Criminal Minds (2005–…): Season 6, Episode 4 - Compromising Positions - full transcript

## [Rhythm & blues]

## [Vocalizing]

♪ When you are near me ♪

[Woman whimpers]

♪ I'm like a shadow... ♪

Look at me. Look at me.

It's okay. It's gonna be okay.

[Crying]
Why is he doing this?

Is that enough?

We did what you wanted.
Let us go.

No.



[Chuckles]

Now it's my turn.

- [Woman screaming] No!
- [Gunshots]

♪ You're the whole wide world ♪

♪ Oh, the whole wide world to me ♪

[beeping]

Hey, good news.

Ellie just got placed with
a foster family, so fingers crossed.

Oh, that's great. I'm happy for her.

We got a case in Akron, Ohio.

Two couples killed in two weeks.

One a week? That's not much
of a cooling-off period.

Scott and Kathy Hartway.

Found in their car in an isolated spot.



The Son of Sam
had a short cooling-off period.

He also attacked couples in cars.

Yeah, but the first couple
were killed in their house.

Robert and Allison Keppler.

In both cases, the husbands
were killed with a silenced 9-millimeter,

the wife was stabbed multiple times.

- He crosses racial lines.
- And socio-economic ones.

The Kepplers lived
in an upscale neighborhood.

The Hartways were blue collar.

That's a big change in crime scenes...
car versus house.

Two radically different MO's.

Not to mention he subdues two people.
That takes a lot of skill.

There's no indication
of how he overwhelms them.

There's no antemortem bruising.
He doesn't use a blitz attack.

Well, he's got a 9-millimeter.
He doesn't need to.

How about signs of forced entry
to the car or the house?

No. But Akron PD did find this.

Handcuffs. So he restrains the men
and saves the real savagry for the wife.

Is this right? They found a used condom
on both the husbands?

And both had Viagra in their systems,
and neither had a prescription.

So the unsub gives the men Viagra,

and then forces them to have sex
before he kills them.

And given the timetable,
he's gonna strike again soon.

We fly to Akron tonight.
Wheels up in three hours.

Garcia. What's that?

- My go bags.
- Where are you going?

With you, hopefully.

Sir, I think we're all still reeling
since JJ left,

and we are a man down,

and you need
a communications liaison.

- Garcia...
- Sir, please, hear me out.

My job overlapped with JJ's the most.

I created that program
that she used to present cases.

When you guys were out in the field,
she coordinated your needs through me.

- It makes sense.
- Garcia, there are aspects

of the job for which you have no training.

You're totally right,
but l... I'm willing to learn.

I'll learn how to interact with families

and local law enforcement
and the media.

Sir, I'm willing to tone down
my wardrobe choices.

I'm ready to make that sacrifice
if you just please give me a chance.

All right. We could explore this
on a trial basis.

We'll see how things go.
Are you up to speed on the case?

Yes.

- Can you be ready in three hours?
- I'm ready now.

See you on the plane.

Okay.

[Garcia]
Abraham Lincoln said,

"Whatever you are, be a good one."

I'm just waiting
on a few last-minute details.

Let's go ahead and get started.

[Rossi]
I keep bumping on the fact

that he makes a married couple
have sex before he kills them.

What is he accomplishing with that?

You know, the stabbing of the wives
is almost certainly piqueristic.

The unsub gets sexual gratification
from penetration with a knife.

Most piquerists are impotent...
men like

Albert Fish, lain Scoular,
Andrei Chikatilo...

so for him,
it could be a substitute for sex.

The unsub could also
be playing a mind game.

Neither shot to the husband is clean,

so they have to watch what he's doing
to their wives as they're dying.

So this guy challenges their manhood
by forcing them to have sex,

and then mocks them with the overkill.

That kind of psychological torture
makes him a sexual sadist.

It would explain the amount of control
he exhibits over the crime scene...

the handcuffs, the condoms,
the silenced weapon.

He plans out every detail.

If he's that precise,

he would be just as precise
in his victimology,

but he's all over the map
in terms of class and race.

Well, there must be something else
about the couples that attracts him.

Something that he couldn't learn
by stalking them anonymously.

Maybe the couples met the unsub before.

Rossi and Reid,
will you handle the family interviews?

Morgan and Prentiss,
go to the latest crime scene.

We need to learn as much
as we can about him,

so let's really pin down the M.O.

[Morgan]
Well, look at you, look at you.

Meet your new communications liaison.

Trial communications liaison.

Garcia, I don't get to say this often,

but I had no idea
there was this side of you.

Well, I figure since I'm going to have
to interact with the mass populace,

I should dress in the traditional costume
of a mere mortal.

Ow. Ow.

- What's wrong?
- Oh, it's my contact.

It keeps getting weird and... Huh.

There it goes.

No. Yes. No.

Ow.

[Chuckling]

Detective Crowley?

- Miss Garcia.
- Hi.

- Thanks for coming.
- Yeah.

And she e-mailed pictures of you guys.

Agents Hotchner, Rossi,

and Dr. Reid, right?

It's doctor, not agent.
She was specific about that.

- What else was she specific about?
- Everything your team needed.

I sent her a list of family members
who'd be willing to talk,

and your boards are over there,
all ready for you to set them up.

I even got the push pins you asked for.

Excuse me.
Are you Miss Garcia?

- Mr. Keppler. Hi.
- Hi.

This is Detective Crowley.
He'll show you to the interview room.

- Hello, sir.
- Hey.

Right this way.

He is such a sweet man.

You contacted
the family members already?

Yes. Only two responded back immediately.
That's Robert Keppler's dad,

and then Scott Hartway's mom
will be here in about an hour.

- Is that enough time?
- Yes. Perfect.

Okay. I'm gonna set up the boards,
unless you need something else.

- No, we're good. Thank you.
- Great.

And you were worried.

[Prentiss]
Okay, thank you.

So he has a gun.

He gains the upper hand immediately.

He keeps it trained on the wife

so the husband has no choice
but to surrender.

- Where does he confront them?
- Not the parking lot.

Too many variables
for someone this controlled.

He could have been lying in wait
in the backseat, though.

Yeah.

I mean, if they were facing forward,
the unsub's back here down low.

He pops up with his gun.

There's no chance for them to fight back.

He could have used a Slim Jim to get in.

That wouldn't leave any marks.

But here's the real trick.

How did he force two people
to have sex at gunpoint?

With Viagra, apparently.

Viagra's a vasodilator.

It takes at least 30 minutes to get
the blood vessels to relax properly.

I mean, Scott's fight-or-flight response
would have kicked in.

His heart's racing,
his blood's flowing to all his extremities,

but not the right one.

Maybe he got them to relax.

He tells them he'll let them live
if they do this.

This guy has to control everything.

That would include
the environment, right?

- ## [rhythm & blues]
- [Air blowing]

Oh, he turned the heat
all the way up.

He didn't want them getting cold?

## [Rock, soft rock, easy listening]

[Radio Announcer]
105.5...

- ## [soft rock]
- This station wasn't one of the presets.

That means he tuned it for them.

It's almost like he went out of his way
to make sure they were comfortable.

A sexual sadist wouldn't do that.

We need to take a look
at the first crime scene.

Can you walk us through
a typical day in your son's life?

What do you mean?

The man we're looking for may very well
have met Robert and Allison.

Can you tell us what they liked to do?

I can tell you those two were married...
[chuckles]...

to their jobs.

He was lawyer,
and she was a pediatrician.

They went to work, they came home.

- That was their day.
- So he was driven.

Scott was at the post office
by 7 every morning.

He had his eye
on that branch manager office.

He wanted to run the whole zip code.

So did he have enemies at work?

Robert stepped on toes
to close a deal, I suppose.

But he was shooting for VP
by the end of the year.

He... He'd have made it, too.

Was he that way his entire life?

Class president four years in a row.

So many all-Americans...

they ran out of room on his varsity jacket.

What about college?

Well, top of his class at Harvard.

Made Law Review at Yale.

I was very proud.

So both victims were alpha males?

It's the only trait we could find
that connects the couples.

We know that female type isn't specific
to this unsub, but what if this is?

Typically, alpha males
only attack other alphas.

That's how the unsub sees himself.

These men are the only competitors
he takes seriously.

And the overkill on the wives

is his expression of control
in alpha male terms.

He's proving his dominance over his rival
by obliterating their mate.

We need more details
about these men's lives.

I'll have Garcia pull up
more personal information.

- Detective, have you seen Ms. Garcia?
- She's outside talking to a reporter.

A guy from the local paper
wanted a quote from the FBI.

Excuse me.

[Garcia]
No comment.

Off the record, then.

Is the FBI assisting the Akron police
in the Couple Killer case?

Okay, first of all,
no comment means no comment.

Second of all, that name of the killer...
you came up with that name.

- We didn't come up with that name.
- Forget the name. The name's gone.

Just give me some background,

and we'll hold the story
until you give me the green light.

You'll hold the story?

Absolutely.

Have you cleared that with your editor?

Uh, of course.

Can you get him on the phone?

And the hold also applies to your blog
that the paper hosts?

- Right. That.
- You sneaky son of a...

You'll have your story
when the Akron police make an arrest.

Until then, the FBI has no comment,
as Ms. Garcia stated. Thank you.

He lied. He lied to me.

No, he just counted on you
not asking the right questions.

Why didn't you check with me
before you talked to him?

I looked everywhere,
and I couldn't find you,

and I figured it was one of those things

that you would just
count on me to handle.

Garcia, I appreciate the initiative,
but when it comes to dealing with the press,

let me handle things for now.

Yes, sir. Absolutely.

I need all the credit card
and phone records for all the husbands.

We think the unsub
is targeting them first.

- Okay.
- Thank you.

Hotch, there's something
you need to see.

This is the second crime scene.

The unsub took the Hartways
to Lovers Lane.

Then he turned the heat up
in the vehicle

and tuned the radio
to a soul music station.

This is the first crime scene.

Al Green was in the CD player,
candles had been lit.

- [Hotch] He's staging the scene.
- [Prentiss] Control is critical to him.

We know this. But to a different end
than we initially thought.

These murders are about the fantasy,

only the fantasy isn't sadistic,
it's romantic.

We profiled from the interviews
that he's picking the husbands first.

How's that romantic?

[Prentiss] Alpha males marry
the most attractive females.

Once he meets the husband,
he knows the wife is gonna fit his needs.

We know this unsub is impotent,
but what we're seeing here

isn't the usual psychological block
keeping him from getting aroused.

- This is physiological.
- How can you be sure of that?

He brings Viagra to the crime scenes.

If he wanted, he could pop a pill,
let the drug take effect.

Instead, he gives it
to the husbands. Why?

It's not working for him anymore.

Something definitely happened
to this guy.

Prostate cancer, surgery, something.

But whatever it was,
it cut him off from fulfilling his needs,

so he's using the couples as surrogates.

So why does he make
the husband wear a condom?

We don't know that connection yet.

He's going to kill the husbands anyway.

He can't perform on the wives.
The condoms are redundant.

If the theory's right,
he's acting out a fantasy

in which contraception plays a key role.

Until we understand what the role is,
we're not gonna find him.

[Woman whimpering]

[Crying]

[Grunting]

[Yelling]

[Grunting]

[Crying continues]

[Man]
Get it!

- Baby, get the...
- [gunshots]

[Woman]
Oh, no!

[Grunts, yells]

[Woman continues crying]

No...

No. Wait.

I will do what you want.

Just don't hurt me, please.

Tell me you want me.

I want you.

Say it... like you mean it.

[Panting]

I want you.

Do you want me?

You do.

You want me. You want me.

You want me.

- You want me. Say you want me.
- [Moans]

[Gunshot]

I just heard.
The unsub shot both victims last night?

The housekeeper found them this morning.

His routine was disrupted.
That means he made a mistake.

It also means he's out of control.

He's enraged.
He's going to attack again soon.

Paul Wilson, spinal surgeon.

Alpha male, just like the others.

Can you guys hold on for a moment?

He had offensive and defensive wounds
all over his body.

He was cuffed behind his back.
Still put up a hell of a fight.

It's because he knew how. Look.

The wounds extend from his knees
to the soles of his feet.

That's full-contact training.

Now, where would you learn
something like that?

My assumption would be
a mixed martial arts gym.

MMA has skyrocketed among men

who want the most intense
fighting possible.

Which our unsub would.
It could be where he's finding his victims.

I'll follow up with the families.

Maybe she went
for the gun in the drawer,

forced the unsub to shoot her,

and stopped him from following his ritual.

No, 'cause there was
a muzzle burn on her chest.

He shot her at pointblank range.

Okay, you're the unsub.
I'm Debra Wilson.

I have to get past you to get to that gun.

But she takes her robe off.

Now, your 9-millimeter
is right here at my chest.

What am I doing?

She offered herself to him?

Well, why would she do that?

Why not lock herself in the bathroom
or run out the door?

Well, survival isn't logical,
it's instinctual.

Her instincts probably told her
that this was her best shot.

Okay. She's telling herself
she's gonna do whatever is necessary

to get out of this alive.

So she's just seen
her husband die in front of her.

Then she comes on to the unsub?

An overt sexual expression.

Yeah, it's almost flexible.
She's going from one man

to the next without hesitation.

He makes the husband wear a condom.

What does that say about him?

That he's protecting himself?

It's a sexual scenario where you're
sharing a woman with another man.

Am I crazy, or could this guy
be a swinger?

He could have been a part of that scene
until the impotence kicked in.

And now he's just trying to recreate it.

These couples could have
been his old partners.

Here's what I found out.
Only Paul Wilson trained at an MMA gym,

but all the other husbands
worked out regularly,

from the local YMCA
to expensive fitness clubs.

Makes sense. Alpha males
care about their appearance.

The gym is also a good place
to stalk victims.

It still doesn't tell us how he goes

from finding husbands in a gym
to getting inside their house.

No, but it does give us a list
from which we can eliminate.

Yeah, but we've got
a bigger problem here.

The unsub's fantasy was interrupted.

At the least, he's hunting again tonight.

At the worst,
he'll escalate his violence.

Will you ask Crowley to gather his officers?
We can give the profile.

- Garcia.
- Yes, sir.

We've got a possible lead
in the husbands' gyms and health clubs.

- I need a list of everyone in and out.
- Okay, so employees and members.

No, wider than that. Outside vendors,
maintenance, trainers, everybody.

That's a lot.
And I'm not done cataloguing

the husbands' records like you asked me to
'cause I keep getting delayed.

Delayed how?

Family members calling back,
cops with questions.

Also, I'm helping Morgan call swing clubs

'cause we thought some of
the victims might be swingers.

They're not. By the way,
there's more swing clubs in Akron

than there really should be.

Garcia, I need you to prioritize this.
We need to get ahead of this guy.

He may strike again tonight.

Sir, may I please bring Kevin Lynch in?
If he helped me, we'd get it done like bang.

That's fine. And if for any reason
you get stuck, just let me know.

- All right.
- And tell Morgan and Prentiss

that we're releasing the profile.

Have them give it to everybody
that they've met at a swingers community.

Yes, yes, I can do that.

[Doorbell rings]

[Sighs]
Jehovah's Witnesses?

Oh, no, ma'am.
Um, I'm Special Agent Prentiss.

This is Special Agent Morgan.
We're with the FBI.

We heard that you ran, uh,
Fabulous Fun and Over 40?

This is the house.
Phil, the FBI is here.

Come in.

Thank you.

Sir, I totally appreciate
the confidentiality

your gym provides for its members,

but this is a murder investigation,
so obviously...

[dial tone]

Hello?

- Uncooperative.
- [Phone ringing]

Kevin, honey, say something helpful.

I'm almost done
with members and employees.

Outside venders are gonna
be tough, though.

It looks like a lot of these guys
are paid under the table.

I know.

W-2s are useless.
Look at original service records only.

What is this operating
system you're working?

The search parameters
are completely backwards.

Okay, first of all,
I created that program,

and second of all, it is a poor carpenter
and hacker who blames his tools.

Miss Garcia, Paul Wilson's family
is here for interviews.

But we're about to deliver the profile.
There's no one here to talk to them.

Well, they're here.

Uh, can... can you ask them to wait?

Okay.

- Pen, are you talking to me?
- Kevin, compile.

[Dial tone]

Detective?

Yeah?

I'm sorry. I'll talk to them.

Oh, I miss you, JJ.

This unsub is an emasculated alpha male

with a near obsessive-compulsive
level of control in his behavior.

And because of the repetition
of details at the crime scenes,

we know that his ritual
is essential to him.

These patterns are how
he maintains dominance

in a world he feels powerless in,

both sexually and socially.

The man we're looking for is a troilist.

Do you know what that is?

It means that he gets off on staging
a scene and participating in it.

Such as recording
sexual acts on camera

or coming to parties like yours.

The point is the performance.

Do you know who his partner is?

- Partner?
- When he comes to the parties.

He has to bring a female companion,
or he wouldn't get in the door.

See, swing clubs are a matriarchy.

My primary goal as a hostess

is to make sure other women
feel safe and secure.

There has to be at least
as many women as men.

Actually, we hadn't considered that.

What else do you know about him?

Paul Wilson's attack showed him
how physically weak he was,

and Debra Wilson's enticement

reminded him of how futile
his fantasies were.

And as a result of this, this unsub
is what we call decompensating.

- Now, what does that mean?
- We use it to describe the collapse

of OCD patterns
that mentally ill patients use to cope.

Once one fails, they generally all do.

In this case, the unsub's ritualized fantasy
has stopped working,

and that makes him
incredibly dangerous.

So what was his fantasy?

Two men, one woman.
How would that work?

Well, he comes with
his female companion,

then he'd most likely invite a man in.

Wait a minute.
This guy is an alpha male.

Wouldn't he be too possessive
to share his partner?

Sure. Unless he was married.

Well, why married?

Oh, because the erotic charge
of the role play

is the consensual cheating.

You don't control a girlfriend
the way you control a wife.

The husband chooses
his wife's partner for her.

Usually not married.
It makes the cheating hotter.

Then, at a certain point, he steps in.

And shows his sexual superiority.
He proves to the room and his wife

that he's the only one
who can satisfy her.

Until his impotence
destroyed his ability to do that.

Suddenly, he's not the only one
questioning his manhood.

She is, too.

So maybe she cheated on him,
or maybe she left,

but either way,
his wife was his first loss of control.

And if he's decompensating,

she's the pattern he'll attack next
as part of his breakdown.

Her or women like her.

The end result of decompensation
is a temporary psychotic break.

He'll revisit old patterns
to see if they still work.

And when he finds that they don't,

he'll be compelled to destroy them
and anyone engaging in them.

## [Techno]

Hey. Hi. How are you?

- [Doorbell rings]
- Oh, excuse me.

- Hello, Leslie.
- James.

What a pleasant surprise.

Where's your wife?

Maryann's coming later.

Well, you know the rules of my house.

She's right behind me. I swear.

Well, she better be.

## [Continues]

## [Continues]

[Gunshots]

[Woman screams]

- [Siren wails]
- [Chattering]

Are you almost done?

I can't look at this any longer.

Almost, ma'am.

The gunman tonight...
did you know him?

James.

He and his wife Maryann
were fixtures here a year ago.

- Then they just stopped coming.
- Do you have a last name?

No. We don't share
personal details like that.

So you have sex,
but you don't ask for last names?

All of the victims here tonight were men.
Do you happen to know why?

No.

Do you know if he had the chance
to shoot any women?

I was in the playroom with my friend,

and we locked the door
when the shooting started.

And he came in,

and he just looked at me
like I was nothing.

So no. No, I have no idea
what he was after.

I'm just glad it wasn't me.

Ms. Sanders, if the door was locked,
how did he get in?

This was the last victim.

The unsub came from
the living room into here.

Morgan says the hostess
locked herself in here.

It didn't seem to slow him down.

This is a deadbolt. The unsub
could have easily shot his way through.

He picked the lock?

He'd only do that out of habit.

The deadbolt's designed for security.

It takes expertise to get past that.

You think he's a locksmith?

We knew he was stalking
his victims at the gym,

but we never knew
how he got into their lives.

But when you're working out,

where's the one place
you leave everything personal?

In a locker.
Once the unsub finds an alpha male,

he can pick the lock,
get their address off their driver's license,

and duplicate their keys
in his work van outside.

That's the missing piece to his M.O.

He got everything he needed
from these men before they left the shower.

Garcia's already ruled out
gym employees and members.

How's he getting in?

Could be a third-party vendor
called in to install the lockers.

And called back
when someone loses their key.

All right. Come back to the station.
We'll work this up.

Garcia, I need you
to pull all the locksmiths

that the gym contracts out to.

- Oh, that's gonna take some time.
- Why?

Because I'm still
gathering the vendors,

and not all the Websites
list the trainers that work there.

- Did you call them?
- Of course I called them.

But some were cooperative
and some weren't, so...

Garcia, I told you to come to me
if you got stuck.

Look, you know usually I can do
this kind of thing in no time,

but this office is a revolving door
of people bugging me,

and I cannot do two jobs at once!

Oh, my God, sir, I'm so sorry.

Garcia, there are eight
new victims as of tonight,

and more people are going to die.

I need you to shut out all distractions
and give me everything you've got.

Yes, sir. I'm here.
I'm present. Hit me.

The unsub's a locksmith.
I need employee rolls...

- Of lock and key companies. I'm so on it.
- Thank you.

- [Typing]
- [Door opens, closes]

- Hotch.
- Yeah.

We need to rethink
this unsub's decompensation.

We thought his wife would be
the next logical target,

especially if she left him.

But if it's other men, he could blame them
for breaking up his marriage.

It's the same thought process that started
him hunting alpha males to begin with.

What does that tell us
about where he might be going?

Nothing. But it might
tell us where he's been.

Decompensation means he's returning
to his old patterns, his old habits.

Maybe he did this before.

After his wife left, he sought out
some of her partners and killed them.

You want to look
at unsolved murders?

Crowley can pull them for us,
match them based on the unsub's caliber.

Good. You might also need to give
Garcia a hand working the locksmith angle.

Is there some reason
she can't cover that on her own?

She's juggling two jobs.
She might need some help.

Yeah. Yeah, I appreciate that.
Thank you for the information.

Okay. Bye-bye.

How are you holding up?

Um, the gyms found out
about the massacre,

so now they're giving me
information on the locksmiths,

and that's a whole other
can of worms, and...

I'm fine.

- Garcia...
- [sighs]

Morgan, people are going
to die because of me.

- That's not true.
- Yes, it is.

JJ did so much.

I am in so over my head,
I'm swimming...

My God, I hate these things.

Here. Let me help. Take them out.
Where's your saline?

Front pocket of my bag.

You know what your only mistake
has been since you started?

Oh, hooray. More criticism.

You are trying to replace JJ.
Nobody can replace JJ.

Now take the other one out, too.

I'm not trying to replace her.

I'm...

I'm trying to do this job
the way she'd want it done.

You know what JJ would want?

She'd want you to find a way
to do this job on your own terms.

Play to your strengths.

Okay, all my extensive knowledge

of operating systems
and Internet protocol

is not really gonna help me out here.

- That's not what I'm talking about.
- What are you talking about?

You need to go O.G.

Original Garcia.

Derek Morgan,
I'm a little blind right now,

but it appears
the rough blur that is you

just threw out my only pair
of contact lenses.

There she is. I know you.

How often do I tell you I love you?

Every day. It's implied.

Now, the locksmiths.

Can I help?

You just did. I know what to do.

[Typing]

[Ringing]

Deacon's Lock and Key.
This is Deacon.

Hello. This is Penny Garcia.

I'm with the phone company.

I paid this month.

Oh, we're the phone company,
so we know that.

I'm calling because one of
your employees is past due,

and he listed you
as his most recent employer.

- I don't have any employees.
- Well, that solves that, then.

I'm just going to turn
this over to the IRS.

No, wait a minute. Wait a minute.

I have a few guys I freelance out to.
Who are you looking for?

Well, I'm glad you asked,
'cause this is my pickle.

I have a gentleman that uses
a bunch of different last names,

but he keeps using the same first name,
James, over and over,

and the password is "Maryann"
on all of his accounts.

James Thomas.

He wouldn't happen to be
working tonight, would he?

Supposed to. Didn't show.

Okay. Thank you very much.
Bye-bye.

I got it!

- [Hotch] Got what?
- The unsub.

His name is James Thomas.

He did work at all the gyms
the husbands went to.

Is that not enough information?
Oh, I have so much more.

Last year, he suffered from a condition
called prostatic hyperdysplasia.

Routine surgery took a wrong turn.

Snip, snip... they had to remove
the whole prostate tamale.

Boss says he didn't show up
for work today, but this...

is his home address.

Garcia, you should have let me know
before you contacted his employer.

Otherwise, well done.
We need a SWAT team at this address.

I'm on it.

Yes.

FBI! We're coming in!

Clear.

Clear.

All clear.

Show me your hands.

- Who are you?
- Maryann Thomas.

James Thomas' wife?

Where's your husband?

I don't know!
He left for work this morning.

There's a gun locker in the closet.
It's empty.

Get up.
You're gonna help us find him.

Just...

Please, tell me what this is about.

[Morgan]
This is who your husband has killed so far.

[Rossi]
Recognize that last crime scene?

That's Leslie Sanders' house,
where you and James used to swing.

James is not a...

- He wouldn't do that.
- He would, Maryann.

He would because he knows
he's not the father of your baby.

That's not true. James is the father.

- She's not going to give him up.
- She's the wife of an alpha male.

She depends on him psychologically.

Is there any chance
that the unsub is the father?

Garcia said the prostate surgery
was over a year ago,

and there's no record of insemination.

So how do we get her to admit it?

We need to ground her back into reality,

give her something
to hold on to for truth.

Did you get those files we asked for...
the unsolved murders?

Yeah. I can have them here
in five minutes.

Great. Thanks.
If the unsub did kill someone in those files,

it's most likely the father of her child.

If it's an old swinging partner,
he'd be easy to track down.

That's risky. If we show her
the files and he's not in there,

we could lose her for good.

Yeah, but if the father is in there,
it could shake her loose.

That baby is the only thing
she would prioritize over her husband.

I think I can do it.
I can get her to cooperate.

How?

Right now, two alpha males
are in there attacking her marriage.

She'll react the same way to anyone
challenging her husband's dominance.

But I'm not a threat.
I think she'll listen to me.

So I read this pretty
fascinating theory recently.

It said that humans weren't
designed to be monogamous...

that in our hunter-gatherer phase,
women took several mates.

The idea was that if the men in the tribe
didn't know who the father was,

they'd all be more invested in the child.

- Interesting, right?
- I guess.

Truthfully, your lifestyle is, um...
it's a sociological marvel.

Don't get me wrong.
I don't judge it or you.

But I do think that the only reason
you got into that

was to make your husband happy,

just like you only got pregnant
after his surgery

to make him happy.

- Only, I don't think that it's working.
- That's not true.

James is overjoyed to be a father.

So he didn't change around, like,

month four or five of the pregnancy,

when you started to show?

He didn't get moody
or withdrawn or anything?

How about last night, when he
came home with cuts and bruises?

- Didn't you ask him about that?
- No.

So, Maryann,
I know this is hard to hear,

but I think that your pregnancy

drove your husband
to try to recreate those parties

so that he could feel in control again,

only instead of swinging,

he's killing people.

Why won't you people listen to me?

He's not capable of doing that.

How about killing the man
who got you pregnant?

Do you think he's capable of that?

No.

Because you'd be lying.

This is his baby.

These files are recent unsolved murders...

men who have been killed
since you conceived.

Now, if I'm right about your husband,

I think that the father of your child
is somewhere in here.

Bob Atkins? Is it him?

I can't believe this.

James Boyd?

You don't give up, do you?

You just can't accept the fact
that my husband and I love each other.

Yes, we have
an unconventional marriage,

but that's not a crime.

We have a strong relationship.

James respects me.

He would never do anything...

[crying]

[Phone rings]

[Ring]

[Kids yelling]

It went straight to voice mail.

He must have turned it off.

Maryann, we need you to tell us

what you and your husband
used to do before you got married.

What your habits were.

You mean like where
we went on dates?

No, your sexual habits.

Think of it.
You don't just jump into swinging.

Most people have games building up to it.
What were they?

He'd sometimes pretend to pick me up.

What does that mean?

We'd meet at a bar.

I'd arrive, and he wouldn't be there.
He was in the back watching me.

What were the names
of the bars you went to?

Just one. Dunley's.
It's at the Town Mall.

And how did the game end?

He'd make me dress provocatively.

He wanted guys to hit on me,
and then, when I'd show some interest...

James would step in,
seduce you back to him?

## [Dance]

He's in the middle of the bar.

There's no way to take him down
without risking collateral damage.

If we go in there,
he'll start shooting up the place.

He'll do that anyway.
This guy's looking for a spark.

- Then we need a distraction.
- What are you doing?

He's gone back to his old patterns.

He wants to play the game
he played with his wife.

Debra Wilson played that game,
and it got her killed, Prentiss.

All right, keep his focus off the crowd
long enough for us to take him down.

You guys better have my back.

We will.

♪ Just leave me be ♪

♪ So step in ♪

♪ Lots of faces... ♪

James.
Hey! I thought that was you.

How's Maryann?

Oh, you don't remember me, do you?

We met at a... a party.

We did?

Yeah. That was a...

That was a crazy night.

I'll bet it was.

Emily. Um, it was Halloween.

Okay, tell me if this rings a bell.

Uh, you asked if we were interested
in Maryann,

and then you and I watched for a while,

and then you joined in.

Brian didn't stop talking
about that for weeks.

Look, look, look, look.

I'm sorry.
I really don't remember you.

It's okay.

So do you still hit the scene?

No, I don't.

- Yeah, me, neither.
- Hmm.

I came tonight, uh,

hoping to find a real man.

Lucky for me I found you.

[Chuckles]

So we have met?

So where's Brian?

Oh, he's not around anymore.

Yeah. Well, that happens.

Losing a boyfriend.

The scene will definitely do that.

You know,
I'm not that torn up about it.

There'll be other boyfriends.

Hmm.

You know, there's only, uh...

only one way to make
the lifestyle really work.

You gotta choose
someone who's stable...

who's, uh, secure.

In fact, Maryann and I have a, uh,
little secret system we worked out.

You want to know what that is?

I always choose husbands for her,

never boyfriends.

[Laughs]

I don't know you,

and you don't know me.

Move, move.

[Gunshot]

[Screaming and shouting]

FBI! Nobody move!

The situation is under control.
You're not in danger.

A little help.

Are you all right?

Tell... Tell... Tell Maryann...

[gasps]
Tell Maryann...

I will.

[Prentiss]
We all wear masks, and the time comes

when we cannot remove them
without removing our own skin.

Andre Berthiaume.

[Knock on door]

Garcia...

Sir, I'm scanning the open case files.

My plan is to have this office
paperless in a month.

That can wait.

When Gideon left the BAU,

I found myself taking on
too much responsibility.

And I quickly realized that I could
only do the job that I was good at.

I've seen you give everything to this case
and to this team for the last few days,

but the truth is we need you here.

Oh, thank God.

Sir, I do not want that job. I mean...

I want part of the job.

I want the part that keeps me here

'cause here I'm Mozart.

But out there I was like a monkey
playing the trumpet,

and you guys need Mozart.

You did fine.

What if we split up the job?

You can handle intake and resources
here at Quantico.

We can cover the rest in the field,

and when we need you,
you'll still travel with us.

- You can do that?
- Of course.

But I let you down.

In no way whatsoever.

I kind of lost my marbles out there.

Garcia, when you applied for this job,

you gave me your résumé
on homemade pink stationery.

I realized then that you were... unique.

And I wouldn't want you to change that.

Good night.

Good night.