"Explain to me again what's going on here, cher?" Will asked as he leaned against the doorway of the home office that Penelope had commandeered as their own earlier that week. She gave him a small smile before shoving a small stack of photographs into his hands, beckoning him a little further into their new sanctuary. "I know that Jen said this was something the two of you were working on during your off time, but this seems a little more involved than a simple cold case."

"That's because it's not a simple cold case, Will. But I'm not certain that you knowing what's going on will make any difference."

Penelope gave JJ a quick wink before reaching out and tugging her best friend into the room with her. "So, what do you think about what I've done here? I think that I've managed to get everything arranged for ease of information gathering, and since the world map was delivered yesterday, I used my lunch hour to print out all the scenes, so that we can try and start a geographical profile." Turning to look at Will, she saw that he was still looking at them in confusion. "I think that we can let him in, Jayje. I mean, this is his house, too, and I am going to be spending a lot of time here, sometimes without you."

"Are you certain? Remember, Emily didn't believe us."

"Yeah, but you have one thing going for you that we didn't have with Em. You're sleeping with Will."

JJ laughed deeply, even as Will blushed a little, looking away from them. "Well, I suppose that you do have a point there. All right, Will, as we tack these pictures up on the wall, we'll tell you a little about what's going on here." He nodded as they all went over to the long, blank, wall that Penelope had cleared earlier in the week in order to have a set up exactly like this. "But you'll have to do the heavy lifting, Penny, since you were the one who first noticed the correlation."

"I can do that, Jayje." Taking the first picture off the stack in Will's hands, she pressed some fun tack on the back so that it would stick to the wall without damaging it too badly. As JJ began to run a length of string from the labelled picture to where the body was found, Penelope let out a deep breath. "I don't really know how this caught my attention, I just came across them when I was looking for unsolved murders. I don't think that I would have paid it any mind, really, if I wasn't trying to take my mind off everything that happened with Reid and Jayje being held hostage a few months ago. In these twelve cases…"

"Twelve? You've found four more this week?"

She glanced over at JJ, giving her a small nod. "I was talking with Prophet, and he mentioned that their team had seen a case like that and had never found the unsub, and when I went trawling through their backlog of cases, I not only found that case, but three others from the other two teams working for the BAU. Again, twelve is such a small pool, but the fact that I've found four more in such short order lends credence to my belief that something hinky is going on. I just wish that Emily had actually believed us and that we could have some additional support, but that's just going to push me harder to seek out these cases and tie them all together, so that we can present a logical case to her and get her to bring the rest of the team on board."

"Wait, Emily knows about this, but doesn't want you to follow up?" Will asked, sounding incredulous.

"I know, I know. She mentioned something about our team being under such scrutiny lately, especially since we have so many members currently, and Dave isn't showing any signs of retiring this side of the century. So I get the fact that she might want to walk the straight and narrow for a little while, but would it really have hurt her to at least let us talk to Clyde Easter and get access to Interpol's records?" Penelope let out a huff of frustration as she placed the next photo on the wall, pressing with a little more force than before, since she found herself becoming more irritated at the no that they had received from Emily. She hadn't even truly listened to Penelope, just dismissed their idea as crackpot.

"Well, you guys did work with him when you were tracking down that Doyle character. Did you get along with him, cher?"

"Yeah, and we worked really well together when I was in London with Derek."

"What's to stop you from just contacting him on your own, then?"

She paused before looking over at JJ, feeling her mouth drop open a little as she continued to stare at her best friend. "Why didn't we think of that?" JJ asked as she attached the next string to the picture Penelope had attached to the wall.

"Because we allowed our frustration to cloud our judgement. Damn, I feel dumb now. Thank you, Will."

"That's what I'm good at. They didn't make me a detective for my pretty face, after all." Penelope giggled as she nodded, feeling a little of her frustration leave her body as they continued to get everything up on the map. Now that she could see how everything was laid out, she could see that there really wasn't a geographical correlation to be had there. "Can I make a suggestion?"

"Of course!"

He rested his hand on Penelope's shoulder as he looked the map over. "I would probably redo all the strings, since we can all clearly see that there's no rhyme or reason to where these deaths occur. Instead, I would get different colored strings, one for each year, and see what pattern starts to emerge after doing that."

"Ooh, that is a good idea! Thank you!" Turning to Will, she pecked his cheek lightly before giving him a tight hug. "I am so glad that Jayje married you. Who knows where we'd be with this without your input?"

"Well, I'm certain you would have come up with the idea before too long, you both are incredibly smart women. But I do have another question. Since this is going to be taking place in our house, I think that I should at least have a hand in helping you with this. So, would you like to have another pair of eyes taking a look at this data?"

Penelope released a long breath as she watched JJ. She knew that she would be fine with Will helping them out, since he was a detective, but she didn't want to answer before JJ had given her answer. "I suppose that would be fine, Will. After all, you're home more than I am, so you can help Penelope and me with this. And it will be good to have someone removed from the BAU looking over our data, to ensure that we're not just tilting at windmills."

"Yeah, I think that it would be great to have you on our team, Will. We can be like the three musketeers!" JJ laughed as she nodded, and suddenly Penelope didn't feel quite so alone in this endeavor. Between the three of them, they would figure out everything that was going on here, and hopefully bring the unsub to justice soon, so that there would be no further weird deaths.