Barry had grown close to Penelope. She was easy to get along with and she had the best advice. With Penelope's help Barry searched any connections between Mr. Eldora and the second house. After ten minutes Penelope exclaims "Boom! I found the connection." Barry slide his chair over so he could look at her screen. "I figured there wouldn't be a paper trail, not with someone who was smart enough to kidnap three people and get away it for years, so what I did was do an extensive search on the cameras near their area."
Barry scrunches his eyebrows "How long do they keep video logs?" Penelope grins "Well they delete them every three months or so, but I pasted a file in as many databases as I could so I would catch the deleted files. It adds up over a long time so I don't have everything, but I have as far back as a year." Barry grins at her "Is everyone here a genius?" She smiles proudly "You have to be in order to be in this line of work." Barry returns the smile at the sneaky compliment. "As I was saying, I keep video files so all I had to do was log into the ones that were near their area. I did a face recognition scan and this popped up." The picture of Mr. Eldora and a woman were on the screen "Is that Millie's mom?" Penelope threw him a weird look "You can just say Mrs. Smith, and yes."
"How long ago was that?" Penelope pulls up the time stamp and Barry chews on his lip. That was the day he and Spencer had went to talk to Mrs. Eldora. That was hardly a coincidence. "I'll go find Spencer. Thanks Penelope." "No problem sugar." Barry smiled and headed out. Penelope had a passion for calling people awkward pet-names.
Spencer was at his desk typing away at his computer. "Hey Spencer, Penelope and I may have found a lead… she found a photo with Mr. Eldora and Mrs. Smith talking. It was the same day we went to go talk to Mrs. Eldora." Barry could already see Spencer's wheels turning. "The two families are connected… I'll have Hotch talk to a judge to get a search warrant." He is already dialing the number. Spencer is amazing because not even an hour later he has the warrant and a whole team at the Smith's house.
Hotch and JJ take both Smiths to the bureau to question. Barry and Spencer continued to search the house for anything they could use in the case. It was a bust. However the moment JJ got Mrs. Smith into an interrogating room she broke and confessed that she was having an affair with Mr. Eldora. Turns out Millie was their kid. Spencer pulled on that thread and found out that Alice's father was also Mr. Eldora.
Knowing this new connection Spencer did some digging. After extensive search into Mrs. Smith and Mrs. Cooper Spencer found out that they had been setting up meetings and planning this whole ordeal. With Penelope's help they hacked into the e-mails. That was all the proof they needed. They weren't too careful about coding their plans. According to the emails they would be keeping the girls in a barn together so they could grow up and get to know each other.
"We should get everyone of the parents and try to figure this all out. Surely with Mr. Eldora's death the plan is falling apart so maybe one of the mothers will break and tell us where the girls are." Spencer nods at Barry's idea. Barry called Joe and he agreed to bring Mr. and Mrs. Cooper into the station. Spencer and Hotch brought in Mr. Smith and Mrs. Smith leaving Barry to get Mrs. Eldora. JJ offered to watch Susie and talk to her to see if she knew anything. It was time to sort this situation out.
Mrs. Eldora didn't know anything about Mr. Eldora's affairs. Mr. Cooper and Mr. Smith were having an affair with each other which led to Mrs. Cooper wanting to get back at her husband so she had an affair with Mr. Eldora. Mrs. Smith confronted Mrs. Cooper about their husbands' affair and Mrs. Cooper set her up with Mr. Eldora. That explained how the man ended up with three daughters. Mrs. Cooper and Mrs. Smith wouldn't crack on anything else, but Susie did. She knew a lot more than she had originally let on. She had been threatened several times by Mrs. Cooper and Mrs. Smith, but now she was protected.
Within an hour and entire crew swarmed an abandoned mill house where Alice and Millie were locked in a room. They were days away from starvation due to Mr. Eldora committing suicide. Mrs. Cooper and Mrs. Smith didn't want to risk getting caught so they rarely visited. Both of them were arrested and Mrs. Eldora went about adopting the girls. She didn't want any sibling of Susie's to get lost in the system. The case was finally closed.
The case is finally closed!
Guess what happens next?