Questions

On the plane Reid was sat at the table with Morgan and Prentiss, JJ had sat off by herself and Rossi and Hotch sat near each other. Amy slumped in next to Reid. Straight away she opened the file and started to read.

"Think it will wait until we take off, the flights long enough, you've plenty of time." Reid teased her.

"You think?" she snapped back.

Morgan and Prentiss both raised an eyebrow at Reid but said nothing.

Spencer leaned in closer to Amy; "You OK?" he asked.

Slowly she looked up. "Got a killer headache, I'll be fine once it clears."

He knew she was lying but wasn't going to push, not with others listening. Reid looked towards the window as they started to take off. He wondered what Hotch and Rossi had wanted with her earlier; it was obviously what had put her in such a foul mood, as she was fine before they went into the conference room. Her and Garcia had been teasing Morgan about something or other, he hadn't quiet understood what they were on about, but didn't like to ask either. Amy had fitted in quickly, but he knew the team had only seen 'the Amy' she wanted them to. He knew she was so different to her public persona; Amy was always so controlled, her barriers were always up and she was always on the defensive. Yet she presented as if she was relaxed and became part of the team even though she'd only been with them just over a month. Initially Reid hadn't been sure how he'd feel about having Amy round all the time after all these years, but he was really enjoying it. He looked at Amy studying the files and got his files out and started flicking through. Numerous questions he wanted to ask her but even he knew this wasn't the time or place.

When Hotch saw Amy come to the end of the last file he got everyone together, he contacted Gracia and got her up on screen "So thoughts?"

"The victimology is very distinct" Amy got in quickly, she wanted to prove she was back in game and was hoping that she wasn't treading on too many toes as she really hadn't heard a word at the briefing. "All three women are in their mid 40s, all very high maintainence, same income bracket, though all are now living the life of leisure. What else have you got on their background Garcia?" Hopefully that was enough to take the heat off her for a while.

"Well my fellow sex kitten that is a good question as this is where it gets interesting. All three victim worked at the same, shall we say 'Gentleman's Club'" the whole team smiled at her uncharacteristic attempt at being prim and proper. "Due to their previous employment they all have records for prositution, living off immoral earnings and various similar misdermeanors. Though our ladies were top class, we are talking millionaires playground here, no back alley dive, hense the nice retirement funds they all have. Lastly the club wasn't static each time the police shut it down it moved to another city and started all over again, new name but same girls and same boss. There were 10 regular girls looking at the records, I'm sending the details of the other 7 through. Note; one of them died a couple of months back, drug overdose by the look of things."

"Don't suppose there is a membership list?" Amy asked

"Now, now, we don't like to make things too easy for you, but I am tracing all employment records, bar staff, door man, cleaners you name it. Anything else bossman?"

"No, good start Gracia, keep us informed" Hotch answered "So . . ."

"The club has got to be a major link. Past employees have got to be a starting point. Some sort of grudge?" Prentiss

"One hell of a grudge, the last time any of these woman worked was over 15 years ago. That's a long time to wait." Morgan added

"I agree, I think it's deeper than that." Hotch agreed "Their past plays a part in this but I'm not sure what yet. The level of torture prior to death. That's more than a grudge."

The team carried on bouncing ideas off each other, going round in circles but starting to pull some elementary threads of a profile together.

"Right well I suggest we rest for the remainder of the flight. We all know once we land we hit the ground running, so sleep while you can. When we arrive Rossi and Garton you two take the first scene, Morgan and Reid the second, Prentiss and I will go the most recent. JJ keep a lid on the press, play it down, then we'll work on individually warning the rest of the women." Hotch needed to think, as always the team had had great ideas but something didn't sit right, not yet anyway.