HPD downtown station
Dr. Spencer Reid is waiting to talk to Julie Watts a co-worker of Annie Carrollton. He is in a conference room at the Houston Police Department in downtown Houston looking at a white board filled with pictures of the victims both before and after the killings. Before the killings they look like average pretty women who probably wouldn't be together in a social setting but after there's no mistaking that there's a connection. A tall woman in her late 30's early 40's enters the police station and Reid hears her asking an officer for Dr. Reid of the FBI.
Reid – Thank you for coming in, I just need to ask you a few questions about Annie.
Julie – Why do you need to know about Annie, you need to be looking for whoever killed her?
Reid – The more we know about Annie and the other women this man hurt, the more we can learn about her killer and why he targeted your friend. Did Annie have a lot of friends; did she go out to clubs?
Julie- Annie was a workaholic, she rarely went anywhere other than work and home. She didn't have any friends outside of work that I know of.
Reid – Were you with her Friday before last?
Julie – Yeah, we all were, it was a co-workers birthday and we took her to The Blue Note. It's a night club downtown. Annie didn't want to go but a couple of us convinced she needed to get out more. Her divorce was final a few months ago and she's been depressed, we thought she needed a night out.
Reid – When she was there, did she talk to anyone that you didn't recognize?
Julie – There were a few guys that tried to buy her drinks, I mean she's petite and pretty, guys love that. But she wasn't really interested in any of them. When I left she was at the bar.
Reid – Did you notice any men around her while she was at the bar?
Julie – I don't know maybe.
Reid – He might have been trying to not draw attention to himself but he would have been staring at her and maybe have a hard time hiding it.
Julie – Yeah, there was one guy that was staring at her most of the night, but never tried to talk to her, but he was sitting next to her at the bar. I just thought he finally got up the courage to talk to her. Could that have been him, the guy that killed her?
Reid – Maybe, do you think you could describe him to a sketch artist?
Julie – I could try.
While Dr. Reid sits with Julie Watts and a police sketch artist, SSA David Rossi is meeting with Ray Davidson, Bethany Davidson's husband.
Rossi – I'm very sorry for your loss Mr. Davidson
Ray – Thank you.
Rossi – When was the last time you saw your wife?
Ray – Friday night, she was getting ready for her sister's bachelorette party at some club downtown.
Rossi – Club Kiss?
Ray – Yeah, I think that's the name.
SSA Aaron Hotcher is pacing while talking to Detectives Mike Rodriquez and Jim Floyd. Det. Rodriquez is 50ish, been a cop since he was 22 and not really interested in listening to Hotch's "profiling". Det. Floyd is about the same age although doesn't look it since his demeanor is more easy going. He has a daughter in her 20's at college near downtown so he's interested in any help he can get to catch this guy.
Hotch – Det. Rodriquez you need to tell your officers to stop calling this unsub the 'witch hunter' we've already established were not looking for a satanic killer.
Rodriquez – There are pentagrams near every body, how is this not satanic?
Floyd – Mike, just listen to what they have to say, they dealt with this type of thing before, right?
Hotch – Yes, we've seen many killings where occult symbols have been used and rarely does the killer consider himself satanic.
Rodriquez – Fine, alright I'll talk to officers. Anything else?
Hotch – We need to view the dump sites.
Rodriquez – We've already went over all the sites, there's nothing more to find there.
Hotch – We need to see where the bodies were, it can tell us a lot about the unsub.
Floyd – I can take you there.
Last dump site – dumpster in Downtown Houston near Club Kiss
Hotch and Prentiss along with Detective Floyd arrive near Club Kiss in a government suburban.
Hotch – Det. Floyd maybe you can talk to the bartender at the club, maybe he remembers the bachelorette party that Bethany Davidson was at. Ask if he saw anyone talking to the women.
Detective Floyd nods his head and walks the few hundred yards to the club and leaves Hotch and Emily alone at the dumpster. It's a large blue dumpster with the lid open and bags of trash lying on the ground. The body has been removed but an impression remains in the bags still in the dumpster. The pentacle is etched in white chalk on the side of the dumpster.
Hotch – The unsub couldn't have inflicted that much torture for 2 days anywhere near here without being detected. He must have taken them somewhere else then brought their bodies back here.
Prentiss – Other than taking the time to draw the pentagram I don't see that he spent much time here.
Hotch – We need to find the second location. And you need to wear a top that's not so revealing, it's a little distracting.
Prentiss smiles as they walk together back to the suburban to call Garcia.
Garcia – Speak and be heard my lovelies.
Prentiss – PG we think the unsub has a second location where he's taking the bodies, have you had any luck with that sketch?
Garcia – No luck yet, still looking. I'm still looking at the security video from around the area where the bodies were found but nothing useful yet. Sorry love.
Hotch – Garcia try to get security video from Club Kiss on the night of the first and third murders, we know both of those victims were last seen at that Club, maybe the unsub was there too.
Garcia – On it my captain!
HPD Downtown station
All of the agents are together in a conference room. Reid and JJ are standing in front of the white board studying the images in front of them. The rest of the team is sitting around a long rectangular table looking at various files related to the case.
Hotch – Let's go over what we know.
Morgan – He's organized, there's no forensic evidence at the scene, not even any DNA under the fingernails of the victims who obviously fought back so he knew to where long sleeves.
Rossi – The second victim lived through 2 days of torture because she didn't fight back, but when she did finally fight back he stabbed her in the heart, killing her instantly.
JJ – Well obviously the women represent someone to him, the red hair can't be coincidence.
Reid – It's most likely his mother.
JJ – Why do you think that?
Reid – There's obvious rage yet most of the beatings are focused around the face and upper torso, plus there's no sexual component.
Rossi – Except for the stabbing, we all know what the knife is a substitute for.
Reid – Yes but, he only used the knife to kill not to torture.
Prentiss –Regardless other than the first victim, Shelia, these weren't women that would just go off with some guy. There's no evidence of a blitz attack so he had to have drugged them.
Morgan – Nothing came up in the toxicology reports.
Rossi – Although the ME did say that all three had high blood alcohol levels and that some drugs, specifically GHB, won't show up in the toxicology reports.
JJ – Bethany and Annie rarely drank, it's not likely that they would have so much alcohol in their system especially after a couple of days.
Hotch – Garcia did you get all the security video from the Club?
Garcia – yes and I'm still reviewing it. There's several 'possibles' that I'm trying to get better pictures of.
Hotch – send us the ones you have.
Garcia – check your tablets, it's already on its way.
Reid, JJ and Rossi continue to go thru the files sent by Garcia while the rest of the team gives the profile to the local police.
Hotch – The man we are looking for is approximately 30 years old and of average height and build most likely attractive.
Det. Rodriquez – How can you know if this guy is attractive?
Prentiss – He's flirting with young attractive women and no one pays any attention. The bartender couldn't remember seeing the victims with anyone out of the ordinary. This tells us that the unsub is most likely attractive and unassuming or he would have stood out.
Det. Floyd comes into the room with a file in hand – We have report of another missing red haired woman, last seen at Club Kiss.
Hotch, Prentiss and Morgan join the others back in the conference room where they are already talking to Garcia via the laptop.
Hotch – Garcia please tell me you have some names for us.
Garcia – I have one Robert Turner or 'Turn' to his friends.
Rossi – Garcia was just filing us in on Turn; his rap sheet includes assault, battery, and drug possession. Discharged from the army after only one year because of fighting. Raised by a single mom Mary Neil, who happened to have red hair. (Giving a nod to Reid)
Garcia – Still looking through his early years but it looks like Mary wasn't in the running for any Mother of the year awards. Young Robert was admitted to several county hospitals for various accidents, broken arm from falling off a ladder, bruising said to be caused by falling down the stairs etc etc.
Rossi – Obvious signs of child abuse, why did he just start killing now?
Garcia – I think I can answer that. He was in and out of jail up until 3 years ago when he started to turn his life around, he kept a full time job and got married then a month ago his wife was killed in a car accident.
Hotch – Garcia we need an address
Garcia – Check your phone
The entire team except for Dr. Reid goes to Robert Turner's apartment near downtown. Dr. Reid stays behind to work with Garcia to get more information about the unsub. Garcia sends Reid all the information she can find about Robert Turner and he reviews it - just in case.
Hotch and Prentiss are in one car while Morgan, JJ and Rossi and in another and several local police cars are en route to Robert Turner's home address near downtown Houston. They are all mic'd up and have their bullet proof vests off ready to arrest the killer. The drive doesn't take long as the police station is on the north side of downtown and the unsub's apartment is on the southwest side. The agents are unusually quiet knowing that there could well be a murder in progress. Although Emily can't help looking at her Unit Chief while he drives the government suburban and bites her lower lip. He just so damn….Hot, she thinks to herself, then remembers she has a job to do and this isn't the time for daydreaming.
The vehicles pull into the apartment parking lot and the agents and officers exit and gather near the entrance.
Hotch – Dave you and Morgan take two of the officers and go around back, the rest of us will approach from the front entrance.
SSA Rossi takes the lead and gets his weapon out and jogs towards the back of the building, the rest follow behind him. Hotch and the rest of the team go in the front entrance and up the stairs to the second floor apartment that is being rented by one Robert Turner.
Hotch nods at the HPD police officer next to him who is carrying a battering ram, he leaves the overly macho knocking the door down with himself stuff to Morgan.
Hotch bangs on the door while shouting – Robert Turner, FBI, if you're in there identify yourself.
No answer is heard and the officer bashes the door open and Hotch enters the room, followed by Prentiss and JJ. Each agent searches the rooms yelling clear and they one by one realize there's no one here. Rossi and Morgan enter the apartment along with several HPD officers.
Rossi – He's not here?
JJ – No, and it looks like he hasn't been here for a while. (She opens the frig which is empty except for some very old milk whose smell fills the air around them and she quickly closes it)
Hotch holsters his weapon and gets his cell phone out of his pocket to call Reid and he notices out of the corner of his eye that Emily is watching his every move with a certain 'come hither' look in her eye, and he's hoping no one else notices.
Hotch – Reid, Turner isn't here, tell me you and Garcia have figured out where he could be taking the victims.
Dr. Reid is at the police station pouring over records that Garcia has sent over and he has her visible on his laptop while he has their Unit Chief on speak phone for them both to hear.
Reid – I think Garcia may have found something.
Garcia – Thank you Boy Wonder. While digging through 'Turn's' past I found that his childhood home is still in his mother's name and the utilities are all current. Also this childhood home is a trailer in the north side of town and it's fairly isolated, the nearest neighbor is about a mile away.
Hotch – Send us that address Garcia.
Garcia – I'm so disappointed; don't you know it's already on your PDA?
Hotch – Thank you Garcia. Reid meet us there with the SWAT team.
The team pile back into the black suv's and head north of town to Mary Turner's trailer. The road leading to the trailer turns into a dirt road, a well-worn dirt road. The trailer is a double wide that has seen better days. The yard around the trailer has not been kept up in years, it's over grown and weeds are everywhere. There are a few pine trees and pine needles fill the yard. There are no lights on except for a faint light coming from the right side on the front of the trailer. The team file out of the vehicles and start to gather around Hotch for the plan to capture this killer and hopefully save a woman in the process.
