9 women were murdered in a short period of time and dumped at different locations.
Reid was staring at the map. Geographic profiling hadn't gotten them much, the oly had the dump sites and not the site of the actual killing.
He was thinking about what Julie had said. A pattern she had seen before but she couldn't place it.
Maybe he should just ask her but he was reluctend because of her headacke.
The local Pd hadn't found the man who had attacted her yet so they were not getting closer.
Reid deceided to step outside for a while, maybe the cold winter air would clear his mind.
"Hey where are you going Reid?" Emily wondered as she was almost knocked down by the brilliant doctor.
"Need to clear my head so I'm getting some fresh air."
"That sounds good, mind if I join you?"
"Nope let's go, I just have to tell Hotch or Rossi where we are going."
Emily and Reid ended up on the roof of the building that had been their home away from home for the last couple of days.
"Hmmmm this feels nice." emily sighed:"I needed the cold."
Reid smiled as his stuffed his hands deeper in his pockets.
He and Emily had been standing there for a couple of minutes when Emily pointed to the sky.
"Now I know it's wintertime."
Reid looked at her questionably.
"Orion, the hunter."She pointed up. "No matter where I was when I was little, I would always try to spot it in the wintersky. Well exept when I was on the southern hemisphere..."
"Orion, the hunter, that's it..." Reid mumbled as he stormed back into the building leaving behind a stunned Emily Prentiss.
"Reid wait, what is it? Where are you going?" she yelled after him.
Rossi, Hotch and JJ. were sipping their coffee as reid barged in.
Not saying anything he ran to the map and studied it for a little while.
After a few seconds Emily ran in as well.
"Em what's going on?"JJ. asked her friend.
"I don't know, one minute we were staring at the stars and the next thing I know he's racing back here."
They all walked to the map where Reid was drawing lines between the different locations.
"He's following the stars in the constellation Orion, Look!"
Reid stepped away as he showed them the map.
"Well I be dammed the boy is right, it's not complete though is it?"Rossi replied.
"Goddess of eternal whisdom, how may I help you?" Garcia's voice sounded through the room.
"Garcia can you cross ref the dumpsites with a map of the constellation Orion?"
"For you my genius anytime."
A map of all the locations appeared on Emily's notebook and projected on top of it where the same lines as Reid had drawn.
"A perfect match." Hotch said," garcia can you pinpoint the location of the missing star?"
"Sure, one sec, there it is, the location is forwarded to your cell Sir."
Reid starred at the picture on the screen." The star is called betelgeuse or alpha Orionis, the Red giant."
"Ok garcia thanks for now we'll get back to you."Hotch told the analist.
"Ok Garcia out."
"So now what?" Emily sighed,"we have a location but no way in knowing when he's gonna strike again or where he's killing these women or why."
"It's a start Em, let's just go from here."
Emily and JJ. rubbed their temples.
"Everyone let's head to the hotel, get some sleep and let's look at this tomorrow with fresh eyes."
They grabbed their coats and went back to the hotel for some much need rest.