Supervisory Special Agent Jason Gideon sat in his office looking over paperwork. He was good at what he did with the FBI, although he tried to not let all the death and horror get to him. In order to counter-balance all the negativity he keeps photographs of every person he's saved in his office. It reminds him of why he took this job, brings positive energy, and helps keep him from drowning in the horror. His phone rang grabbing his attention. The man on the other end of the phone was someone he knew. Someone who helped him keep tabs on one particularly special young lady. Agent Gideon knew that one day this phone call was to come but it still didn't ease the the bad feeling inside. He scribbled down all the information he needed. Upon hanging up the phone he received another phone call. This time it was from Agent Strauss, his old boss from the BAU asking him to rejoin the team to take this case. Once that phone call was finished he sat back down in his chair to relive the events of 25 years ago.

Agent Gideon was just starting his career with the FBI. He wanted to do more than what the local police could do. He wanted to really help people, to put the bad guys away. Although in his training he was told to prepare himself for all sorts of things, children always held a special place for him. His superiors had decided that the new case would be a good starting point for the newest agent. They flew into Dallas, Texas and promptly headed to Mesquite. It was a large suburban city which is somewhere between 15 and 35 miles from Dallas, depending on which sides of the city you are on and trying to get too. On the plane to Dallas the agents were briefed on this case. Since it involved a small toddler, Agent Gideon felt a pressing need to make things right.

A young mother, approximately 28 years old, had gone missing leaving her almost 4 year old daughter alone. She hadn't been seen for about 4 days. The child had somehow gotten out of the house and began wandering around aimlessly. Child Protective Services had been called anonymously, by a neighbor another agent concluded, and described the state of the poor child. She appeared dirty like she hadn't had a bath in weeks, was too thin for a normal child, and was wearing a diaper that looked like it hadn't been changed in days. It was also stated that the child had feces running down her leg from the over-filled diaper. It broke Agent Gideon's heart to hear this innocent child was so poorly taken care of.

The mother was assumed to have been kidnapped. The agents talked about who would abduct the mother and leave the child alone. Obviously the mother was the object of the Unsub's attention. When they arrived, the group went directly to the local police station to be briefed on the mother and family. It actually shocked Agent Gideon to hear that this woman was a severe drug addict, often selling her body for the drugs she so desperately craved, and had a habit of leaving her child home alone while she retrieved her drugs.

As the FBI was in the middle of their investigation, and the child was at the hospital receiving medical care, the mother and her boyfriend arrived back at their home. Apparently the pair had gone off in a drug induced haze leaving the defenseless child alone. It angered Agent Gideon greatly! Agent Gideon was sent to the hospital to talk to CPS to make sure the child hadn't been abused in any way. What he was told shocked him more than anything he'd been told yet. They looked from time to time at the poor child as the doctors asked her questions. The child locked eyes with him and he gave her a warm, friendly smile. From then on out her eyes never left him unless he was out of sight.

Agent Gideon talked sweetly to the young girl trying to make her feel better. He knew she would never remember him and that was OK with him. He knew in his heart he'd never forget this poor girl. This was the whole reason he wanted to be an FBI agent in the first place, to help people like this girl.

The mother, even after discovering she was pregnant, decided to continue her drug use. Unfortunately for her fetus all the drugs she did passed on to the developing baby. The child was born addicted to such drugs as heroin, cocaine, methamphetamine, and ecstasy. Her doctors explained that she would have to go through a rehabilitation program as well as counseling. She didn't have the social skills that other children of her age did because she was isolate from others and because of her addictions. CPS promised Agent Gideon that they would get her into a special home for drug-addicted children that dealt with these sort of issues. They offered various types of therapies that would benefit the child. CPS told the FBI agent that among art and play therapy, they also offer speech therapy and psychological and psychiatric counseling. They would get her all the help she would need and help mold her into a productive member of society. Agent Gideon made the CPS agent promise to keep him informed of how she was doing.

The mother was taken into police custody as well as her boyfriend. She was sent to a facility that dealt with drug addiction as well as mental disorders. Agent Gideon was informed the mother was sentenced to stay in the facility for the next 25 to 40 years. He thought about the young girl from time to time and was happy to receive letters and pictures of her like the CPS agent promised him. She was doing well, from what he read in the last letter he received.

"Jason! It's good to see you again. Strauss told me you were coming back for this case." Unit Chief Aaron Hotchner stated, shaking Agent Gideon's hand

"Nice to see you too Aaron. Has everyone been briefed?" He asked

"Not yet. I was waiting for you since you know more about this." Agent Hotchner replied as they walked to the briefing room

Agent Gideon greeted his former colleagues cordially as they got down to business. He told the group about the mother and stated that she had severe anger issues, primarily focused on her daughter, and also suffered from Psychotic Delusions. She placed all her blame of how her life turned out and the bad things she did on her daughter. He neglected to tell the group about how he kept in silent touch with the police detective who worked on the case with them on how the girl was doing. Unceremoniously, Agent Hotchner announced 'Wheels up in 30' making Agent Gideon take a deep breath.

He was afraid that since her mother had been released "on good behavior", she would come after her innocent daughter. When they arrived in LA where the girl, now a woman, now lived they headed to the police station. Apparently she had been receiving threatening notes for the past few days, from what the detective that had been assigned this case, informed the group of agents. It was as he feared. The mother was going to come after her daughter.