Rossi was walking through the Parker jail, searching for the holding cell where James was being kept. With him he had a file in his hand, the full file on James life, along with some food in his hand. Emily had already told him and the team about the Cullen Family in the woods after the medics checked her for injuries, it was initially hard to take in until Garcia did cross-reference with the name Cullen and found multiple murders in which the victims had all been murdered in a similar fashion, they also did a blood test with Cullen and Greaves blood, finding that James and Caleb were bloodily related as cousins.
After it was confirmed Hotchner asked that Rossi be the one to question him and to do a psychological evaluation of him. He eventually found James in the last holding cell with his head leaning down as he was in a light sleep, coming in and out as he did it; after the doctors finished patching up his wound properly they gave him some pain medication that had made him very sleepy. Rossi taps on the bars of the cell, causing James to wake up shocked, causing him to jump back against the wall.
James looked to see who it was, half believing it was Stabler as he says "Stabler you Sumbitch. I was wondering-"but then he stopped in his words as he saw it was Rossi, he barely recognized him anyway, and he says as he leans back in his cell "You my new baby sitter Vito?"
Rossi ignored the tough guy persona James was trying to put on as he opened the cell. He places the food on the ground near his feet and says "My name is David Rossi; I'm with the Federal Bureau of Investigations Behavioral Analysis unit. I've been sent here to do a psychological analysis of you for my team." James then asks as he picks the food up "So you decided I'm guilty already?"
Rossi watches James body language as he picked up the food and says "You're awfully calm for a man sitting in a jail cell." James smirked as he said that, looking at the cell himself as he explained "You know what's funny, when I ran away from home in Seattle I never had a real home, I spent so many times in a jail cell for little things that it started to feel like home for me. Still sucks though."
"You never had a real home?" Rossi asks before James replied "I lived in a few small apartments when I drifted around for work, a couple of homeless shelters, and at least on one occasion I lived in a home where a Family took me in, but no, never a real home. The house I have here in Parker is the first real home I've had."
Rossi opens the file with him and begins to read the documents to get a good idea of what he was dealing with.
Name: James Allen Greaves
Date of Birth: March 2nd 1971
Place of Birth: Seattle
Next of Kin: Silas Greaves (Father) Mary Greaves (Mother) Nolan Greaves (Older Brother) Scott Greaves (Younger half-brother) Ven Levi
Background: Navy Seal 1994-2005 CIA 2005-2008
Specialization: Sniper. Fluent in various languages specializing in Romanian, Arabic, Mandarin and Hebrew.
Psychological profile: Like most snipers moves in small groups, prefers to be alone. Prone to sarcasm. Possesses a high aptitude of concentration for targets of personnel importance. Deals well under pressure. Difficulty around authority figures. Also has a low opinion of self and assume blames for any failure.
"I seem to remember meeting a Greaves like yourself once. I think his name was Silas too, did your father serve in Vietnam, James?" Rossi asks, hoping to find some ground with which he could get James to open up a bit. James took a bite at the question saying "Yeah, my dad Served as a Green Beret. He eventually left near the end of it. What did the Greave you know do?"
"He was a sniper." Rossi said, to which James replies with a half smirk "That sounds about right, everyone in my family who's served in a military was usually a marksman, except my brother Scott. He wanted the action of an infantryman."
"Yes, I remember him, stopped a Viet Cong from killing me with a bayonet." Rossi says, preparing for more questions, hoping to learn a bit about this man. "What about the rest of your Family? What is your relationship with them" causing James to sigh as he leaned back in his seat before saying in dry sarcasm "Well if you're asking if I kept my mother's cops in my basement, the answer is no."
"Really, if you want to do yourself any good I suggest you answer these questions truthfully and lose the smart mouth." Rossi says as he encourages more seriousness out of him.
James then gives him an angry glare before saying "Fine, both my parents could be selfish prick at times, but they were good people. My dad was always working, rarely spending time with me, even cheated on my mom once. My mother was the typical stay-at-home mom, feeding my brother and me, helping us with our homework, but other than that I had little interaction with her, always cleaning the house. My grandparents were more like parents to me than the real ones. My older brother Nolan spent most of his time either working or playing with me and his friends, and then the shit hit the fan with my parents' divorce so off he went to Yale, abandoning me there and turning his back on Scott, blaming him for the whole thing. As for Scott, after he found out he was my brother he pretty much felt alienated and seemed to take it out on me, refusing to ever speak to me. I don't hate my family, I loved them more than anything, I would have died for them, and I still do and would." James then finishes by saying "THERE, that enough insight for you?"
Rossi then asks "Did things ever become physically violent for you at home?" James seemed to not even give the question much thought before responding "No, I lived in a good home. Then thing went south with my relationship with my mother and I split, wanting to start over somewhere else."
"Do you regret leaving?" Rossi asks and James quickly says "I did at first, but years later when I went back I kind of got the message, my brother still blamed me and my mother and I could barely get along anymore. So I left and never went back, I eventually saw Scott again years later, but that was in Afghanistan, after that we have started talking but just barely."
"What about your next of kin Ven Levi? What's your connection to him?" Rossi asks; with his last question about the family. James seemed to develop a look on his face after a couple of seconds; the look went from surprise to hear the name. And then it went to a look of anger, it was like he was practically saying how he dare say the name and angrily asks "How do you know that name? I had most of my file sealed off years ago."
"We unsealed it. Who is Ven?" Rossi asks again after clarifying, and then James asks "Is anyone watching this interview?" which Rossi says "Yes, yes it is. They can only see us though; they cannot hear a word you say. Then finally James says "He's… my godson. Ven is my godson."
Rossi could see it in James eyes as he mentioned his godson, concern. Of the things he and the team had deduced was that the killer who had been murdering the people in Parker was a cold and methodical individual or individuals incapable of remorse. James was more than likely methodical, but he was not cold.
James then asks a question of his own "What does any of this have to do with what happened in the hunting ground?" Rossi then clarifies by saying "I was asked to find if you were different psychologically from Caleb Cullen. It appears that you are, Emily said that you appear to have a full grasp of empathy for human life where as he does not. You also have the capacity to care about people who matter to you, if not you would not have called your godson by name or took the time to free Emily when you escaped."
The minute James heard Caleb's name he was frozen in his movement before asking "Caleb is alive?"
"Yes, I'm assuming by what Emily told us, that you put those two rounds in your cousin?" Rossi says before James confirms it saying "Yeah, I did that. I knew he was still alive after I shot him, but I figured he would have bled out before anyone would find him."
"Well we did and he was still barely conscious, we've been trying to get him to talk to us, but he's refusing to talk to us about the cabin he lives in or how many victims he's had, not unless we let him speak to you first. He said he would consider it then." Rossi said, putting the file away before walking towards the door to the cell and follows up by saying "If you're willing help us we will do all we can to help you with the police here in Parker."
James was hesitant at first, saying "I doubt it, given my luck." Then has for some reason a change of heart "But what the hell, beats sitting in this shitty low budget Purgatory all day." Then he follows behind Rossi out of the holding cell, leaving his empty plate behind.
Meanwhile
Emily was waiting in main room where the team was speaking with Garcia over the computer in a video chat as she put together the pieces and connections from the various statewide crimes she was able to find after searching for similar crimes. Finding some in California, Wisconsin, Minnesota, and Arizona, where all the victims were hunted down like big game and killed before being cannibalized.
Unlike the others, Emily herself was preoccupied from the case. After the doctors checked her for sickness, physical and internal injuries, they were in the process of checking at one abnormality that had been found near or around her stomach when she was needed for the case, much to the doctor's dismay.
She had not told anyone yet about what happened with her and James the night before, it was something she planned to do later after she was able to prove that James was not the killer, or at the very least caught the other members of the Cullen family so that he would be considered innocent.
Much to her surprise and joy James was finally brought with Rossi from the holding cell. Chief Brody was absent from the room when he came in, he was overly angry when the bullets from James guns did not match the ones used to killed Danny Banks or Deeks. After Stabler was suspended from the police Emily later learned that internal affairs had him taken away from Parker for trial, so for now he was not an issue for her or James.
When James saw Emily in the room he was beginning to smile back himself until he saw the rest of the team in the room, as Emily slowly remembered how the team was in the room, and they both begin to suppress their facial expressions. J.J immediately took notice how strange they were acting around each other. Just the way Emily was looking at James was different, she especially took notice to how her pupils were dilating, and the change in James body language when he was near Emily showed relaxation whereas around Rossi he was on edge, but only slightly.
Emily watched as one by one James was introduced to the team by Hotchner after they shook hands "Hello Mr. Greaves, my name is Aaron Hotchner; this is Derek Morgan, Dr. Spencer Reid J.J. and Penelope Garcia. And you're already acquainted with David Rossi and Emily Prentiss."
James only took a short look at each member of the team and says "Nice to meet you all, where's my stuff?" showing little concern for their needs of him, until he took notice to a TV screen that showed Caleb Cullen restrained in an interrogation room as Hotchner says "It's being kept in storage, it all will be returned to you as soon as we have everything we need."
They all, including Garcia from the computer, watch as James points to the screen and he asks "Does he have anything to do with it. Because I'm pretty sure I can't help you with him." Hotchner then replies "Cullen refuses to speak to anyone but you."
"And what is it you expect him to tell me that he has not already told you?" James asks, having grown tired of people thinking they could tell him what he could and could not do. Hotchner then shows him samples of pictures of various crimes scenes as he says "After you came back, we cross checked for similar crimes country wide that could have possible involvements of the Cullen family. There are a lot of unsolved cases, and a lot of families waiting for their killers to be found."
James takes hold of some of the photos on the desk next to the computer where Garcia's face was plastered as she was talking to the team. The photo's of dead bodies found in the various states and says "various people killed in different areas in the country, whoever did this had to have known the area. Caleb could be capable of this, but he's probably around my age and some of these look like they were killed a decade or two, maybe three before either of us could have possibly been born."
"That's some impressive detective work there; I thought you were a Mechanic." Garcia says and then James replies "When I was a seal some of my work involved tracing targets, sometimes which required for me having to get inside their head to understand their thinking so I was given psychological training." Then Garcia says in a sarcastic tone "Wow, a redneck who knows psychology; talk about a living contradiction." James then looks at the screen where Garcia's face was, the look he was shooting at her was chilling, she was all the way back in Quantico but it felt like he was looking right through her before saying "Yeah, and you and that J.J. over here are blonds who apparently have brains, guess the worlds full of contradictions."
A couple of members of the team was seemed to be laughing on the inside other than J.J. and Garcia who were in shock at the comment, Emily herself was doing everything in her power not to laugh herself, James never was very good at making a good first impressions with people.
As James was looking at some of the pictures that Garcia had found, one particular picture caught his eye, it appeared to have been taken in probably in the early seventies, and it showed a body that was mostly unidentifiable but the hand and part of the arm was attached to it was still intact enough to notice a tattoo over the veins that resembled the wheel of a gypsy wagon. Emily could see it in his eyes as he was looking at it, the shock and horror burned deeply in his eyes, causing her to ask "Hey James, you alright?"
James then looks away from the picture and says "Huh, uh yeah Emily I'm fine." As he keeps the picture in his hand and then asks "Which way to the interrogation room?" Hotchner then points the door to it out to him as he says "Over there."
Emily watched with the rest of the team as James takes the pictures of the various dead bodies and begins to walk towards the door. As he was doing this Emily took a good look at his face, it showed a man that had just seen a ghost. She then walks over to the computer and looks for the picture he was looking at and takes notice to the tattoo on the arm and asks "Garcia run a trace on the tattoo on this victims arm, check to see if it has any possible relevance to James."
Garcia goes to work right away as James enters the interrogation room.
Caleb's head was leaned down for most of the time he sat in the interrogation room, never moving as he lied in the room. That was until he heard the door open and then he looked up and behold he saw his cousin, James Greaves. The irony was not lost on him, nor was it lost on James. The choices their grandfathers made had a profound effect on their lives, Caleb more aware than James.
James dropped the pictures down on the metal table as before he sits down in the second chair in the room, not saying a word to his cousin. His mind trying to focus more on how to trick the information out of him, rather than beating it out of him. It was a challenge for him to not beat him up to a pulp right now, with them being so close.
"Hello Caleb." James says before he separates the pictures for his cousin to have a clear view of them all and then follows by saying "You know it's funny, you're a lot older than I thought you'd be. I had you pegged for being about my age, probably in your forties, but I'm starting to think you're a lot older than that."
Caleb begins to chuckle as he realizes what James was getting at then asks "You think I did all this?"
"A victim most likely kidnapped, hunted down like a deer and then finally cannibalized like world class food. Sounds like you could have done this to me." James says, pointing out the facts to him. Caleb then says in his defense "I could not have done this, these happened years before you and I could have born, my father or grandfather could have done this."
Caleb could tell that James would not believe a word he said and begins to think of ways to pull at his doubt "You think I'm a monster James, but I'm not."
"Oh really, then what are you?" James asks, curious to hear his justification. Caleb then replies "What I am, is trapped, trapped by loyalty to my family, but before I was, I was a man just like you."
James begins to shrug his head as he says in disbelief "I have a hard time believing that."
Caleb then says in a kinder and friendlier demeanor "Believe what you want cousin, but I ask you to consider this, I know what it feels like to feel joy, to feel pain, anger, fear, to experience betrayal….I know what it feels like to love someone and to have it ripped away from you without reason. If you don't believe me, don't believe me, but remember this you wanted to know the truth about your family for most of your life, you're so close to having the whole truth in your hands that you should taste it."
Emily watched the expression on James face show his reaction to the words Caleb described; she had seen that look in his eyes before, telling her full well where his mind was returning to; the very day she asked for them to spend time apart before she never saw him again. James face then returned to its usual serious demeanor when Caleb asked him "Why'd you free that G girl any way? You had to have known that once we learned you were gone we would have chased after you, but leaving her to die would have bought you a few extra seconds, but instead you freed her."
"Because I wanted to." James says and Caleb then proceeds to probes for a real answer "If there's one thing me and the Comescu family learned about you over the years it's that you never do anything without a reason."
James eyes look dead at Caleb after he said Comescu and says as he pulls the photo that caught his eye earlier "Funny you know that name. You see, about eight years ago this family called the Comescu's tried to have me killed, instead they kill my best friend, I hunt them down and at the cost of a second friend I learn that this family were the ones who sent my grandmother to America, well more like forced her to flee but details always fuzzy. At first I didn't really give a damn about these bodies, regardless of whether or not they find the killer, these people will still be dead. That was until I saw this one piece of arm and the tattoo it had."
As James begins to continue by saying "You're going to tell me why you killed a Comescu and where he was from and then you are going to tell me about every single one of these victims, who they were, where they were from and who killed them." The whole team is alerted as Garcia came on to the screen a little excited but at the same time shocked with horror. Morgan noticed it first and asks "Something wrong baby girl."
Garcia was still hesitant at first to speak and then forces herself to move as she begins to print off what she found out about the tattoo in the picture that had James frozen. Emily took hold of some of them as did Rossi and Garcia says "The tattoo you gave me is used by Comescu family, it's listed on Interpol, FBI, CIA most wanted, they were a powerful family that worked out of Romania dealing in human trafficking, drugs and weapon smuggling everything Langley would kill people for. From 2005 to 2007 the CIA was conducting an investigation on them, until the leader of the team Damien Wilson was killed, then the investigation was halted, three years later there was a break-in to their home, everyone except for a couple of members were killed, then the house was set on fire."
"Was anyone charged?" Hotchner asks and then Garcia says "Yeah, one of the agents from the team who was found on the scene, James Greaves, he was later released when the CIA claimed it was a sanctioned kill." And then just when the team thought they had heard everything Garcia then continues by saying "After I saw this I looked for any possible links to the Cullen Family and the Comescu's. I found it, a woman named Catherina Comescu was immigrated to the United States in 1938, was reported missing a few months later, was eventually found in the wilderness of Virginia by a James Robert Greaves. She later claimed that a family called the Cullen's brought her there from New York and hunter her like a deer for several days before she was finally rescued."
As Emily took a look at the pictures and reports Garcia dug up she took notice to how the man in the picture identified as James Robert Greaves look so much like James when he was a young man, but a few features were different, but only a few. Derek took notice to the similarities to and asks "Garcia, what happed two these two after this lady was rescued?"
Garcia then says "James Greaves and Catherina Comescu both moved to Washington a few months later and were married and in 1940 they had one son named Silas Greaves, years later they both moved to Seattle and later had three grandchildren Nolan, James, and Scott Greaves."
Emily could be seen looking at the various report shocked and surprised like the rest of the team, but wondered had was James really unaware of his family's history for so long. She and then team then later look back to the interrogation room to see how it was going with James and Caleb."
"ANSWER THE QUESTION!" James shouted at Caleb, demanding an answer then Caleb says "Not until you answer mine. I watched with my family as you tried to lead a normal life, the things you did, the people you hurt. We saw as you made the choices that forever twisted and molded your life, but the one thing I was never able to wrap my head around was two things."
"Yeah, and what's that?" James asks before Caleb replies "One this pitiful code you live by, never leaving a man behind, always trying to be a better man, never letting a person's death go unnoticed or unattended to. Then second the love you have for the pitiful Federal agent that is probably on the other end of that glass. The reason you ended up in war, after all that, all the loneliness you still would help her. Answer my question and I will answer any of yours."
Seeing no other way, James calmly leans back looking for the words to say and then says feeling a moment of complete inner peace "Because…I love her. Always have, probably always will, no matter what you or anyone says or does I will always feel the same about her. So you're right she might be part of the reason I'm alone, most of my friends are six feet under and I barely see any of my family anymore, but to tell you the truth tough, odds are I'll be alone until the day I die, but that day ain't here yet."
The team watched as another moment of silence came between James and Caleb before James briefly breaks it saying "Now answer some of mine, who killed these people and what is your connection to the Comescu."
As they team watched J.J. could just barely see the delighted smile that Emily was holding back when James had to admit he loved her.
Caleb took hold some of the pictures as well as the picture of the severed arm and says "Alexander Comescu, he was killed in 2004, he came here accusing us of harboring you after you disappeared, he left me no choice, I killed him then one of my family members left only that arm ask a warning for the others so no one would attack us again. As for the others, Lee and my father could have done this when he was still able to walk, maybe a few of our older cousins."
"Don't call him one of your cousins." James says defensively and Caleb asks "What's wrong cousin, don't like the family you come from that doesn't involve the Gypsy half."
James then takes Caleb by the hair and slams it down on the table, causing his nose to bleed and then James says "Don't you ever call my grandmother a gypsy, and you are no family of mine. Family doesn't chain a man to the ceiling and torture him as he bleeds, family is the ones who give a damn whether you live or die, and you are just the side effect of poor upbringing and birth."
"Well all you had to do was say so. I think I'll go back to talking to the agent that was in here earlier." Caleb says, not interested in talking to him anymore. James then says "Fine by me." And begins to leave before Caleb stops him by asking "Tell me something Greaves, how did it feel when dad told you the truth, was it like when you learned about the Comescu?"
James looked back at him, Emily and the others not able to see his expression, but Caleb could see it in full view, a man in shell shock horrified as he relived the horrid memories, and he says "It felt the same both times, it felt like someone stuck a knife in me, gutted me, and then took every good emotion and feeling I had then replaced it with hurt, sadness and pain."
"How did you know we were not lying?" Caleb asks with another question and James responds saying "The look in your eye, like a lion or a tiger that has known the freedom of the wild and the kill, to hunt and kill with no more compulsion then you would with eating your breakfast, my grandfather had the same look when I looked into his eyes."
The team watched as James left the room then Hotchner and Morgan went in to interrogate Caleb. James walks through the room for a moment as Emily watches and asks "James are you alright?"
James looked back at Emily over his shoulder and asks his own question "I'm I free to go?"
Rossi then answers the question "Yes, I had one of the officers place you things at the front desk, just sign for those and you can leave." James quickly asks a second question "What about the other members of the Cullen family, what happens to them?"
"A SWAT team is getting ready for when we storm their cabin tomorrow, and then we'll arrest them." J.J. says and James asks "I want to be there when you arrest them; I need to be there so I can finally have some peace of mind."
"Alright James, I'll get you before we head out tomorrow." Emily says and then James says before leaving the room to go get his things "Thanks Emily, I'll be headed home now."
