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Previously on Criminal Minds: Evolution...

VOIT: I don't want to do this anymore.

I don't want to live like this.

Parts of your brain are talking to each other

that didn't talk before.

I need you to go and get your gun

and put it on this table

-over here. -No.

I'm a fucking monster, David. Don't you understand?

JJ: So Ronald Graber is a family annihilator?

LEWIS: He told them he wanted to play a game.

They had to choose

one family member to sacrifice,

and the he would leave.

OCHOA: JJ, I sincerely believe

that in your situation,

-if you can't help... -Help yourself...

...help someone else.

Like you.

What do you want me to do?

JJ: We think you'll remember once you're face to face.

GRABER: I have a message for Sicarius

from his disciple.

Doesn't Elias need some sort of safe word?

VOIT: I'll say "monster" if I need help.

I am Sicarius.

You have a message for me?

Did you watch my videos?

I did.

You saw what I did to those families?

Yes.

Then you know what they call me.

I know what you call yourself.

I want to hear you say it.

The Brutal Man.

Huh.

I asked for Sicarius.

And here you are.

In the flesh.

So you say.

VOIT: Do you have a message?

GRABER: I would've thought

you'd have figured it out by now.

Look, I'll, um...

...I'll make it easy for you.

I'll give you the message...

...if you can answer

this one question correctly.

Why am I here?

Why am I here,

in custody,

and not in the morgue

like everyone else?

VOIT: I'll make it easy for you.

GRABER: Let me make it easy for you. The Brutal Man.

Gas N' Gulp.

Beavercreek, Ohio. 2007.

Your family stopped there.

-Ronnie? -VOIT: Your mom needed

to use the restroom.

Do you need to go?

Ronnie? Go now or forever hold your pee.

Pick out some candy.

Get something for your sister, too.

Be back in a jiffy.

VOIT: And then,

while you were waiting...

(gasps)

-Sorry. -What's your name?

Ronnie.

Ronnie.

Mm...

pick a hand.

I'm not supposed to talk to strangers.

My name is Lee, your name's Ronnie,

so we're not strangers.

Pick a hand.

Look, I'll make it easy for you.

(clicks tongue)

Life's too short to skip dessert.

*

It was you.

Picture perfect nuclear family.

You even had the bumper sticker

with the stick figures on it. I couldn't help myself.

It wasn't hard to corral them

once I had a gun to your sister's head.

You always thought they abandoned you.

Thought it was your fault.

Wondered what you ever did wrong.

Never understood.

You must be such a bad boy

if your family's just gonna leave you.

No grandparents to take you in.

You have been searching for answers.

I kept my eye on you

through foster care, juvie.

You were, you were a lost soul.

But then I recruited you, RG07.

So, when you said you killed those families

because you wanted to...

that was bullshit.

You didn't have a choice.

Because, you see,

Ronnie,

I'm the one who made you.

So give me

your goddamn message.

"Hell is empty...

"...and all the devils...

...are here."

You're gonna want to grab him.

Monster.

* *

VOIT: "Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows."

William Shakespeare.

Everything Voit said is a match.

Ronald Graber was abandoned

in Beavercreek, Ohio.

He bounced around the state system

until he made juvie his home.

Can't believe Voit killed Graber's entire family.

It was that intense connection

that made him remember everything.

Just like when he sat down across from

Ramona. All the good came flooding back.

Yeah, and now it's all the bad.

GREEN: He sounded like his old self.

Do you think it was an act?

No, I think he knew he had to tap into that side of himself.

His purpose was to go in that room and get us the message.

He did that, and then some.

Yeah, but at what cost?

I'm gonna check your heart rate, okay?

Elias?

Is that okay?

His heart rate is through the roof.

He's still in shock.

Is it okay if we stay here for a while?

Whatever you need.

Elias,

we're not gonna travel until you're stable, okay?

Okay.

Did you hear what Agent Rossi said?

Graber isn't dead.

He's gonna wish he was.

"Hell is empty..."

What was the rest of it?

"And all the devils are here."

I don't know that. What's it from?

Is it from the Bible?

GARCIA: It's Shakespeare.

The Tempest. Act one, scene two.

LEWIS: Yes, first uttered by Ferdinand

during the shipwreck and then repeated by Ariel

when they tell Prospero what happened to the royals.

Scene two. This is round two

-with the network. -PRENTISS: I'm not convinced

it's that deep. It could just

be a very bold statement.

And the only thing we know

is that Voit has some

dark shit locked up in that head of his.

LEWIS: Mm. And that he knows

all the devils we're looking for.

Now we just need him to remember all of them.

It's weird seeing him like this.

-Almost helpless. -ROSSI: Yeah.

He's drained and it's late.

Been a while since

I've pulled an all-nighter,

but if there ever was a time...

You want him to lay down somewhere?

OCHOA: Well, it's simple

for me to run a brain scan.

Can tell us if he's

his old self or his new self.

You can do that from here?

I knew what he'd be up against in there,

so I brought it along.

I'll send the feed to your monitor

so you can see what I see.

Dave.

Don't leave, please.

OCHOA: Okay.

You know the drill.

Focus on the images

we flash in front of you.

-All right? -Mm-hmm.

You think our monster's back?

Look at the anterior insular cortex.

Rainbows.

The empathy center in his brain is still firing.

JJ: How can that be? We all saw

how he talked to Graber. He knew exactly what to say.

Test will come when she shows him

the crime scene photos.

LEWIS: Look at the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex.

There's no dopamine release.

So he's not okay with seeing violence.

Hmm. Welcome to my club.

He hasn't switched. The killer isn't back.

GARCIA: Well, I think folks can fake a lot of things,

but Voit--

(sighs) I-I think he's far too broken

to be anything but himself.

It's... I c...

I can't. I need a break, please.

Okay, Elias. Not a problem.

Okay.

Ochoa's taking him back.

He's calmed down and exhausted.

We won't get anywhere with him tonight.

So, that means we will all get some sleep

and we will hit this first thing.

Flag on the play.

Uh, turns out Voit's lawyer is no slouch.

He heard about the confrontation with Graber

and filed a motion for a protective order,

citing legal precedent that says

someone with retrograde amnesia

can't incriminate himself.

So where does that leave us?

Look, we don't have time

to go 12 rounds with a public defender.

I say let the legal fallout be tomorrow's battle.

DOJ is willing

to offer a plea agreement that establishes Voit

is not the focus of this investigation.

Voit's lawyers also requested

he's back to marshal-only security

while he recovers at Melgren.

No cuffs.

Cuffs or no cuffs, we just need to keep him talking.

Look, we can't forget where Voit was a week ago: suicidal.

Any reminder of his past crimes

sent him to the edge of a psychotic break.

LEWIS: And yet he remembered

killing Graber's family.

Voit didn't bat an eyelash.

What's been our guiding rule since Voit woke up?

Being physically confronted by his past

is clearly painful for him, but it's grounding.

ALVEZ: So how do we maintain that

along with his memories of the network?

Find another grounding element.

I'll talk to him.

When he saw me earlier,

he immediately remembered Alison.

O... Can we have a brake-pump here for a minute?

We've all had all these dustups with Voit.

We can't also have you opening up painful wounds

just to grease Voit's memories.

Yes, we can.

I was on the outer ring of his network.

-Outer ring? -Voit had a vetting process

for bringing people onto the network.

And if you really impressed him,

you'd be part of the inner circle.

These three-- Ronald Graber,

Clyde Smets and Franklin Fowler--

made it onto the network,

but they never got coordinates to a kill kit.

-But you did. -GREEN: Only because

I hacked Voit's transceiver codes.

It's got to be me.

Well, we can't take any chances. You're not going alone.

Yeah. I'll do it.

-Penelope, you don't have to... -Oh, I know I don't have to.

I have a choice here.

Uh, and just to rectify history,

you found the receiver codes, but I hacked them.

So, sorry, not sorry, you need me.

And as boss lady said,

why don't we all get some sleep, huh?

VOIT (over video): So give me your goddamn message.

GRABER: "Hell is empty. And all the devils are here."

Shakespeare certainly fits this guy's

-flair for the dramatic. -JJ: It also fits

his flair for a mask.

In Japanese Noh theater,

it represents a ghost being tormented in hell.

Yeah, but this isn't about just one.

It's all the devils.

PRENTISS: The unsubs in this revised network

are coming fast and furious,

but we can't catch them if we're exhausted.

Even Voit knows that.

So we all need to get some rest.

Yes?

Yes. (laughs softly)

You okay, kid?

Yes, we all need some sleep.

And even though we got three unsubs off the streets,

I-I can't help

but feel that this new network...

they're just waking up.

(electricity buzzing)

(inhales)

(thumping)

(panting)

(whispers): What the fuck?

Hey.

Let me out!

(phone dialing)

(line ringing)

OPERATOR: 911. What's your emergency?

My name is Claire Thatcher, and I have been kidnapped.

Can you tell me where you're located?

I-I don't... I-I don't know.

I'm-- I just know I'm in some kind of weird box and I'm stuck.

-I'm stuck. -Claire, I'm gonna need you to calm down.

-We'll track your GPS. -(strains, coughs)

-Oh, God. Oh, God. -Claire, tell me what's happening.

(crying): Oh, God. Oh, God. Oh, God.

I...

I know where I am.

-I know where I am. -Stay calm,

give me as much detail as you can.

I, I-I think I'm underground.

I'm in a coffin underground.

-You're, you're what? -(coughing)

-(wood creaking) -Fuck, fuck, fuck.

It's collapsing. It's collapsing.

Claire, we have your location. Help is on the way.

-You're not gonna make it. -Yes, we will.

You just have to stay on the line with me.

Keep talking to me, Claire. Can you hear me?

-Claire... -(phone beeps)

(phone dialing)

(line ringing)

-HAROLD (over phone): Claire. -Please,

-Harold, put Hailey on the line. -You know the drill.

She's doing her homework, I've got her phone.

We talked about this.

I need to talk to her.

We wouldn't have to take her phone

if she wasn't falling behind.

Harold, it's an emergency.

Yeah, well, always is with you.

Please, I don't want to fight.

-I just want to hear her voice. -Call her in an hour.

-Boundaries, Claire. -No. No, no, no, d-don't... -(disconnect tone beeps)

(gasps)

-(wood cracks) -(screaming)

(coughing)

(sirens wailing)

Hey, uh, thanks for coming in so early.

So, I couldn't stop thinking about

how the timeline tells the story.

First up, Franklin Fowler.

Uploaded videos of his kill to the network.

Cornered by us. Suicide.

Next, Clyde Smets.

-Same deal. -ROSSI: The zookeeper

engaged with Voit on the network

since its initial run.

ALVEZ: But Smets

didn't post an actual video

until after Fowler killed himself.

Once Smets committed suicide, Graber posted on BAU-Gate.

If I didn't know better, I'd say the next unsub starts

once the previous one is off the board.

That means these guys are in close contact with one another,

and they probably already know of Graber's arrest.

Which means our next unsub just got activated.

(sighs)

(phone chiming)

Oh, that was fast.

Voit's plea agreement went through.

Well, my guess is that his new lawyer

shit a brick when he found out that Voit confessed

to killing Graber's family while actually in FBI custody.

Yeah, but still, Voit must have strong-armed him.

I mean, the language doesn't legally preclude us

from using his words against him.

By any measure, Voit is sticking his neck out

-to help us. -Well, that is a lawyer's worst nightmare,

-a client with a leaky conscience. -(laughs): Yeah.

Becca.

(chuckles): Evan.

-Hi. Hi. Hi. -Oh, my God-- oh, wow. Hi.

-Hi. -I-I heard you were in Chicago.

I've been here two years now. Turns out, uh,

corporate mergers get to be a bit soul-sucking.

-Oh, yeah, you thought D.C. would be better? -I'm an optimist.

Uh, you're looking at, uh, one of D.C.'s AUSAs.

Uh, hi. Evan Delray.

Hi. Tara Lewis.

Um, how do you guys know each other?

We went to law school together.

Oh. Oh!

Hey. Law School Evan.

-Oh, God. What did she tell you? -Oh, um,

only that you wouldn't have made it to 2L without her.

(Rebecca and Evan laugh)

-What are you doing in Quantico? -Uh...

this, uh, Ronald Graber suicide attempt's got

the whole DOJ into cover-your-ass mode.

The-the D.A. in Cleveland wants me to transfer him back there,

but I can't do that until he's out of the hospital.

-Uh, the fractured skull, right? -Uh, yeah.

Y-You need the AG's signature to confirm.

Well, you got a shorthand with her, right?

-Ah. -Clock's ticking.

Uh, we'll get this back to you soon.

Wow. It was good to see you.

-You, too. -(laughs): Yeah.

Let me know if there's anything I can do to help.

-Yeah. -Bye.

So, Becca...

-Becca. -Mm. Don't start. I mean it.

See, you hate being called that name,

but somehow Law School Evan gets a pass?

It was a long time ago.

And you neglected to tell me that, uh, your study buddy

is a big, tall drink of water.

-Okay. Yep. -I'm parched, Becks.

-I'll kill you, I mean it. -Oh,

-like a, just, snack. -Oh... okay, yeah, yeah.

Um, hey,

f-for my own peace of mind, can you and I

get some grounding, you know, on-on the history

that we have before we're walking in there?

'Cause your last run-in with Voit

was when he asked for you to be his security detail,

and that was an attempt to get a reaction out of you,

and there were some understandable reactions.

We're not dealing with the same Voit.

And we're not dealing with the same Tyler.

-One with a badge. -I know what you're thinking.

That I see this as my chance to spar with the man

who killed my sister and who shot me.

That's not what this is about.

What's it about?

Being an asset to this team, however I can.

-Let's do this. -Okay.

Okay, uh, you, I know why you're here,

but you, you don't have to be here.

Oh, I will happily enlighten you

why my presence here is pertinent.

Let's do a guilt trip speed round, okay?

Did you compromise SOAR,

my gorgeous app I spent years building? Yeah.

Did you plant kill kits all over the country,

which forced me to go back to work at the FBI,

completely trashing my self-care routine?

Yeah. Did you absolutely

funkify my workspace

at Quantico, so hard, in fact,

that I set off the fire alarm at the FBI twice

just trying to sage away your olfactory evils?

Uh, yes, to all of that?

But I-I know why he's here.

We're not having that conversation. Not yet.

I think maybe you need to.

-What we need... -Mm.

...is for you to tell us everything you remember

about the players on your network.

(sighs) I don't...

GARCIA: Okay, I'm gonna...

I'm gonna translate.

A little gentler, with more metaphor.

There are these little demon-horn people

that are, that are popping up, one by one,

and then they're talking to each other in cyber land,

and we need to figure out who they are

-and what they're saying. -I can't magically remember

names and IP addresses.

-You remembered Graber. -Well, he was right there

in front of me. I-I...

Look, I-- I don't know how it works.

Yeah, that sounds like muscle memory.

Who else can you remember?

I talked to dozens of them,

hundreds, uh...

through different channels, um,

the dark web, encrypted messages.

-I-- I wouldn't even know where to start. -Yeah.

I-I don't think any of us know where to start.

No.

We are faced with an overwhelming task.

When I am faced with an overwhelming task,

I try to think of something that, you know, whelms me.

-"Whelms me"? Is that a word? -I don't know.

GARCIA: You know, like, gets you

very present,

an activity that gets you really present.

All right, now's not the time for a scone.

Please, you've never sconed a day in your life.

-Oh, my God. -But...

I do know something that could get us presently together.

I think so. I think so.

-Excuse me! -(door opens)

-(door closes) -(sighs)

JJ: Hey, uh, just got a report

on a local woman-- Claire Thatcher.

She called 911 in distress, they got disconnected.

EMTs raced to her, but it was too late.

Network unsub or regular unsub?

-She was buried alive. -She also called home.

Seemingly to say goodbye.

Sounds like a signature Voit move.

Dave, take Alvez with you to the crime scene.

-You guys look into that phone call. -Yeah.

(elevator bell dings)

Well, the AG works fast.

Not always. When it comes to this case, she does.

Graber's that much of a badass?

Well, he's a lot, but it's his associate

who has been DOJ's nightmare.

Well, I read what I could,

but most of these files are redacted.

(sighs) It's complicated.

Uh, I'm sure nothing's changed

and you still live at the office,

but, um... girl's got to eat.

You up for dinner? I still make a terrific...

You know, I live with Tara.

Yeah?

Living together.

That is a big step for you, Becca.

-That's great. -(chuckles)

Well, then, whatever night works for both you and Tara.

-Yeah? -Yeah.

I'll ask her.

-This is gonna be a night. -(giggles)

-That sounds perfect. -That's great.

-(door opens) -GARCIA: Look at us.

Some build snowmen, we build computers.

-(chuckles) -And today's surprise ingredient...

Ronald Graber's hard drive.

If we're gonna find

how they're talking to each other,

this will have the answers.

If we connect the block cipher module

-to the motherboard, then we'll be able to get... -Ah.

I'll do the soldering.

Yeah. You solder, I screw.

So, you didn't give Graber a kill kit.

There weren't enough to go around.

I know the hoops I jumped through.

Was it like that for everyone else?

A lot of people found a lot of comfort

in that lonely corner of the dark web,

but I only buried a dozen kits.

It was before the pandemic.

So they were for you?

Yeah, they were.

Why did you do it? Why did you...?

Connect like-minded people?

Yeah. Let's start there.

We were all locked inside our houses for weeks,

which turned into months.

Work shifted from travel to home, so anyone with...

...urges couldn't really release them

with their routine upended.

That got me thinking, "Well, there's got to be others.

What are they doing right now?"

So I started the network,

and it just kind of turned into, like, a support group.

You'd be surprised what people will tell you

when there's a promise of anonymity.

Then Tyler went looking for answers and found you.

Yeah, a lot of people did.

Within weeks, there were new servers,

new encryptions.

That's why I had to start the inner and outer ring--

to kind of manage the traffic.

How did you vet them?

There's some things you can't fake.

Not even on a platform like that.

Like...?

Inner darkness.

Like you, Tyler.

It's a darkness you put there.

H-Hey. Voilà. Look what teamwork did.

Now all we have to do is get this in there

and-and-and-and-and we can walk a mile

in Graber's digital loafers and see if there's

any encrypted messages.

We did this. Together. All of us.

ROSSI: Buried alive

in a wooden coffin.

Yeah. And he rigged it with overhead lights

and live stream cameras.

Fits the network.

Each of them recorded their murders.

It's not six feet under,

but digging a hole this size it's gonna take some time.

Yeah. He plans in advance.

Well, if he's so careful,

why would he let Claire have a phone?

Seems like a big risk.

Well, he took risk out of the equation.

Take a look.

She didn't die from lack of oxygen.

Soil filled her lungs.

-Coffin collapsed around her. -Yeah.

Thanks to these.

It's, uh...

These are breaching charges.

The unsub can detonate them whenever he wants,

so when the first responders were on their way,

boom, boom, boom,

roof caves in.

So he never intended for Claire to be rescued.

No, he didn't.

This...

this is a short-range IoT receiver.

-IoT? -Yeah.

You know the apps on your phone

that allow you to control household appliances?

They use IoT signals

to remotely trigger a mechanism on any given device.

So this is a smart coffin.

Yeah. With end-to-end encryption

so the signal couldn't be blocked.

He doesn't get off on burying Claire alive,

he gets off on deciding the moment she dies.

Then he and his network sickos watch over and over.

VOIT: All right, searching Graber's hard drive

for any polyglot files that could hide the...

BOTH: ...encryption key in plain sight.

(both chuckle)

We're a regular Goofus and Gallant, yeah?

(both chuckle)

You okay?

Uh, yeah, I just haven't done

anything like this since I got hurt.

Must make you feel a little back to yourself?

Yeah, I guess that's it.

Whoa, whoa. Whoa, wait. Did you add something to this?

Mm-mm. Why?

VOIT: This isn't mine.

I mean, it's similar but way more advanced.

What do you mean?

I mean, someone else is taking the reins.

In order to break through this encryption,

we'd need a chip capable of quantum resistance.

You-you mean like my high-capacity SOAR chip

that you are guessing correctly is in my laptop?

Yeah, if this is the new line

of communication for the network,

then this is our chance to tap in.

No, no, we can't do...

Like, we're juicing up

a mystery dark web cipher

with a weapons-grade quantum chip?

You know that's the digital equivalent of, like,

playing Red Rover with nuclear warheads.

All right, let's do it. Come over, Red Rover.

-But we can't just... -Did you ever bury someone alive?

-Uh... -In a small space,

like a coffin?

No.

What about anyone on the network?

No, they were more... hands-on. Why?

They've found another killer.

Buries them alive...

Uh, no, no, no one ever pulled it off.

Anybody talk about having their victim call

a family member as they were dying?

You had Alison call me the night she died, didn't you?

Penelope...

...can you give us a second?

I'll be okay.

Okay.

Gonna be...

...right out here.

What was it...

about Alison?

She reminded me of my mother.

You killed her because she reminded you...?

No, no. That's why I asked her out.

She was my waitress at the diner on Second Street.

She used to always keep your nephew behind the counter.

-Blake. -Yeah, Blake. She would just--

she would kind of rock him in between taking orders.

She had this calmness about her.

I guess I just thought...

if she could fall in love with me,

then maybe I wouldn't have to be like this anymore.

She was kind and patient.

We-we only went out a few times

before...

before the demons started getting louder,

and then I saw you at the apartment

and I got paranoid and so I had to--

-I just... -How?

How'd you do it?

No, no, I don't-- Can we not do this, please?

You owe me this.

I drugged her.

I took her to a motel.

When she woke up, she was tied up.

She knew what was going on, and she only wanted one thing.

She wanted to hear your voice

because then she knew that Blake would be okay.

(shuddering)

Are you okay?

We need the chat logs for Franklin Fowler

and Clyde Smets.

I think Voit knows the unsub.

I know how to get him to remember.

Okay.

(door opens)

(wood sliding)

OPERATOR: Yes, we will.

You just have to stay on the line with me.

-Keep talking to me, Claire. -(crying)

(phone beeps)

(phone dialing)

-(line ringing) -HAROLD (over phone): Claire.

CLAIRE: Please, Harold, put Hailey on the line.

-I need to talk to her. -HAROLD: You know the drill.

She's doing her homework, I've got her phone.

We talked about this.

We wouldn't have to take her phone

if she wasn't falling behind.

CLAIRE: Harold, it's an emergency.

-Daddy? -KYLE: Hey.

Hey, you can't be down here, remember?

I'm hungry.

(sighs)

Mommy always gives me a snack before practice.

(sighs) Right.

Mommy's working now instead.

Isn't she?

Did Hailey know her mom called?

I haven't told her.

I don't want to fight.

I just want to hear her voice.

HAROLD: Call her in an hour.

-Boundaries, Claire. -No. No, no, no, d-don't...

You and Claire were divorced.

We read the record.

It sounds like the split was...

acrimonious.

Claire wanted sole custody.

It made things toxic.

JJ: How toxic?

I went over this with the police.

I was helping Hailey with her homework

when the phone call came in.

-Yeah, we know. -HAROLD: I see my daughter two days a week.

Okay? I wouldn't do anything to threaten that.

LEWIS: We understand.

What we want to know is, who else might have known

that things had become toxic?

-Did-did Hailey know? -HAROLD: Of course.

I mean, kids always know. You try and...

...keep it from 'em, but...

...they can always tell.

Okay, who else?

I don't know. My coworkers,

Hailey's friends from school,

uh, whoever Claire talked to.

It's not fair.

What's not?

What happened to Claire.

You know, we weren't good together,

but she was such a good mom.

I was such a bastard.

I kept her from saying goodbye to our daughter.

(chuckles)

I don't know how I'm gonna tell Hailey I denied her that.

I don't know if she'd ever forgive me.

How could she?

Do you have any other, um, questions?

JJ: Uh, I think that's all for now.

Thank you.

(JJ sighs)

(Lewis sighs)

LEWIS: What do you think?

Well, he's not our unsub. Question is,

did the unsub know what was going on in the family,

-and if so, how? -Right, you think he

recognized himself in the family dynamic?

He wanted to punish them?

Divorce, losing your kids. I mean, that's...

massive stressors.

But burying your ex alive?

I mean, there are easier ways to kill your ex.

I mean, hell, there are easier ways to get your kids back.

Unless...

it's not about the kids.

It's about revenge.

-What are you doing here, Kyle? -I tried calling you.

It went straight to voicemail.

The judge said you were supposed to keep

150 feet away at all times.

Just listen to me.

-It's Ava. -What?

(sighs) She got a ride to soccer practice.

The car she was in got T-boned.

What? Is she okay?

They said she's got a concussion.

Why couldn't you just drive her, Kyle?

Can we talk about this at St. Elizabeth's?

You have her for one weekend out of the month,

and you couldn't just drive her?

I-I'm just-- I'm parked right here.

I will drive myself.

-(muffled screaming) -(shushing)

(screaming stops)

(grunts)

Evan still here?

Uh, in the building? Doubt it.

You're buzzing.

Yeah, just, like, weight of the world lifted, you know?

Weight of the world how?

(sighs): Okay, well, I-I haven't told you everything

about how it all went down.

Um, last time I saw Evan was, well,

a while ago, and... I don't know,

I wanted to make amends for how things ended with us,

and... (stammers) I didn't want to be alone

with him because I was afraid he was either gonna be angry at me

or ask me out.

Like on a date?

Yeah... because...

yeah, we slept together.

-Mm-hmm. -(stammers) That's what the amends was about.

I was at a low point, and I cried on his shoulder.

Or his pillow or...

Don't be mad.

I'm not mad. We're grown-ass women.

We're gonna have body counts.

All right? Trust me. I'm completely cool with it.

The thing is, though,

I think that he might still be interested in you.

-Actually, he's not. -Hmm.

He is happy and wants to invite us over for dinner.

Mm-hmm...

Okay, spill it. What?

Did you see how he kept smoothing his tie?

Kinda like this?

Yeah, I actually did notice that.

I just thought he might be nervous.

(laughs) Look, I'm just saying, after we catch this unsub,

you and I and he should have a little talk.

Should I be worried?

No. No. He should.

GARCIA: So, since your arrest, your network has been real quiet.

Like, crickets. And then, two months ago,

all this comes out of the woodwork.

When I shut the network down, there were zero contingencies.

-Uh, if I knew something, I would tell you. -These three

were on your network but didn't get a kill kit.

-How come? -There's no one reason.

GREEN: Bullshit.

It's for the same reason you didn't want me to have one.

Because you knew that being handed a kill kit

meant your days were numbered.

It was just a matter of time

before law enforcement caught up.

GARCIA: So maybe, in that

supposedly cold-blooded reptilian heart of yours,

you weren't ready to say goodbye.

-Okay. -GREEN: Let's go down the line.

Ronald Graber and me.

You killed his parents and my sister.

Franklin Fowler killed his family and made it

look like an accident when he was ten years old.

GARCIA: Which is the exact age

you were when you killed your parents.

Clyde Smets was locked in a cage as a kid.

W-Wait, wait, my-my uncle used to lock me

in a closet for days at a time.

Everyone you kept in your outer ring

was someone you had a personal connection with.

So what is it, Elias? What is it about

this guy who's burying people alive?

I-I don't-- Maybe it's something else in his M.O.

We do think that they were going through a messy divorce.

Is that something you and Sydney ever considered?

Yeah, we contacted a divorce attorney.

Things were getting bad,

and she had to go back to work as a Realtor.

When the pandemic hit, we burned through our savings.

When? When was this?

July 2020.

That's when you started your network.

Yeah.

I needed an outlet 'cause I was worried that I might...

...hurt my family.

JJ: Go ahead, Penelope.

We have the court records up. What do you got on your end?

GARCIA: I need some guidance.

I'm going through chat logs between Voit

and network people on or around July of 2020.

I'm searching for all things divorce. I am getting bupkes.

Try "wife."

-(laptop chimes) -Hmm. That's better. I got ten.

Okay, now

search within those conversations "kill."

Uh... still ten.

Uh, killing your wife is apparently

a popular topic of discussion.

JJ: And Voit would tell them

not to do it because they would be suspect number one.

Yeah, if they didn't talk about burying alive,

what about, uh, making sure the body

was never found?

"No body, no crime"

is how Voit would

tell his unsub to avoid suspicion.

-(laptop chimes) -GARCIA: Okay, that's better.

We've got six now, but "no body, no crime"

is a popular refrain in Voit's world.

Alimony.

(laptop chimes)

GARCIA: Money talks, lady.

I think I got him.

Garcia found chat logs between Voit and one of his followers.

He rants about having to pay alimony to his wife Lainey.

Any divorce records that match the name and timeline?

A handful, but only one was scorched Earth.

Lainey Torres v. Kyle Mackey.

Lainey got custody of their daughter Ava

and recently reduced Kyle's visitation to once a month.

ROSSI: Claire Thatcher had a custody battle.

Burying her must have been a dress rehearsal

for what he wants to do to Lainey.

JJ: That's our guess, and right now

he's the closest match to our profile.

-He's in Warrenton, Virginia. -ALVEZ: If this is him,

he's got a signal to a coffin somewhere in the forest

that he can blow anytime he wants.

I'll get a search warrant for all IP addresses

in and out of that house.

(Lainey groans)

What the hell?

(Kyle whistles)

What the hell are you doing, Kyle?

Untie me.

Now!

(sighs)

What, are you gonna kill me?

Everyone knows if I die, you did it.

What, are you gonna run off? Hide forever?

-(Kyle grunts) -(gasps)

You remember when you said

-you were gonna bury me in the divorce? -(gasps)

That was three years ago.

Well....

you did it.

You took everything from me.

(gasps)

(panting)

(Kyle sighs)

I want you to call your daughter.

-Hmm? -(whimpers)

-Call her! -Okay.

(phone beeps)

(line rings)

AVA (over phone): Mom?

Ava?

(crying): Mom, you got to help me.

I'm gonna help you, honey. I'm gonna help you.

(crying): What did you do to her?

It's Dad. He brought me to the woods.

(cries out)

Where is she?

Mom, help!

No...

-Mom? -Ava.

-Ava. -Mom, help, please!

Lainey Torres's mother said she never came home from work.

Kyle must have her already.

Claire Thatcher was found in a wooded area about five miles

-from where Kyle lives. -(phone buzzing)

That's likely the range of his remote detonator,

-so he'll have to bury her somewhere nearby. -(phone beeps)

-Go, Garcia. -GARCIA: Okay, I'm poking around

Kyle's network routers,

and there's an IoT signal coming from his house.

That's got to be the remote detonator.

GARCIA: That is not all.

There's an HTTP stream

that's going to the exact same server.

I am sending this to the Round Table now.

(beeps)

(Ava crying)

-Oh, God. -He buried his own daughter.

Garcia, are you able to cut the signal

-and stop him from detonating? -I'm working on it.

I'm working on it. I do have a location.

I'm sending that to you right now.

(Ava sobbing)

Help! Please!

(siren wailing)

No.

No, no, no, no, no, no, no.

The SOAR chip.

Son of a bees' nest.

Sorry, Francesca.

I will try to make this as painless as possible.

(exhales slowly)

Let's do it. Let's take...

Oh, Francha.

Look! Look at what you made me do, Lainey!

This is your fault.

-AVA: Hello? -Please, Kyle.

-Is anyone there? -Don't.

Or what? What are you gonna do, huh?

You gonna call the cops?

Run to your mom's? Take Ava away from me?

Break up our family?!

(indistinct radio chatter)

I won't do any of that, I promise I won't.

You begging me, Lainey?

AVA: Can anyone hear me?

It sounds like you are.

-(sobbing) -(zip tie snaps)

Maybe you want to get on your knees and do it?

-(sobbing) -(Ava sobbing)

Please, Kyle, I'm sorry.

Just let her go.

-(beeping) -What do you got?

-Here. -Yeah?

Here!

All right, let's go.

-(slamming at door) -LAINEY: Just let her go.

AVA: Can anybody hear me? Mom?

Kyle Mackey. FBI.

Put the knife down.

I press this, she dies.

All right, come on.

Let's take a breath here, all right?

Let's think this through.

Oh, I've thought it through.

(laughing): I've waited for this.

Luke?

We've got Ava's location. We're digging her up now.

Garcia?

Yeah, boss, I'm working on it.

-(mutters) -Here.

She made me do this.

Don't you understand that?

Kyle, we know about the network.

We know you got pointers.

ALVEZ: Come on! Let's go!

(typing rapidly)

We know the price you'll pay is your own life.

Nobody needs that to happen.

-Oh, I do. -AVA: Mom!

It's decrypting now.

I want her to watch what she's done.

And I want her to live with it.

(Ava sobbing)

ALVEZ: We got to be getting close! Let's go!

Can anybody hear me? Mom?

-(Ava sobs) -(whimpers)

GARCIA: Come on, come on, come on.

ALVEZ: Yes, that's it!

-You hit it! Get it open! -GREEN: All right, let's go.

AVA: Mom?

-Help, please. -(detonator beeps)

No!

-(grunting) -Come on, get it open.

(overlapping chatter)

-Yeah. You're safe, okay? -All right. Okay.

Hey, you're safe.

(crying)

Status?

Ava's safe.

We got her.

(shaky breath)

It's over, Kyle.

Drop the weapon.

Drop it now.

(knife clatters)

(kicks knife)

It's okay.

I'm gonna help you.

(pained grunt)

(handcuffs clicking)

This isn't over.

(sobbing quietly)

We have your daughter.

She's safe.

Thank you.

(Lainey sighs)

(elevator bell dings)

-(gasps) -AVA: Mom!

(both sobbing)

I got so scared.

I'm so sorry.

Ah, you got to love working on a Marine base.

The commissary here is amazing.

Ms. Helen makes all these desserts from scratch.

Today's masterpiece...

Look at that latticework.

Oh, apple pie.

How American is that, right?

REBECCA: It looks delicious.

It really is. I got that for you, too.

REBECCA: Thanks.

Uh, so what's up? Any news on Graber?

Uh, no, but...

Okay, please don't get weird.

Tara wanted to ask you something.

Uh... yeah.

(chuckles) Um...

Have you ever heard of peacocking, Evan?

Are you kidding?

You know, in just about every men's magazine

since I was in college, yeah.

You can't blame a guy

for wanting to make a great first impression, right?

No, no, absolutely. Of course not.

It's just that, um...

I mean, you know, you don't need to do that.

Right? 'Cause Rebecca's known you forever.

So there is no first impression at this point.

O-Okay. Um...

Wha-What am I missing here?

Oh, it...

I-I just-- I think you are consciously peacocking

and that you're trying to reignite the flame

between you and Rebecca, and...

you know, it's-it's not gonna happen.

Uh-huh.

No, I-I...

apologize if that's the way that I came off.

You know, I'm just trying to save you the heartbreak.

Sure, sure.

You know, I-I guess...

I should have been more clear from the jump.

Um, the reason that I asked you two to dinner

was to, um... introduce you to my fiancée.

Uh, name's Michelle.

(laughs)

Okay. (chuckles) You're engaged.

Yeah, I-I met her the first week I got to D.C.

Uh, she was on a different floor

but in the same building, and, well...

(stammers)

She's incredible.

I-I really think you're gonna like her, Becca.

Oh, oh, that's-that's...

Oh, I'm so excited for you.

-That's sweet. There's a... -Oh, my gosh.

-...there's a puppy. -A puppy.

Yeah, that's Oscar.

-Oscar. Ooh. My goodness. -Very cute.

-The whole package. Wow. -Very cute.

Um, I'll, uh...

I'll-- Yeah, I'll-I'll carry the pie.

I got it.

-You buried the lede, dum-dum. -Yeah.

Well, you didn't even exactly give me a chance.

I mean, y-you basically kicked me out

as soon as I said hello yesterday.

REBECCA: That is not true.

EVAN: It's very true.

Listen, Evan...

-Yeah, I'm sorry. -(Evan chuckles)

That-- That was way out of line.

It was all good, I'm just glad

she ended up with somebody so protective.

You deserve the best.

-Thanks. -So, throw out some days,

and, uh, we'll get our schedules sorted.

I'll call Michelle now.

-Yeah. -Great.

-See you soon. -REBECCA: See you soon. Bye.

Oh...

-"Peacocking"? Really? -(Lewis groans)

I can't believe it.

That you were so off about him?

I just-- I'm usually much more accurate than that.

Oh, think about it.

You know, I've known him a long time,

but he doesn't know you.

He was probably just being guarded.

That's bound to, you know,

throw off your profiling antenna.

Yeah, you're right.

Presentational behavior in an unfamiliar situation

is something everybody does.

-So... -Mm-hmm.

I'm gonna chalk it up to that.

Yeah.

All right. Um, will I see you at home?

Quick trip to the ninth floor, and then yes.

And, um...

you getting in Evan's face

-was the sexiest thing you've ever done. -Huh.

No one's ever fought for me like that.

Well, you know...

got some pointers from all the GQ magazines I've been reading.

Uh-huh, was wondering what those were doing

lying around the house, okay, got it.

(Lewis chuckles)

-See you at home. -Yeah.

PRENTISS: You said this isn't over.

What did you mean by that?

-Come on, Kyle... -Another one of Voit's minions in bracelets.

Let's hope he's as talkative as the last one.

-All we want to know is who's next. -(door opens)

What?

Who's the next one on the network to be activated?

Next one? (chuckles softly)

Whoever said it was just one?

(alarm ringing)

(indistinct shouting)

We're on lockdown!

-What is it? -I don't know.

-Something about a package. -(beeps)

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