Churchyard and Cemetary – Dawn
Hankel is furious as he looks at Spencer on his horse. "It is sacrilege!"
"I cannot proceed without examining the previous victims." Spencer tells him matter of factly.
Hankel looks to the men with shovels. Patrick is standing there next to a hung over Rossi. Next to Rossi is Derek.
"Magistrate Rossi, surely you can stop this."
Rossi looks at Hankel with a helpless expression.
"I will not allow it. I will not!"
"Protest to my superiors if you like."
"Your superiors are two days away!"
"Then, you should have left two days ago, because I have men willing to help me today." Spencer tells Hankel annoyed. Spencer motions and Patrick leads the men to the graveyard.
Hankel sees this is becomes enraged. He kicks his horse and rides and Rossi looks worried.
Churchyard and Cemetery – Later Morning
Spencer guides the men lifting the coffin. The coffin is put near the headstone Prentiss. Spencer looks at the church and Hankel faces about fifty people who listen as he prays.
Across the cemetery there are two coffins. One smaller than the other are pried open. Van Garrett 1799. Patrick leads the effort with Derek's aid. The lid comes off and it reveals the headless bodies of a man and a little boy. Derek backs away.
Spencer pries open the Prentiss coffin and when he opens it he is aghast. He looks to Killigan and Derek angry. "Why was I not told of this?"
There was no answer and Patrick arrives and nods solemnly. "The Widow Prentiss."
"Is that all you can say? Look at her." Spencer asks outraged.
"It's not something people speak of openly. She did not remarry." Patrick tells him sadly.
Spencer kneels and examines the pregnant corpse. She was very far along in her pregnancy when she died. He notices a tear in the cloth of her blouse. He reaches through the tear and feels the stomach. He straightens and clearly disgusted by the killer.
Doctor's Residence, Medical Room – Morning
Scissors cut open the Widow's blouse. There's an inch-long wound on the moldering belly and a sword puncture. Spencer examines the corpse on a table. Aaron Hotchner watches anxiously. Derek is in a corner. Spencer goes to write in his ledger full of notes. "What is the common thread between these victims?"
"I'm sure I don't know." Derek answers him.
"We must discover it. The reason the murderer chose these people." Spencer goes to look at Emily's corpse and ponders. "The wounds are the same. Cauterized. No chopping or half-measures either. One stroke took the head. Have you seen, doctor…?" He points to it. "Even the spinal bone…sliced as smooth as butter."
"I do not care. You are welcome to use my work area, but I beg you…return her to her resting place."
"In time, doctor. Soon as I finish." Spencer picks up an iron knife and looks to Derek. "You should step outside."
Churchyard Cemetary – Early Evening
Spencer and others restore the graves. Spencer takes a look to the church, where Hankel stands in the door. "The devil sent you, Spencer Reid. The Lord will not forgive your sins." Hankel shuts the creaky doors.
Archer House, Spencer's Room – Night
Spencer is sleeping and dreaming.
Spencer's Dream – Farmland – Day
A young boy, 10, stands in a wheat field with his back to his mother. She calls him and it gets louder and louder. "Spencer! Spencer…come along."
The boy, a young Spencer, turns and smiles. He runs to a clearing behind a frontier home. Diana Reid waits. She is a lovely woman and kisses his cheek.
Spencer's Dream – Young Spencer's Bedroom – Night
Darkness. Young Spencer, in bed, has one eye open. Across the room, his mother has her back to him. She's whispering something to no one and she turns. Young Spencer pretends to be asleep.
A drawer is heard shutting and Diana leaves the room. Spencer gets out of bed and is curious. He opens the drawer…and finds something behind clothing.
It is a piece of reed grass, woven into an elaborate pattern with shafts of wheat twisted into the center. Young Spencer replaces it and closes the drawer.
Spencer's Dream – Market Square – Day
A busy, muddy street lined by wares and produce. Young Spencer walks with his father, William Reid, an emotionless man. He stops to examine the tools. Young Spencer stays by him, but something captures his attention…
Across the way, Diana is involved in an argument with an ugly woman. They shout and people stop to watch. He can't make out the words but the ugly woman is furious.
Spencer's Dream – Storm Sky – Night
Lightning flashes over tree tops and thunder booms.
Archer House, Spencer's Room – Night
Spencer jerks awake in his bed.
Spencer goes into the kitchen with a lantern and his ledger. He sits and studies the notes, then notices there's a light down the hall. In the sewing room opposite an elaborate loom, Lila reads by candlelight. She looks up and sees Spencer enter.
"Sorry for disturbing you. I thought a forgotten candle was burning."
Lila self-consciously closes her shabby book, puts it with another on her lap and covers them. "You do not disturb me. Please stay. Having trouble sleeping?"
"May I ask…why do you cover your book that way?"
"You pay great attention to small things. I hide these as I hide all my books. Father would not approve, lest it were the Bible."
"I, um…I have something to show you, if you have a moment."
Spencer sits, looking through his ledger.
"These are strange…may I?" She takes his hand, spread the fingers to the palm. She touches the many evenly spaced scars. "These scars. How did you get them?"
"I have had them since childhood. I cannot remember what from."
"It would be interesting to find out."
Their eyes meet. Spencer get back to the ledger and Katrina relishes the effect she has on him.
Spencer finds a paper disk on a string. "Here it is. A bird on one side. His cage on the other. Now, stare at it." He spins it. "The bird seems to be in his cage."
"Yes, he does. May I try?"
Spencer gives it to her and she spins it smiling.
"He only appears to be inside the cage. The point being…"
"You made this, and the drawings?" she asks interested.
"Yes, but listen. The illusion is easily explained. The eye retains each image, till they combine. And yet, some would call this toy magic."
"Don't you see why? Look closely a moment. Put your intellect aside." She spins it. "Can't you see what is inexplicable?"
Spencer watches it spin and he shakes his head, unimpressed.
"Oh, you are hopeless. May I keep it at least?"
"If you want. But…"
"Then, I also have a gift for you. True magic which even you will not be able to deny."
She hands him a book. Romeo and Juliet. Spencer stands up and offers it back, but she will not take it.
"Thank you. No. Here…"
"I insist that you have it."
Spencer resigns the argument and leaves. "Very well. But, it will only sit gathering dust."
"That would be a pity. Those words might show you something you've never seen before."
Spencer stops at the door and looks back and he exits.
Archer's House – Spencer's Room – Night
Spencer lights a candle and sits in the bed. He is still fully dressed. He get up and takes Romeo and Juliet and he beginns to read it.