Rossi and Gideon sat at a table in a small room.

"What is this, Dave," Gideon asked.

"I just want to ask you a couple of question about Frank and Jane," Rossi replied.

"Go ahead. I'm all ears," Gideon said as he leaned back in the chair he was sitting, with a relaxed look on his face.

"Did Frank really love Jane," Rossi asked.

"No, he saw her as his mother," Gideon replied.

"Did he kill her," Rossi asked.

"Yes," Gideon said.

"But there was no ketamine in her system," Rossi stated. "Can you explain that?"

"Maybe he wanted her to fight back," Gideon said breezily. "Can I ask, why you're asking me what happened?"

"No," Rossi said. "Is it possible that someone else could have killed her?"

"If they knew enough about what Frank does to his victims, then it's possible," Gideon explained.

"Yesterday, in the Conference Room, you said, 'He's not,' when Prentiss suggested that Frank might be on the run again. How did you know that he would still be here," Rossi asked.

"If Frank killed Jane, he would have stayed to see what we could find out. Turns out that wasn't the case. Someone probably could have killed them both," Gideon suggested.

"Why wasn't his head dismembered," Rossi asked.

"Even a serial killer deserves to have some dignity even if he did kill hundreds of people including my college friend," Gideon replied.

Rossi then stood up, leaving Gideon in the room, alone.


Rossi walked over to the team and said, "He practically just confessed and he doesn't even know it. Did Garcia find anything?"

As if on cue, Reid's phone rang.

"We're about to find out," Reid said, pressing the speaker button on his phone. "You're on speaker, Garcia. What do you have?"

"Okay heroes," Garcia started. "The first couple of years, Gideon's basically traveling from state to state, but then seven months ago, Gideon settled down in Golconda and bought a trailer house. After that he started buying a lot of tools. Such as, saws, hammers, bolt cutters, etc. Anyways after all that, the GPS in his car shows that the only driving he did was, to Jane's house and back to his trailer for the past five months. And last month there was suspicious murder that happened a block from his trailer. The victim's right arm and left leg were cut off. They still haven't found the body parts. Gideon was actually questioned about it, because one of his saws was used in the murder. Eventually they cleared his name when they didn't have enough evidence to convict him or anyone else."

"What was the victim's name," Hotch asked.

"Nathan Harris," Garcia replied.

"The same Nathan Harris that we questioned in 2006," Reid asked.

"Same one," Garcia stated. "Weird, huh?"

"Very," Reid agreed. "How long ago was Harris released?"

"He never was," Garcia replied. "He escaped two months earlier, and made it all the way to Golconda before getting murdered."

"Send us everything you can on that case, Garcia," Hotch ordered.

"I'm already faxing it to you," Garcia said.

"Thanks," Reid said, before hanging up his phone.


Hotch pulled the information of the case out of the faxing machine and walked back over to the team saying, "Nathan Harris was able to make it all the way here until he ran into the one man here who knows what he looks like. Gideon probably took the law into his own hands and killed him."

"Why," Rossi asked.

"That's something only Gideon could answer," Reid pointed out.

"Why don't you ask him then," Hotch suggested.

"Me," Reid asked surprised.

"Yes," Hotch said, with a straight face.

All Reid could do was nod. Sure he had been asked to interrogate suspects before, but this was his mentor, he was being asked to interrogate. He didn't even think he was any type of position to do it, but he couldn't say, 'Sorry, I don't want to. Let's try looking through the case file to try to find the answer'?