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REID:
Previously on Criminal Minds.

My sister and
brother-in-law died in 9/11.

They had a baby girl, Meg. I took her in.

Actually, Chris and I
moved into their house.

She's 13, and the light of my life.

KATE: Make sure you're home on time,

otherwise the search party's
coming for you.

MEG: Make sure you text me
when you land

or I'll send one for you.

-I love you.
-Love you, too.

See you in the morning.

-(BOTH LAUGH)
-(COMPUTER BEEPS)

Omg, he messaged us back.

He is so hot.

Could you imagine
if he was your boyfriend?

He's asking for a picture.

You're not actually sending one,
are you?

Well, he's a senior.
What's the big deal?

(CELL PHONE CAMERA CLICKS)

(WOMAN SINGING OPERA)

(THUMP)

(MUSIC STOPS)

(MUFFLED SOBS)

(WOMAN SOBBING)

(MUSIC PLAYING)

How the hell do you think
it makes me feel, huh?

I said I'm sorry.

I bust my butt at work all day

and all I ask for is a hot meal.

Honey, I'm sorry, please.

I know this is my fault.

You think I want to do this?

Look, I know you had
a hard day at work.

No!

I had a rough day.

Rough day at work. Say it right.

I'm sorry.

You had a rough day.

So why do you have to make it worse?

I'll do better. I promise.

I'm tired of giving you second chances.

(SOBBING)

(SCREAMS)

WOMAN: (ON TV)
...released a study today

that shows that supplemental oxygen...

Damn.

You look like you could
use this more than me.

My hero.

Hey, Meg, let's go!

You're gonna be late for school.

MEG: Coming.

-Thank you.
-I saw that.

Good morning to you, too.

Hey, can I go to the mall with Markayla

and a couple
of other friends this weekend?

Do these couple of other friends
have names?

Bobby and Tyler.

Okay, those are weird names for girls.

They're in my biology class.

Okay, well, do these friends
know that Kate has a gun?

-Hey, stop that.
-You're right.

-Technically, she's got two guns.
-(CLEARS THROAT)

It's true.

I'm kidding. Yes, of course you can go.

Thanks, Chris.

I need to text Markayla
and let her know.

Okay, what was that?

What? It's not a date.
She's going to the mall,

-it's a public place.
-With two boys we've never met.

I don't think it's such a big deal.

We had a plan for her dating.

This is not a date.

I have three guns, by the way.

Come on, sweetheart.

GARCIA: Over the last three weeks,

the bodies of Myia Collins
and Lauren White

have been found
in Diamond Bar, California,

a suburb 25 miles east of Los Angeles.

Both victims were found
in an alley dumpster.

Each had her throat slashed
and had been brutally beaten.

This guy literally
dumped his victims like trash.

Classic misogynistic sadist.

Definitely looks like the torture
escalates with each attack.

These women weren't just cut,
they were beaten to a pulp.

That feels personal.

It's possible the UnSub
knew both victims,

or at the very least
used them as surrogates

for the true object of his anger.

He abducts, offends,
and disposes of each victim

before anyone notices they're gone.

He may be preying on loner types.

It looks like
they both have ligature marks

on their wrists and ankles.

Which means he has
a secure secondary location

where he holds them captive.

So he could be testing
how much torture his victims can take.

And then, when he's done with his fun,
or if things don't go as planned,

he silences them permanently
by slitting their throats.

The preliminary M.E. report
shows that neither of the victims

were sexually assaulted.

Maybe he's impotent.

Or the abuse is what
really turns him on.

Either way, he's enjoying their pain.

And he's gonna want
to experience that again.

Wheels up in 30.

(TAPE REWINDS)

(BANG)

(TAPE REWINDS)

(BANGING CONTINUES)

(TAPE REWINDS)

(TAPE REWINDS)

KATE: William R. Alger once said,

"Men often make up in wrath
what they want in reason."

This creep definitely has a type.

Both women were roughly
the same age, same look.

Cute brunettes are his thing.

Myia Collins was single.
She grew up in the area

and worked
at the local elementary school

as a substitute teacher.

Lauren White recently
moved back to Diamond Bar

after she and her husband split.

It says here Lauren recently
started working part-time as a nurse.

So both women had jobs in which
it wouldn't necessarily be noticed

if they were gone for a few days.

What about friends and family?

Lauren has a sister, Heather.

Myia, not so much.
All her family is in Ohio.

We know this guy's good
at being invisible.

Both women were last
seen leaving work

and never made it back home.

He has to be abducting them in public.

JJ: Both were technically single.

They could have been looking
to meet new people.

Maybe that was his in.

Raymond Fernandez used
to place personal ads

in the newspaper.

He would seduce and rob the women
who answered them.

The UnSub could be
a lonely hearts killer.

Maybe he hunts his victims at places
where singles hang out.

You know, bars,
night clubs, chess tournaments.

If the women turned down
his advances,

it could have emasculated him.

"You rejected me. I'm literally
going to make you feel my pain."

But he's not breaking their hearts,
he's breaking their bodies.

All right, when we land,
JJ, you and Kate go to the M.E.

Morgan, reach out to the families.

The rest of us will set up
at the precinct.

Agent Hotchner, thanks for coming out.

Detective Davenport.
This is Agent Rossi, Dr. Reid.

Welcome. Right this way.

Thank you.

To be honest, this kind of thing
doesn't happen around here.

This guy has the entire city on edge.

A serial killer will do that.

-Your team can set up in here.
-Thank you.

Have any witnesses come forward?

I have my guys out
interviewing local merchants,

but so far we're coming up empty.

Have you noticed any variations
in traffic patterns

near where the bodies were found?

That road's a commuter nightmare.
Why?

The UnSub had to know the traffic
in order to escape detection.

Grand Avenue's 18 miles long

and runs through four other cities.

He could have spread out
the dump sites but chose not to.

Both victims were found
within a mile of one another.

That's a huge risk
the UnSub didn't have to take.

The area must be important to him.

Or convenient.
What are you willing to bet

the UnSub either lives or works nearby?

The tox screens came back negative,

however, COD on both
wasn't the lacerations to their necks

like I initially thought.

So what was it?

Blunt force trauma
to the back of the head.

In fact, the lacerations
were done postmortem.

The slicing of throats is a symbolic way

of silencing his victims.

Maybe he feels
he doesn't have a voice himself.

Looks like he might have hesitated.

Yes. But the incision
across Lauren's throat

was much more precise.

His confidence in the way he kills

could be building with each victim.

With Myia, he literally beat her
with his bare hands.

You can tell from the bruising here.

She suffered multiple fractures
in her arms and torso.

Lauren had the same type of bruising,

but her injuries were much more brutal.

He introduced a blunt object.

Brutality could be important
to his fantasy.

Maybe he's trying to perfect
his method of torture.

Or he's devolving.

Maybe the torture isn't enough.

There could be something
else he wants from his victims.

Your sister moved
back here three months ago.

Was that to be closer to you?

We had a falling-out about a year ago.

It had only been
in the last couple of months

we started patching things up.

If you don't mind me asking,

what caused the rift
in your relationship?

When our folks split,
she took it the hardest.

She felt like our dad just left.

She turned to partying.

There were times I would go days
without hearing from her.

Lauren recently filed for divorce.

Can you tell me about her husband?

I never even met him.

They hooked up at some bar.

She'd only known him, like, a week

before I got a text saying
they had gotten married in Vegas.

When things didn't work out
for the two of them,

she came back here.

Did the divorce change her?

She was the same Lauren.

Still looking for a man to validate her.

Thanks, Garcia.

Well, Lauren's ex-husband
Doug checked out.

He's been in Seattle touring
with his band

the past few weeks.

According to her sister,
she was promiscuous.

Said she would fall head over heels
for any man

who showed her the slightest
amount of attention.

That may rule out
the lonely hearts theory.

That type of UnSub typically
thrives off of challenge.

Lauren wouldn't have given him that.

You know what?
There might be another connection

we haven't considered.

Myia was never promoted to full-time

because supervisors described her
as quiet and submissive.

Heather said Lauren struggled with
needing a man to validate her worth.

It speaks
to both their levels of confidence.

This UnSub could be targeting
women with self-image issues.

(BABY CRYING)

(DOOR OPENS)

MAN: Greta Thomas?

Yes, that's me.

Honey, I need you to stay here.

Mommy will be right back.

My name is Peter.

I'm going to be your caseworker.

Right this way.

Have a seat.

Can I get you something to drink?

No, thank you.

I just need to verify
a few things before we start.

(SNIFFLES)

PETER: There you go.

Thank you.

Is this the first time you've been here?

My son saw it happen this time.

I never wanted him to see me like this.

How old is he?

Seven.

(SOBBING)

You two have the option of staying here,

or if you have some place else
you'd rather stay the night...

Uh, I have a friend we could stay with.

Good.

Now, I need you to tell me

exactly what your husband did to you.

Why target women
with low self-esteem?

What does it get him?

Well, it makes them easier to control.

He prolongs the torture
because the more he does,

the more powerful he feels.

Which could mean he doesn't
feel very important in his everyday life.

KATE: So maybe he has low self-worth.
Like attracts like.

HOTCH: And his only chance
of dominance

is to target other submissives.

If this is about power and control,

maybe the stressor occurred
when the UnSub didn't have any?

Okay.

Thank you.

JJ: These women could be surrogates

for the person he holds responsible
for his pain.

Something could have happened
to him when he was a child.

If he felt powerless in his childhood,

then having a taste of power now
would be like a drug.

Exactly.

And he'll be looking for his next fix.

I appreciate you letting us
spend the night.

I couldn't bring myself
to make Conner sleep at that place.

No, I'm fine. I just...
I just need to get out of here.

He could come back at any minute.

Text you when we're on our way.

(RING RATTLES)

Conner?

Did you pack your toothbrush?

Conner!

(CARTOON MUSIC ON TV)

Conner?

Didn't you hear me calling you?

And how many times have I told you

not to go to the cabinet and get candy?

I didn't, Mom. The man gave it to me.

What man?

That one.

Her name is Greta Thomas.

According to the neighbor,
her son Conner

knocked on their door
saying a man took his mom.

She looks like the other two victims.

Any word on her husband?

Garcia's trying to locate him.

Apparently he travels a lot for work.

Did Conner see anything?

He was able to give a description,

but not much to go on.

Well, we might get more
if we gave him a cognitive,

but we're going to need to wait
and get a guardian's permission first.

This is the first time that
the UnSub broke into someone's house

and left a witness.
Usually he just does it out in the open.

Maybe he's getting closer
to his ideal surrogate.

If that's the case,

what makes Greta
different from the others?

-She's a mother.
-(CELL PHONE RINGS)

ROSSI: Tell me you found the husband.

Affirmative, but you're never going
to believe where.

We believe we're looking
for a white male

in his mid to late 30s

who has a history of physical
and psychological abuse.

This UnSub is a projecting punisher,

which means he's victimizing women
he believes

in one way or another
haven't stood up for themselves.

With the first two victims,
he caused injuries

that are consistent
with domestic abuse.

With his latest victim, Greta Thomas,

not only is she a mother,
but she's an actual victim of abuse.

And her husband was jailed last night

after an altercation at the family home.

Which is why we believe
the UnSub's mother

was the one that actually
suffered physical abuse.

It's likely he blamed her
for allowing the violence

to enter and continue in the home.

Rather than viewing his mother
as a victim,

he holds resentment towards her

because of the upheaval
and fear he lived with.

-(CRASH)
-MAN: You are pathetic!

I want some respect around this house!

This house is a mess! You're a mess!

ROSSI: This man doesn't
hate his mother.

He hates the idea
of what she represented.

Hesitation marks on the earlier victims

indicate that the UnSub
feels conflicted by his actions.

It's possible he does not want
to hurt the women he abducts,

but somehow he feels he has to.

Given his warped sense of justice,

he may see himself as a protector
of these women.

He may even want them to fight back.

He lost control at an early age,

and he's desperate to regain it.

We should look
at domestic abuse cases

going back 25 to 30 years.

Take a look at locations
battered women frequent.

Group homes, women's shelters,
legal hearings.

For now our primary goal

is to bring Greta Thomas
home alive and safe.

Thank you.

(MUFFLED SCREAMS)

You were supposed to help us.

I told you everything he did to me.

Oh, my God!

Where's Conner?
What did you do to him?

He's fine.

Now that he's no longer
in that toxic environment.

What are you talking about?

You think this was the first time
he saw that monster hit you?

The screaming, the fighting,
the arguments.

You think he's stupid?

I can't imagine what that must do
to a child.

I made a mistake.

Which you let happen over
and over again.

(GRETA BREATHING HEAVILY)

Which is partly why
I think you're perfect.

ROSSI: Final M.E. report
just came through.

Take a look at the stomach contents.

Saltwater, honey, ginger, and tea.

She also found multiple ulcerations

on the vocal chords of both victims,

most likely from all the screaming.

Spill it. I see you got a theory.

The saltwater could serve
another purpose.

Honey, ginger tea, and saltwater
are often used to treat sore throats.

Maybe something about
their voices is what's driving him.

But a sadist wouldn't
go to such lengths to heal his victims.

Especially when his final act
of rage is slicing their throats.

This guy's destroying
the very thing he's trying to preserve.

All the torture could simply
be a means to an end.

If it's not about the violence,
what's it about?

Their screams.

(COUGHING) Please!

We can't stop.

Not until you give me what I want.

(MUSIC PLAYING)

How the hell do you
think that makes me feel, huh?

I said I'm sorry.

I bust my butt at work all day,

and all I ask is for a hot meal.

Honey, I'm sorry.

Please, I know this is all my fault.

You think I want to do this?

Look, I know you had a rough day.

So why do you have to make it worse?

I'll do better. I promise.

I'm tired of giving you second chances.

You're on speaker, Garcia.

I have searched every shelter

up and down the west coast.

I can't find Greta's name anywhere.

Could she have registered
anonymously?

Records are kept confidential,
but trust me,

if she was listed in any of them,

your nearsighted wonder girl
would have found her.

Maybe that's the answer
to where this guy finds his victims.

What if he works in the system?

Women go to him for help
and end up as victims.

-Hey, Garcia...
-Already on it.

Give me a minute.

If I find anything,
I'll hit you right back.

All right, so the physical abuse
he witnessed in the household

imprinted on him.
That's why he's conflicted.

He sees himself
as protector and abuser.

And now he's taking on the role
of the abuser

re-enacting what happened
to his mother.

Typically, UnSubs with this type
of nostalgia

keep some kind of a trophy.

We haven't seen
any evidence of that here.

We've profiled that what
he wants most from them

are their screams.

Okay, but how is a scream a trophy?

KATE: It's not.

Unless he's recording them.

(BREATHING HEAVILY)

GRETA: I know this is all my fault.

PETER: You think I want to do this?

Look, I know you had a rough day.

Why do you have to make it worse?

I'll do better. I promise.

I'm tired of giving you second chances.

MORGAN: Hey, talk to us, hot stuff.

I feel like I don't
deserve to talk to you,

because I have terrible news.
I'm hitting the hardest wall

in domestic abuse cases
of yesteryear.

To say there are a plethora

is a severe injustice
to the word plethora.

I can't narrow it down alone.
I need help.

Based on the current victim pool,

the mother would have been
in her 20s back then.

Thank you, thank you. Keep talking.

The UnSub most likely
grew up nearby, Garcia.

Check recurring abuse cases
within the comfort zone.

Look for women who made
frequent trips to the ER.

But not for abuse.
More like a freak accident,

like falling down the stairs
or extensive clumsiness.

Uh-huh. Now we're getting somewhere.

And the occupation
might match as well,

so look for teachers or nurses.

Hello, promising candidate.
Karen Holden,

third-grade teacher at the time.

She went to the ER multiple times,

courtesy of her icky,
icky abusive husband, Frank Holden.

Where's Frank and Karen now?

Dead.

Like in a tragic story
of Shakespearean proportions

kind of way. They died
in a murder-suicide 25 years ago.

What happened?

Uh, Frank had a drinking problem.

He got punchy with Karen,
literally, an argument ensued,

and ended up
with Karen having her throat slashed

and Frank with a bullet in his head.

I am guessing they had a child?

They did indeed.

Little Peter Holden.
He was seven at the time.

He saw the whole thing.

Do we know where Peter is now?

Negatory. After his parents died,
he was put

in the foster care system
until he was 18,

and that's where the paper trail ends.

Diamond Bar's a small town.
Probably changed his name

to escape the notoriety
of his parents' deaths.

I'll check court records,
see if I can find a breadcrumb.

All right, thanks, baby girl.

Wait, wait, there's a name
that keeps coming up

in the old hospital records.

John Folkmore.
He was an officer who responded

to a majority of the calls
from the Holden residence.

Johnny. He retired a few years back,

but he still lives in town.

You think he might know
what happened to the kid?

It'd be good to talk to him.

(DOOR SLAMS)

You didn't do it right.

I shouldn't have to do this.

What are you talking about?

You know what I'm talking about.

I don't. Just let me go.

I promise I won't tell any...

Why are you holding back?

-I did what you wanted.
-No, you didn't!

(SOBBING)

(PETER GRUNTING)

Do you think I want to do this?

Then don't.

Please, just let me go.

I can't.

Why won't you do what I ask?

I have.

No! It's not right!

It's not the way it was!

Do it the way I said!

It has to happen same way
I explained it to you!

Do it the right way!

Do it!

Do you remember that little guy?

FOLKMORE: Peter Holden.

Never forgot that face.

Back in the day
you responded to a number

of domestic abuse calls
at the Holden residence.

At least once a week.

You knew how violent
Frank Holden was

and you never arrested him.

Why?

Karen covered for him.

She wrote the book on excuses.

If she wasn't telling me
she fell down stairs,

she was bumping into cabinets.

You don't know how many times

I wanted her to come forward.

Part of me blames myself
for what happened that night.

Will you tell me about Peter?

He was a good kid.

He loved baseball.

He didn't deserve
to grow up in a house like that.

KATE: When was the last time you saw him?

FOLKMORE: A few nights before.

I stopped by the house
to drop off a gift.

I bought him a cassette recorder.

That's an odd gift to give
a seven-year-old, don't you think?

It wasn't a gift, was it?

You wanted him to capture
his mother's abuse.

I... I don't know what I was thinking.

I was so frustrated
with that whole situation.

I made a promise to the kid,

if he could get me the recording,

I could finally put
that son of a bitch in jail.

You were the only positive
male role model he ever had.

Someone had to be.

(INDISTINCT CHATTER)

I think Peter changed
his last name to Folkmore.

The officer's last name?

Yeah. Think about it.

Whenever Peter and his mother
were in trouble,

who did they call?

Folkmore.
He became a surrogate father.

(THUD)

FRANK: You are pathetic!

I cannot take this anymore!

I am so sick of you!

This house is a mess!

-You are a mess!
-(DISH SMASHES)

When I come home,

I want to be treated with some respect.

I will not waste one more day on you!

I can't even stand
to look at your face anymore!

How the hell do you think
it makes me feel, huh?

KAREN: Frank, I said I'm sorry.

I bust my butt at work all day

and all I ask for is a hot meal.

Honey, please, I know this is my fault.

You think I want to do this?

-(MUSIC PLAYING)
-I know you had a rough day at work.

So why do you have to make it worse?

I'll do better. I promise.

I am tired
of giving you second chances.

Stop! Frank, please, put the knife down.

He can hear. He's in the other room.

-KAREN: Stop! No, Frank...
-(KNIFE SLASHING)

Mom?

Dad?

-No!
-(GUNSHOT)

(RECORD SKIPPING)

According to child services,
Peter was in and out of foster homes.

Says he carried a tape recorder
with him wherever he went.

In his statement of the night
when his parents died,

he said they were arguing.
Maybe he recorded it.

John never mentioned
Peter giving him a tape.

Maybe Folkmore didn't know.

Karen died
before Peter could give him the tape.

You think he would hold on to it
for all those years?

Well, it's possible.
The tape would have been

his last memory of his mother,
so he kept it for himself.

Something must have
happened to the original recording.

-There's your trigger.
-(CELL PHONE RINGS)

He's not going to stop
until he replaces what he lost.

Hey, sweetness, give it to me good.

I will. Peter Folkmore has only existed
in the system for the last 16 years.

He works at the Angel Network
for women

for the last eight years.

Working there allowed him
to do for other women

what he couldn't do for his mother.

Karen wasn't the only one
making distress calls.

A month ago, Peter called
the fire department

regarding a small fire in his basement.

According to insurance claims,
he lost a slew of, quote,

"priceless belongings."

REID: That's right before
the murders started.

KATE: Do you have an address?

Work and home already sent to you.

JJ and I will take the house.

MORGAN: We'll grab the others
and go to the shelter.

(FOOTSTEPS APPROACHING)

(DOOR OPENS)

Where are you, Greta?

(PANTING)

Come out, come out, wherever you are.

The sooner we get this right,
the sooner we can end this.

(MUSIC PLAYING)

Getting warmer?

No! No! No!

See? I knew you had it in you.

(GRUNTS)

I really wish you hadn't done that.

(GRETA SOBBING)

(SIRENS WAILING)

You ruined it.
We were getting somewhere.

We can try again.
Just please don't do this!

No! (GRUNTS)

(TIRES SCREECH)

(SIREN WAILING)

Help! Help!

Come on!

(GRUNTS)

Scream for me.

(GUNSHOT)

(BAT CLATTERS ON FLOOR)

You wish.

(RADIO BEEPS)

We need a medic down here ASAP.

Greta.

Greta, are you okay?

Conner?

It's okay. He's safe.
He's safe. I promise.

You're going to be okay.
An ambulance is on the way.

FRANK: Scream for me.

(GUNSHOT)

(BAT CLATTERS ON FLOOR)

HOTCH: "Nothing can drive one closer
to his own insanity

"than a haunting memory
refusing its own death."

Darnella Ford.

How's the head?

Oh, I'll survive.

What about you?

I know that look.

The face of a worried mom.
What's going on?

(SIGHS) Meg is going
on her first date tonight.

Really?

At 13?

It's not really... It's not really a date.

It's with boys.

But when I was 13
and I went to the mall

to meet boys, it was a date.

Yeah. Times are a-changin', my friend.

I just keep reminding myself,
it is just the mall.

I don't think parents are ever ready
for their kids to grow up.

It feels
like yesterday she was in diapers.

Teenagers.
I don't know how my mom survived.

Ooh. Mine either.

Well, right now Henry still thinks
girls have cooties. So...

He won't feel that way
a few years from now, so treasure it.

Don't you wish you could just

keep them innocent forever?

Yeah.

MARKAYLA: Relax. We're early.

MEG: As long as we make it back
before curfew, we're good.

Otherwise there'll be hell to pay for.

What did you tell your folks?

The truth. Sort of.

I told them we were meeting
two guys in our biology class.

This is the best study session
I've ever had.

They actually believed you?

Why wouldn't they?

I couldn't tell them we were meeting

some cute senior we met online.
They'd freak.

Where is that cute guy?

Speaking of freaking...

Hey, girls.

What are you doing here?

You were supposed
to just drop us off, not follow us in.

CHRIS: It's a mall. Valentine's Day.

I'm buying Kate a gift.

Ooh! What'd you get her?

Oh, uh, just gloves.

In a pink bag? Those are not gloves.

So, uh, what's up with these boys
from your class?

They're running late.

Ah!

Okay, well,

don't miss your curfew.

I won't. Don't you trust me?

Yeah, I trust you.
It's the boys I don't trust.

Okay. Well, I'm going
to leave you guys to it.

Uh, just remember, boys that run late

are not worth waiting for.

-Bye, Chris.
-Bye.

-Bye, Mr. Callahan.
-Bye, you guys.

I can't believe it.
Your uncle's a total stalker.

Right? I don't know why
he can't just accept

that I'm not a little girl anymore. Jeez.

Hey, sweetie, it's me. I, uh...

Look, I just want to clear the air

and let you know that I'm really sorry.

We definitely should have discussed
Meg dating

before I gave the approval
for her to do that. And...

But if it's any consolation,
I'm at the mall right now,

and I'm planning on sticking around
to keep an eye on them.

But, uh, they're doing great.

Except for the fact they may have
just been stood up for the first time.

But... (LAUGHS)

I, uh, I love you, and I do feel bad.

So bad, as a matter of fact,
that I bought you something amazing.

It's, like, red
and it's got black stripes,

and a strap.

It's gonna look so hot on...

Uh, I'll show you
when you get home, okay?

Where are they?

I don't know.

Sorry.

(CELL PHONE CHIMES)

No, they're not coming.

What? Why not?

I don't want to talk about it.