Spencer Reid trudged into the BAU, still waiting for his coffee to kick in. His hair was ruffled as always, and he had bags underneath his eyes as he had gotten no sleep, yet again.

This time it was Tobias. Tobias Hankel had become part of him ever since he was kidnapped by Hankel, and yes Hankel had seemed to slip into Spencer's dreams every so often, but this time was different. This was a full-blown, frightenous nightmare. He had been waking up with a cold sweat every two to three hours, and couldn't help but think about what had happened during his kidnapping. Nonetheless, he arrived at work and did his job, and started to drown himself in his work.

"You okay, pretty boy?" Morgan exclaimed, breaking Reid out of his trance.

"Hmm?" He replied, still attempting to keep himself focused on work.

"What are you doing?"

"What does it look like I'm doing Morgan?" Reid said, getting more irritated by the minute.

"Well," Morgan answered, slightly taken aback, "It looks like you've been studying that file all morning and it's two in the afternoon, and it also looks like you haven't eaten in the past two days, so I ask you again — are you alright?"

Reid looked at his watch — 2:07. Had he really been doing paperwork on one file for over five hours? He sighed, brushing the thought away.

"I'm fine."

"Reid —"

"I'm fine Morgan.", Reid sternly interrupted. Morgan then proceeded to give him one of those 'I don't believe you' stare-downs, until Hotch interrupted their mini-interrogation session.

"Got a case. Conference Room in five." Morgan gave him one last stare and headed towards the Conference Room. Once he was out of earshot, Reid sighed, extremely glad for the reprieve. Saved by the bell, he thought, as he too headed towards the conference room.

As he approached the round table, he could see his teammates huddled up and whispering while catching glances towards his direction.

"Um, hey guys, i-is there something I should know about?" he asked, slightly concerned as he made his way towards the others. Everyone just turned around and gave him blank stares. It was Garcia who spoke first.

"Maybe you should sit this one out Reid...", she trailed off.

"What? No!" he exclaimed, the initial shock setting in, "Wait," he started to feel worry now, "why?"

"It's a copycat killer.", JJ piped up, her eyes watering.

"And...", he prodded, not to provoke her to burst into tears.

"Enough with the subtlety, okay guys?" Rossi exclaimed. When no one responded, he proceeded, "okay guess I'm going to be the one to tell him..." Reid just looked straight at him as if to look for his tells. "This Unsub is the same crimes as Tobias Hankel." Rossi bluntly stated.

It all makes sense now, he thought. They didn't want to hurt him anymore than he already was. But I can take care of myself! Can't they just respect that I can handle—

"Spence?" JJ prodded. "Please say something... Please..."

He took a deep breath, "I'm not staying back on this case."

"But Spence —"

"I've been through worse JJ, Tobias wasn't the first religious killer and he won't be the last."

"Then it's settled.", Hotch cut in, saving them all from a very heated argument. "JJ" he said, motioning towards the board.

"Okay," she responded giving Spencer one more glare as everyone took their seats at the table. " Everyone better pack their casino money 'cause we're headin' to Vegas. Our Unsub has killed three couples thus far, making a total of six victims."

"And we were just called in now?" Hotch questioned.

"Well, it's only his third attack, and they didn't even see a connection until now."

Hotch only nodded in response.

"Okay," JJ continued. "The female victims were each stabbed, and the males each had a single gunshot wound to the head. The males were also found with ligature marks and restrained to a chair.

"He made the husbands watch.", added Prentiss. Everyone else just nodded in agreement.

"It says here that they were all drugged with Dilaudid in order to subdue them. Morgan said pointing at the file.

" But Tobias never did that to his victims until, well you know..."

"It's still not a coincidence that he used Dilaudid...", Spencer started.

" So this Unsub's familiar with the case, but not the specifics.", Hotch added.

" The Unsub obviously has prior knowledge of the case, but not enough to know exactly when the drug was used.", Prentiss commented.

"I knew the fact that I was drugged was in the papers, but the name of the drug? Isn't that kind of suspicious?" Spencer questioned.

"So this Unsub has read the file somehow. He may be on the police force or have relations with the FBI.", Hotch concluded. "We'll talk more on the jet. Wheels up in thirty."