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[Door clangs]

[Weapons cock]

Man: Search is clear.

Man: Good.

Go.

Man: Hold.

[Beep]

All right, hold it. Back up.

Man: We got a body.

Open it.

Right.

- [Snap]
- Man: It's cut.

Man, on radio: Alpha's made entry.

Man: Still warm. This kill is fresh.

Owen.

You know this guy?

[Indistinct police radio]

[Siren]

Prentiss: Hey.

We were too late.

We tried.

Now we need to tell the team.

Man: Get off me! [Scuffling]

Man: Right there! Drop the weapon!

- [Guns cocking]
- Reid: Owen!

Hold it. Hold it.

- Owen, wait.
- Drop your weapon!

No, no, no, no, no.
This man is on the job.

FBI special agent Owen Quinn,

badge number
2310-niner-5.

Owen, look at me.

Reid?

- Prentiss.
- Yes.

You're safe now, Owen.

You're home.

How long?

Don't worry about that right now.

We need to make sure that you're ok.

What year is it?

It's 2018.

No!

You're safe now. You're safe.

No, I'm not!

Quinn: I'm not!

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Garcia: “A thing is
not necessarily true

because a man dies
for it.” Oscar Wilde.

Prentiss: Who remembers this agent?

I do not.

Garcia: That's agent Owen Quinn.

He worked here until he quit a year ago.

Lewis: He worked in the violent
crimes apprehension program

on the 5th floor, but he
aspired to be a profiler.

So, why'd he quit?

He was convinced there
was an unsub we missed

working up and down
the northeast corridor.

He named him “The Strangler.”

Simmons: Naming the unsub.
That's exactly what we don't do.

That wasn't his only mistake.

Lewis: Yeah, we reviewed his report.

He started with a single victim...

A woman in Maryland who'd been strangled

and had the hyoid bone at the
front of her throat removed,

but she was his only confirmed victim.

Oh, one murder doesn't
make you a serial killer.

Yeah, we told him that.

So he started forcing missing
persons into his victimology

to fit his profile.

Lewis: In the end, 5 of his 7
victims showed up alive and unharmed,

2 were inconclusive.

First sin of profiling. Trying to
fit the evidence to match a theory.

Quinn took the criticism
personally and quit,

said he'd pursue the
investigation on his own.

That's a little impulsive.

So, how did we find
him in the storage unit?

- I got an e-mail.
- Got an e-mail?

You hate e-mail.

I do. I was even more surprised

when I saw that it was
an anonymous sender.

Reid: Garcia, can you put
the message on the board?

_

That's Quinn's FBI ID badge.

That's a big piece of bait.

I mean, the unsub knows
we have to take it.

Someone left us breadcrumbs
to a former federal agent,

who sure as hell looked dead.

Simmons: So did the
unsub think he was dead

when he left him there for us,

or was he leaving us
some kind of witness?

Rossi: Or to put it another way,

is this guy trying to
help us or taunt us?

Prentiss: Right now,
Quinn has all the answers.

Reid will interview him. Luke,
Tara, go to the storage unit,

see what you can uncover.

Matt, JJ, I need you to
reach out to his wife and son.

Hey...

Tell me not to worry.

About what?

You got an e-mail?

Ok, maybe I'll buy that. Maybe.

But why didn't you just
call the rest of us?

And why take a SWAT
team to a storage unit

in the middle of the night?

You're keeping secrets, ok?

And when you keep
secrets, I get nervous.

Because the last time...

I went to prison for a
murder that I didn't commit.

Yeah.

So... Tell me not to worry.

Whoever did this
wanted me to find Quinn,

and I needed to know why.

Do you even know him that well?

No. I mean, I've seen him
in the building occasionally,

but that just made the
whole thing weirder.

So, I told Prentiss that I
needed an exigent circumstances

exemption to the sabbatical.

She made it happen, and...
Now you know everything.

Everything?

Everything.

All right.

[Door latch clicks]

Uh-uh. Uh-uh. Uh-uh. Uh-uh.

- Uh-uh.
- Owen...

Owen, you're in Quantico now.

There are 7 floors and 200
agents in this building alone.

You are completely protected.

Did you find The Strangler?

No, we didn't, but we found you.

Then I'm not protected!

Is that why you tried to kill yourself?

It was that bad?

[Exhales]

[Inhales sharply]

Tell me about your investigation.

You found something.

You found something that
we missed. What was it?

The news.

He really liked the News.

Then, like newspapers?

The News.

New London...

New Haven...

Newark.

That's where he hunted.

I predicted he would
hit New Rochelle next.

He liked college bars.
He liked hunting in them.

So I hunted for him, and then...

And then she came up to me.

She got my guard down, slipped
something in my drink...

She?

Then there's more than one of 'em?

- Mm-hmm.
- It was a team.

- It was a man and a woman?
- Mm-hmm.

Did you get their names?

You don't know how bad it was.

From the moment I w-woke
up in their house how bad.

Ugh!

Woman: You're gonna be late!

Theo! Let's go, let's go, let's go!

Traffic's gonna be a nightmare.

Hey, Dad, can I borrow
the car tomorrow night?

Another date with April?

♪ Things are getting serious ♪

I hope you're treating her

with the respect she
deserves, young man.

- Geez, Dad. Yes. Bye, Mom.
- Bye.

[Muffled scream]

[Quinn screams]

I thought we'd never get a moment alone.

[Hissing]

Aaahh!

That was just the beginning.

I learned to survive by playing dead.

I slowed down my heartbeat,

my breathing.

That was the only way I
could get them to stop.

You got so good at it,
you fooled us last night.

And the boy... Theo.

His name is Theo.

He would feed me sometimes.

Why would the parents risk exposing
their son to a captive like you?

I don't know, I don't know.

He just... he fed me sometimes.

[Exhales]

He talked to me like I was human.

I begged him to let me go,

but he couldn't defy them.

[Crying] Oh, god...

Oh, god... God...

And you think we're being played?

You tell me if you buy this...

A husband-and-wife killing team

raising a sun in the middle of suburbia

like Ozzie and Harriet.

Faking trauma. That's a dangerous
game to play against profilers.

What's he trying to hide from us?

He could be covering for whoever
locked him in that storage unit.

My mind goes to The Strangler.

And there's more going on
between them than he's letting on.

You know where my mind goes...

To serial killers like Tony Costa,

Israel Keyes, Fred West.

Suspects who killed themselves
once they were taken into custody.

Like Quinn tried to do last night.

You think maybe he's The Strangler?

I think we leave all
theories on the table

until we verify his story.

And I think we verify
his story by going back

to where it started.

[Ringing]

Prentiss: Luke, what have you got?

So far, we can tell you
that the unit was rented

in Quinn's name 2 days ago,

all paid for in cash.

Security camera footage caught footage

of a hooded male hefting Quinn

and everything else into
the unit on that same day.

We sent it over to Garcia,

but it's too grainy to ID.

What else have you found in there?

Looks like someone stuffed an
entire girl's dorm room in here...

Lewis: Linens, clothes...

Reads to us as young and female.

So, someone with the physical strength

to carry Quinn around also
packs up his daughter's...

or his girlfriend's college dorm room.

Prentiss: What's the pattern here?

We're asking ourselves
the same question.

Prentiss: Keep us
posted on what you find.

All right. Will do.

[Beep]

[Indistinct police radio]

Oh, my god, Alvez. I got something.

What?

Your mom.

Oh, really. Mom jokes?

Wait until you meet her,

and you say that, right,

because what she's gonna do is crush you

with just a look.

You see that look?

That's my mom.

I already feel the need to
apologize for breaking curfew

and not cleaning up my room.

You should.

- Whoa.
- Oh, come on, Tara, not again.

I'm gonna need an evidence bag.

Actually, I'm gonna need 7.

Hyoid bones.

Quinn said The Strangler removed these

from the necks of his victims
and kept them as trophies.

Alvez: They've got dates on them.

All right. I'm gonna have
Garcia run these dates

against his whereabouts.

I mean, either Quinn's
the unluckiest agent

in the history of the Bureau, or...

He's the guiltiest.

[Doorbell rings]

Hi. Are you Shane?

Yeah.

I'm SSA Jennifer Jareau with the FBI.

This is SSA Matt Simmons.

Is your mom home?

Mom?

Shane: I knew it. I just knew.

Knew what?

That he wouldn't walk
out on us, like Mom said.

He was a great dad. He wouldn't do that.

So... Can I see him?

Well, that's why we're here.

Um...

But we need to warn you that
he might not be the same man

that you remember.

Why?

What happened to him?

Woman: What happened to him?

What about what happened to me?

What did happen?

He became obsessed with that case.

The Strangler?

He started thinking like him.

He said that's how he'd get
into the mind of a madman.

It ended with him...

Did he hurt you?

No...

But he wanted to.

He wanted to... choke me,

to know how it felt.

He kept asking, demanding...

So I kicked him out of the house.

I filed for divorce, and
I never saw him again.

Shane is offering to cooperate.

No! Absolutely not!

Well, he's 18, and he doesn't
need anyone's permission.

Fine. Let me grab my purse.

All right, Owen. I want
you to paint me a picture,

and I want you to just
focus on the details...

Ok, the mundane, the
day-in and the day-out.

It's gonna keep you
from feeling overwhelmed.

Did they keep you in the
living room for the entire year?

No.

They moved me... To the basement.

All right, describe the basement.

Cold... No windows...

Echo-y...

Because I screamed,

screamed so much.

How did they feed you?

Theo did.

[Pats back] [Rattles chain]

[Whispering] Please, don't go. Don't go.

I have to.

They'll get suspicious.

Was there a toilet?

There was a bucket.

I knew a new day had begun
when they would come downstairs

and ask me the same questions.

How did you find us?
What did we give away?

How'd you do it? Tell us, Quinn.

Tell us, and we'll stop hurting you.

Tell us, so we can get away with murder.

[Chair scrapes floor, hits table]

They were already
getting away with murder.

And you're not a profiler.
You were in ViCAP.

Maybe I had value as a
hostage. I don't know.

God, her perfume... it almost
choked me, it was so strong.

Whose perfume? The wife's?
What did it smell like?

I can't... I can't describe it.

Owen, you just said it choked
you. Why can't you describe it?

What, do you think I'm lying?
Do you think I did this?

No. You know what I think,
Owen? I think that you

haven't given me a single piece of
evidence that validates your story.

Evidence?

Here's my evidence.

All right. Theo.

Theo. Their son.

You said that he
treated you like a human.

Yes.

He talked to me.

What did he talk to you about?

- College.
- Which one?

I don't know.

[Slams palm on table] Is there
anything that you do know?

I asked him. He wouldn't tell me.

Instead, he'd ask me
questions about his coursework.

“How do you find an anchor
point in a geoprofile?”

“what's the difference between
fixated and regressive typology?”

He was taking classes in profiling.

Did he ask you about
re-offense statistics

for female sexual offenders?

Yes! Exactly.

How'd you know that?

Because I taught it.

Theo was in my class
at Marbury university.

That's how he got my e-mail.
I included it in the syllabus.

Ok... There are 9

Theo and Theodores enrolled at Marbury.

None of them are enrolled in your class.

Reid: Too much of a paper trail.

He was most likely just auditing.

Reid, faintly: It's experience by an offender
that precipitates subsequent behavior,

whereas a stressor is
a longer-term pattern

of behavior or circumstances which push

a person into behaving differently
than they normally would.

Him.

Garcia: Theo Holston. On it.

[Typing]

Ok, guys, let's talk this through.

We need to make this make sense.

Well, one theory is that Quinn
has been the killer all along.

Theo somehow trapped him, left him
in the storage unit for me to find,

and Quinn's post-traumatic decompensation
act is just that... it's an act.

Reid: His behavior doesn't match someone
who's been traumatized for a year.

Or Quinn's telling the truth.

Theo put him in there to frame him,

probably under his parents' orders.

Ok. Theo Holston's parents
are Jerry and Donna Holston.

Jerry is an insurance salesman,
just got “employee of the month”

Donna's a housewife, no criminal record.

Reid: Not exactly the psychopathic
team that Quinn painted.

[Sighs] Alexandria's a short drive.

Reid, I want you to stand down.

Alvez and Simmons will lead on this.

Open door right!

[Indistinct police radio]

Start your search.

Rear of the house is clear.

We're clear.

Over here.

[Sniffs]

Hey, Luke!

Simmons: Looks like he changed his M.O.

Where's Theo?

That's a .40 caliber shell.

That was Quinn's personal backup weapon.

He kept it even after
he turned in his badge.

So, whoever killed these two...

They used Quinn's gun to do it.

[Sirens]

Thanks. Appreciate it.

So, the lands and grooves
match to Quinn's gun?

Yeah, they do.

You think he did it?

We've got what his wife said about him.

Bones all around him,
his gun used to kill

all the victims in
the basement? Um, yeah.

How do you square the fact that

their kid went to Reid's class?

That's a hell of a coincidence.

He's almost certainly the one
that put Quinn in the storage unit.

I mean, when we do find
him, we can ask him why.

[Indistinct police radio]

By the way, aren't you the one
that thought Quinn was playing us?

Yeah, that was me.

This case...

Doesn't add up.

Like the comment Quinn said to Reid.

“Her perfume... it choked
me. It was so strong.”

Linguistic profile
would call that leakage.

I mean, the use of the word “choke,”

it's a subconscious admission of guilt.

They inventoried this whole place.

There wasn't a drop of perfume in it.

Doesn't add up.

[Tapping]

- Come in.
- Hi.

Agent Prentiss? I'm
special Agent Meadows.

From ViCAP?

I have Owen's... uh, agent Quinn's file

on The Strangler that you requested.

Thank you. Mary, right?

Right there is fine.

Um, I'm sorry, but I
have something to say,

and it's not just me.

Close the door.

Well, Rossi's on one of his
“doesn't add up” tears.

Uh-oh.

Yeah.

I'm guessing he's not the only one.

Can't see it...

In this case. I mean, is he a suspect,

or is he a victim?

The worst part is, I can't
see why I can't see it.

I don't remember Quinn quitting.

One day he was here, the next he wasn't.

So... I went back to see when that was,

and I found out it was 2 weeks after

you were arrested for murder.

You knew that, didn't you?

It's not connected.

But your rational brain
is telling you that,

and that part's right.

I also know there is a part of you

that you don't show anyone.

And that part of you
is trying to figure out

why did Spencer Reid
get out of his prison,

you know, when Quinn didn't.

The answer is family...

This family...

We fought to get you out of there,

the same way we fought to
save Prentiss from Mr. Scratch.

We fought to save this
team from getting shut down.

And now, family will help us
figure out what we're missing.

How?

Quinn's family is downstairs.

How he responds to them could
really tell us who he is.

[Door latch clicks]

[Sighs]

No!

Just don't.

All right.

Dad.

I thought I'd never see you again.

Get your hands off of him!

- No, wait!
- Don't! Theo!

Shane: Mom! Who's Theo? Who's Theo?

- Theo!
- Shane: Who's Theo?

Ok, we all want a profile
that explains everything,

wraps everything up neatly,
but we don't have that here.

Prentiss: So, instead, I'd like
to hear everyone's best theories,

and we're gonna rebuild
this case from the ground up.

Simmons: Well, Quinn as The
Strangler still gets my vote.

I mean, start with how
he treated his wife.

It's textbook precursor behavior.

Lewis: Ok, then when he worked here,

he did his best to throw us off.

And when he felt confident
he could get away with it,

he quit to kill with impunity.

Until Theo caught him for us.

That's where I tap out.

A 19-year-old kid gets the drop

on an experienced FBI agent?

The agent's also a serial killer

who just killed the kid's parents? No.

So what's your theory, Rossi?

I don't have one.

Reid: Let's consider this.

Quinn just called his own son “Theo.”

Classic example of parapraxis.

A Freudian slip.

Reid: Literally defined
as an unconscious wish

or subdued desire.

So, why, in the middle of
an emotional reconnection

with his own flesh and blood

would he call out someone else's name?

He built a bond with Theo.

That may be born from
Stockholm syndrome?

Could you all follow me, please?

Prentiss: You all know the
ViCAP team from the 5th floor?

Once they heard about our investigation,

they asked us to consider some
new information about Quinn.

Go ahead, Mary.

We just... we wanted to
say we worked with Owen,

side-by-side, and...

He wasn't a killer.

Man: Eccentric, maybe obsessed,

but not a killer.

Second man: I sat next
to him for 3 years.

He was a dedicated public servant.

He believed in what we did here.

Simmons: Well, if he was so dedicated
to the FBI, then why did he quit?

Woman: He thought he could save lives.

He couldn't just let The
Strangler keep killing.

And the victims he thought he found,

they were college-age kids, a
little older than his own son.

He couldn't stand the
idea of those parents

not knowing what
happened to their child.

Woman: You have to admit,
the unsub's hunting ground...

New haven, New Rochelle,
New Brunswick...

He was right on.

Meadows: And we get it. We're
not the profilers. You are.

But if he was a psychopath,
we would have noticed.

Thank you.

Rossi: All right. Well, let's just say

for the sake of argument we
take Quinn's story at face value.

What does that leave us with?

Theo.

Maybe he's not a killer, but he's involved

and he's gone out of his way
to stay off our radar.

Garcia, look at Theo's classmates
and focus on the name “April.”

According to Quinn, that
was his girlfriend's name.

They may have met on campus.

Hello, gorgeous. April Pearson
took a linguistics class with Theo.

She lives in an apartment
just off-campus...

Which she just moved out of.

Lewis: Well, that would explain
the additional belongings

we found at the storage unit with Quinn.

Ok, we need to find
her. Where are you going?

I need to talk to him.

Where is April?

Who?

Theo didn't just hide
you. He hid her, too.

Where is she?

I had to.

What you said about the perfume...

How it was so strong, it choked you...

You weren't talking about the wife.

You were talking about April.

Quinn: What?

What is this?

Jerry: It's time for Theo's final test.

No, no, no, no, no! Dad! Dad, no!

Oh, just as we thought.

You turned him into
your pet, haven't you?

Why are you doing this?

Because it's time for
you to make a choice...

A choice that starts with the acceptance

that there is a killer
inside everyone. Everyone.

Here, I'll show you.

[April screams]

Kill the girl.

She's standing in the way
of our son's potential.

- [April's muffled whimpering]
- No!

Then we will kill Theo,

then her, then you.

[April whimpering]

I'm sorry.

Aggghh!

[Coughing and choking]

[Chain hits floor]

Quinn: The next thing I know,
I woke up in the storage unit.

We found your captors
dead in the basement.

I think I know what happened.

Theo: Can we do it quickly, at least?

[Muffled crying]

That's why Theo's in hiding from us.

- He killed his own parents.
- [Knock on door]

[Door latch clicks]

Garcia just matched Jerry
Holston's travel for work

with abductions in New London,
New haven, and New Rochelle.

The dates on the bones
were a perfect match.

You were telling us the
truth the whole time,

and Theo was giving us
the evidence to prove it.

JJ: Except Theo was
raised by two psychopaths.

And now that he's killed them...

Who knows what he's gonna do next.

Man: What do you mean she won't sleep?

Ok, ok, we've...

Yeah. Put her on the phone.

Hi, honey.

Man: Mom says you don't
want to go to sleep.

What's... what's...
why not? Tell you what.

You go to sleep right now,

'cause tomorrow morning
when you wake up...

Excuse me. Can you tell me...

[Bullet pings off column]

Uhh!

Uhh... Uhh... Uhh...

Uhh!

Security footage positively IDed Theo.

He's definitely our gunman.

All right, well, I'm thinking bang

and then bang... victim
number 2 falls here.

Theo walks up, pulls the
trigger with no hesitation.

Cold.

Post-traumatic snap, maybe.

You know, Theo felt threatened.
Something his parents did

reminded him of that,
and it fits the profile.

Poor guy tried to crawl away.

Lewis: Quinn said The Strangler's
wife burned off his fingerprints.

But am I crazy, or is
this guy missing them, too?

Tara's not crazy.

According to the M.E., both victims had

their prints burned off, most
likely with hydrochloric acid.

So, what do we know about these two?

Oh, no wallets, no cell phone on him.

We looked over his phone.
Hadn't been activated.

He had an earbud in.

They're faking it.

So these victims weren't random at all.

They were stalking Theo.

Without weapons.

So, the plan must have
been to overwhelm him,

take him to a secondary location.

But this approach... The 2-on-1, no IDs,

it feels almost paramilitary.

But what paramilitary group
would burn off fingerprints

and invite a husband-
and-wife killing team in?

Well, whoever they are, they are the
reason that Theo's been so hard to find.

He's not hiding from us.

He's hiding from them.

Help me profile this.

Let's start with April.

Tell me everything you can about her.

I can only tell you what
Theo felt safe telling me.

That was that young love, you know,

the kind you only feel
when you're 19 or 20.

Made me wonder if I'd survive
to see my son that happy.

That's why she was a
threat to Theo's parents.

She showed him that there was a
world outside of their insanity.

To do that, she...

What?

When we found you in the storage unit,

you were surrounded by her things.

That tells me that Theo
didn't just do this for you.

I suppose. I don't really know.

I mean, think about his
state of mind right now.

He has no resources,
he has no place to go,

except someplace where he
knows he'll never be found.

A place she showed him.

He saved her life. Now
she's gonna save his.

If they're on the run from
some group that's hunting them,

they wouldn't go to a
place tied to his history.

No. They'd go to a place tied to hers.

Prentiss: Garcia, what
direction was that train going?

Uh, the blue line... south.

Reid: It terminates in Springfield.

Look for any connection
to her in that area...

A second apartment, a family home.

If you can't find
anything, keep going south.

Garcia: Booyah. April's grandfather

owns a cabin on Lake Accotink.

Good place to hide out

from whoever's still after them.

We can get to them first.

We can, but we have to
keep SWAT outside the door.

Theo and April are paranoid, believing
correctly that they're being hunted.

We have to defuse them.

What do you have in mind?

[Crickets chirping]

[Thumping]

Theo, it's me.

You got my message?

I did, yes.

You made it!

Did you get them, all of them?

That's the only way we're
safe is if they're all gone.

All of whom?

Oh, my god! You don't know.

Theo, they don't know!

How could you not know?

I left you all the clues
in the storage unit.

We know your father was The Strangler

and that he killed 7 victims, and
we know that your mother helped.

No, no.

How can you not see this?
How could you miss this?

What did we miss?

My father didn't kill
them. He abducted them,

and then he handed them
over to The Messiah.

The Messiah?

Theo: And then The Messiah
would kill them in front of us,

his followers, to inspire us.

Don't you see? This isn't
one serial killer or a couple.

It's a cult.

It's ok. It's ok. It's ok.

[Liquid squirting]

Prove your allegiance.

[Sizzling]

[Groaning]

Uhh!

Aah! Aah!

Aaaahh! Aaahhh!

Good.

Now listen closely

because the end is nigh.

[Sirens]

Reid: Give me a sense
of how big this cult is.

How many people are in it?

I never saw more than a
handful of 'em at a time.

The faces always changed.
That's how The Messiah liked it.

And this Messiah... Who is he?

His name is Benjamin Merva.

And what about this group?
What do they call themselves?

The Believers, because they believe

they could inherit the Earth.

You know about any of this?

No. Nothing.

Could you do something for me,

when this is all over?

Lewis: The Believers were a small
group obsessed with the end times,

similar to Heaven's gate.

- Violent?
- Just the opposite.

They prepared themselves
by fasting, meditation,

giving away their earthly possessions.

That doesn't make sense...

The Holstons joining
up with a group that are

basically a bunch of pacifists.

Simmons: Maybe they
stopped being pacifists

after their prediction about the
end of the world didn't come true.

I mean, that's when a cult
would tend to destabilize,

and it's easier for a violent or
charismatic personality to take over.

The Messiah needs to be our focus.

What do we know about him?

Garcia: He has no
criminal or online record.

I'm searching for
locations tied to him now.

If he killed 7 people, he's
probably keeping a low profile.

Simmons: Yeah, but he's still
attracting followers somehow,

most likely men who get
turned on by watching

him kill in front of an audience.

So, it's not just a cult.

It's a cult of potential serial killers.

Rossi: Exactly the kind
of crowd Theo's parents

would want to hang out with.

Garcia, can you point us in a
direction where Merva would be now?

Yeah. He bought a warehouse
on the edge of the district.

Garcia: Not the kind of
place I'd go to church,

but ideal if human
sacrifice is your thing.

If we can arrest the cult leader,
we can stop the cult. Let's go.

[Guns cocking]

Shh...

Prentiss: FBI! Show us your hands.

Benjamin David Merva,
you're under arrest

for the murder of 7 people.

Where are your followers, Ben?

Oh, I have no followers...

Only students.

And what you see is all I have.

[Handcuffs click]

May I have everyone's attention?

Metro PD and the Bureau have
been made aware of The Believers

and possible activity
following their leader's arrest,

but taking Theo at his word...

Well, we arrested 3. There's
probably more out there.

But if they follow cult dynamics,

they'll break down without The Messiah.

Typical cult. You think
it's a cast of thousands,

when really it's just 4 wackos
sitting around in the dark.

I think we deserve
some decompression time,

and Rossi is kind enough to host.

Rossi: And I have some
top-shelf wine picked

just for the occasion.

Yes! Ok, I have to do a systems check.

Please do not have too
much fun without me.

♪ I will meet you all there ♪

Unfortunately, I don't think I'm
gonna be able to make it tonight.

Tell me not to worry.

Don't. I'm good. I'm really good.

Ok. Well...

- It's not family without you there.
- [Phone beeps]

I know. There's another family
that could use my help right now.

Ah.

What's this for?

It's for all the times
you worried about me.

I never said thank you.

Thank you.

You're welcome.

Is my dad coming?

He's finishing up his
final debrief interview.

I'll keep you company
until he comes down.

Can you tell me what
happened to him now?

First thing that you need to know is

that your father is a hero.

[”Begin the beguine” playing]

[Laughter] [Talking indistinctly]

- Alvez: Ok.
- Lewis: It's true.

Shut up.

It's true!

There are actual sexual positions

that produce ugly babies?

Yes. It's been proven.

Well, by who?

Your mom?

Oh ho! All right.

You want a war? I will bring it.

- It's on.
- Come at me, bro.

Rossi: Emily, please. Let it go.

I know. Maybe it's the
curse of being team leader,

but something is bugging me about this.

Well, I'll tell you what bugs me.

We found a cult leader but no cult.

That's not it. I mean,
that's it, but that's not it.

Well, what is it, then?

In the warehouse where
we arrested The Messiah,

there were these Petri
dishes on the floor

filled with hydrochloric acid.

JJ: Perfect for
burning off fingerprints.

I mean, that's what the drug
lord El Chapo did in Mexico.

Prentiss: And based on the
two dead guys in the subway,

maybe that was their initiation.

You want to join, you
burn off your fingerprints.

Where you going with this?

It's just one nagging question.

Why did they burn off
Quinn's fingerprints?

Well, they tortured him.

With their initiation rite?

I mean, maybe, but...

Or maybe we somehow
misread Quinn all this time.

Maybe there was cult programming
Theo didn't know about.

What if they did convert him?

And we left him in the building

where The Messiah is
being held in custody.

JJ: All right, I'll
call Spence and Garcia.

Guys, we need to get back
to Quantico right now.

Right this way, Owen.

Your son is waiting for you downstairs.

Garcia: Oh, wait! Uh...

- [Ringing]
- This phone, this phone, this phone.

Garcia: JJ? I am on my way.

- Argh! Lost her.
- [Beep]

So, I will text.

“JJ, I'm on my way.”

I knew you didn't do it. I just knew.

And I can't tell you
what a privilege it's been

working with the A-team on this case.

“A-team”? Ohh... A-team.

- [Phone beeps]
- And Owen, if we time this right,

you might actually get out
of here before the sunrise.

Draw your gun.

- What?
- Draw your gun!

[Phone rings]

Hey, JJ, what's up?

- [Gunshot]
- What was that?

Stay here.

Put your hands up, Quinn!

What happened?

It's her.

What?

She's one of them.

Meadows: Drop your gun, agent Reid.

It's been you the whole time.

Yes, it was.

Quinn somehow figured it out first.

Pity having to shoot him,

but he can't give me
what I want, and you can.

What's that?

You and I are gonna go upstairs

and free my messiah.

You're in the heart of the FBI.

As soon as the rest of my
team figures out it's you,

you'll be dead before
you're out the door.

Then we need to work quickly.

I'm not cooperating with
you. Might as well shoot me.

I have a better idea.

[Tires squeal]

Now, what's it gonna be?

Because you can either
join us, or she dies.

Spencer, just shoot her! Shoot her!

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