A/N: You all know my affection for everything Hotch and Rossi. And the actors that portray them. The alley scene in S4 Omnivore is a classic between these two fine actors. That said, I'd like to believe, with JM just joining the cast, the scene I use here, using the writer's actual words, cemented that relationship a year earlier. It was the second episode in for JM. He and TG just nailed it. Kudos and credit to Oahn Ly again.

Chapter 7

"Angela Miller had been dead less than a half an hour," Hotch said. "We needed to find out more information about his partner. While the Sheriff suggested setting up road blocks in a forty mile perimeter, Dave made the most valuable one."

Dave smiled. "I suggested that we interview the militia to find out who Goerhing's partner was. Sheriff Williams told us the local militia leader was Harris Townsend that owned a bar called the Horse Post." He smiled more. "And Morgan to do it." The room buzzed more. Dave smiled more. "Hotch suggested JJ go with him." That created a minor din in the hall. Cait smiled.

"You seriously sent," Keyon, an Afro-American student said, "A black male and petite, blonde white female to question the militia?"

"To quote the good Dr. Reid," Dave cheekily smiled. "Yuppppp."

"For that exact reason," Hotch said. "They would fuel the militia leader Harris Townsend and his hatred. But that would get him talking. And their hatred was something Morgan, a trained negotiator could use. If it was Dave and I, looking totally like FBI, they wouldn't have given us the time of day. It was a great call on Dave's part," Hotch said.

Dave smiled at Hotch. "Adding JJ was brilliant."

"Especially with her armed and her weapon on her belt in casual clothes," Tara smiled with a point at Hotch. He smiled back at her.

"It worked?" Keyon asked.

"Hang on," Cait smiled. "Don't get ahead of this case Keyon."

"After learning about Angela's time of death," Emily said, "I set off to search the exterior of the property more with a couple of deputies."

"Reid and I did the same," Rossi said. "We found Goehring's barn that held a militia members handbook of weaponry; including chemicals for a bomb much like Timothy McVay's."

"And a gun safe that had been emptied of all weapons," Reid said. "I found cartridges that Sheriff Williams identified to be used in an assault rifle."

"In the meantime" Emily said, "I found a series of three rose bushes, all at different heights that told me they had been planted at different times."

"As Emily profiled: three different heights for three different victims. Their families deserved that closure," Hotch said. "We had to dig up the victims to return them to their families. While the Sheriff's department searched for a small truck. Dave and I noticed the tire pattern leaving the scene."

Keyon eyed Morgan. "And you and Agent Jareau?"

Morgan smiled. "It went exactly as Hotch and Dave suspected. Jayje got the 'little lady' line that she handled brilliantly. I got all the militia crap about the government getting my people hooked on cocaine in the 60's; crack in the 80's. It was standard militia bullshit. Townsend looked at me and said 'what has the government done for your people'." Morgan smiled. "I had the racist SOB exactly where I wanted him." Keyon arched an eyebrow at him.

"I told all of them about finding Angela Miller's dead body. And my partner and I were there to find justice for her."

"While Harris Townsend could not give us a name of Goehring's partner, he gave us a description," JJ said. "And with what Emily discovered, the last patch of roses planted still had the nursery tags on them; that just added to our profile."

"But that didn't end our profiling," Dave said. "The Sheriff's deputies cleared Goerhing's home for explosives and we were allowed to enter. Doing our search, I found unspooled tapes with the victims' names on them. Whoever Goering's partner was had done that. But it was not done to cover up a crime; it was done out of rage. Hotch immediately sent them to the Montana BCA to clean up and send to Garcia."

"Searching through the rest of Goehring's house," Tara said, "Emily, Reid and Rossi found a set of Goehring's rules on the fridge that smacked of the serfdom that Goehring read about; along with a picture of Goehring in a mountain region with an assault rifle. Hotch found the next clue; a box; a literal box, in a closet with blood in it where Goerhing kept his victims. Rossi found the rest."

"In the same room, I pulled up a bed that went into the wall. On the bottom of the bed, attached to the mattress springs were homemade sexual torture tools. We needed to see Goerhing's tapes," Dave said.

"You knew you had a second suspect," Keyon said.

"But we didn't know why," Hotch said. "Without knowing why, we couldn't nail down our second suspect. That's where the profiling comes in. And we gave our initial profile to the sheriff's department."

"First thing was that by the sexual punishment tools Rossi found, the bodies would have significant mutilation," JJ said. "That was all Goehring. The partner was five foot eight and slight in build. Yet he was groomed by a separatist and armed with assault weaponry, like Goehring he won't go quietly. He was deeply ingrained with cleanliness which would be reflected in his home. And from the hair samples collected at Goehring's cabin he had medium, short length hair that was blond. And being the submissive partner and just having lost Goehring, the second unsub was in crisis."

"What we needed to find is what his motives were," Dave added. "The tapes provided the key for Emily and Reid."

"Which were no picnic to watch in my binary lab," Garcia said. Tara rubbed her shoulder with a smile.

"Goerhing's partner zeroed in on his body, mainly his biceps, almost like he was caressing Goehring instead of filming the sexual torture that Goehring did to his victims," Reid said.

Cait looked at her class. "Now; any one?"

"His partner was in love with Goehring," Davi said. "And homosexual."

Cait smiled at him with the Rossi point. "Boom! Brownie points for you Davi."

"From there, Reid profiled the partner in his servitude would have to keep Goehring's house clean, do his bidding and plant the roses," Emily said. "That gave us our biggest lead. The partner had to buy lots of roses; and plant them."

"Reid, Emily and JJ went to all the local nurseries to find someone that bought a lot of rose plants," Tara said.

"A lead that small?" a student asked.

"We had our profile and description," Morgan said, "in a small community. Someone would recognize him."

"I found someone that recognized the description," JJ said. "He was an employee of the gardening center. We soon had the address of Henry Frost."

"When Emily, Reid and I got to Frost's home," Hotch said "we found he had destroyed all identity of himself. He even burned his face off pictures Reid found in his barbeque grill. We immediately knew that he was starting over with a new identity. The key was to find out what that new identity was."

"Less than an hour later, the Sheriff's Office received a call of woman being abducted at gunpoint at a remote convenience store in the county. The owner called it in," Morgan said.

"Arriving on the scene, the owner told the team that Frost came in, bought a beer and a bag of pumpkin seeds and went back to his truck," Tara said. "He also had a large bandage on his left cheek."

"That was their MO," Dave said. "Frost would drive Goerhing around to different places to sit in wait with Goehring drinking beer and eating pumpkin seeds. Both showed up in what the coroner could find in Goehring's autopsy. They'd sit and wait to find the right woman to abduct and drive off in separate vehicles."

"But this time, Frost had to play both roles and he got sloppy and left a witness," Hotch said.

"I showed the owner the picture I got from Frost's place of work, pointing out Frost," JJ said. "The owner said that wasn't the man. I thought it was more of the same from the locals about them cooperating with the FBI. But she asked us to come inside and look at her security video." JJ looked at the students. "Frost had dyed his hair dark like Goehring's and cut his cheek to resemble the same scar Goerhing had from his bar fight that got him kicked out of the army."

"So here's the part of the case that Dr. Barkley loves," Morgan smiled. "The two senior agents, and her guys," he said with a smile and wink at her, getting smiles from her students, "did their profile of Frost in the convenience store parking lot." Cait pointed at him with a smile. "And I have to say when the big dogs put their heads together….," he smiled.

"Do you remember it?" Aaron asked Dave with a smile.

"I'm not that old Aaron," Dave retorted. The students laughed. "OK, you're Goehring; a sadistic bastard. I'm Frost; a submissive, troubled gay man. I need you to dominate me because it gives me a direction and purpose in life."

"And life is good. Until one day I pull a pin on a grenade," Hotch said.

"You die; and I lose you. I begin to lose my identity because my sense of self is tied to you."

"You're showing classic signs of depersonalization disorder precipitated by losing a loved one."

"And now all that's left is me."

"And you hate yourself."

"I do; why?"

"Because I've brainwashed you over and over again with my rules. I've told you over and over how weak you are. How you are nothing without me."

"So I go back to my home and annihilate everything. I go back to my home and erase everything of who I am. I erase myself and become you."'

"Because it's the only way to survive; the only way you can hold onto me."

"Frost transforms himself into Goehring and abducting women because that was what Goehring would do."

Aaron looked at the students that were stunned by he and Dave's profiling conversation. "We had to stop thinking like Frost and start thinking like Goehring. Because he was still calling the shots." Cait smiled at Cruz that shook his head at his senior profilers.

"You're not going to say it," Keyon asked.

"They won't; so I will," Garcia smiled. "Boom!" The students laughed, understanding a bit more of the team dynamic.

"We went back to the Sheriff's office," Emily said, "And told them Hotch and Rossi's profile."

"And through that," Morgan said, "told the sheriff Frost had taken on Goerhing's persona. We needed a sharp shooter. Because Frost would take Goehring's last stand. A profile we call suicide by cop. Rather than taking his own life, knowing he had little time to live…."

"He would follow Goehring's advice," Tara said, "of 'never letting the bastards take you alive'. Goerhing said that repeatedly on the tapes. And he had a hostage."

"From the picture on his fridge of Goerhing with his assault rifle," JJ said, "the sheriff knew the area. Militia groups had practiced in the area until the state shut them down."

"Ideal land," Morgan said. "That's what Goerhing preached. Once we approached the area, we needed that sharp shooter." Morgan looked at the students. "Guess who it was," he smiled. They all looked at him. "Harris Townsend; a decorated Vietnam veteran that was an Army Special Forces sniper."

"Yet it was Hotch and Rossi, using their profile of Frost that saved Becky, Frost's hostage," Tara said. "Rossi went with Townsend to call the shot. Hotch worked on Frost."

"He opened the communication by calling Frost Francis Goehring," Reid said. "And then worked in Frost's background."

"Hotch's negotiation skills got Frost to move enough so Townsend could take the shot," Emily said. "We hate suicide by cop. But sometimes, that's the only answer. Frost, being Goehring in his mind, was only going down that way."

"And Becky?" a student asked.

Garcia smiled. "Now married and has two kids," she said, putting up the picture. "Like we said earlier, they tend to keep in touch with us," she brightly smiled.

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