Prentiss turned to Rossi. "That sounded close." After hearing the gunshot, they both rushed off. They found themselves in a large, banquet style dining room. At the head of the long table, a man in a suit was slouched over with his face lying on the tablecloth.

With their weapons drawn, they approached him. Rossi pushed him upright. "It's Harris Knight."

Prentiss looked at the bullet hole in his forehead. "Well, I guess he won't be answering any questions."

Morgan entered the room from the kitchen, behind them with his glock pointed at Rossi.

"Stand down, Morgan." Rossi put his hand up.

"What happened?" Morgan asked, seeing Knight.

"We just found him like this." Prentiss reported.

Morgan turned and pointed his glock to the wall. "Wait, I hear something."

A wooden panel on the wall slid open exposing a tunnel where Hotch and Reid appeared.

"We heard a gunshot." Hotch looked to Morgan.

Reid walked closer to the victim. "That's Knight, alright. Hey, Hotch, is this the guy you saw?"

"I can't be sure. I didn't get a good look. He was running away from me." Hotch admitted.

"You saw someone?" Rossi asked.

"Yes, it was only for a moment. It was a man in a suit, and we followed him into the tunnel we just got out of." Hotch pointed back to the secret passageway.

Reid looked around. "Where's Alex?"

"We lost her." Prentiss let out a sigh.

"Could she have done this?" Morgan already assumed she was guilty.

"What about JJ?" Rossi looked at the group.

"I feel through a trapdoor and then she didn't answer me." Morgan growled. "Alex has got to be behind this. She set this whole thing up."

"How's that?" Hotch stared at him.

"When I was trapped in the cellar Alex's voice came over a speaker."

"What did she say?" Reid asked.

"Well, she told me how to get out." Morgan didn't want to admit.

"If she wanted you trapped, then why would she help you escape?" Reid asked.

"I don't know." Morgan showed his frustration. "She betrayed her country, she betrayed you, who knows why she does anything. I'm sure she shot Knight, too!"

"No, she didn't." JJ announced as she and Alex stood in the doorway. "She was with me when the gunshot went off." She then walked in to see that Knight was dead. "Someone else killed him."

Alex slowly approached her former lover. The group saw as she tried to fight back the tears. They took a step back to let me make peace with the situation, all while keeping a watchful eye.

She reached out and gently cupped his face in her hand. She had a look of shock and sadness which suddenly turned into hatred. She clutched the lapels of his coat and snarled at him. "I hate you! I just wish I was the one who got to pull the trigger!"

Reid pulled her off of him and carried her out of the room as she fought to be free from his arms. "Put me down, Spencer!" She demanded.

"No, I won't." He said, calmly. "Not until you stop struggling." She relinquished and he placed her down on a chair.

Morgan waited until she was out of the room then turned to the group. "So, if she didn't personally shoot him, she could have ordered it."

"I don't think so." Hotch confessed. "She looked genuinely shocked to see him dead."

"Some of the guards are working for her." JJ spoke up. "One of them hand me tied up and she had him release me. He kept saying how she was in danger because he was after her and going to kill her next."

"Who?" Rossi asked. "Knight?"

"I could only assume they were talking about him." JJ said.

Hotch turned to Rossi. "Dave? You spent time with her. What do you make of all this?"

"I don't believe she came here to have him killed. But I can say that she had no love for him, at least not anymore." Rossi turned to the dead man at the table.

Reid pulled up a chair and sat across from Alex who was still agitated. "Tell me what's going on."

"I'm next." She said softly, while staring at the floor. "I can't have anyone else die because of me."

Reid could tell how guilty she felt. "What are you talking about? Alex, did you have Knight killed?"

"No." She looked in Reid's eyes. "I did not. I understand if you don't want to believe me. But I didn't do it."

Reid knew she was telling the truth. As much as he didn't want to trust her… he did. He wiped the tear from her cheek and remembered doing that before.

"Alex?" Reid called as he knocked on her door. With no answer, he let himself in. He looked around the apartment to see empty Chinese good containers, pizza boxes with only bitten off crust, and an empty pint of chocolate ice cream with the spoon still in the container.

"Alex? Where are you?" He entered her bedroom to see her sitting on the floor, leaning against the wall and clutching a pillow. Her face was swollen from crying.

She looked up to him and realized that she wouldn't be able to tell him the truth. She confronted her boyfriend that she thought was Gino Mancini and told him that she knew who he really was. She wasn't able to tell Reid about the argument that they had and why she was really crying.

"Oh, honey, what's wrong?" He sat down next to her.

"Gino and I broke up." Alex left it at that.

"What happened?" Reid asked.

"I don't want to talk about it." She then grabbed him and pulled him toward her. "Just hold me."

Reid looked at Alex as she rested her head on his shoulder. He gently moved the loose hair from in front of her face to behind her ear. He then lightly wiped the tear from her cheek.

"I hope I'm not interrupting." Charles announced as he stood in her bedroom doorway.

"Of course not." Alex sniffled.

Charles walked in holding a paper bag in his hand. "I brought fresh croissants."

Reid stood up. "I'll go make some coffee." He kissed her on the forehead, then got up and went into the kitchen.

Charles sat on the end of the bed looking down to Alex. "So, what happened? Why did it end?"

"I really don't want to get into it." She let out a sigh.

"Come on, Ali, you were head-over-heels in love with the guy." Charles tried to nudge the truth out of her.

"I had my reasons, okay?" She looked up to him with teary eyes.

"Okay." He nodded. "I won't press it any further. But remember that you can come to Spencer or me if you ever need anything."

"Thank you, Charles." She smiled back at him.

"It's okay. After all, I know how pig-headed you are." He said making Alex laugh.

"Coffee's ready." Reid said.

The two helped her off the floor. Alex wrapped her arms around both of them. "I can't imagine my life without either of you."

"That's because we are family, now." Charles grinned at her.

"And we love you." Reid added.

Alex remembered that day as if it were yesterday. She looked to Reid. "I really miss Charles."

"I do too." Reid nodded.

"He was killed because of me." Alex confessed.