Early the next day, on the plane everyone sat in their usual spots and waited for take off. The only thing out of place was, Gideon.
Gideon sat on the far end of the plane while everyone was near the front discussing what to do.
"Reid and Morgan, I want you two to go to the crime scene. Rossi and Prentiss, M.E. JJ and I will go to the police station," Hotch said looking at his team.
"What are we going to do about Gideon," Reid asked. "He's not even an agent anymore."
"Maybe not, but he still has the skills of a profiler," Hotch said. "Have him go to the crime scene with you."
"Is he even mentally stable," Morgan asked. "For all we know he sending us a wild goose chase."
"I don't know," Hotch replied, shaking his head. "But I think we'll find out soon enough."
"Do you think he can handle going back to Golconda," Prentiss asked.
"I hope he can," Hotch stated.
Halfway into the flight, Gideon stood up and walked over the couch and sat down next to Reid, who was reading a book on the history of classical music.
"What do you want," Reid asked, not taking his eyes off the book.
"Just to see how you're doing," Gideon replied
"I'm doing just fine," Reid stated, still reading his book.
"You don't seem ok," Gideon pointed out, looking at Reid's knee brace and then the crutches laying on the floor in front of them.
"I'm fine," Reid said, starting to get annoyed.
Gideon just sighed, then stood up and walked over to where JJ was and sat down across from her.
When JJ saw Gideon sit down across from her, she placed the file she was reading on her lap and asked, "You're wondering why Spence isn't talking to you, right?"
"It's because I left, isn't," Gideon asked.
"Part of it," JJ replied. "This has just been a really tough year for him. It has been for the rest of us"
There was no way she was going to tell Gideon everything that's happened to the team in the past year.
"Rough how," Gideon asked.
"I'm not going to tell you," JJ stated, annoyed that the man had the nerve to ask such a thing.
"It seems like everyone has a passive-agressive attitude, today," Gideon said, looking around the plane.
"Well you show up at the BAU and place us on another case. I think it's just we're all in shock that you're here," JJ stated. "Plus we're used to not having you around."
"What can I do," Gideon asked.
"Why do anything," JJ asked. "You're just going to leave and forget us again."
JJ picked up the file and began reading it again, making it clear she didn't want to talk anymore.
Gideon just got up and went to the back of the plane, sitting where he was to begin with.
Two hours later, the plane landed and everyone got off. Once every had their go-bags, they got into three separate SUV's, and headed to where they needed to go to.
At Jane's house, Reid, Morgan and Gideon stood in the living room, discussing what might have happened.
"Best guess is that they got into a fight, and Frank was unable to control himself like last time, then ended up killing her," Morgan said, looking at the mess in the room.
"No," Gideon said. "He most likely killed her, because she did or said something that he disagreed with."
Gideon then walked down the hallway.
Morgan looked at Reid and said, "Isn't that just like having a fight?"
"Yes," Reid replied. "Gideon's mind probably isn't stable enough to realize what he just said."
"That can't be good," Morgan stated.
"Far from it," Reid agreed.
"How are we supposed to work with someone mentally unstable," Morgan asked.
"I have no idea," Reid replied.
"That's real helpful advise," Morgan muttered.
Gideon then walked back into the living room and said, "You need to see this."
At the M.E's, Rossi and Prentiss saw the remains of Jane, a woman so broken, she fell in love with a serial killer.
The M.E, then walked in and said, "I always thought she would die peacefully."
"You knew her," Rossi asked.
"Not directly, but everyone who lives here knows who she is even if she doesn't know them. We all know her story," the M.E explained. "It's a damn shame she went the way she did. The man who drove her to think she was abducted by aliens, came back and killed her."
"What was her cause of death," Prentiss asked.
"Massive blood loss," the M.E replied. "She died in a lot of pain."
"Was there any ketamine in her system," Prentiss asked.
"No, there wasn't," the M.E stated. "Why?"
Prentiss looked at Rossi and said, "He used ketamine with all of his victims. Why not her?"
"Maybe he didn't mean to kill her. It just happened so quickly he didn't realize what he did until it was to late," Rossi suggested.
JJ and Hotch walked into the police station. The same one they had so long ago when they first started their hunt for Frank.
A police officer walked over and asked, "BAU?"
"Yes. I'm Agent Jennifer Jareau. This Special Agent Aaron Hotchner," JJ said making introductions.
Just then a woman walked in from the back of the station and said, "I wish we were meeting again on different circumstances."
"Sheriff Davis," JJ said nodding at the woman.
"Call me George," George stated realizing that JJ wasn't with the team during the original case. "Is it true that Jane's dead?"
"You didn't know," Hotch asked, looking at George.
"I never heard anything about it until Agent Gideon called me last night. I can't bring myself to go to her house," George explained. "So is it true?"
"Yes it is," JJ replied, sympathetically
George sighed and said, "I hope you're wrong about who killed her."
"Why," JJ asked.
"I just don't want fear spreading through this town all over again," George explained.
"We're going to do our best to keep that from happening," JJ stated.
