off.
One had both hands removed.
And one had its head left on the
scene,but the brain was missing.
They took the brain and left the head?
The head was left at the crime scene.
No,that is not palo.
A palero would not leave the head.
He also left the tongue.
There is no use in the religion for a
tongue that is not pierced with needles.
It means nothing just to
put a tongue in a dish.
If it's not part of the ritual,then
it's the unsub's signature.
His psychopathy is showing.
So he's silencing someone
through his victims.
And he enjoys it. He just
didn't know it at first.
Elian is an angry child,
But he would not do this.
Please,let me find him
before it gets worse.
Thank you for your help.
Your head is spinning
because it's full of ghosts.
You think you can do this work day in,day
out and you don't carry it with you?
It's eating your soul.
Ghosts?
All right,so what have we got?
A lot of evidence
pointing to elian morales.
Too much.
He fits the profile perfectly.
Too perfectly. Like
every step was planned.
There are no fingerprints,but
a single sneaker print.
And that sneaker turns
up in the kid's room.
Maybe somebody's framing elian,but who?
Someone with enough intelligence and
control to set up a very convincing trail.
Somebody we've met.
He's probably been
watching us all along.
He began his killing
for gain of some sort.
But his enjoyment of killing is
beginning to disrupt his organization.
He's demanding attention.
Maybe that's his game.
Well,he got it. From the
media,from the public,us.
That's it-Media attention.
But not for the
killings,for the religion.
Morgan,professor walker is about
to public a book on palo mayombe.
We showed him the photo of the
fourth victim's tongue in a dish
And he didn't say it wasn't right.
I mean,he of all people should
have known it didn't fit any ritual.
And that a palero would
have taken the head.
But he wants us to believe
that elian's a palero
And that these are religious killings.
And he did his research
in the community.
He'd be known and accepted.
He knows the rituals inside out.
Maybe he gave the idol to the kid,
Pretending to train
him as a witch doctor.
If elian was angry with julio,he may have
been looking for another father figure.
Elian was easy prey.
What better way to get publicity
than a series of murders?
Yeah,garcia,get us everything you
can on professor walker's background.
And his address.Got that?
Let's go. We'll take the
house,morgan and reid,take the office.
Elian.
Elian!
***************
He did not exactly fit in.
No surprise there.
And his mother committed suicide
when he went away to boarding school,
And to make things stranger and sadder,
After she died,he spent all
of his vacations at school.
What kind of father doesn't bring his
motherless kid home for the holidays?
A crappy one.
His medical records list a
bunch of childhood injuries,
Including two spiral fractures of
the forearm and one broken collarbone.
Well,two spiral fractures
are unlikely to be accidents.
Put that together with
the mother's suicide,
I think we're looking
at an abusive father.
Garcia,what can you find
out about the father?
- A lot.
- Like what?
He wrote 10 books,all
on african religions.
The professor's in
competition with the father.
Yeah,and here's the kicker.
His son is mentioned in this article
And that he's up for
tenure in the same field.
Hotch.
The professor's not at this
house. You got anything?
No,there's no one here either.
We're gonna look around.
Guys,neighbors reported a
disturbance at the soup kitchen.
Let's go,reid.
There's nothing unusual upstairs.
Reid's going through julio's
room to see if we missed anything.
They found these in the refrigerator.
Looks like he dug those up.
Those weren't there when
we were here earlier.
They were planted to make it look
like elian completed the ritual.
Which means the professor's
ready to wrap this up.
Up till now,all the victims
have been killed in their homes.
It looks like the body was dragged
that way,but the trail stops.
Walker laid that trail.
He wants us to think that he
took julio out the front door.
But,really,he could be anywhere.
They are ghosts.
All of the victims were
killed in their homes.
Reid?
You really shouldn't be here.
I'll check down there.
Reid!
Get inside.
You're a professor
and you're very smart.
You're a lot smarter than this.
Smarter.
Prentiss,is reid out front with you?
No. No one's come out
since you went inside.
Your gun,please. Toss it over there.
People like you and I don't need guns.
Like you and i.
Yeah. Men of intelligence.
Oh,we're the same?
Shut up.
I think that there
are some similarities.
I mean,uh,we both love books.
Books?
He's not answering his phone.
You shut up. Shut up.
You know what? I don't-I
don't believe that you killed
All these people just to sell a book.
Oh,really?
Elian will die of an overdose after
killing his santero for his fingers.
It will all make sense to the police.
Reid's vest?
Well,this is not good.
How are you going to explain me?
Elian will have killed you,too.
Have we not established how ill he is?
He's been on a palo rampage.
Everyone will want to learn about
the religion that drove the boy crazy.
Will you shut up!
Wait a minute,rossi.
That's the building right out here.
I'm sorry,I'm sorry,but I don't
believe that this is about a book.
And I don't think that you do,either.
Excuse me?
I
- I think it's more about the abuse,the abandonment,
And the lack of attention
from your father.
That's enough.
You know what the ridiculous
thing is,is that you...
You set up a paradigm where
you actually have to get caught.
Think about it. If
you get away with this,
Your father will never
know that you did any of it.
What is wrong with you?
I'm sorry,it's just very
bright in here for me.
Bright? Please turn the lights off.
The light...What
are you...
Just shut up! Just shut...
FBI! FBI!
We're going to need an ambulance.
- Elian's been overdosed with heroin.
- Get an ambulance.
Don't hurt me.
You have the right to
remain silent. Use it.
Do you think he'll come to see me
in jail? Do you think he'll visit?
My father. Who?
He'll hear about this,right?
I'll be pretty famous.
Oh,he's gonna hear about it,all right.
What? You heard me calling.
You heard me calling.
That's why you came.
Julio,i found a photograph of
you in front of this building.
That's how I found you.
You don't really believe that,do you?
That you just happened
to see a photograph?
This is orula's ide.
It will protect you.
I don't need it anymore,but...
you do.
What do you need protecting from?
I have no idea.
Are you all right?
Yeah. Oh,yeah,i...I am.
I pretended to have a headache
in order to distract him.
Pretended.
Yeah,pretended.
That doesn't make any sense.
I'm not sure what you want me to say.
So there's nothing wrong?
Well,your scans are perfectly normal,
And there doesn't seem to be any
physical explanation for your headaches.
Well,what do I do now?
Well,have you considered...
considered what?
A psychosomatic cause.
Psychosomatic?
It just means a mental
or emotional stress...
I know what psychosomatic
means,doctor,but it's not that.
Well,i think it's something
we should consider.
It's not...I'm not crazy.
Crazy? Dr. Reid,I'm not saying...
I have headaches. I have
intense sensitivity to light
Because there's something wrong with me
Physically,not mentally. It's not that.
That?
Listen,doctor,my mother's a paranoid
schizophrenic who's been institutionalized,
So I know very well what
mental illness looks like,
Maybe even better than you,and
it's not that. It's not.
"The best and most
beautiful things in life
"Cannot be seen or even touched.They
must be felt with the heart."
Helen keller.
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Just a few questions.
Are you having one of
your headaches right now?
Yeah,i am.
How long have you had it?
Um... not really that long.
Can you be more specific?
Uh,maybe 2 days.
And the lights hurt your eyes.
- Any hallucinations?
-No.
Hey,you ok?
Yeah. Why?
You're never late.
Have we started the briefing yet?
Just about to.
Then I'm not late.
Oh. Yeah.
Attention,intrepid bau adventurers.
The land of bermuda
shorts,white leisure suits,
And sansabelt slacks
requests your presence.
- Arizona. Vegas?
- Please. Palm springs.
I was going to say miami,but point well
made about the dizzying number of locales
With unfortunate fashion tendencies.
Here we go.
Shells in the eyes and mouth.
You don't see that every day.
Not even in miami.
3 victims,the last one found with a...
a decapitated cat?
All were found within
a mile of each other
In a mostly latino neighborhood
in miami called allapattah.
Eduardo guzman,homeless. He
was shot to death 7 days ago.
Yanira espinal,prostitute,bludgeoned
to death 3 days ago.
And then victor cabrera,he
was an unemployed janitor.
He was slashed with a machete
yesterday,as was his cat.
You know,considering the
homeless man lived in that alley,
All of the victims essentially
were killed in their homes.
This took some time.
In the open.
You know,cowrie shells
And ritual offerings are common to
a number of afro-Caribbean religions.
But the upside-Down
cross looks like satanism.
The first two victims
had fingers missing,
But on this one,he took both hands.
All of this could have been religious?
This could have specific
religious meaning
Or it could just be part
of the unsub's signature.
Either way,his timetable's accelerating.
We have a day,maybe
2,before the miami p.D.
Has another body on its hands.
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minds season 6 episode 12
"No man chooses evil because it is evil.
He only mistakes it for
happiness,the good he seeks."
Mary wollstonecraft shelley.
The first victim was
frail and an easy target,
And yet the unsub shot him
from behind and at a distance.
By the second victim,the unsub
chose not to use a gun anymore.
He got up close and personal.
4 days is a rapid
increase in confidence.
By the third victim,he was
comfortable enough to use a machete.
But still from behind.
So he's not invested in
watch his victims suffer.
Which fits what the m.E. Said
About the mutilations being postmortem.
So we're back around a religious ritual.
Reid?
Anything helpful?
Yeah. Yeah.
The afro-Caribbean
syncretic religions began
With slaves,who mixed
their traditional religions
With catholicism in
order to camouflage them.
The elements in this altar...
look to me like santeria.
It's a yoruban-Based
religion developed in cuba.
Practitioners worship orishas,deities that
roughly correspond with catholic saints.
And what about the shells?
Let's see. This is ellegua,the
deity of the crossroads,
A trickster and the
impartial enforcer of justice.
So,is the unsub sacrificing
the victims to him?
None of these religions openly call
for human sacrifice,only animals.
We need to determine whether these
killings are part of an existing ritual.
Or whether he's using religion
to cover his own psychopathology.
The last victim used to frequent
a local community center.
It might be a good way
to get some background.
Good. Take reid with you.
Prentiss and I will go
to the last crime scene.
Dave and seaver,get set up with the p.D.
This the line?
Uh,for coffee. Sorry.
Oh,no. No,I'm just thinking.
Aren't you always?
Hey,what's the weather
like in miami right now?
I don't know exactly,but
my guess-75 and sunny.
Miami,florida
Hey,what's the matter with you?
You're not gonna give me a bunch of
facts about the area and the demographics?
The allapattah
neighborhood is named after
The native american word for alligator.
There you go. There's the kid I know.
All right,5372 seminole street.
This can't be it.
Excuse me,sir. Do you know
where the community center is?
It's down there.
This is seminole alley.*****
- Reid,you all right?
-Yeah. I'm fine.
A lot better than that goat.
Yeah,you got that right.
You see a lot of animal
sacrifices,detective?
Roosters,goats,even
possums,but,uh,a cat is new to me.
He turned the victim's
crucifix upside down.
Well,he brought the shells
and the murder weapon with him.
He must have brought gloves,too.
The only fingerprints they
found belonged to the victim.
Older,organized.
Yeah,except he left a footprint.
That's something only an
inexperienced unsub would do.
It's almost as though he planned
this whole thing very carefully,
But then reality was
nothing like his imagination.
That throws him off balance
and he makes a mistake.
But he is getting used to it.
Each kill is more
precise and well-Executed.
The first killing,he had to
saw to take the finger off.
He made sure he brought
something sharp enough this time.
Right. He knows what he
needs to bring with him
And what's already here.
He's been here before.
There's no signs of forced entry.
The victim let him in.
These chalk designs on the floor...
They were made before the blood spatter,
And they're not smudged at all.
And no sign of a struggle.
Maybe the victim chose
to be part of the ritual.
After the murder,the unsub
turned the victim's body over.
His face was clean,so
he wiped the blood off.
Remorse?
Or he feels conflicted
about harming the victims.
They may represent somebody to him.
These shells...
They look like "see
no evil,speak no evil."
He's symbolically silencing his victims
So they can't tell anyone about him.
By posing the bodies,he
is sending a message.
He may not want the
victims to see or hear him,
But he wants somebody to.
Victor was my best friend.
We were like brothers.
We're sorry for your loss,mr. Mercado.
He was sick for a long time,
But he was finally feeling better.
He was sick?
His men's part,down there.
The cancer.
Where was he being treated?
No,no,no. No doctors.
They don't do nothing
but make you worse.
Throw radiation on you,poison you.
He did his cleaning every day.
That's why he was feeling better.
What do you mean by cleaning?
He clean his head,his body.
But he got one of the saints mad.
Maybe he forgot to feed ellegua.
***erminaste?
Si.
Tuti.
I must go.
Excuse me.
You run this place?
I don't talk to cops,unless
you got a warrant.
Well,one thing's for sure is this
community does not trust outsiders.
They barely trust insiders.
And none of the residents
are gonna want to tell us
What's ritual and what isn't.
Garcia?
Hey,garcia.
Where you at?
I'm...
I'm here. I'm right...
I'm right-I'm right here.
I'm always right here.
All right,listen,we need
you to find us and expert
On afro-Caribbean religions,someone
outside of the community
Who might be willing to talk.
If he or she exists,yours
truly will find him or her.
- Thanks,garcia.
- Yes.
So not only do all the
victims know the unsub,
But they participate with him in a
consensual ritual before he kills them.
He poses the bodies after death.
He wants them to be found.
The question is,who is he
trying to communicate with?
And what's he trying to say?
The professor has a morning
class,but he'll be with you shortly.
Thank you.
I've never seen a first
edition "tractatus" before.
Yeah,hotch.We got another one.
Well,that didn't take long.
Jimmy mercado,friend of the last victim.
Jimmy mercado?
- Wait a minute. Reid,isn't jimmy mercado the shaved ice man?
- Yeah.
Hotch,we just interviewed
this guy yesterday.
All right,so anyone talking
to us could be at risk.
We'll send photos.
Mercado was killed?
Psychopathic hubris.
This unsub's success is
making him feel invincible.
Hi. Sorry I'm late.
The lady that called said you're
investigating these murders
We've been seeing on tv.
Awful. Just awful.
So,how can I be of assistance?
We were hoping you could
help us analyze these.
They're difficult to look at
even when you're used to them.
Well...
you have several different
religions manifesting here.
Most of the elements are
from santeria healing rituals,
But the upside-Down crucifix
and the chalk drawings...
They're from a much darker religion.
Unbaptized palo mayombe.
This is a significant
change in the unsub's m.O.
He subdued the victim in the hallway
prior to dragging him in here.
It doesn't suggest a consensual ritual.
He wanted the victim to
know exactly what was coming.
And he took the head
as well as the hands.
Not exactly.
He took the brain.
And what is that?
His tongue.
Just when you think
it can't get any worse.
And that?
Is that a dog?
He had a chihuahua.
Does that mean anything
to you,professor?
Santeros don't sacrifice house pets,
But there are palo mayombe
rituals that use dogs.
Palo is a secretive religion.
Very hard to research.
Mine will be the first
academic work on the subject.
Earlier you called it dark,
But aren't all the african-Based
syncretic religions amoral?
I mean,it can be used for good or evil
depending on the practitioner,right?
They're nature religions.
Nature knows no right or
wrong,only balance or imbalance.
So what makes palo darker
than other religions?
All the others achieve their
goals by pleasing the orishas.
Palo is the only one that
harnesses the spirits of the dead
To accomplish its ends.
This is an nganga,
The primary tool of a
palero,a palo priest.
Now,at its core is the nkisi,
The spirit of the
deceased who inhabits it.
Many paleros believe that the
fresher the brain in the skull,
The more powerful the nganga is.
So what are you saying,this
actually calls for a human sacrifice?
No,no,no,not at all. Usually a fresh
brain means digging up a recent grave
Or getting one through donation.
I've never heard of a
palero killing to obtain one.
Well,this may be a first.
Does anything look out of place to you?
Outside of the human head,it
all seems fairly traditional.
Well,he cut off the victim's tongue
And put it in a dish.
Does that have some
kind of ritual meaning?
It may be a sacrifice to
ellegua to silence informants,
People who talk to outsiders,but
usually you use a cow tongue.
Let me ask you this. All of the victims
either had hands or fingers removed.
That's not good.
He maybe be building an
nganga to kadiembempe,
The deity that some call the devil.
It requires finger bones
from 7 different corpses.
So far,he only has 4.
We believe that our
unsub is a lone male.
There is no evidence to
suggest more than one individual
At any of the crime scenes.
He is behaviorally
young,probably between 17 and 22.
Behaviorally?
If he spent time in jail
or been institutionalized,
He could be chronologically older.
Those lost years retard behavioral age.
He's part of the community,most
likely hispanic or black.
We believe that he uses some
sort of religious connection
To get close to his victims.
Either santeria or palo mayombe.
Obviously this is a very sensitive
issue within the community.
He may be a practitioner whom
people trust and rely on for healing.
Instead,he uses their
vulnerability to prey on them.
He's highly organized in his planning,
But then impulsive in his execution.
Indicating that his emotions
take over once he gets started.
This tell us that while he may think
That he has an objective
reason for the killings,
He actually has a compulsion which
is the real reason behind them.
And this has resulted in a rapid
escalation of his m.O. And his timeframe.
He's become more
efficient and more violent.
This makes him unpredictable
and even more dangerous.
He focuses on victims who
are fragile and vulnerable
And then creates
relationships with them.
You need to look for someone who
has close access to people in need.
He may work in a government aid
office or a community center.
- Talk to me,garcia.
- His coworkers will describe him...
girl genius does it again.
According to the sign-In logs,all
of the victims were patrons
At that soup kitchen you
visited yesterday. Huh?
You know I love you,right?
What's not to love?
He will have become
moody and preoccupied,
Maybe even exhibited flashes of temper.
Because of the age of his victims,
We believe he may have
been abused as a child
And is taking revenge
on parental figures.
Look for someone who's
been in the juvenile system
Or in foster care. Thank you.
Laroye!
Laroye!
Laroye.
Laroye.
Laroye!
We're with the FBI. We're
not here to cause any trouble.
But,sir,please put that knife down.
This is a house of god.
You have no right to be here.
We just would like to
ask you some questions.
We'd appreciate it if you
came with us voluntarily.
We're not here to create a spectacle.
I will go with you.
Laroye!
Ok,your bad boy grew up in foster care.
He did 15 years in
apalachee correctional
For attempting to
murder a police officer.
He was also a member of a violent
street gang known as los machetes.
- Subtle.
- Damn.
They like to cut off the hands and
sometime the heads of their victims.
Can you get us some crime
scene photos to look at?
I'll get someone on it.
Anything else,garcia?
I can tell you that julio
did his time without incident.
He was released in 2003. He
regularly visited his parole officer.
There are no waves in these
crime waters since he got out.
All right,thanks,baby girl.
I shall await further instruction.
This guy's been eyeballing
the mirror since he got here.
Let's see what he has to say.
Wait,morgan. I think
maybe I should go in first.
What?
Do you remember at the community center,
He said he would come with me?
If they already have a rapport...
you want morgan to come with you?
No,I'm all right. Thanks.
Dave,you want to go to the soup
kitchen and check out his living space,
Take prentiss and seaver with you?
There was a teenager.
Looked like his assistant.
He took over when we left.
My name is dr. Spencer reid.
Did you know these people?
They are my godchildren.
They all came to me to be healed.
And you healed them.
You think I killed them.
The saints don't need a human
sacrifice.That is a man's sickness.
Maybe it's not about sacrifice.
Maybe someone needs body
parts to build a nganga.
What do you know about palo?
This light... is no good.It
gives you a headache.
That's got prison corners.
15 years inside makes an impression.
Is that blood?
You wanted to see some
of what los machetes does?
That remind you of your youth?
It's some pretty ugly
things to be involved in.
Did you help,or did you just watch?
It looks like a kid lives here.
Morgan said that julio had an
assistant during the ritual.
A teenager.
Look. More blood.
It looks like the kid
had a side business.
Smack.
Is that what you call religion?
What kind of man does
that to another man?
Not a man of faith.
And interesting hobbies.
Eggun buruku ni
Ki ori baje ni
Iche paraldo tete tete!
What the hell was that?
I think I just witnessed a
classic case of transpossession.
It's a form of religious hysteria.
He wholeheartedly believes he was
being occupied by some form of deity.
He wasn't faking it?
Up close you can see
physiological signs.
His body actually changed
in response to the belief.
There have been a lot of
studies of this phenomenon.
There was one case where
an 80-Year-Old woman
Was able to lift a
grown man above her head
When she believed she
was occupied by her saint.
Detective,did you understand
what he was saying at the end?
Brother,look,I'm a puerto rican
catholic that grew up in orlando.
That wasn't any language I ever heard.
I remember the words. I'm sure
he'll be able to translate them.
- You sure?
- That I remember them?
That you want to go back in.
Yeah.
Is he all right?
Yeah,i think so.
But something weird was
definitely going on in there.
What happened?
You have no recollection?
I remember talking about the lights.
You were talking about lights,
And then you were
talking about headaches.
That was my saint.
You're lucky ellegua spoke
to you. What did he say?
Eggun buruku ni ki ori baje ni.
You have bad eggun on top of
you that's spoiling your head.
Iche peraldo tete tete.
Do a cleansing quickly.
What are eggun?
Spirits of the dead.
- Why would you say
that - I-I didn't.
Well,why would your saint say
that they're spoiling my head?
Now,that's a question
only you can answer.
Something's wrong.
Can you feel it?
Yeah. 4 people are dead.
I think maybe the fifth one
is safe with you in here.
No,he's not.
Someone's about to get hurt.
Listen with your heart,not your head.
Your helper,the kid that took over
your ritual when we brought you in here?
Elian.
My associates just found
sale-Weight heroin in his room.
And an nganga.
Where is he?
He's running.
Hey. Calm down.
That was genuine.
You sound surprised.
And he cares about the kid.
Well,he's no psychopath.
No,but maybe the boy is.
Do we have a last name for elian?
Morales.
Prentiss,have garcia
find out what she can.
Please,i gotta find him.
He's got nobody but me.
Do you think it's possible
that elian is our palero?
No. No,he's a good kid.
Then why did he run?
He must be using again.
His mama and papa were junkies.
I took him in,got him
clean,taught him right from wrong.
Please. I gotta find
him before he gets hurt.
The entire police force
is out looking for him.
He's of the streets.
He's gonna go so far
under,he'll be gone for good.
I'm your best chance to find him.
Just small stuff shoplifting,loitering...
Wait.
Uh,he was thrown in juvie
hall for assault last month.
Complainant was julio ruiz.
Tough love?
Charges were dropped.
Elian got out last week.
Which is when the murders started.
Thanks,garcia.
Yeah.
Elian's dependent on him,so
he can't get revenge directly.
His rage against julio and his junkie
parents could be taken out on the victims.
So,uh,the blood on
the head thing is goat.
But the pot that the kid
had has 4 human fingers
And parts of a human brain in it.
And it's human blood on the
sneaker. And one more thing...
The tongue and the hands
were cut off antemortem.
The guy's torturing them now.
You know,you can't
protect him if he did this.
I'm not protecting him.
Then what are you not telling us?
If you want to help elian,
You're gonna have to give us
something that we don't know.
I'll ask the orishas to
help find this killer.
We don't have time for this,do we?
If he ends with him
helping us,yes,we do.
The orishas are with us now.
Ok,we have 4 victims,all with cowrie
shells in their mouths and eyes.
Eleggua is called to find justice.
Two of the victims had fingers cut off.
One had both hands removed.
And one had its head left on the
scene,but the brain was missing.
They took the brain and left the head?
The head was left at the crime scene.
No,that is not palo.
A palero would not leave the head.
He also left the tongue.
There is no use in the religion for a
tongue that is not pierced with needles.
It means nothing just to
put a tongue in a dish.
If it's not part of the ritual,then
it's the unsub's signature.
His psychopathy is showing.
So he's silencing someone
through his victims.
And he enjoys it. He just
didn't know it at first.
Elian is an angry child,
But he would not do this.
Please,let me find him
before it gets worse.
Thank you for your help.
Your head is spinning
because it's full of ghosts.
You think you can do this work day in,day
out and you don't carry it with you?
It's eating your soul.
Ghosts?
All right,so what have we got?
A lot of evidence
pointing to elian morales.
Too much.
He fits the profile perfectly.
Too perfectly. Like
every step was planned.
There are no fingerprints,but
a single sneaker print.
And that sneaker turns
up in the kid's room.
Maybe somebody's framing elian,but who?
Someone with enough intelligence and
control to set up a very convincing trail.
Somebody we've met.
He's probably been
watching us all along.
He began his killing
for gain of some sort.
But his enjoyment of killing is
beginning to disrupt his organization.
He's demanding attention.
Maybe that's his game.
Well,he got it. From the
media,from the public,us.
That's it-Media attention.
But not for the
killings,for the religion.
Morgan,professor walker is about
to public a book on palo mayombe.
We showed him the photo of the
fourth victim's tongue in a dish
And he didn't say it wasn't right.
I mean,he of all people should
have known it didn't fit any ritual.
And that a palero would
have taken the head.
But he wants us to believe
that elian's a palero
And that these are religious killings.
And he did his research
in the community.
He'd be known and accepted.
He knows the rituals inside out.
Maybe he gave the idol to the kid,
Pretending to train
him as a witch doctor.
If elian was angry with julio,he may have
been looking for another father figure.
Elian was easy prey.
What better way to get publicity
than a series of murders?
Yeah,garcia,get us everything you
can on professor walker's background.
And his address.Got that?
Let's go. We'll take the
house,morgan and reid,take the office.
Elian.
Elian!
***************
He did not exactly fit in.
No surprise there.
And his mother committed suicide
when he went away to boarding school,
And to make things stranger and sadder,
After she died,he spent all
of his vacations at school.
What kind of father doesn't bring his
motherless kid home for the holidays?
A crappy one.
His medical records list a
bunch of childhood injuries,
Including two spiral fractures of
the forearm and one broken collarbone.
Well,two spiral fractures
are unlikely to be accidents.
Put that together with
the mother's suicide,
I think we're looking
at an abusive father.
Garcia,what can you find
out about the father?
- A lot.
- Like what?
He wrote 10 books,all
on african religions.
The professor's in
competition with the father.
Yeah,and here's the kicker.
His son is mentioned in this article
And that he's up for
tenure in the same field.
Hotch.
The professor's not at this
house. You got anything?
No,there's no one here either.
We're gonna look around.
Guys,neighbors reported a
disturbance at the soup kitchen.
Let's go,reid.
There's nothing unusual upstairs.
Reid's going through julio's
room to see if we missed anything.
They found these in the refrigerator.
Looks like he dug those up.
Those weren't there when
we were here earlier.
They were planted to make it look
like elian completed the ritual.
Which means the professor's
ready to wrap this up.
Up till now,all the victims
have been killed in their homes.
It looks like the body was dragged
that way,but the trail stops.
Walker laid that trail.
He wants us to think that he
took julio out the front door.
But,really,he could be anywhere.
They are ghosts.
All of the victims were
killed in their homes.
Reid?
You really shouldn't be here.
I'll check down there.
Reid!
Get inside.
You're a professor
and you're very smart.
You're a lot smarter than this.
Smarter.
Prentiss,is reid out front with you?
No. No one's come out
since you went inside.
Your gun,please. Toss it over there.
People like you and I don't need guns.
Like you and i.
Yeah. Men of intelligence.
Oh,we're the same?
Shut up.
I think that there
are some similarities.
I mean,uh,we both love books.
Books?
He's not answering his phone.
You shut up. Shut up.
You know what? I don't-I
don't believe that you killed
All these people just to sell a book.
Oh,really?
Elian will die of an overdose after
killing his santero for his fingers.
It will all make sense to the police.
Reid's vest?
Well,this is not good.
How are you going to explain me?
Elian will have killed you,too.
Have we not established how ill he is?
He's been on a palo rampage.
Everyone will want to learn about
the religion that drove the boy crazy.
Will you shut up!
Wait a minute,rossi.
That's the building right out here.
I'm sorry,I'm sorry,but I don't
believe that this is about a book.
And I don't think that you do,either.
Excuse me?
I
- I think it's more about the abuse,the abandonment,
And the lack of attention
from your father.
That's enough.
You know what the ridiculous
thing is,is that you...
You set up a paradigm where
you actually have to get caught.
Think about it. If
you get away with this,
Your father will never
know that you did any of it.
What is wrong with you?
I'm sorry,it's just very
bright in here for me.
Bright? Please turn the lights off.
The light...What
are you...
Just shut up! Just shut...
FBI! FBI!
We're going to need an ambulance.
- Elian's been overdosed with heroin.
- Get an ambulance.
Don't hurt me.
You have the right to
remain silent. Use it.
Do you think he'll come to see me
in jail? Do you think he'll visit?
My father. Who?
He'll hear about this,right?
I'll be pretty famous.
Oh,he's gonna hear about it,all right.
What? You heard me calling.
You heard me calling.
That's why you came.
Julio,i found a photograph of
you in front of this building.
That's how I found you.
You don't really believe that,do you?
That you just happened
to see a photograph?
This is orula's ide.
It will protect you.
I don't need it anymore,but...
you do.
What do you need protecting from?
I have no idea.
Are you all right?
Yeah. Oh,yeah,i...I am.
I pretended to have a headache
in order to distract him.
Pretended.
Yeah,pretended.
That doesn't make any sense.
I'm not sure what you want me to say.
So there's nothing wrong?
Well,your scans are perfectly normal,
And there doesn't seem to be any
physical explanation for your headaches.
Well,what do I do now?
Well,have you considered...
considered what?
A psychosomatic cause.
Psychosomatic?
It just means a mental
or emotional stress...
I know what psychosomatic
means,doctor,but it's not that.
Well,i think it's something
we should consider.
It's not...I'm not crazy.
Crazy? Dr. Reid,I'm not saying...
I have headaches. I have
intense sensitivity to light
Because there's something wrong with me
Physically,not mentally. It's not that.
That?
Listen,doctor,my mother's a paranoid
schizophrenic who's been institutionalized,
So I know very well what
mental illness looks like,
Maybe even better than you,and
it's not that. It's not.
"The best and most
beautiful things in life
"Cannot be seen or even touched.They
must be felt with the heart."
Helen keller.
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