tannerose5 –

thank you for your review on Old Friends and Surprises. Mary Anne did not want to tie Spencer down with a child. She was worried that they were not compatible and would be hurtful to Rowena. Plus her crazy parents would never approve of him. Doris was the one that really pressured Mary Anne into telling Spencer. She figured she could counter Mary Anne's parents. He's in her life and I think he proved himself a good parent with the biology teacher.

Reid is going to try to do the best he can. He is a good profiler and he knows this case. You are right, Alex will go mother hen on Reid, especially because he kept this from her. It seems that you have guessed ahead, the team does divide in a future chapter. Hotch does divide Reid and J.J.

Ahowell1993 – I was going with Maeve being dead. You are right though he would need her for this. It is only going to be worse.

Chapter 3 Going to Georgia

Alex continued to watch the team while they boarded the plane. They were all very grim. She figured early on that Rossi was told about the Hankel case. There was something about this case, something dramatic.

Despite the friendship that she had with Reid she wondered why he never told her about this. It almost seemed like there was something about the case that was different, life changing.

On the jet the team settled into their seats. Morgan had purposely sat next to Reid. J.J. seemed solemn and had taken a seat by herself. Rossi sat next to Alex.

"I had Garcia look into the Baker's before the briefing." Hotch began. "They were both successful upper middle class."

The team looked at the photos of the Baker's and the crime scene photos.

"Michael Baker had been recently acquitted in a small money laundering scheme at his bank a few years ago. There seems to be a sentiment that he managed to escape conviction."

"So the story was in the paper?" Morgan asked.

"Yes, it was, locally." Hotch answered. "There are several editorials and private amateur investigations into it.

Rossi looked at the news report on his tablet. "So we have to assume that the Un-Sub is local to Mississippi. Maybe they spent some time in Georgia, or they are from there."

"I think it is safe to assume that the Un-Sub grew up in a strict religious household." Morgan said. "They did make references to the bible." He did not want to make the open comparison to the Hankel case.

"We'll have to look into who might have grievances with the Bakers." J.J. finally spoke up. "I mean this could be just as much about them."

Alex looked at J.J. after she spoke. She wondered if the younger profiler was trying to distance herself from the Hankel side of the case. If she was then why? Alex wanted to know what happened in Georgia.

"Was there the possibility of another murder prior? This doesn't look like a first kill to me." Morgan said.

"It's possible." Hotch said. "I'm having Garcia run a search for similar parameters in case there was a murder or prior. So far there has been nothing."

"The Kyle's were Tobias Hankel's first real murder." Reid finally spoke.

The team was silent for a moment after Reid had made the statement.

"Kid you know that it was Raphael that committed those murders." Morgan said. "Raphael didn't have the emotions. He was only carrying out the mission."

"We will still look over the unsolved murders in the area." Hotch said.

Alex was confused for a moment. Was Raphael someone else involved in the case? She hadn't looked at the Hankel case yet on her tablet yet. She wanted fresh eyes on this new case. However she would need to look at it.

They were interrupted by Garcia's image popping onto the screen. "I have bad news. I have the footage of the Baker's murder. It was posted about an hour ago."

"Can you trace it?" Hotch asked.

"Working on it, Sir." Garcia answered. "The file was uploaded on a college site."

"What is the site?" Morgan asked.

"The site is used by college students that want to make movies. A few RomComs, historically inaccurate dramas, mostly horror movies. It's mostly cheap camera work, shot at bad angles, real Blair Witch Project stuff."

"What's Blair Witch Project?" Reid asked.

J.J. hid a smile. It was nice to have a moment of normal Reid.

"Can you trace the site?" Morgan asked.

"You are already on your way there, Georgia." Garcia said. "The video could have been uploaded from anywhere though."

"Is there any other illegal activity on the site that you can see?" Morgan asked.

"Besides the atrocious acting that makes Paris Hilton look like Greta Garbo." Garcia said. "No, all it is student projects. It comes from various schools by the looks of it."

"Are Un-Sub can't be a college student." Rossi said. "There is too much organization here."

"Send us the video." Hotch ordered.

Garcia nodded and then clicked off.

The video opened with a panoramic shot of the Baker household. The camera moved over the living room slowly. There was emphasis in the shots of the more expensive items in the house. The Un-Sub entered into the side of the shot, only momentarily. It appeared that they were dressed in black. A few moments later Michael Baker came in.

"Death to the sinner." The scrambled voice said.

Baker seemed unaware of what was happening. He sat down on the couch with a bowl of chips. All at once he jumped. "Who are. . ." Baker didn't get the chance to finish the sentence. One round went off.

There was commotion in the other room. A dark figure moved across the screen. It didn't stay long enough to make an assessment. Another gun shot was heard. The screen then cut to a shot of Michael and Karen together on the floor. It was the same as in the crime scene photo when they were found.

The dark figure was scene writing the name on the wall where the bodies were.

"And I will beat down his foes before his face, and plague them that hate him." The scrambled voice stated.

"Psalm 89." Reid provided the answer.

With that the screen went blank.

"Is there any way you can gauge the height or the build of the Un-Sub?" Morgan asked.

"It's too much of a blur," Garcia answered. "I'm running the image now to see if the voice was on there during the recording or placed on their afterwards. This would be a lot easier if I had the original recording."

"Do what you can." Hotch said encouragingly. "Also see if the original murders or anything about them is posted on the same site."

"That I will do," Garcia said clicking the screen off.

The team went through the video again on their screens.

"It looks like this was taken with one camera, with the camera still. It didn't follow the action, so it was stationary." Morgan said.

"That means there is probably only one Un-Sub and not a team." Hotch figured.

"I think we need to examine how much this Un-Sub knows about the original Tobias Hankel murder." Rossi said.

"The Un-Sub knew Tobias' name." Morgan began.

"They knew about the religious motivations obviously." J.J. added.

"They also knew that the murders were posted on the internet." Morgan said.

"Tobias Hankel used the camera on the victim's computer to record the murders. It was a still camera." Hotch stated. "This Un-Sub could be following the same mindset."

"He also stalked the victims, watching for them to commit a sin." Morgan said. "This Un-Sub may have done the same."

"We'll have to look over the Baker's computers." J.J. said. "Is it possible that he knows about Hankel's life? I mean about his father and everything."

"Maybe this Un-Sub feels connected because of similar abuses." Morgan said.

"How would they have stumbled across this case though?" Rossi said. "Garcia said she locked it away and I don't think anyone would even talk about this."

The team was stopped by this statement. They would need to interview those originally involved to gauge how much of the original case had been released. The silence was uneasy.

Reid had continued avoiding eye contact with the team.

Blake studied the team. She wasn't known for her patience. She had openly stated that she wasn't patient. Right now her patience was wearing very thin.

There was something that the team wasn't talking about and she wanted to know what it was. She slowly lifted the pad and discreetly looked at the Hankel case.