"So, do you know where Alex went on March ninth?" Reid asked.
"I have no clue, all I know is that he went out for some fresh air," Olivia said.
Reid wrote this down in his notepad. "Mhm, well, Alex was found in bushes behind a parking lot and his car wasn't found," Reid said.
Olivia had a puzzled face on. "Why would they dump him in a bush in the parking lot?" Olivia asked.
Reid shrugged.
"Can I see the photos you took of him?" Olivia asked.
Reid looked up from his notepad. "I don't think you want to see them," Reid precautioned her.
"Just show me," she insisted.
Reid sighed and then pulled out the photos. He laid five photos out on the coffee table. Olivia looked at them for a long while, almost as if she was analysing them one by one. Reid looked at the photos and then looked at her.
'Wonder what's going through her head,' Reid thought.
Tears came to Olivia's eyes and Reid noticed. He took the photos off the table. "I think that's enough photos for one day," he said.
She just looked at the table still as if she was in a trance. Reid waited for five minutes to say anything, "Olivia, are you okay?" He asked.
She turned her attention from the coffee table to Reid without turning her head completely, just her eyes. Reid was a bit startled by her sudden movement, but didn't react to it in a bad way.
"Umm, do you want to continue or do you want me to leave?" He asked.
"No, don't leave, please" she said actually turning towards Reid on the couch.
"Don't worry, I won't," Reid assured her with a quick smiled back.
"Do you know any of these victims?" Reid asked while pulling out photos of Ryan,Kelly,David and Zack.
Olivia took the photos from Reid and looked at each one of them carefully. "Yes, I do know them," Olivia said, "not personally, but I've seen them around," she continued.
Reid took the photos from her and looked at them himself. He held up the picture of Ryan. "Where have you seen Ryan?" He asked.
"At a bar," she replied.
"David?"
"Bar."
"Zack and Kelly?"
"At the bar as well," Reid put away the photos.
"You go to bars with your friends?" He asked.
"Not exactly, I work there," she said.
"So, how long have they've been visiting this bar exactly?" Reid asked.
Olivia thought for awhile. "For awhile, I think," she said.
Reid wrote this down. "Have you ever talked to them?"
"A couple times."
"What exactly do you do at the bar? Bartender? Owner?"
"I sing there."
Reid stopped writing and looked up at her. He smirked. "You sing? Never would have guessed," Reid said.
"You wouldn't know a lot of things if I never told you doctor," Olivia said with a smile.
"That's where you're wrong Ms. Startford, from what I can tell you were a competitive gymnast, you treasure your biological parents more than your adoptive parents and also you're originally from Las Vegas," Reid explained.
Olivia looked at him stunned. "How did you figure?" She asked.
"Well, not to sound creepy or anything, but I was looking around your living room and I noticed you have 13 years worth of gymnastic medals, I also noticed you don't have any pictures of your adoptive parents anywhere and I know you're from Vegas 'cause I'm from Vegas and I know how Vegas people are," He explained with a smirk.
Olivia eased back and looked at Reid. She then smiled. "Great work doctor, you found out the minor things," she said while getting up from the couch.
"What do you mean the minor things?" Reid asked.
"You know, the obvious," she explained.
"I care to differ, I am a doctor in-"
"Do you want something to drink?" Olivia said cutting him off.
"Umm, yeah, some water would be nice thanks," he said.
Olivia smiled at him and then walked her way to the kitchen. When she was gone, Reid stood up from the couch and observed the room even more. What could he possibly not have noticed? He leaned in closer to her medals. Gymnast, ribbon dancer and a competitive swimmer.
'Am I missing that?' He thought to himself and then leaned back up from the medals. He went over to the pictures. There was nothing there that he already hadn't seen. Before he walked away from the table where the photos were, he looked at the photo of Olivia when she was six. Long, curly, light brown hair with bright blue eyes and rosey cheeks.
'She looks exactly the same,' Reid thought to himself again until he heard someone clear their throat.
He quickly looked up and saw that it was Olivia holding a glass of water. Reid looked at her and back at the picture again. "Well, this is awkward," Reid pointed out.
Olivia walked up to him, "Don't worry, looking at a picture of me isn't awkward at all. That's why they're here right?" She said while handing him his water.
"You're right, thank you," Reid said while taking a sip of his water.
"Do you know who Zack hung out with on the weekends?" Morgan asked Zack's mom.
"I have no clue, he would never hang out with a bad crowd though," Ms. Parie said through tears.
Morgan took out the pictures of Zack, but he was hesitant to show her.
"What's that?" She asked.
"Well, they're pictures of the place Zack was found and I want you to tell me if any of these places mean any significance to Zack," Morgan said and showed Ms. Parie the photos. The photos were taken at a near gas station where Zack's body was found in a couple of bushes.
"Yes, this is where him and his dad took their last photo together," Ms. Parie said still tearing up.
"Last photo together? May I ask what happened to his dad?" Morgan asked.
Ms. Parie sniffled and wiped away a few tears. "John was driving home one night from work and a truck came out of no where and hit the drivers side of the car," she said and started to bawl.
Morgan stood up from his seat. "Thank you ma'am, I'm sorry for both your loses," Morgan said.
Ms. Parie looked up at him. "Zackary was all I had left," she said.
"What do you mean? He was an only child?" He asked. She nodded. Morgan thought for a bit, but then it clicked to him.
"All the victims are only children," Morgan said back at the police station, where he was talking to Reid.
"I thought Kelly and David had siblings," Reid said.
"Step siblings," Morgan explained.
Reid thought about if Olivia had mentioned anything about Alex having any siblings. "Olivia didn't mention Alex having siblings either," Reid said.
Reid took out his cellphone and called Hotch.
"Reid,"
"Hotch, I think Morgan and I made a connection between the victims other than the X on their chest," Reid explained.
"And what would that be Reid?" Hotch asked.
"By any chance, was Ryan an only child?" Reid asked.
"Yes, he was," Hotch said.
"There's our connection, everyone of the victims is an only child," Reid explained to Hotch.
"Didn't Kelly and David have siblings?"
"I said the same thing too, but they're step siblings, so which indicates to me that our unsub is after men that are their parents only child," Reid explained.
"Good job Reid, try to find other connections with the victims," Hotch ordered and then hung up.
Reid looked over at Morgan. "So, we know that the unsub is targeting only children, but we don't know why," Morgan said.
"Maybe to express the fact that men aren't all that powerful if they're alone," Reid explained.
Morgan seemed confused, but he understood where Reid was going with this. "So, the unsub wants to dominate men, which points to our unsub as being a woman," Morgan explained.
"Exactly, but our unsub doesn't just kill any random family with an only child, but a family that is broken up," Reid explained more.
"If you notice, the unsub kills Alex Waltserd, which is an only child, and leaves behind his widow Olivia," Reid said.
"And the unsub kills Zack Parie and leaves behind his widowed mother, taking away the only important thing to her," Morgan added.
For awhile, Reid and Morgan were thinking about connections between the victims, until Reid's phone rang.
"Hello? Oh, hey Olivia. No, I wasn't doing anything important right now," Reid said.
Morgan looked at him with a look as if to say 'are you joking me right now?'.
Reid mouthed sorry to him and continued his conversation. "Yeah, I bet they would be glad to. Alright, bye," He said and then hung up.
"What was that?" Morgan asked.
"What was what?" Reid asked back.
"Did you just make a date with your girlfriend?" Morgan asked.
Reid looked at Morgan sternly. "How many times do I have to say that she's not my girlfriend for you to believe it?" Reid asked.
"As many times as you blink," Morgan said.
Reid looked at him funny. "But, that's an infinite number of blinks," Reid said.
Morgan walked towards Reid. "Exactly," he said, scuffing up Reid's hair.
"Hey, if I was Hotch that wouldn't be a problem, he rarley blinks," Reid said jokingly.