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JJ's eyes scanned the room as if she was following a ping-pong tournament. For the last hour Hotch and Emily were grilling Montle. Going over this history, his relationship with Jacobs, and Lisa. JJ had to admit it was priceless to watch Montle's facial expression when he laid eyes on Emily for the first time. He looked as if he was standing in the presence of a ghost, even though they all knew he had heard of Emily before, surely from Lisa. Before going into the integration, the team had decided to have Emily act as emotionless as possible about her sister, basically brushing it off as if she hated her.

"If he senses the hurt in your voice, he's going to run with it like wildfire," Reid explained to Emily, who was taken back.

"Do you not understand that I want to tear this man to shreds," Emily shot back.

"Believe me we do, but nailing Montle cannot be seen as an act of vengeance," Hotch explained, even though he knew that it was exactly that.

"So I have to go in there, pretend I'm only doing this because of some kid we found beaten and raped," Emily said slowly, as if she was in the process of switching over mind frames.

JJ involuntary winced at the icy tone now being integrated into Emily's voice.

"I know this hard Princess, but if anyone can lay this down thick you can," Morgan assured her.

"I'll just state the obvious truth, my sister and I have been estranged for two decades after she left. Why would I give a damn about someone who wanted nothing to do with me? She was already dead to me years ago," Emily said in a monotone fashion.

The inside of Emily began to tremble after listening to the words that came out of her mouth. That was not even remotely true, but if this was what needed to be done to get through this integration without feeding into this maniac's ego, then so be it.

"And he's going to mention Cassie, Emily," Rossi said, hoping that she would be able to muster the act for the girl whom she had taken in as her own. Emily shifted her eyes over to Rossi, who noticed the fiery protective look gone from her eyes.

"That girl is just another one of the hundreds of victims I see every month, nothing special about her. I wouldn't give her a second thought if her case didn't get assigned to my department. And after this is done, she can go back to wherever she came. Her dead mother isn't my problem, blood relation or no blood relation," Emily replied, her word sharper than ever.

JJ's heart literally began to hurt after hearing Emily speak so coldly of Cassie, and had to remind herself this was all an act.

"I never doubted your ability to put on a show Prentiss," Hotch noted, impressed on how fast Prentiss could change her demeanor.

"I just hope this works, the chance that this creep can be let loose soon is absurd," the brunette said as she played with her necklace out of nervousness.

Now watching the integration, JJ knew Montle had bought her not giving a damn shtick. However, for every question the agents asked, he had a fully formulated answer ready.

"It's like he came up with answers incase this ever came up," Reid pointed out, as he watched the integration beside JJ.

"Which makes it even more obvious that he did it," JJ said.

"The only thing we're going to be able to catch Montle on is testimony from his ex-workers. We throw that in his face, and show him that his loyal men actually turned on him. The idea of him losing that power over those con men will drive him nuts, showing his true colors," Reid explained.

Morgan bursted in to observation room where the other two agents were sitting.

"We have exactly 72 hours to get the evidence we need to pin Montle on ordering the hit on Cassie," the agent said out of breathe.

"How did we get the ability to keep him in custody for that long," JJ said, stunned at the recent events.

"Garcia had found that Montle had been questioned in three other hits over the last five years, which gives reason that he could be connected to this one, even though he was never tried on any of them. I faxed the report to Judge Yule, the one whom we helped with the Tippton case, and she granted us legal observation rights due to prior history," he explained.

"That means we have to get out there tonight, no waiting around till tomorrow morning," JJ said, now banging on the two way window to get Emily and Hotch's attention.

"What's going on," Hotch said, annoyed that they were pulled out in the middle of an intense line of questioning.

Morgan explained the situation about the 72 holding on Montle.

"This is what we need, because the only way to crack this guy is catch him in his lie and have him experience loss of power," Emily said, still staring at Montle through the two way window.

"JJ please rearrange the flight information so that we leave tonight. Before we go to California, we have to speak with Cassie to get some more insight on her relationship with Montle," Hotch said, knowing that Emily hadn't even broached the subject with her niece.

"But Cassie has major surgery tomorrow, how am I going to go to California," Emily asked.

"Your not, the rest of the team can cover the 72 hours without you. We need you here incase Montle decides to pull any stunts," Hotch said, fibbing the reason why he wasn't letting the agent go with them.

Emily knew exactly what Aaron Hotchner was doing, and although she didn't like it, she wasn't going to protest. She knew that there was no way she could abandoned Cassie after surgery, and leave her alone while the whole BAU was across the country. If Montle got word of that, she was as good as dead.

"Fine, now what are going to do with Montle till then," Emily asked, ignoring the surprised looks from the team.

"I'd love to have the honors of telling our guest about his extended stay," Morgan smiled.

Hotch nodded, causing Morgan to nearly run out of the room with excitement. The team watched silently as Morgan entered the questioning room, and began to explain to Montle the situation. As if someone had pressed a button, Montle's face began to become a bright red color.

"This is insane, what kind of ass backwards establishment are you running," he began to yell, breaking his calm appearance.

"We're not an establishment sir, we're the United States government," Morgan grinned, knowing this was just the tip of the iceberg of Montle's unraveling.

Back in the bullpen, Emily caught up on emails she had ignored throughout the last few days. One of them had been one from her mother, sending her a quick message about her latest travels to Paraguay.

Another situation that's going to have to wait, Emily thought as she deleted the email. She knew that the ambassador was going to have to find out eventually, and sooner rather than later. If her mother found out about the situation before Emil had a chance to tell her personally, it would be quite unpleasant for everyone involved

. "Ready to go," JJ asked with her car keys in hand. Emily nodded, knowing it was time for the team to head back over to the hospital to question Cassie before they left for California tonight.

"Yea, I just hope it's a good time. I don't want her to feel like it's an ambush," Emily admitted, gathering up her things. JJ nodded sympathetically, knowing why Emily had worries. It's intimidating being questioned by a team of trained FBI agents, especially being in her vulnerable state.

"She already has spent time with most of us, and she wants to be involved in helping to nail this guy. Besides if it gets to intense we'll take a break, and start again," JJ assured her.

Emily agreed and reminded herself that this was just another necessary part in the case. Heading out to the car, she texted Garcia to let her know the team was heading her way.