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The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship. -- William Blake

"I wonder why Millicent Beck was excluded from the group…" Reid ponders, mostly to himself. "It was probably just some stupid fight they never got over." Morgan replies. "I don't think so…Millicent Beck does pottery. She was with them before they could even spell their names. You just don't drop each other so quickly." JJ adds in.

"Garcia, do you think you could find any information on Millicent that might lead to a big fight?" Reid asks into the computer, where Garcia is on webcam. "You mean like gossip?" she grins, "No I just mean something that would be really scandalous and could get all her friends mad at her." Reid corrects. Garcia looks up from her research to give him a look, "Reid, what do you think gossip is?"

***

"What do we do now?" Prentiss turns to Rossi. "That's easy. We wait." He answers. "You really think she'll come back out?" Prentiss raises an eyebrow. "She will if she wants to go to her victims." Rossi replies.

***

"Hey, would you look at this." Garcia says. "What is it?" JJ inquires, as she, Morgan, and Reid crowd around the computer.

"Well, all the girls went to church when they were younger. Very religious. Right?" Garcia checks, "Yeah, I guess so. What's that have to do with anything?" Morgan questions. "Don't get ahead of yourself, my love. I have on my screen the wedding license between Millicent Beck and Adele Leslie." Garcia finishes.

"Any divorce papers?" Reid asks, Garcia shakes her head, "None appear."

"Hotch!" JJ calls. Hotch, who had been talking to Police Chief Deluchi, comes to join his team with Deluchi following behind. "What is it?" Hotch says. "It seems as though Beck is married." Reid responds, "To another woman." Morgan adds.

***

"Really. Ok." Rossi replies to the news Hotch tells him. Then he hangs up his phone. "Millicent Beck had a wife," he tells Prentiss. "Had? Well what happened, did she die?" Prentiss questions.

"No. Adele Leslie is missing too."

***

"Millie please! I thought this was over!" Rebecca shrieks. "It was never finished. You four made my life miserable." Millie snarls, her voice coming out of seemingly no where. "W-where's Nina? You didn't…" there's a gap where the word 'kill' should be, "…did you?" Patricia fearfully whispers.

"No! But I'm just waiting…waiting…waiting…" Millie's voice fades away.

***

Outside Nina Lambert's house, there are a few undercover cops. Nina's one child, Gabriel, is at kindergarten. Nina herself is with a client, busily tailoring and sewing away at a dress. This is what she does. It's not strictly artsy like her friends chose – drawing out the clothes, cutting and sewing the fabric, selling it to people – and she wasn't anywhere near famous.

But it was a start.

"Millie," she smiles, looking up at her friend, "I'm so frightful, aren't you? With Jess and Pat and Becca all disappearing…"

"Do you ever get out much, Nina?" Millie asks. "Not these days." Nina replies with a laugh.

"Come for a drive with me. We can go out for lunch. You'll be back in time to pick up Gabriel from school." Millie convinces Nina.

"Oh…" muses Nina, "Oh alright."

***

"I've got some not so pleasant news for you." Police Chief Deluchi frowns. The team – except Rossi and Prentiss, who were still at Millicent's house five hours later – was still trying to figure out the mystery. Had Millicent's homosexuality been enough to earn the girls' hate? And had the girls' hate been enough to lead her to kidnap them, all these years later? Talk about holding a grudge!

"What is it?" Morgan asks.

"Our unsub isn't Beck. Nina Lambert was just reported missing. She hasn't come to pick up her son, isn't answering her cell phone, and cannot be found anywhere." Deluch concludes.

"I thought we had police watching the house!" Hotch exclaims. "We did. And we have a license plate." Deluchi replies. "Well then who is it?" JJ inquires.

Deluchi frowns, "That car was reported stolen eight months ago."