Criminal Minds (2005–…): Season 7, Episode 12 - Unknown Subject - full transcript

Oh, my God.

No.

? You know our love
was meant to be?

? The kind of love
to last forever...?

THERAPIST:
Emily.

Huh?

I said,
this is our last session.

It doesn't have to be good-bye.

My door is always open.

Thank you,

but, um, I...



I feel good, you know?

Ready.

- How are your nails?
- Three days,

no biting.

Are you sleeping?

I am.
Uh, it's been...

two weeks, I think,
since the last dream.

They may not have gone
away completely.

Correct me if I'm wrong.

You never had the chance
to mourn your own death,

did you?

Uh, I'm sorry,
I don't understand the question.

As part of protecting
your identity,

your team had to bury you.



They lost someone they loved.

Maybe you did, too.

Think about it.

I will.

GARCIA: So, Houston PD needs
our boots on the ground

for the Piano Man case.

The serial rapist?

A case we consulted on

about eight months ago-
12 victims over five years.

He crosses racial
and social lines,

ages, too.

- Power-assertive?
- ROSSl: Knocks them out

with a date-rape drug
and binds them with piano wire.

They wake up with no memory
of the assault

or how they got the permanent
scar the wire leaves.

So he's branding his victims.

How does he dose them?

GARCIA:
Houston PD still isn't sure.

'Cause, you know,
date-rape drugs

metabolize quickly,

and he's keeping them
for 12 hours.

So why are they
calling us in now?

'Cause with these most recent
attacks, this piece of work

has elevated sick and twisted
to a whole new dimension.

Cases in point:
Brittany Anderson

filed a report
after she woke up outside

the restaurant
she was abducted from,

and Vanessa Campbell

was just reported missing.

- Wait, those were victims two
and five, weren't they? -Yes.

He's going back and attacking
survivors a second time.

Vanessa was grabbed
from her house?

He's changing his M.O.
from what we studied.

He's upping his game.

We know he stalks them.

A public venue abduction,
he has the power.

- Home invasion, he's on their
turf. -REID: So he's betting

he can gain control before
they get to a phone or a gun.

The question is why;
what is he getting

- from revisiting old victims?
That seems careless

for someone who's been
so controlled up to now.

What is this on the floor?

Uh, that, oh, that.

That is the contents
of Vanessa Campbell's stomach,

which she ralphed up.

And in the glass?

According to the police report,
it is salt and water.

Homemade emetic.

- E-what-what? -ROSSl:
Quick and dirty cocktail,

meant to induce vomiting.

Vanessa Campbell and her husband
moved to a new address,

they put locks on the doors,
they took precautions.

She even knew what to do

if she was dosed again,
and it still wasn't enough.

That's what he gets out of it.

Their fear.

He wants them to know
that no matter what,

he can still get to them.

"We do not suffer
from the shock of our trauma,

but we make out of it
just what suits our purposes. "

Alfred Adler.

- Hey.
- Hey.

I'm sorry,
I thought you said 10:30.

I did for you.
Have a seat.

I received
Dr. Merill's evaluation,

and I just wanted
to review it with you.

Here?

Well, I get tired
of being profiled

through my office window.

Well, what is there to discuss?

She gave me
a clean bill of health.

"Patient shows no hesitation
tackling difficult goals

"as part of reintegrating
into her life.

She has reached out
to her mother... "

- I'm going to.
- "... and has started

a romantic relationship
with a man named Sergio. "

Mm-hmm.

Now, I don't care

if you lie to your therapist.

All I care about is how
your behavior affects your job.

I don't think it has.

You've been overcompensating.

How have I...?

You rushed to repair
your relationship with Morgan.

You've become
an emotional sounding board

for Reid and Rossi.

That's being a good friend.

You offered me parenting advice.

Okay,

so maybe I have been working

a little bit harder
to regain people's trust.

Is that such a bad thing?

No.

It only is if you use it

to avoid dealing
with what you went through.

But I'm not.

I chose to come back here.

Why? Because I care
about the people I work with?

Yes.

But also because it's clean.

I know who the good guys

and the bad guys are.

I don't have to worry

about screwing someone over
to make a case.

Okay.

I want you
to make a deal with me.

You're going to go weeks,

months even, feeling fine.

Then you're going
to have a bad day.

Just let me know when you do.

And that's it?

That's it.

Deal.

Sergio?

He is the perfect man.

He doesn't hog the covers

and he poops in a box.

I just got the breakdown
of Vanessa Campbell's vomit,

and there's no trace
of Rohypnol or GHB.

Date-rape drugs are fast,
but not that fast.

However he's dosing them,
it's not through their stomachs.

Chief, have you, uh, been able
to contact all the victims?

Yeah, the ones
that we could find.

Some moved
and some wouldn't take our call,

but then the press
got ahold of it

and the women started
to contact us.

Three more victims

admitted they'd
been re-assaulted.

80% of women who are raped
never report it.

Understandable they didn't want
to report it a second time.

CHIEF:
Still no DNA,

but what we do have
is a partial fingerprint

from victim number one's
glasses- Regina Lampert.

But we can't match it
to the second assaults

because the forensic evidence
has been destroyed

due to delayed disclosure.

That's how
he's getting away with it.

He's banking on their silence.

So then what did you do
after the attack?

I changed everything
about myself.

My hair color, my clothes,
my apartment.

I took self-defense classes.

I'm an orange belt, and I carry
pepper spray and a whistle.

That's why
I didn't call the police.

Who was gonna buy that
this happened to me twice?

We do.

Yeah, 'cause you're nice.

Nobody believes a slut
who cries wolf.

We want to go back

to the second attack.

It sounds like you were trying

to restore some normalcy
to your life.

My husband told me
that I was at the mall.

I don't remember much.

I completely blacked out.

Both times.

Just... gone.

PRENTISS:
Diana?

Are we almost done?

Or could we at least take
a smoke break?

I'm dying here.

You can't smoke in here,

but there's an area outside.

Oh, thank God.

Do you guys have a light?

Did you start smoking

before the assaults or after?

Before, why?

Yes, Vanessa smokes.

What does it matter?

It might explain how the UnSub
is drugging these women.

The media has done
a very good job

of warning people
to watch their drinks,

so the bars are no longer
a fertile hunting ground,

but cigarette smokers
aren't as careful.

They might ask
to have a cigarette

from a stranger
or have their pack swapped out

of their purse
when they put it down

and then unknowingly inhale PCP
or scopolamine,

both of which mimic
the effects of date-rape drugs.

She hid them in her purse.

She didn't think I knew.

She'd crack the window

- so I wouldn't smell it
when I got home. -If the UnSub

stalked her from the backyard,

he'd have a good view
when she lit up.

He also took out the window
with something

- like a center punch.
- What's that?

It's a spring-loaded device used
to punch divots into metal.

It also breaks glass.

No cigarettes.

He must have taken them
with him to hide the evidence.

You know, it might not be

all he's trying to hide.

Mr. Campbell, was this on
when you came home?

The police told me
not to touch anything.

Well, you sure got
a lot of MP3s on here.

- Was it playing one of them?
- No.

Why?

Well, the media center keeps
a history,

last 20 songs played.

But looks like
somebody erased it.

It wasn't me.

GARCIA:
Okay, I can't tell you

who deleted that playback list,

but I can tell you exactly
when the log was cleared.

- 7:43 p. m.
- REID: Why erase

a history
of someone else's music?

Because he didn't
erase someone else's music.

At 7:36, he loaded an MP3

via USB drive, played it,
and promptly deleted it.

Cleared the history
so he could cover up his tracks.

The UnSub brought his own music
to an abduction?

Yes, he did,

and that is creepy.

Fortunately, whatever is
imported onto this computer

downloaded to the home networks.

So, ladies and gentlemen,

the mystery song
of Mr. Gruesome is...

- That's specific.
- It's another reason

- to call this guy the Piano Man.
- Turn it off.

Please.

? The kind of love to last...?

Does this song mean something
to you or your wife?

Vanessa hates it.

How come?
- I don't know.

She doesn't know.

But every time it came on the
radio, she'd burst into tears.

So the UnSub just happened
to play it

the night he came after her?

Hey, you got table four
ready for me?

Great.

Oh. 12 was generous.

Looks like somebody's making
her car payment.

Not tonight, okay?

Aw, come on,
who doesn't love this song?

Me. I don't.

Okay, sorry.

Songs?

I know it's kind
of a strange question,

but are there any that trigger
an emotional outburst?

A song that didn't bother you
before the assault?

"Maybe I'm Amazed. "

I used to love that song.

Okay, great, good. We done?

Not quite.

Um, your comment
about the slut who cries wolf?

It made us wonder
if there was something else

you wanted to tell us.

Did you lose consciousness?

I blacked out! I...

- Diana, you're safe here.
- And I just don't remember...

- Whatever it is...
- ... anything.

"Lady in Red," "Up Where
We Belong," "Glory of Love. "

Each victim has
her own piano ballad.

You know, considering
the survivors lose consciousness

during the rape,
we think this functions

as the UnSub's signature.

He most likely plays
the songs repeatedly

during the assault, resulting
in a Pavlovian response

when they hear it later- sort
of a subconscious rape trigger.

The night of Vanessa Campbell's
abduction,

that signature became
part of his torture.

Why these songs?
What do they say about him?

Go ahead, Morgan.

We just found
Vanessa Campbell's body.

He didn't even bother hiding it.

How long has she been dead?

Maybe five hours.

He's never killed before.
Are we sure it's our UnSub?

He used a piano wire
as a garrote.

REGINA
Can't see where my keys are.

I can't find anything
in this bag.

Normally the, uh, waitress has
to pour me into a cab,

- not the other way around.
- Oh, really?

Well, this is me.

I'm, uh, I-I'm, I'm the SUV.
I'm sorry.

Uh,

listen, I-I know we just met...

I- I can't, um,
I can't let you drive like this.

Oh. Drive?

I'm sleeping in this bitch.

Don't be silly.

Um, uh, lock your doors.

Lot of, lot of creeps
out there, okay?

- Okay.
- All right.

- Um, good night.
- Night.

Hey...

do you have a cigarette?

Uh...

Y- Yes, I do.

Just, uh, don't tell my wife.

I- I promised her I'd quit.

- Okay.
- Here.

It'll be our little secret.

Okay.

You know, I never knew why
I hated that song so much.

But tonight you helped me
figure it out.

- I-I did, huh?
- You did.

That's the song you played
when you raped me.

What?

I was hoping you'd come back.

Tissue inflammation
is consistent with inhalation

of some sort of drug.

I can't tell what yet.

And the ligature marks?

Same as before.

New wounds on top of old scars.

No sexual assault, though.

Possibly because she
regained consciousness

at some point and fought back.

She doesn't show any signs
of defensive wounds.

No, but I did fish this
out of her trachea.

Neoprene.

From a glove.

My best guess is she bit him.

Not enough to break the skin,
unfortunately.

An exam glove?

Most likely.

Actually, it's a surgical glove.

A little bit thicker
than an exam glove.

If he's wearing neoprene,

it means he has
an allergy to latex.

Have Garcia check
hospital records.

What the hell?

Aah, aah.

Aah, help!

Somebody help me!

Hello!

Hello, is there somebody there?!

? Turn around?

? Every now and then
I get a little bit lonely?

? And you're never
coming round?

? Turn around?

? Every now and then I get...?

Do you recognize this outfit?

I wore it the night we met.

I don't remember exactly,
but friends heard me say

I was going outside for a smoke.

Who are you?

You really don't remember?

No, uh, la-last night we-we met,
we met last night.

That's okay...

because I remember you.

Pieces of you, anyway.

I guess, because I was
your first,

you didn't know
how to drug me right,

and I kept coming to.

W- What are you talking about?

I remember how you, um,
how you panted behind your mask

and how your sweat...

dripped on my skin.

- But most of all... -Okay,
this is a misunderstanding.

I remember that song.

So, first he evolves
to revictimizing these women,

then he evolves again
to killing them.

The story's in the press.

He knows we're hunting him.

The murders, like the gloves,
are a countermeasure.

Right, he's a rapist
first and foremost.

That's his primary motivation.

So, then, why not rape Vanessa
Campbell for the second time?

He lost control
when she fought back.

He couldn't risk
her identifying him.

Okay, maybe that's
his new primary motivation.

He wants to stay hidden.

But look at all the details
we've learned about him already.

The victims could have
more clues to his identity

locked away
in their subconscious.

So he kills them
before we can unlock it.

Go ahead, Garcia. - Sir, I have struck out

on surgeons.
In fact,

none of the survivors saw

the same two health care
professionals

or went to the same hospitals.

But then I asked myself,
"What would SSA Hotchner do?"

And I imagined myself
in a really good suit

- and I widened my search.
- What did you find out?

I found an orderly
whose name is Herman Scobie,

who rotates shifts
at three different hospitals.

The same hospitals
the victims go to?

Yes, indeed, they are.

And according to the
hospital networks,

he accessed their insurance
months after the attacks.

PRENTISS: That's how he finds
the victims the second time.

We should talk to him.

Diana.

He killed Vanessa?

Yes.

He could be after any one
of us now, right?

Is this because of what
I played last night?

Wait, stop, no, wait!

It's a, it's a stupid,
cheesy song!

I- I only learned it so that I
could, I could serenade my wife

when I asked her to marry me!

You can't even lie convincingly.

It's not a lie.

You sang "Total Eclipse
of the Heart" to your wife?

It's kind of a crap song
to propose to.

But it wasn't.

Tha-That's not what I played
last night.

Y- You're confused, okay?

Look, I can,
I can prove it to you.

DIANA: There are certain things
that you notice

when you're a lifelong smoker.

I could tell that it tasted
funny, so I crushed it.

I guess I got enough
because I was out, but...

I wasn't out out, you know?

Because you didn't inhale
as much as the other victims.

Right?

Okay, this

is what I played last night.

Same song.

No, it's not.

Li-Listen, listen.

It is the same song!
It's the same!

What, you think
I can't hear that?!

- Wait, no, no!
- Come on, it is the same song!

Wait, stop! It was, it was
written by the same guy.

- That's why it sounds like
it's the same song. -Prove it.

How do they go?

I woke up.

In his van.

He wore a mask.

I never saw his face.

But there were other things.

Things that were different
from what you described.

Things... he did?

Things he didn't do.

He didn't tie me up,

and there wasn't a song.

He talked to me,

but there wasn't a song.

Do you remember what he said?

No.

When he was done, he bashed my
head into the floor of his van.

FBl!

Out the back!

What are you doing?
What is...?

What is this?

DIANA:
Sometimes, in my dreams...

I can still hear his voice.

Okay, okay, okay,

okay, this one goes...

? And I know just
how to whisper.?

Right?

And the other one goes...

? Turn around?

? Bright eyes.?

You see?

Thank you.

Why you running?

SCOBIE:
Why are you coming to my house,

waving guns around?

Because we're looking
for a rapist and a killer.

You know anyone like that?

SCOBIE:
Not me.

Morgan.

Neoprene.

Oh, it is you.

I know you're him.

You see, you didn't
just play that song

over and over again when you
ravaged me five years ago.

You sang it.

The same way
you sang it right now.

That, that's your proof?

That's all I need.

You got the wrong guy.

You're making a mistake.

Oh, for God's sake!

I- it's not me!

I'm not the guy!

Yeah, it's you.

Oh, my God!

Ah...

REGINA: You know,
according to Wikipedia,

you've got 48 hours
before gangrene sets in,

less if I starve you.

So, uh...

you want a sandwich
or something?

What's the point?

You've already decided who I am.

Um, the point is,

you ruined my life,
and I want to make you

take responsibility for that.

I never did anything to you
you didn't want.

What?

Do you see this?

This made my mother cry

in the examination room when
the police took photos of it.

And these...

here...

These m-made my father ask me

if I had too much
to drink that night.

And...

this one?

This one was so deep
that my fianc?

decided that he could
never touch me again.

Now, is that what
you really think?

That I wanted this?

That's not what
I'm talking about.

You mixed me up.

Just like you did the songs.

Hi.

Where's my lawyer?

We called him, he's on his way.

I'll tell you what,
I'm gonna let him

fill you in
on the Piano Man investigation.

On the what?

The Piano Man.
You might have read about him.

A little.

What, you think I'm him?

No.

Well, at least I don't.

The problem is,
the way you treat

some of your dates

is a little similar to this guy.

Now, I'm, I'm not judging.

Some guys like it rough.

In fact...

Never mind.

No, go ahead.

No, uh, I can't.

Maybe you already did.

Most of the people here aren't

as understanding as I am.

So,

between us...

did you ever get
a little too rough?

Heat of the moment?

Never.

Never?

Never.

PRENTISS:
What about those naughty girls

who came back for seconds?

SCOBIE:
What about them?

They are the ones
screeching the loudest.

What I need from you is a reason
to kick them to the curb.

Look at the notches

on their bedpost.

You think they're innocent?

That's a good one.

Besides...

nobody believes a slut

who cries wolf.

Right?

I'm gonna quote you on that.

Okay, that, that,
that was just something

I told myself
after the second...

How did he...?

Your brain remembers details

no matter how hard
you try to forget it.

It's just like the song.

It's him.

We got a positive I.D.

We'll arraign him.

We're not done.

We're gonna stay and help
the D.A. build an airtight case.

Gonna be tough if most of
the victims can't identify him.

That's why we use
his signature against him.

We establish a link between each
of the victims and her song.

How does that work exactly?
Are we gonna enter

his song library into evidence?

If it's relevant, yes.

We'll categorize every piece
of music he owns.

Every MP3, CD, old cassettes,
everything.

We establish these songs
were important to him

and we go at him again.

He's lawyering up.

He raped 12 women

and he killed one.

We're gonna make
every charge stick.

Hello.

What?

That-That's,

that's great.

Um, li-listen,
can I call you back?

...confirm that an arrest has
been made in the Piano Man case.

The suspect's name
has not been released yet,

but a spokesman for the
Houston police has confirmed

he is in custody
and could be arraigned

as early as this evening.

What did you mean?

What did I mix up?

We've met before,

just not the way you remember.

Evanescence,

Linkin Park, and Nickelback.

So Herman Scobie's
into that nu-metal goth stuff.

Yeah, and his tramp stamp
probably spells out Massengill.

This guy doesn't even have
any Rage Against the Machine.

I rock.

How old were you when you

started listening to that band?

Uh, I was probably
a teenager. Why?

Well, 14

is when we start
to make our own musical choices.

Our cognitive development
evolves at that age,

and we start to form
our own cultural identity.

We stop listening to the music
that our parents put on,

and we start listening
to the music

that our friends listen to.

REID: And those musical
experiences imprint on us.

Our hormonal surges as teenagers
may make the choices

seem more personal
and passionate.

And later on in life
we might experiment

with other musical selections,
but no music

ever impacts us as much as that
which we listen to at age 14.

Herman Scobie is what, 30?

- If that.
- Okay, so mid to late '90s

is when he started
to take music seriously-

stuff like this.

And the Piano Man songs

were all early '80s.

Which means the signature
doesn't fit. Herman Scobie's

too young to be the Piano Man.

I used to go to this bar...

The Golden Gun.
You know it?

I've been to lots of bars.

This one was special.

Had a happy hour
every Wednesday night.

And every Wednesday night

I'd be there.

And every Wednesday night I'd...

notice this woman.

Long blonde hair,
horn-rimmed glasses.

Every week she'd let
a different guy pick her up.

It's like a deal.

She could come back,
but he couldn't.

You remember the bar now?

- Yeah.
- Yeah.

One night

she was so trashed I couldn't...

understand what she was saying.

It was, "Your place. "

And when we got there...

she told me...

not to ask her about them.

That's when I saw the scars.

The next morning she was gone.

I kept my side of the bargain.

I never went back.

I wondered about her.

Who she was,

what happened to her.

Now I see these...

same scars on my wrist.

I have my answer, don't I?

You think you know me?

I know who you are, Regina.

How can Herman Scobie
not be the Piano Man?

We've got the medical gloves,

- the medical records he pulled.
- The taunt

he said to Diana Mitchell,
he repeated to us.

Well, Scobie definitely
assaulted Diana the second time.

He's probably revictimizing

all of the survivors.

But apply the profile
to Herman Scobie

and look at what's different.

There's no piano wiring,
there's no song played.

You think there are two UnSubs-
the Piano Man and a copycat?

REID:
Copycat studies

the original UnSub
in order to learn.

Herman Scobie's a doppelganger.

He's trying to pass himself off
as the Piano Man.

ROSSl:
Why?

Convenience maybe.

If he assaults the Piano Man
survivors, they're less likely

- to reach out to the police.
And if they did,

the women claimed
it was the Piano Man.

No one thinks to look
at hospital orderlies.

Who killed Vanessa Campbell?

- The Piano Man or Scobie?
- It's a layup.

Same neoprene glove
in her throat

as we found in Scobie's van.

There's something odd
about that, too, though.

If Vanessa Campbell
swallowed this,

it'd be scarred
by digestive acids.

I mean, even if it got caught
in her trachea

as he choked her out,

gastric reflux would be evident,
but there isn't any.

So the UnSub placed that
in her throat postmortem?

Which UnSub?

He used the piano wire,

he played the song;
it must be the Piano Man.

So he plants a piece
of evidence to frame Scobie.

Okay, let me get this straight.

The Piano Man is trying
to convince us

that Scobie is responsible
for all of these crimes.

And if these two have studied
each other this closely,

then Scobie is the key

- to finding the Piano Man.
His lawyer is here.

Scobie's not gonna talk to us.

He will when he finds out
he's been set up.

My client has nothing to say.

Good, we'd rather
he listen anyway.

You're going away for rape.

The question is whether
you'll let your competition

hang Vanessa Campbell's murder
on you as well.

I didn't kill her.

I didn't even touch her.

- Herman... -HOTCH: From what
you've told us,

we know exactly
what you think of these women.

You don't need to kill them.

They're not worth
that much effort to you.

But the Piano Man
can't take that risk.

When he'd heard what you'd done,
he killed Vanessa Campbell.

PRENTISS: He went back
to an old victim,

just like you.

But then placed a piece
of neoprene down her throat.

Does that sound
like an accident?

He's setting you up.

I need to discuss this

- with my client.
No, he talks to us now

or he takes his chances
with a jury.

What do you want to know?

Who is he?

I never met him.

I just read about what he did
in the hospital records.

The weird thing, though...

What?

I had two chicks

picked out to do next.

I was gonna start
with Vanessa, but...

he got to her first.

Who was the other one?

Regina Lampert.

Regina.

What are you doing?

Regina, I'm...

I'm begging you.

I've lost a lot of blood.

I need to go to the hospital.

Regina.

No.

GARCIA: Okay, guys,
Regina Lampert

is not answering her phone, and
I found something hinky on her,

which I'm sending
to your tablets.

All right, Garcia,
what are we looking at?

GARCIA:
It's a surveillance video

from the bar
that Regina Lampert works at.

Do you see the guy
she's talking to?

ROSSl: Playing the piano.
He's taunting her.

She knows it, too.

- Look at her body language.
- GARCIA: Watch what happens

when I fast-forward
to closing time.

ROSSl:
She seems to warm up to him.

GARCIA:
And then watch this.

Garcia,

freeze it right there.

Look at her face.

No, she doesn't;
she set herself up as bait.

GARCIA: Credit card says
that the guy at the piano

is Hamilton Bartholomew.

This is what I know.

His wife just filed

a missing persons report
on him this morning.

She directed me to some job
he just applied for.

So I got a background check
from that

where they did his fingerprints.

All right, Garcia,
pull Regina Lampert's

rape kit and cross-reference
the prints found

with Bartholomew's
and see if you get a match.

We need to get to her house.

GARCIA: Sending her address
to your GPS. Godspeed.

- Garcia, did she pick up?
- No,

but we did get a 911 call

from her house,
and it is freaking weird.

911 operator.
What's your emergency?

Hello?

My name is Hamilton Bartholomew.

I'm being held captive
by a lunatic.

She took the Piano Man captive?

Unless he's not the Piano Man.

I mean, think about it.

Would the Piano Man
call us to rescue him?

She could be shooting
at the wrong guy.

Garcia, keep trying the house.

It's the lab; they've run
the fingerprints. Hello?

FBl!

REGINA:
I got him.

I caught him.

This is the Piano Man.

No, I'm not;
this woman's crazy.

PRENTISS:
Regina, look at me.

Look at me.
Drop the gun, okay?

Please don't let her kill me.

REGINA:
I have waited

five years for this.

You...

PRENTISS:
We ran the rape kit, Regina.

The fingerprint the police
got off your glasses,

do you remember?

We compared it to Hamilton's.

It didn't match.

That's impossible.

That's...

that's him.

That's him.

If you pull that trigger,

you're gonna kill
an innocent man.

Drop the gun.

But... it's...

- Can you walk?
- Yeah.

I have to put these on you,
do you understand?

This is for both of our safety.

Hamilton Bartholomew,
you're under arrest

for the rapes of 12 women and
the murder of Vanessa Campbell.

I was told that you would
only give your statement to me.

Why didn't you let me
pull the trigger?

Because you would be in prison.

As opposed to where I am
right now?

Meanwhile, he gets a lawyer.

A fair trial.

He will never see
the light of day.

Ever.

Can you guarantee that?

You know, when they talk
about victims

getting revictimized
by the system,

they mean you.

- I know it's hard, but...
- No, you don't.

You have no idea

what it's like

when the monster
from your nightmares

comes back for you.

Wait...

Look, I'm here as a courtesy.

Something happened to you.

So do you want to give me
your statement or not?

What did you do to him, huh?

Did you arrest him

like a good FBl agent?

Or did you kill him?

I didn't pull the trigger.

Still.

Your monster's dead.

I have to live with mine.

That's my statement.

PRENTISS: "All the art of living
lies in a fine mingling

of letting go and holding on. "
Henry Ellis.

I'm having a bad day.