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The team sat scattered around the room. It was getting dark they were getting tired… they were running out of time.
JJ's eyes widened. "Wow… There are a lot of artists around the place."
Lex looked up. "Artists," she murmured. "Arti- that's it. JJ, that's it." She stood up from her place beside Reid on the floor.
"What?" Hotch frowned.
"Summer and Fall here means the BIGGEST art events… there are: writers workshops, art workshops, art classes, poetry readings, art exhibitions… literary events." She turned to Garcia. "Can you pull up the tourist website?" Garcia did. "The dates of all the summer and fall events?" Lex turned and grabbed the victims files. "June 2nd… when was the nearest event?"
"June 3rd."
"July 6th?"
"A week later."
"July 25th?"
"Three days later
"August 4th?"
Garcia looked up at her. "August 11th. That's tomorrow. "
"If we look at all the crimes that took place, two of them will have occurred within a week of the next event: a theft, rape, arson attack and then on the night… a murder."
JJ looked up from the computer screen. "There's only one event tomorrow night. At the high school."
"So what do we do?" Morgan asked.
"Alert the locals," JJ said.
"We can't do that, they'll panic and we'll lose this guy," Rossi stated. "He's all over the place."
"Exactly," Emily piped in, "we don't know what he's going to do. Our priority should be to protect the locals."
"So we go to this thing tomorrow night?" Morgan asked.
"It's the only thing we can do," Hotch said as he stood up.
"And if we're wrong?" Lex asked.
Hotch didn't know how to answer the question