INT. ROSSI/HOTCH'S ROOM - EVENING
We see a very stark dorm room with a set of bunk beds, two small bureaus, and two lamps, and a door at the back of the 8x8.
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ROSSI
I've seen prison cells that were bigger than this.
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HOTCHNER
Good thing we're not here on a permanent basis.
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REID/MORGAN'S ROOM
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MORGAN throws REID'S bag on the top bunk.
REID
I don't want to the top, I'll fall out.
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MORGAN
Chicken.
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REID
Why do I get the feeling you'll be kicking my bunk whenever you feel like it?
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PRENTISS/JAREAU'S ROOM
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PRENTISS
I'll take care of the chair. You check out the bathroom.
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Places chair beneath door handle. JAREAU opens door to bathroom.
JAREAU
I can't believe we have to share with the guys.
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PRENTISS
Four men and only the two of us.
We're going to have to set some ground rules fa--
PRENTISS moves toward the bathroom.
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INT. THE BATHROOM - EVENING
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PRENTISS
Yuck. Oh, how completely gross.
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We see HOTCHNER and ROSSI peering out their opened door. REID and MORGAN are at their own door. One lone toilet and a five-foot tall shower with green curtain are all that occupies the room.
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PRENTISS
JJ--please tell me we brought disinfectant. Oh, how sick.
PRENTISS walks into bathroom, and is very careful not to touch anything.
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JAREAU
I'm sure we can requisition some--if Hammon sees it as essential.
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PRENTISS
I am so not going to survive this.
(Glares at first one set of men and then the other)
If any of you so much as makes one little mess in here, I'll kill you myself
and leave your bodies in the woods. Understand?
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MORGAN
Yes, ma'am.
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HOTCHNER
Lets not dwell on our accommodations.
Meeting in ten minutes—in Prentiss and JJ's room.
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INT. PRENTISS/JAREAU ROOM – EVENING
We see MORGAN, and PRENTISS sitting on the top bunk, feet dangling. REID is swatting at the feet hanging by his head, where he sits on JAREAU'S bed. HOTCHNER and ROSSI occupy the two chairs. JAREAU stands near the one lone desk.
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ROSSI
What do we know? We've got an obsessively
neat, intelligent, and organized unsub.
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PRENTISS
And if it is a game, the white player is winning.
Though he's certainly loosing pieces as well.
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REID
How does he choose the pieces? Does he know the white pieces?
His side? Or does he have a side?
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MORGAN
What do you mean, kid?
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REID
Why these people? Are they opportunity victims or does he
hunt and stalk these people?
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We see the team pouring over files and photos.
HOTCHNER
That's a good question. JJ and Dave, why don't you tackle that.
Morgan and I will head up the mountain with Hammon and Winslow's
men. Prentiss and Reid—you know your assignments.
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PRENTISS
Reid—you want to play a game?
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Motions to the small travel board she'd laid on the table. It was tiny.
REID
Depends, how badly are you going to beat me?
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PRENTISS
I don't know. But we are going to try and figure out why the
victims were found in the positions they were.
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HOTCHNER
You think that's significant?
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PRENTISS
You don't play any game, sir, with the pieces scattered clear
across the room. It's significant, I just don't know how.
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HOTCHNER
In the meantime, everyone else should have an early night. Because
base wakeup call is at 0400.
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JAREAU
A.M.? Good thing I never joined the military.
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INT. CONFERENCE ROOM SIXTH FLOOR – FIVE A.M.
We see the team gathered around the conference table. It is a very plain room. HOTCHNER and MORGAN are standing, dressed in outdoor clothing. REID and PRENTISS are seen arranging a chess board. JAREAU has been given the task of drawing a chess board on the large whiteboard. ROSSI is speaking with HAMMON and WINSLOW in the corner.
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PRENTISS
The first victim, Sam Mae, 37 years old. Black pawn symbol.
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REID
Second and third victims—Drs. William Peterson and Ramona
Sanchez-Peterson. Black and white pawns respectively.
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As they speak, JAREAU writes down their name and piece denomination.
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PRENTISS
We're in the beginning stage of this game, guys.
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JAREAU
Why?
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PRENTISS
Because they are the lowest pieces on the board. He
may not know these people at all.
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HOTCHNER moves closer, as do WINSLOW and HAMMON. Both local men move to stand just behind PRENTISS.
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HOTCHNER
Go on. What makes you think that?
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PRENTISS
The varied nature and profiles of the victims. Yes, the majority were locals,
but most had a logical reason for being so deep in the woods. But according to witness
statements, only about a third planned on being in the woods that day.
Yet how many days apart were they found—excluding the Petersons?
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WINSLOW
Approximately six days for each body.
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PRENTISS
And time of deaths were all approximately on Saturday evenings,
early Sunday mornings, correct?
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WINSLOW
That's right.
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HOTCHNER
That says he's regimented, which we already suspected.
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MORGAN
But how would he know that he'd have these people within range on
Saturday or Sunday—if they didn't even know they'd be there?
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PRENTISS
He couldn't. So he'd probably be searching the woods for
appropriate victims. Or any victim, really. So chances are,
these aren't special victims, just people he doesn't mind sacrificing
for his game.
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ROSSI
Insignificant sacrifices.
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HOTCHNER
Pawns.
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PRENTISS
Pawns. But he's working up to something. And why these people
as black, and these people as white?
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REID
Something about them, something they've done in front of him?
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MORGAN
Random chance? Or simply the next piece on whatever
chessboard he's playing on?
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PRENTISS
We really need to know what board he's playing on.
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REID
Before he makes his next move.