Hotch looked at Alex. "We will have to see what we can do about that." He got up from his chair.
Reid quickly left and made his way back to the group in the conference room.
"Anything new?" Morgan asked.
"I'm not sure if they were able to get anything from her." Reid answered without making eye contact and picked up a file to read through it.
Prentiss entered the room a few minutes behind Reid. "We might have something. She says that she will talk but only to her old partner, whoever that is. Hotch went to go talk to Parker."
Hotch joined the team with Parker close behind. "We need for you to bring in her partner. That is the only way she is going to talk to us. She knows more than she is letting on."
"But what if this is part of some game?" Parker asked. "What if it is some kind of stall tactic?"
"What about the possibility that the partner was in on this whole thing, too?" Morgan pointed out. "She was able to fool you for who knows how long, how can you be sure that the partner didn't either?"
Reid took Morgan's words personally. He wasn't able to see that she was keeping something from him. He wondered if she was playing a game, and would he be able to see it. A lot has changed in six years. He might not know her as well as he used to.
Parker nodded. "I will reach out to him again, let him know the situation. He might change his mind." He then shot a subtle glance to Reid. Parker pulled out his phone and left the room.
Reid stood up. "I am going to get some coffee, I'll be back." Reid made his way to the the break room and poured himself a cup, he was soon joined by Parker.
"It's up to you, Son. You just give me direction." Parker held the carafe in his hand.
"Morgan is right, this could all be some game. I am not going to put myself out there to just have her toy with me." Reid stirred in four tablespoons of sugar.
"Okay, we are leaving it like it is for right now." Parker took his coffee cup and headed outside to make his phone call.
Reid returned to the group. "What if we are unable to get her partner? What is the plan?"
"We continue digging." Hotch stated.
Morgan pulled out his ringing phone. "Tell me what you got, Baby Girl."
"I have tried to pull every string out there and came up with zilch, nadda, nothing. There is no mention of her partner's name on anything that isn't redacted. I even tried some backdoor things that technically I am not supposed to do and you aren't supposed to know about, and I couldn't get to it there, either. There is someone working really hard to keep this person a ghost. Pun intended."
Reid's leg continued to twitch as he heard Garcia's words coming from the phone. He felt that at any second the hammer was going to drop.
Rossi leaned over to him and whispered. "You might want to cut back on the coffee. It is making you look antsy."
Reid nodded and put the cup down on the table. He picked back up a file as a means to distract himself.
"Thanks, Garcia. Keep digging." Hotch urged.
"To the ends of the earth, Mon Capitaine." Garcia hung up.
JJ entered the conference room with a concerned look on her face.
"What is it?" Hotch asked.
"Metro police in New York found another victim of Knight's." She reported. "His name was Charles Sullivan. He was only 28."
Reid did everything he could to not react after hearing that his friend was killed. They were recruited together and worked on the same team for years, and now he's gone.
Morgan pulled out some of the files that he looked through before. "Wait, he was on the same team as Alex. I found a section where his name wasn't blackened out."
"It looks like he is changing his targets. First he went after people who were in business with him would could have betrayed him. Now, it appears that he is now going after those who helped capture him." Hotch observed.
"That means anyone who was on this team with Alex could be a potential target, including her." Prentiss pointed out.
Hotch dialed Garcia.
"I'm sorry, Sir. I don't have anything yet." She regrettably admitted.
"I need you to look up everything you can on a Charles Sullivan. He was just found killed in New York. He was CIA and was on Alex's team. Check into his financials, see if he could have been in league with Knight, as well. And now that we know about this, we need to find this partner urgently. His life could now be in danger." Hotch hung up.
Parker returned to the team. "I wasn't able to get ahold of her partner, but I did leave a message for him to call me, and that it was urgent."
Hotch stared at Parker. "Why didn't you tell us about Charles Sullivan being killed when you found out? Why did we have to hear about it through other channels?"
"We were waiting to see if his death was related to Knight or not. Our latest Intel had reports of him being in New York. We are certain of it now." Parker reported.
Reid became flustered. "And you didn't think that having that information was important enough for us to know about it? But instead you just talk to us like nothing has happened? After you came and asked us for help?" He said with anger.
"Reid." Hotch scolded.
Parker put up his hand. "No, he is right." He looked directly at Reid, knowing that he was hurt about hearing his friend had been murdered. "I should have told you." He then looked around to the others. "I am sorry. I am going to see what other information I can get for you." He excused himself from the room.
"Go ahead, Garcia." Hotch answered his phone.
"I don't have everything you need, yet, but I did find something interesting. Harris Knight was listed as a co-owner on several accounts and two properties all listed in the same person's name."
"And who is that?" Hotch asked.
"Gino Mancini. But here's the kicker. Mancini doesn't excist. There's no birth certificate, no social security number, zero."
Reid heard Gino Mancini's name before. He thought through every conversation he had ever had with Alex and started to put the pieces together.
"Thank you, Garcia." Hotch ended the call.
A guard knocked on the door and entered. "Agent Hotchner, I wanted to let you know that we're are transferring the prisoner back to her cell until you are ready to interview her again."
"Thank you." Hotch replied.
"Could Mancini be a cover for someone? Maybe the partner?" Prentiss asked.
Reid stood up. "Wait a minute." Then charged out of the room toward the interrogation rooms.
"Reid, what are you doing?" Hotch started after him with the team following behind.
Reid turned the corner and came face to face with his old friend. He asked her two guards to wait a second. He then looked her in the eyes. "You said you would only speak to your partner. Well, here I am."