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Previously
on "Criminal Minds"...

Look, a while back I had some
medical issues, headaches,

and there was a geneticist
that I reached out to.

I guess I just-- I think
it's funny how we've been doing

this for 6 months
and we've never met.

Do you think he knows
about us?

As far as I can tell,
he doesn't.

Well, I guess I'll talk
to you next Sunday.

Bye. Love you.

Well, if you've got somebody
new in your life to talk to,

I'd just like to know
who she is.

'Cause she's gotta be one hell
of a woman to keep up with you.

I think the stalker's gone.

The emails have stopped.

What about the phone calls?
No, I haven't gotten any.

No more heavy breathing
on the machine. No more hangups.

Is this about
phone booth girl?

She wants to meet.

Wait,
you guys have never met?

Aren't you curious
what she looks like?

No, it doesn't matter
what she looks like. I mean,

she's already the most beautiful girl
in the world to me.

Hello?

Maeve, it's me. Listen, don't come
to the restaurant.

What are you talking about?
I'm outside.

Go home.

Look, I think
your stalker's here.

Have you the ring?

Place the ring
on her finger.

On whose finger?

Oh.

I now pronounce you smart

and smarter.

Let's get to it, you two.

Get to what?

Kiss her, dummy.

Hello.

Hello.
I have a collect call from...

Adam Worth.

Operator; Do you accept
the charges?

Yes.

Please deposit $2.00
for the first two minutes.

Thank you.

Hello. I'm still here.

Zug...zwang.

I'm sorry, can you
please repeat that?

Zug...

zwang.

I got here as quickly
as I could.

What's wrong?

I need to tell you
something.

Our correspondence started
10 months ago.

She wrote me a compliment on my
"Journal of Behavioral Psych" article,

and for 3 months,
this is how we communicated

because she was scared.

Scared of whom?

She didn't know,
only that he was dangerous.

Horribly threatening
phone calls, letters, emails,

no matter where she moved.

It's why I never called her
from the same phone booth twice.

You don't know
what Maeve looks like?

No.

Or where she works?

No. I know
she's a geneticist.

Do you even know
her last name?

Then I have to ask you,
how do you know she's missing?

Because we always addressed
our letters to pseudonyms.

And you're
Dr. Joseph Bell?

The real-life inspiration
for Sherlock Holmes.

And that codename
is how I know she's in trouble.

The voice on the phone
identified himself as Adam Worth.

That was the American criminal
that Arthur Conan Doyle based

the character of Moriarty on.

And what did he say
to you?

Zugzwang.

It's a chess term.

It describes the point
in a game

when a player realizes
he'll inevitably be checkmated.

He has to decide
whether to resign

or to play through
to the bitter end.

If you're right about this,

then you're part of
his victimology, too.

I know.

He thinks he'll get away
with this,

and he might.

I have a wealth of knowledge
I should be applying to this case.

Behavioral patterns
of violent stalkers.

Tactical recovery
strategies.

Victim survival odds.

But right now I can't
focus on anything

more than 4 seconds
at a time.

Which makes me the dumbest
person in the room.

So...

Please help me.

Help me find her.

We don't know
if we have a case.

So we'll be working
on personal time.

Does anybody want to leave?

Good.

Let's get to work.

♪ Criminal Minds 8x12 ♪
Zugzwang
Original Air Date on January 16, 2013

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♪

"Being deeply loved
by someone gives you strength,

while loving someone deeply
gives you courage."

Lao Tsu.

Based on Maeve's description
of the unsub in her letters,

he seems like a classically
possessive stalker.

One who craves validation
and recognition.

"What won't you see me?"
"Do you think you're better than me?"

This comes up
again and again.

So does his suicidal
ideation.

"When I find you,
I'm going to kill you, then myself."

Murder-suicide
is the ultimate

"I love you"
to these guys.

When did the unsub
start targeting Maeve?

Maeve said it started
out of the blue.

My guess is it was some sort
of incidental interaction,

something she probably
wasn't even aware of.

That's gonna make the unsub
hard to find.

And Maeve, too, until
we know more about her.

I found her.

There are not many geneticists
with that name, but...

Dr. Maeve Donovan
took a sabbatical

from Mendel University
10 months ago.

That fits the timeline.

Oh, she's a smart cookie.
She burned her credit history,

but her parents rented a loft
in the warehouse district 5 days ago.

Did the parents sell
their house recently?

No.

They might be
helping her hide.

Morgan, you and JJ
go to the loft.

Blake and Dave, go to the lab.

How clear is your head?

Not very clear.

I want to talk to her parents, but I
want you to observe the interview.

Reid.

I have a picture of her. Do you
want to see what she looks like?

No.

So what are we, 10 miles
outside of the city?

Her parents wanted to put some distance
between her and her stalker,

but they may have just
made her an easier target.

FBI.

Anybody home?

It's clear.

This is definitely
a crime scene.

Must have been
a hell of a fight.

Smash...

Then hit.

There's no sign of forced entry.

Maeve was on high alert.

Exactly.

Then how did this unsub
get her to let her guard down?

Here you go.

That's the personnel files
of everyone in the lab.

Not much there.

Only 5 docs work here
besides her.

And they're all men.

Did any of them take
a particular interest in her work?

We all did.
Her last project

on cyclic adenosine
monophosphate--

revolutionary stuff.
Quite frankly,

she made connections
before I could even see them.

We know the feeling.

When was the last time
that you spoke to Maeve?

6 days ago.

5, after we got her
situated in the loft.

Why didn't she leave
the D.C. area?

I have health issues.

Cancer.

And she wanted
to stay close.

We were working on
an oncology project together,

and it was easier
to share data if she was nearby.

You're a geneticist, too?

Retired.

I got out when I heard there
was a new Dr. Donovan in town.

I know this is difficult
for both of you,

but is there anyone
that you suspect?

Bobby.

The police ruled him out
early on,

but we never liked him.

Who is Bobby?

Her fiance.

And there were issues?

Bobby was her first
serious relationship.

It was only till
after they got engaged

that she realized that...

He was a controlling
bastard.

Sorry.

But it's true.

Well, we need
to talk to him.

Fiance?

Reid, slow down.

She had a fiance, Hotch.

Let us handle it.

Robert Putnam.

FBI.

Who?

We're looking for
Robert Putnam.

Do you know where he is?

He's in the back.

We need to talk to him.

And who are you?

I'm Diane, his girlfriend.

Hey, sweetheart,
who is it?

Robert Putnam,
we'd like to--

I know you.

Out.

Out.

Wait, I need to talk
to him, Hotch.

Why did he just
recognize you?

A couple of weeks ago,
Maeve and I were gonna meet.

He was at the restaurant.
I caught him looking at me

and something felt off
about him.

And you're telling me
this now?

I didn't know who he was
and then a friend of his sat down,

so I just assumed
that I overreacted.

Reid, if he's the unsub,
you're a material witness.

You can't be in there.
You know that. Stay here.

Look, what's going on?

Where's Maeve?

We were hoping
you knew.

Why would I know?

The same way that you knew
that she'd be at that restaurant

two weeks ago.

Care to explain?

When she went into hiding,
she broke off the engagement.

I needed to see her,
to make sure she was all right.

So I hired
a private detective

and he found her
through her parents.

When she made the reservation,
I showed up, too.

Why did you
bring a friend?

Because there was a psychopath
after her, that's why.

For someone madly in love,
you sure moved on in a hurry.

Maeve told me to.

And apparently
she took her own advice.

Did that make you mad?

Mad enough to hurt her?

Mad enough to stalk
the man that she was meeting?

There's something over there
on that table I'm gonna go get.

Don't shoot me.

He sent these to us,

the last month
of our engagement.

The fact is,

I was being stalked, too.

Excuse me, Doctor.

Agent Hotchner said
he was done with me upstairs.

Can you tell me
what's going on?

We'll be in touch, ma'am.

Thank you.

All right, kid,
talk to me.

I can tell you're adding
something up in your head.

What is it?

2,412.

It's the number of hours
we spent communicating,

counting phone calls
and letters.

That's about 100 days.

100.5. What if
that's all I get?

Well, it's not.

You can't say that.

Yes, I can.

Because when
we find her alive

and you finally get to
lay your eyes on her,

what's the first thing
you're gonna say to her?

A couple of months ago
we were getting off the phone

and she said,

"Bye. Love you."

Just like that.

"Bye. Love you."

I know it was
just a slip, but--

but she said it, Reid.

She said it.

You didn't say it back
to her, did you?

I was waiting for when
we finally met.

Ok, I'm sharing something
I haven't told anyone.

Every time
we have a stalking case,

I think Rosanna Arquette.

The whole Arquette
family to choose from

and you go with Rosanna.

If course I go with Rosanna,
because Rosanna Arquette

was the inspiration for
two seminal songs of my childhood.

"Rosanna," by Toto...

Obviously.

And "In Your Eyes"
by Peter Gabriel.

Which gives one pause

to think of
the myriad of ways

a man can be obsessed
by a woman,

and what is she doing in bed

to inspire that kind of
obsession, and can she teach us?

Because I want to know.

Whoa.

He went to town
on that one.

JJ, is that...

I don't get it.
I mean, I see the message,

"I'm obliterating you,"
but we already knew that.

No, see, it's not about
the message.

It's about the medium,
what he used to draw on her face.

Spence...

It's black eyeliner.

The stalker's a woman.

That's why she masked
her voice on the phone.

That's why Maeve
let her in to her loft.

She thought what we thought,
that her stalker was a man.

But the question is,
how could this unsub

have known about
Maeve and you?

Hotch, did you ever identify me
to Bobby Putnam's girlfriend?

What?
Did you say my name to her?

Did you call me Dr. Reid
or Agent Reid?

I never mentioned you
at all. Why?

Excuse me, Doctor.

I think I know
who the unsub is.

Hey, honey.

Hey.

You're still thinking
about him, aren't you?

Yes.

Are you sure
that he was the one

at the restaurant?

Yes.

He's an FBI agent.

Interesting.

I'm sorry.

I know I said
I'd let this go.

It's okay. A part of me
wants answers

just as much as you do.

Is that new?

Do you like it?

I--I've never seen you
dressed like that before.

No, you haven't, in fact.

I've been waiting months
for you to notice me.

Notice that I'm better,
sexier, smarter than her.

It's not until I debase
myself, then you notice.

What are you talking about?

Do you like this, Bobby?

Because you have seen it
before.

Is that...

Diane,

where did you get
Maeve's clothes?

From her closet.

Right after
I bashed her head in.

She finally saw me,

just like you see me now.

Take a look, Bobby.

Take a good look.

What have we got?

Well, she knew
we were close,

so she came back
for the fiance.

Looks like they had
a normal conversation,

then she got violent. Same thing
that happened to Maeve.

Hey, dollface,
what do you got?

An identity
that's pure vapor.

Diane Huntington is a fake name.
So is her address.

And all the phone conversations
she had with Bobby

were from a burner phone.

All right, keep digging
and keep us posted.

We need to
rethink the profile,

reset everything
that we know about Maeve

through the prism of
one woman stalking another.

You know...

I couldn't understand it,
Bobby.

I really couldn't.

You could have had me.

Instead you wanted that.

Maeve?

I'm so sorry.

Why are you doing this?

Why?

Let's just say

she took something from me
that I can't get back.

So I decided
if I can't have my life,

I'm gonna take hers.

What is she talking about?

I don't know.
I don't--I don't know

who she is.

After hunting her
for 10 months,

after stealing her man,

I had to stop and say, what I
so freakin' special about her?

I couldn't see it.

Until I saw him.

Him who?

The night you followed her,
I followed you.

And I saw him.

I want what they have.

I want him.

That's why you're doing this?

Because of that stupid
FBI agent?

That stupid FBI agent is
he reason why you're still alive.

You're gonna get her
to tell me about him.

I don't want to hear
what she has to say.

I know.

But that wasn't a request.

Ok, we know numbers
on female stalkers are minimal.

Only 10% of all cases
are female.

All right, what tops
the list of motivators?

Prior sexual intimacy.

Erotomania?

No. Go the other direction.

Think female scorned.

We slept together.
You broke up with me.

Now I'll do anything
to get back with you.

Reid, could that
have fit Maeve?

Could she have possibly been in
a relationship with this woman?

No. No.

Spence, this morning you didn't know
that she was engaged.

Yeah, but the answer is no.

And what's the second-most
common motivation?

Celebrity stalking.

That fits better.

Well, how? She's not famous.

Maeve's a star
in her field, though.

That's a stretch. Celebrity stalkers
are usually nonviolent.

You want to tell that
to John Lennon, Rossi?

What was it that Mark David
Chapman said after he shot him?

"It was like all of my
nobody-ness

and all of his somebody-ness
collided."

Well, Maeve is somebody
and this bitch is a nobody.

I'm sorry. I don't know
where that came from.

Um, I can't be very helpful right now.
I should leave.

Reid. Reid, yes, you can.

You have 100.5 days of
communication with the girl

and your brain lets you
recall every word verbatim.

She probably revealed details
about the unsub to you

and neither of you
even noticed.

There's too much of it and I can't
sort through it with any clarity.

Then pick one of us
and we'll go through it with you.

Blake.

Okay.

Let's get out of here.

You want to talk here?

Yep.

You play?

Yeah, I know my way
around a board, but...

that's not the point.

I want you to focus here
and not on my questions.

So, let's try this out.

When you think of Maeve, what's
the first thing that comes to mind?

Thomas Merton.

What about him?

In her letters,

she would always
sign off with a quote

from one of her favorite
philosophers.

Camus, Voltaire, Plato.

When we had the near miss
at the restaurant a couple of weeks ago,

she left me a book with a quote
by Thomas Merton written inside.

It said,
"Love is our true destiny.

"We do not find the meaning
of life by ourselves alone.

We find it in another."

Then...

Thomas Merton was her way
of saying good-bye.

Yeah.

So,

let's talk about this. Hmm?

Because this I didn't expect.

Oh, I'm sorry.
Let me catch you up.

I found these letters
in Maeve's loft,

and I guess she didn't get
around to sending this one,

and...it's really good.

"I bought the blindfold today.

I can't wait to use it."

Blindfold.

You know, I thought
I knew your fiancee.

But I guess she's kinkier
than we thought.

It's not what you think.

"It's not what you think"
is girl code

for "it's exactly
what you think."

No, it's not
what you think.

Did you sleep with him?

I never even saw him.

Why risk your life
to meet him?

I've been alone for so long,
I just wanted to be with somebody.

You could have been with Bobby.

It was different with him.

Different how?

He was just...

He was just what, Maeve?

When we would talk,
I would...

It was effortless.

That is so interesting.

Really.

So if you two
had this deep connection

where you're talking
in your own code,

why do you think the unsub
would attack the fiance first?

I don't know,
access, maybe.

No, something links the two of you
in the unsub's mind.

She wants to destroy anyone Maeve
had a romantic relationship with?

It could be jealousy
or revenge.

Maybe Maeve got in the way
of one of her old relationships?

It's just not her.

You see, when men cheat,

it's below the belt.

But when women cheat,

it's above the neck.

No. We were broken up.
I never cheated on you.

But you didn't love me.

Not like that.

Now you know how I felt,

to be ignored, cast aside.

It's not fun, is it?

Just let us go, D--

what else do you want?!

Did you guys ever
compare lists?

The different people
you dated?

November 4, 3:46 p.m.

I asked her if she dated
a lot growing up.

No way.

Do you know how many
Friday nights I had

where it was just me
and a microscope?

I thought that was just me.

Oh, come on.

Girls must have adored
you in high school.

I was 12.
It was kind of confusing.

Once I got a note
from this girl I had a crush on.

She thought I was cute

but would only meet me
if I wore a blindfold.

I did. And she took
my shirt off.

That's when I heard
the laughter.

Most of the senior class
was in there.

Oh, it sounds awful.

Maeve thought so, too.

When we finally meet,

I'm going to make
blindfolds fun again.

You had him eating out of the
palm of your hand every Sunday

and he never even
saw your face.

I have to admit
that takes skill.

That takes finesse.

How'd you do it?

Hello!

Doctor, are you in there?

Seriously?

Okay, fine.

Just tell her.

There was a moment
when you had him

and you knew you had him.

What was it?

Euclidean geometry.

There's this thing called
the Penrose triangle.

He told me a story about how
he tried to build one when he was 8.

This better get sexy quick.
I'm getting bored.

You can't build it.

It's an impossible
physical structure.

It only exists in
conceptual geometry.

But I said, every Penrose
triangle has its thorns.

And he laughed.

It was a stupid pun,

but he laughed.

That's it.

What about co-workers?

Maeve was the only
female doctor at Mendel University.

What was it like for her?

She once spoke about
the awkwardness

of being the only woman
in the department.

When men are jealous
of your success in the lab,

they want it
for themselves.

But women want it
so you can't have it.

Sometimes this institution
turns us against each other.

What if the unsub worked there
but wasn't a doctor?

What if she was a grad student

maybe working on
her Ph.D. there?

Yeah, but how could
Maeve miss her?

Each of the doctors
has their own project.

Each project has its own team
of research assistants.

They don't mingle, but
they'd be the first applicants

for an open position.

And if Maeve rejected
her thesis,

the unsub would
take it personally.

And that rejection has become
an obsession to possess.

I want to see
what he sees.

He sees you
as his equal.

That's it, isn't it?

I just--I have to let him see
that I'm on your level.

Great. You figured it out.

Now, please,
will you let us go?

No.

No.

I have to show her that I can take
everything that she has.

Then she's going
to remember me.

You, however,
are superfluous.

I'm sorry, Bobby.

You've always been
the runner-up in this pageant.

Wait. Wait, wait, wait.

Please. Please...
Don't hurt him.

Please! Don't hurt him.
Please don't hurt him.

Don't hurt him.

Ohh!

Her name is Diane Turner.
She worked

as a research assistant
at Mendel University

while Maeve was there.

Did she apply
for a Ph.D. There?

Yeah. She was one of a bunch
of internal applicants

that got rejected.

Looks like she left
not long after Maeve.

Correct. She now works
at a local junior college.

Dave, you, Reid, and JJ
take the residence.

Blake and Morgan,
take the campus.

What was her doctoral
thesis about?

It says here, "Spontaneous cellular
death in suicide patients."

There's her suicidal
ideation again.

Except cells don't behave that way.
Why is she so obsessed with it?

You still don't remember
who I am, do you?

No.

I've tried and tried
to remember and I can't.

But whatever it is
I did to you, I'm sorry.

Forgive me. Tell me what it is
you want me to say to you

and I will say it.

I just want this
to be over.

I can do that.

You just have to do
something for me first.

Get up there.

Why?

Do it.

Why don't you just kill me?

I want to see
if you'll jump.

It's my theory

that when you make
a decision to give up

that the cells in your
body start to die.

Can you feel it?

Your whole body
beginning to decay.

It makes it easier
to want to kill yourself.

Go. Go ahead,
prove my theory.

I remember you.

Clear!

Clear.

Is this a shrine
to her dead parents?

Her parents
committed suicide.

That explains
her obsession.

Guys. She's watching us.

Garcia.
What you got, mama grizzly?

There's a web cam in here.
Can you hack the feed?

I read your thesis,
didn't I?

You turned me down because
you couldn't handle the competition.

No. I turned you down
because your testing was flawed.

It was not flawed!

Your sample was biased.

You included your parents.

The science was sound.

You didn't even read
the whole thing, did you?

No, I did. I did.

I did read it. And do you know
what I thought

after I was finished?

I thought,
whoever wrote this

had suffered a tragedy.

And I felt sorry
for your loss.

But you don't get
a Ph.D.

just because something bad
happened to you.

No.

You just couldn't see.

You can't see
that I'm a genius!

Genius? Do you know
what genius is?

I know that I am one.

Maybe.

Maybe you do have
that gift.

Maybe your theory
could have had merit.

But we don't know.

Because genius isn't
just one good idea

or one successful
experiment, Diane.

Genius is work.

Thousands of hours
of work.

Ohh...

She's spoofing
the IP address

and she's encrypted
the feed.

In other words, like layman's terms,
this is gonna take a while.

What are you doing?

Making a deal.

That's why
you didn't make it.

You didn't do the work.

But you could.

Yeah, you could
do the work.

I'll help you.

Get on the ledge.

Now!

No. If you're gonna kill me,
you kill me.

But I am not jumping. Because
I want to live long enough

to see Spencer
arrest you.

Spencer has a different idea.

Hello.

It's me.

Are you okay?

She killed Bobby.

Are you okay?

Yeah.

I've got a concussion
and some bruising, but I'm okay.

Can I talk to her?

No. She's listening.

Good.

But I want to meet her.
I need to see her face to face.

She has a message
she wants me to give you.

What is it?

The message is,
she left you a present.

And if you want to find it,
it's easy as pie.

What does that mean?
I don't understand what that means.

Neither do I.

Spencer, it's a trap.

If you come here,
she's gonna kill you!

I need a map of D.C.

This is Diane Turner's
apartment.

This is the nearest cell tower
her phone call to me pinged off of,

which means this is the circle that
Maeve was telling me about.

What circle?

It was a clue
in Diane's message.

Finding her would be
as easy as pie.

Only she wasn't
referring to the food,

she was referring to...

Pi.

Why would Diane
give you a clue?

Maeve made a similar pun once.

Now Diane wants me
to see her the same way,

but brilliant, the smartest girl
in the room.

All right, assuming that Diane
has a secondary location,

where in the circle
would she hold Maeve?

She'd need a building that would
allow for privacy and control,

a closed garage
for prisoner transfer...

If she's copying Maeve's life,

it might be someplace
close to Maeve's apartment.

There's nothing
in Diane's name.

Well, what about
Maeve's name, or even Bobby's?

Nope.
Maybe she forged his signature.

What about Diane's parents?

Yes. Yes. Diane rented a loft

right next to Maeve's
in her parents' name.

Reid.

I can't let you be a part
of this takedown.

We don't have a choice. If I don't
go in there, Maeve is dead.

And if you do,
you're dead.

Hotch, we've known
from the beginning

she's on
a murder-suicide mission,

but we never stopped to ask why
she's on that mission.

We know now that it's because
she wants recognition,

the type of recognition
she thinks Maeve gets,

and I can give her that.

How?

I'm gonna tell her
that I love her.

Hang on. I got a box
on the steps.

That's the gift.

What is that, a blindfold?

Take your gun and vest off.

Now come in alone.

Reid.

Put it on.

Can I take the blindfold off?

No.

Hello.

Hi.

I was hoping you'd
figure out my riddle.

I mean, I knew you would.

The fun was just
how fast you'd do it.

Oh, there's some
brains, too.

It took me a long time.
To be honest,

I was distracted
by your thesis.

You read my thesis?

I did. You know,
I think your writing

puts you on the same
plane as Jonas Salk.

I've already sent it
to the NIH.

Flattery is not gonna
get you out of this.

I know what's waiting
for me outside.

I've arranged
for your freedom.

The federal government doesn't
make deals with people like me.

Not true. Nazi scientists were
recruited for the Manhattan Project.

Mafia bosses are regularly
put into Witness Protection.

If what you have
is valuable enough,

the federal government
will work with you.

And what you have
is very valuable.

And what do I have,
Doctor?

You have a brain that doesn't
play by normal societal rules.

And I know
that all your life

the people you care
about the most keep leaving.

There's a part of you that thinks
it's because of that brain.

Well, I'm here because
I'm not going to leave you.

I'm here because...

I just hope
that I get the chance.

Chance at what?

To be with you.

Me for her.
That was the deal, right?

You're choosing me
over her?

Diane, how could it be
anyone else?

Prove it.

All right. How?

Say it again.

This time say it
to her face.

I don't love you.

Sorry.

I understand.

I don't need her anymore.

Kill her and she won't
have to live with the

fact that you're smarter.

Let her live with
her irrelevancy.

I just want her to see
one more thing.

Liar.

Liar!

Let's go!
Shots fired!

Stay back! Stay back!
Stay back!

Stay back, stay back!

Diane, Diane, there's
still a way out of this.

You never wanted me.

Never!

You lied!
I didn't.

Diane, I offered you
a deal and you can still take it.

Me for her.
Let me take her place.

You would do that?

Yes.

You would kill yourself
for her?

Yes.

Thomas Merton.

Who's Thomas Merton?

He knows.

He knows.

Who's Thomas Merton?

Who is he?

He's the one thing
you can never take from us.

No.

Wait!

♪ I'll always burn
with your love for me ♪

♪ my friend

♪ constant love, my friend

♪ constant...

♪ I'll always burn
with your love for me ♪

♪ my friend

♪ constant fire, my friend

♪ constant

♪ I'll always burn
with your love for me... ♪

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