A/N: Do not own Criminal Minds (some days I barely own my own mind)

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"David Rafferty," Hotch said, "What would he be doing at the nursing home?"

"Maybe we need to bring this guy in for questioning," Morgan opined.

"My sentiments exactly," Emily threw in.

Morris said he would have Rafferty picked up and left to put the order out.

Reid looked at the video again, "Rafferty's mother was one of the bodies exhumed and she had her eyes removed which he said was unbeknownst to him, right?"

"Yes Reid, that's what he said." Hotch replied.

"Well, if he's involved in this, he would have known that her eyes were missing, so why would he not just say that they had been donated. Why say he hadn't been asked and then have the eyes missing. That makes no sense." Reid got up and started pacing back and forth in the room, an activity the BAU team was used to seeing when the young genius was onto an idea, but at that moment, couldn't quite catch. They knew he would snare it eventually, they just had to wait.

Morris came back to inform the group that Rafferty was on his way in with John Hamil for questioning.

David Rafferty was not impressed! Having a deputy show up on his doorstep and haul him down for questioning when he had been nothing but cooperative from the beginning was a little disconcerting to say the least. He was placed in an interrogation room, nothing like what was available at Quantico or most major centers they visited. There was no two way mirror for others to watch the progress of the interrogation. An intercom had been set up in the room so the others could hear the questioning but they would miss a crucial part of the process, body language. Only those in the room would get the benefit of that. Hotch was still leaving it up to Reid to decide who did the questioning. He realized that Reid had been a part of this from the beginning and it was, for all intents and purposes, his case. Although Reid was not a very experienced interrogator, he was an expert in body language; he was also the SAC and as such would be expected, if not to conduct, at least to participate in, the interrogation.

Reid now had to decide who he needed in there with him. Was it the wisdom and experience of Hotch or Gideon, the forcefulness of Morgan, or the calm compartmentalization of Emily? He looked around the room and decided on Hotch. Gideon was glad. He felt Reid had made the right choice. Although he was Reid's mentor and felt a fatherly fondness towards him, and they had been very close since Reid came to the BAU, and would continue to be, a time came for strings to be cut and Gideon felt that time had come and Reid had proved to him through his choice that he was right.

Hotch and Reid entered the room to face off with an irate David Rafferty, sitting defiantly with his arms crossed. Hotch began, "Mr. Rafferty, upon reviewing some security tapes from the Bluegrass Valley Nursing Home, you appear prominently on one of them. Why would that be, Mr. Rafferty, your mother died there a year ago so why would we see you on the video?"

Rafferty laughed, "You guys dragged me down here for that. Why didn't you just ask me at the house, I would have told you? I have nothing to hide. I'm at the nursing home all the time. I'm a pharmaceutical sales rep, remember. That means I go around to doctors, hospitals and yes nursing homes and try to get them to buy my company's products. The administrator, the pharmacists and most of the nurses and I are on a first name basis. Trust me; I know them all from business and from when my mother was there. I even stop to see some of the residents I got to know while visiting my mom. What was I wearing on this video?"

"A business suit," Reid supplied.

"Because I was there on business."

Hotch looked at Reid and then said, "That will be all for now, Mr. Rafferty, we'll be in touch if we need to speak with you again."

After David Rafferty had left, the group got together and Hotch said, "His explanation seems to make perfect sense."

"Too perfect if you ask me," Reid replied. "His body language was deceptive. He was challenging, arms crossed, asking us to trust him. It was partly the truth but not the whole truth."

"What do you think he's lying about Spence," JJ queried?

"I can't put my finger on it. Everything he said is plausible and probably true but there's more. There's something he's not saying." He was pacing again. "Garcia, can you find out how Rafferty benefited from his mother's death."

"I'll do my best Reid."

"What are you thinking, my man," Morgan interjected?

"Okay, bear with me because this may sound way out there. Rafferty didn't seem to know about the eyes so I think someone else is inv…"

"Reid, I just checked with the bank and the title office, David got title to his mother's house which is worth about $300,000. Mother, it appears was not hard up for cash and David's bank account took a hefty jump after her death. He's made some good investments since then and the money is growing."

"Thanks Garcia, as I was saying, I think someone else is involved with the eye thing. Now if you want to murder someone and not have anyone notice, what do you do? You make it look like natural causes or an accident or you hide it in some other way."

"What do you mean Reid," Hotch was interested.

"Okay, bear with me again guys; say you want to hide a needle, where do you hide it? With a bunch of other needles. So if you want to hide a murder, you hide it amidst a bunch of other murders. Say, the real goal was to get rid of Cynthia Rafferty, so they make the death look like a heart attack but if it's ever found out well it becomes a part of this other big scheme and the real motive is still not revealed. The motive was never the eyes; the motive was to hide the death of Cynthia Rafferty who was killed for the inheritance. As far as getting the potassium chloride, you heard the guy, he works for a pharmaceutical company, and he could probably get as much KCl as he needed."

Jake raised an eyebrow, "KCl."

"Chemical symbol for potassium chloride, sorry it's the scientist in me. If the number one motive is the demise of Cynthia Rafferty, then the secondary motive is one of two things; the sale of transplantable eyes for profit or a chance to cause problems for Lifelink Enterprises or a combination of both. When Edna Hammond started snooping into Thelma Fletcher's death, she had to be neutralized because the goal had not been achieved yet as Cynthia Rafferty wasn't dead. They couldn't risk the plot being hatched before the intended victim had been taken care of." He looked at the group to see if they thought that he had completely lost his mind.

They were all looking at him like the light bulb had suddenly gone on and they could see everything clearly. "Reid, you're a genius," Garcia yelled.

"So they tell me Garcia, so they tell me."

"Now Rafferty can't be administering the KCl. It would become obvious that he was around every time one of these people died. It has to be someone on the inside who would be unnoticed. The removal of the eyes can occur up to twelve hours after the death, as long as eye drops are instilled as soon as possible after death. If they were removing eyes at the home someone would notice. There can't be that many people involved, so I don't think the eyes were harvested at the home. I think the eyes were harvested at the funeral home. Has anyone ever talked to Gus, the undertaker? Of course not, because everyone is concerned with what happens before and at the time of death and we were all assuming that the eyes were being taken at the home. No one thought about what happened after the bodies left the home and came into the hands of the mortician. I think we need to talk to Rafferty again and the mortician. Maybe if they know we're onto the other, one of them will roll on the accomplice on the inside."

Hotch looked at Garcia and said, "Garcia, I think you're right."

Garcia looked confused, "Right about what?"

"Reid's a genius."