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The unknown subject
we're looking for

is a male, most likely
in his 20s,

based on
the two victims so far.

But before we go
any further,

we need to be clear.

Age is the most difficult
variable to predict.

He could be in his 40s.

A very fit 40s.

So our point is,

the profile
is a guide only.

It's an
investigative tool,

and we need
to stress that.

All we have is
a series of deductions,

but one
of those deductions

is that the unsub knew
his victims personally.

Which is why we're
delivering the profile
to you,

because you also knew
the victims.

So, our goal is not to
make you uncomfortable

or suspicious.
Normally we wouldn't

even give the profile
this early,

but you are our best chance

at discovering
the identity of--

Yes?

I have a question
for agent Rossi.

Go ahead.

Why did your last book...

Suck so bad?

[laughter]

Uh...well, we're not
gonna talk about that now.

Really? that's all
I want to talk about.

I mean, you even consider
that Tommy Yates was a patsy?

Look, we get it, OK?

You have no reason
to trust us.

We're the FBI,
and you are
the official community

of the Roswell,
new Mexico, truthers.

Thanks for not calling us
conspiracy theorists.

Well, we know you
don't like that term.

While we don't agree
with your opinions,
a lot of people do.

Like how September 11th
was an inside job,

or how vapor trails
from jets are poisonous,

or how lizard people
are secretly running
the government.

Ah-ah-ah! confirmation
from the FBI.

You all heard it.

No, no, see
that's specifically
not what I was...

OK. We need your help

to stop a killer who
is hiding in this group.

That's why we are having
this here in this legion hall

and not
at the police station.

We don't want you
to feel surveilled--

What did you put
in my pocket?!

Gun! drop it!

[shouting, screaming]

Drop it!

Prentiss: All right,
everybody calm down.

What's your name?

I'm Emily.

Emily Prentiss.
It says right here.

The reason I'm asking
is so we can have
a conversation.

[breathing hard] Doug.

I'm Doug.

Great, Doug. Let's just
take a second.

Let's think through
the logic of this.

I--I didn't do
any of this!

We're not saying you did,

but you are making
things worse with that gun.

The reason
we asked you here,

the only reason,
is to listen. That's all.

OK? so just listen.

Listen. Put the gun down.

I know a false flag
when I see one.

You bitch!
No!

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Garcia: "once you eliminate
the impossible,

"whatever remains,
no matter how improbable,

must be the truth."

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

[door opens]

Can I go home now?

No. We're holding
you and your friends
for 24 hours.

You're all
persons of interest

in a murder
investigation.

Murder? what,
Doug killed himself.

True. But there are
still two other victims
to account for.

Now, normally when
there's a public suicide,

it's because the suspect
is the serial killer

and he's killed himself
out of guilt.

But we can't
prove that yet,

so, our investigation
is still open.

He said this whole thing
was a false flag,

which means he thought
you were trying to frame him.

I know what a false flag is.

The FBI doesn't frame people.

What, not anymore?

You know,
all of your friends
have lawyered up.

Called us Nazis,
or both.

But you haven't.

So?

So that tells me
you want to get

to the bottom of this
just as much as we do.

Do you know
what a podcast is?

I do.

Well, I have one.

So if we're actually
gonna do this,

you give me back my phone

and I record
our conversation

for my podcast,
'cause I'm not talking to you

without documenting
everything.

You want this
on the record?

Of course.
I want this on the record.

Otherwise I'm lawyering up
with all my friends.

So what do you say?

Prentiss: The answer's no.

I think we should
consider it.

No. She will control
the audio.

She can twist your words,

edit them to make
the bureau look bad.

We already look bad.

The brass is gonna
want to know

how and why Doug killed
himself in front of us.

Yeah, and that's my ass,

but I'm not making
this situation worse

than it already is.

Garcia, have we confirmed
that this truther's even legit?

Garcia: Of course I've
confirmed that, and she is.

Melissa miller has a pretty
popular truther podcast,

especially around Roswell.

She promotes all kinds
of conspiracies,

but her cause celebre
is staged shootings.

So she thinks the reason
we have gun violence,

it's been faked
by the government

as a pretext to revoke
the second amendment.
Nice.

It's another reason
not to do this.

Or it's the exact reason
to do this.

What was tonight, other
than a staged shooting,

and why is she the only
one willing to cooperate?

Unsubs like
to insert themselves

into the investigation.

Profile skews male,
but she could be a partner.

OK, then,
if she isn't involved,

I can get her to talk.

I'm a forensic psychologist.

I'm trained to outwit
and outsmart

clinical psychopaths far
more dangerous than her.

But if we're wrong, she's
going to post her podcast.

Then what? then we're
the next example of fake news.

Look, everybody,
give us a second.

You, too, Garcia.

We don't just have
egg on our face,

we have blood
on our hands.

It's not like these
conspiracy theorists

are gonna be quiet.

I am aware of that.
I need options.

We're out of them.

The profile says
it's a truther,

and only one of them
is talking to us.

We have to throw
a Hail Mary.

[cell phone dings]

Say something.
We need to make sure

the levels are good.

I'm Dr. Tara Lewis
of the BAU--

No. Say something
interesting.

Tell me how you really
feel about truthers.

My audience
could use a sense

of the FBI's bias
against us.

I got my PHD.
By taking a theory,

testing it, and then
proving my results.

Now, proving my results means
that I take those results

and I turn them over
to other scientists

to see if they can
replicate them.

And if they can't,
then my theory was wrong.

See, that's science.
A consensus of evidence

that we call truth.

What you do is different.

Oh, no, it's not.

Yes, it is.

Because your theories
are unprovable.

Give me one.

Uh, president Obama
wasn't born here.

He was born in Kenya.

Perfect. That's perfect.

So, I show you his long-form
birth certificate,

and then you would respond
that it's been faked

because that's how deep
the conspiracy goes.

And then that becomes
your argument

against any evidence
that I provide.

It's a cognitive trick
that keeps you

from having to admit
that life is messy.

It's random.
Not everything fits

the easy explanation
that a conspiracy gives you.

All right, then.
Well, let's talk
about the murders.

When did you first
hear about them?

Yesterday.
When we were invited in.

Garcia: It's time to get
out our tinfoil hats,
my fine furry friends,

because we are on our way
to Roswell, new Mexico,

aka, ground zero
of conspiracy theorists

because of a certain
alien crash--
I mean weather balloon.

The sheriff there
has had two
suspicious deaths

over the last 48 hours.

Both victims were members
of the truther movement.

Yes, which is a group
of conspiracy theorists

who share their out-there
beliefs online with each other.

No judgment here. Let's look
at our first victim Bryan Behar.

He believed that the fluoride
they put in our drinking water

is a mind-control agent
meant to keep us docile.

He died by drowning.

People drown
all the time, you say.

I say not in
their own aquariums.

So the MO matches
his conspiracy.

Is that a coincidence
or a choice?

That depends on
victim number two.

Uh-huh. That's Carl lee.

He's a JFK conspiracy nut

who was shot once
in the throat.

As anyone who saw
the Zapruder film knows,

that's where the first
bullet struck Kennedy.

Carl lee we can definitively
classify as a homicide,

but the drowning death--that
could have another explanation.

That's why
we'll be treating this

as an equivocal
death investigation.

Wheels up in 20.

Back up. What was
that term you used?

Equivocal something?

An equivocal death
investigation.

It's an investigation
where we consider all options.

It could be a murder,
but it could also be a suicide

or an accident
or even natural causes.

Are you saying these
murders weren't murder?

Is that the FBI's
official position?

I'm saying we let clues
guide us to a deduction.

We don't jump to conclusions.

But as we were flying here,

our technical analyst
uncovered something unusual.

Right.
Your technical analyst.

That would be
Penelope Garcia?

Yeah. I looked up
your whole team
before coming in here.

Why did you do that?

Because I'm a naturally
suspicious person

who wanted to get
a feel for your methods.

Specifically the illegal
surveillance that the FBI

is willing to resort to
to frame innocent men
and women.

As I said, the FBI
doesn't frame anyone,

and we certainly don't
do anything illegal.

Well, I guess that depends
on what Garcia found

and how she found it.

So what did she find?

Garcia: It looks like
our two victims

were talking via
encrypted texts.

It took a while to break,

and their conversation
was short,

but its content

made my perfectly shaped
eyebrows go, "hmm?"

Carl says to Bryan,
"I think I'm close

to finding out
who it is."

To which Bryan says,

"maybe we should
go to the police."

And Carl says,
"what good would that do?"

Well, that could be motive.

Whatever Carl
was close to finding

could have killed him
and Bryan.

At first glance, yeah.

But we're talking about
conspiracy theorists here,

and a lot of them suffer
from association fallacy.

Let's say you thought
Lyndon Johnson

had JFK killed in order
to escalate the war in Vietnam.

OK, stop right there.

What?

You guys have a jet?

Yes.

A jet.

Yes.

Black helicopters

surveilling
the American people.

No, no, that's ridiculous.

But a little branch
of the FBI

has its own private jet.

OK, one, I never said
the FBI doesn't

have black helicopters.

And, two, when people
are being murdered,

we have to respond
quickly.

[scoffs] a jet.

I can't even.

Sorry.
Where were we?

Let's say you thought
Lyndon Johnson

had JFK killed
in order to escalate
the war in Vietnam.

That's ridiculous.
Everybody knows that--

Prentiss: No, no.

We're not getting
into that again.

Go ahead, Luke.

Uh, my point is,
that if you thought

the government
could do that,

then you were likely
believe that they'd

brought down
the towers on 9-11.

Pretty soon you're
down that rabbit hole

and you see
everything as a plot.

So maybe these guys
weren't into anything.

Maybe they just
talked themselves
into a group delusion.

OK, we should investigate
that when we land.

And since the police
are mentioned so prominently

on the text,
they might know

what the victims
were looking into.

The Chicago mob, right?
Killed JFK.

He gets it.

No. Don't get him
started, Matt.

Next, he'll be showing
you YouTube clips.

So I'm sure
when you flew in,

they showed you Carl
and Bryan's police record.

They did. And what we saw
were 4 years of reports

that both men were convinced
someone was watching them.

But despite his best efforts,
sheriff bowman

was never able to find
any evidence of stalking.

Oh, yeah. 'cause
he tried really hard.

You know what was
much more interesting

was what we found when
we walked the crime scenes.

The glass is 3/4 of an inch
thick and that's sturdy.

If you wanted to drown
someone in an aquarium,

that would do the trick.

They said there was
a bleach solution
in the water,

so he was probably
cleaning it

and his ear buds were in.

Make it easy
to sneak up on Bryan.

Unsub wouldn't have
had to work too hard.

Bryan was startled.

He took in water
and bleach,

and he was asphyxiated
before he knew
what was happening.

How did the unsub
get in here?

Hey, Matt,
a question for you.

Any evidence of a break-in
at your crime scene?

Hang on, JJ.
Let me check.

Any signs
of forced entry?

No, sir.

No, none here either.

What I am seeing is an unsub
who covers up his tracks.

It looks like he shot
Carl in the throat...

Bullet was
a through and through.

Came out the other side
of Carl's neck

and went in the wall.

Dug it out,
picked up the casing,

took the gun with him.

So this guy knows how
to clean up after himself

and how to get in and out
of two houses without detection.

JJ, let me call you back.

Looks like an RFID card.

Mm-hmm. What's it go to?

That's the question.

Huh. Well, hello.

Huh.

That gun's missing.

Well, it means the
unsub's no mastermind.

It's been right under
our nose the whole time.

So we went through
Carl's meticulous log

of his hardware,
and the missing gun
should be here.

It is a bodyguard 380.

Now, if the unsub
found this in
a secret compartment,

then he knows Carl,
probably very well.

And based on the fortress
that Carl lived in,

it'd probably be
another truther.

No one else
could get that close.

And that would explain why
there was no forced entry
at Bryan's either.

So when Carl said,
"I'm close to finding out

who it is," he wasn't
talking about
some secret cabal,

he was talking
about a friend.

Prentiss: Someone he was
willing to call the cops on.

We should bring
all the truthers in
for questioning.

No, no, that won't work.

They won't cooperate
under coercion.

Look, I say we lay
all our cards
out on the table.

Let's deliver
our profile to them.

Oh, that's risky.

But worth it.
Either one of the truthers

points us to the unsub...

Or he shows up himself.

And that brings us
up to tonight.

Ballistics confirmed
that the gun that killed Carl

was the one that Doug
used on himself.

All the evidence points
to Doug Downey

as our killer, except...

Except you don't
have anything tying Doug

to Bryan's drowning.

Melissa, I've been as
transparent as I can
possibly be.

Is there anything
we've missed?

[sighs]

One thing.

But you didn't
miss it,

you covered it up.

Specifically,
that the sheriff

made us all
walk through
a metal detector.

What?

Don't pretend
you didn't know that.

And don't pretend
you don't know why.

Someone
in law enforcement

planted a gun on Doug.

Because what was it
that he was saying
earlier tonight?

What did you put
in my pocket?!

Gun! drop it!

[shouting]

Melissa, that doesn't
make any sense.

You tell me what's
more believable--

A missing gun
in a wacky compartment

or the police planted

a bodyguard 380,

a very popular firearm
in law enforcement, on Doug.

Then, they call their friends
all the way in Quantico

and you guys get on
your fancy jet

and come out here
to make sure that
the cover-up's complete.

That's not what happened.

Am I your unsub?
Yes or no?

You are a person
of interest,

just like
every other truther

in this building tonight.

That's a yes.

Which is why I'm
recording all of this,

to show the world
exactly how far

the FBI
is willing to go

to cover up
the truth.

OK. Let's take a moment.

I think we've gotten
off track.

No, no.
No, we're, uh,

we're right where
we need to be.

See, I wanted
the brilliant science
of behavioral profiling

to provide an answer
for all this.

I really did.

But right now,
from where I'm sitting,

this crazy conspiracy
theorist

is the only one
making any sense.

Guys, hold up.

Can we plug this in
somewhere?

Yes, ma'am.

So this is
the metal detector

mm-hmm.
You had
at the legion hall?

And you made all
the truthers walk through it.

Yep.
And then after that

you brought it back here
to the police stations,

you haven't
touched it since?

Sheriff,
why didn't you tell us

you were gonna do that?

You told us you didn't
want to spook the truthers.

You also told us
the killer might show up,

so this was
for our protection.

Can you tell me
I was wrong?

No, sheriff,
you weren't wrong,

but it does beg
the bigger question.

How the hell did Doug get
a gun through that thing?

I was hoping
you could answer that,

you all being
the geniuses with
this investigation.

JJ: No, that's not right.

Alvez: What do you mean
it's not right?

It says it right here.

No, that's not
what I saw.

Did that just--

Lewis: Yeah. Yeah, it did.

What is it?

[beep]

How in the world
could that happen?

I think I might know.

Melissa: Bullcrap.

Bull crap.

You know, I would use
stronger language,

but I don't want
this podcast

to get an "explicit" rating.

Well, it's the truth.

Metal detectors require
precise calibration.

Otherwise, they're
susceptible to all
kinds of interference.

Photocopiers, bluetooth,
even fluorescent lighting.

The sheriff was
in such a hurry
to get it set up

down at the legion hall
that he assumed

it would work the same
way it always had,

but it didn't.

I still don't buy it.

Do you know why?

Why what?

Why you don't buy it.

I can tell you.

[exhales]

It's called
proportionality bias.

You see, it's our
natural human instinct

to assume that big events
have big causes.

We don't want to believe
that a lone gunman

killed JFK with a rifle
he bought for 19.99,

or that hijackers
brought down 4 planes

using only box cutters.

I mean, there has to be
a better explanation.

We need an answer
that's more satisfying,

but sometimes
it just isn't.

You know?
Machines break down.

Systems don't work.
Life is messy.

It's random.

Fine. Let's just test
your version, shall we?

Let's.

You're saying
that Doug snuck a gun

through a metal detector,
a metal detector

he would have no way
of knowing was broken.

Is that your story?

Well, why don't you
tell me a better one.

Not my job.

What my audience
wants to hear, however,

is how well your team
does yours.

All right, well, while
agent Prentiss and I

were figuring out
the mystery

of the malfunctioning
metal detector,

agents Jareau and Simmons
headed to the morgue.

So let's presume Bryan Behar
here died of asphyxiation

from drowning. What I
can't explain is this.

These chemical burns
on his face.

Well, he was drowned
in a bleach solution.

Would that do this?

No. This looks like
some form

of aerosolized toxin,

but damned if I could
tell you what kind.

And that's still
not the oddest thing
I've seen today.

Mr. Carl lee,
shot in the throat,

but covering his wound,
this doozy.

The blood matches
Mr. Lee.

Myoglobin on the blood
says he was alive
when it happened,

and only his prints
are on it.

Obviously it's from a book,
but I can't tell which one.

We can.

It's from "the catcher
in the rye."

Wow.

Does that mean
something to you?

[scoffs]

Of course that
means something to me.

"the catcher in the rye"
Has been linked

to multiple killers
since it was first published.

And when
mark David Chapman
shot John Lennon,

he said, "read
'catcher in the rye.'

That's my statement."

It was found on
john Hinckley's bookshelf

after he shot Reagan.

Oswald, Manson,
Robert Bardo,

they were all
obsessed with it.

It was the original
brainwashing tool

of the united states
government.

I wouldn't call it that.

Of course you wouldn't.

Because then
you'd have to admit

how sophisticated
the whole-scale duping

of this nation
has become.

I'm not following you.

Aurora, Orlando,
sandy hook.

The united states government

shot up a bunch
of empty buildings

and then gathered
everything up

and traded it
amongst themselves

because that's how
plausible deniability works.

Sandy hook was staged?

Sandy hook was staged
the worst.

All those actors
they threw in front
of cameras

to be grieving parents.

I was screaming
at my television set,

"you're lying!"

And if they would lie
about that,

then they would absolutely
lie about a metal detector.

So let me make one thing
clear moving forward.

When I say they,
I mean you.

Give me one second.

[indistinct chatter]

Son of a--
[screaming, banging]

What the hell kind of outfit
you running here, agent?

You want to talk
about it?

No.

It's OK to tap out
if you want.

No. Emily,
I can do this.

Has she said anything
that points

to her involvement
in the murders?

Have you gotten
any answers out of her?

Maybe it's time
to change up the strategy.

Where's Dr. Lewis?

I'm SSA Jareau.
I'm here to talk to you

about your favorite book,
"catcher in the rye."

[laughs] I get it.
You're rotating agents now,

wearing me down
so I can't see your lies.

Is that the game?

I just had some
information

agent Lewis didn't,

but if you don't
want to hear it--

Oh, no, I want to hear it.

[ding]

So after we found
such a prominent clue on Carl,

we wanted to study
the original text,

so we got a copy
of the book.

Apparently,
"catcher in the rye"

Is the local book club
selection this month.

And did you know
that there are two actual...

Alvez: ...brick and mortar
bookstores in Roswell?

But one of the owners
was happy to give me a copy.

What page is it?

Uh, 76. That's
what was on Carl.

OK, here it is.
It, uh, it starts
mid-sentence.

"don't see how he could
like a phony book like that

and still like the one
by ring Lardner."

No, that's not right.

What do you mean,
it's not right?
I have it right here.

That's not what I saw.

Prentiss:
Did that just--

Yeah, see, this page 76
Is different.

The page on Carl's throat
was annotated.

The publisher bolded
terms and phrases
for emphasis.

Well, that would
throw the whole layout
of the book off

and then your page 76
Wouldn't look like this one.

OK, there are two
editions of the book.
That's common.

But maybe it's not
the page that's important.

Maybe it's the edition.

The devil's in
the pitchforky
little details,

my friends.

I matched the formatting

of the text
on poor doomed Carl

to a local publisher.

He goes by the name
of Bob Orci.

He writes conspiracy-
Related commentary

for books like
"behold a pale horse,"

"protocols of
the elders of Zion,"

"Mein Kampf."

Books the truthers love.

Right now we need
as much evidence
as possible

to prove that Doug
is our unsub.

If he bought the book
we found on Carl,

it strengthens our case.

Luke, you and Matt,
bring in this publisher.

I'm on it. Garcia,
can you help me out
with an address?

Yeah, I'm working on
the physical address
of Mr. Orci as we speak.

The thing is,
he lives so far out there

that it's not a place
where there are street numbers

on the houses,
so the closest single

physical address
I can get you is...

Route 3, greenwood way?

You know him?

By reputation.
He's not a truther.

He's an anarchist.
He's dangerous.

How dangerous?

He has fertilizer lining
his place as an explosive.

Prentiss!

Wait. That far out
in the desert,

there's no cell service.

You're not gonna
reach them by phone.

[coyote howling]

Alvez: Is that anfo, Matt?

Yeah.

FBI!

Oh, my god.

[door opens]

What's going on?
Who are you?

I'm SSA Emily Prentiss
of the BAU.

Melissa, you're gonna
want to take a seat.

Oh, god, someone died,
didn't they?

What makes you say that?

You guys have had me
waiting in here
for hours

while your team
tracked down Bob Orci.
What happened?

Are you recording this?
You should.

[ding]

Agents Simmons and Alvez

landed at Bob Orci's
at 3:37 am.

The were very surprised
by what they found.

FBI!

Oh, my god.

Hey, guys, meet Bob Orci.
Weapons down, please.

You were saying...

Wait. So you got there
before them.

How?

By helicopter.

Not the bureau's
helicopter.

This one belongs
to the police force.

What?

There's been a push.

Police forces
across the country

have been purchasing
military-grade hardware.

Yeah. Like grenade
launchers and tanks.

Roswell doesn't
need a tank.

It needs a helicopter.
People get lost
in the desert.

Sometimes an FBI agent
like me

needs to get to a cabin
in the middle of nowhere

as fast as possible.

Based on your warning,
the sheriff and I

landed a mile away
and we came up with a plan.

FBI! hands up, now!

Now!

Wh-what?!
What is--

Hands on your head.

Get on your knees.

Where's the fertilizer, bob?

The fertili--
Uh, it's--

It's under the tarp
over there.

Yes, sir.
Check it out.

Uh...

No, that's, uh, my--
My organic tomatoes

need special soil,
and--and--

Th-that's my vitamin
supplements

are in those barrels.

No, wait, wait, wait, wait.

No, please. Please.

I--I swear to you,
I will surrender everything.

Just please don't kill me.

Organic tomatoes.

Yeah.

Anfo stands for

ammonium nitrate
fuel oil. Fuel oil.

You can't grow
anything with it.

We pointed that out
to bob.

He said that must be why
his tomatoes kept dying.

We searched
the whole compound anyway.

There was no bomb.

But Bob Orci

had quite the story
to tell.

It's all an act.
I'm no hermit.

Yeah, I--
I tell these truthers

that I'm some kind
of holy fool

and they buy all my stuff.

By "stuff,"
You mean your books?

No, the books
are a loss-leader.

But the vitamin
supplements, oh,

oh, my god,
I've made so much money

off the vitamin supplements.

So, "catcher in the rye"
Is just the latest

in a long line of crap.

Well, the book itself isn't.

And J.D. Salinger
is a genius.

Didn't your read my commentary,

read my notes, annotations?

I tried. You lost me

when you tried
to connect

Holden Caulfield to
the Bilderberg group.

There is no connection.

All you gotta do
to fool these morons

is to ask a question
that starts with,

"isn't it interesting?"

Like--like--
Like, isn't it interesting

that Holden Caulfield
and Bilderberg group

both have 15 letters.

Yeah. And then you tag that

with "wow! wake up, sheeple,"

You just sold
a thousand copies.

We think the killer
might have bought

one of your commentaries.

Who'd you sell to
in Roswell?

The book group
is reading

"catcher in the rye"
Next month,

so all I was
trying to do is
capitalize on that.

And only one guy
seemed to show
any interest.

[door bangs open]
FBI!

Oh, my god.

Hey, guys, meet Bob Orci.

Weapons down, please.
You were saying...

Carl lee.

The guy's name was Carl lee.

So it was Carl's copy.

Doug didn't
bring it with him?

Why would Doug put page
76 OVER CARL'S THROAT?

he didn't.

Only Carl's
fingerprints and DNA

were on that page.
Doug never touched it.

You've lost me.

Ever been shot before?

People do weird things
when they're shot.

[gunshot]

[groans]

Prentiss: Carl was
slipping into shock,

meaning he had some vague
awareness that he was gonna die

and his brain
was short-circuiting.

So that clue that
seemed so important
4 HOURS AGO,

it means nothing.

Life is messy, random.

That's why I sent
agent Jareau

back to the first
crime scene.

We needed to take
a look at it again

without any preconceptions.

And when she saw
the cleaning supplies,

she had an idea.

Specifically, what happens
when you're not careful

how you clean your aquarium?

So she had Garcia
do some research.

So let's talk about
weird science.

There are certain
types of coral

that when they come
into contact with bleach,

release something called
a palytoxin.

So the coral, it, like,
emits this aerosol

and then that aerosol
causes the throat

and the lungs to close and
the eyes and the skin to burn.

Well, that's the mystery
chemical weapon

the ME Couldn't place.

So let's play this out.

He pours in the bleach,

coral spits out its toxin,

and mother nature
does the rest.

[gasping]

It's not murder.

It's an accident.

We're veering
dangerously close

to bullcrap territory.

We could call it murder.

If the profile was
Charles Darwin's

theory of natural selection,

we could arrest
the piece of coral, I guess.

Or, we could just accept
that life is--

Messy, random. Yeah.

Until it's not.

What does that mean?

Well, that seemingly
unimportant book,

there was one additional
detail Bob Orci told us about

that I forgot to mention.

No, I--I didn't forget.

I was holding back
for dramatic effect.

Carl lee.
His name was Carl lee.

And the reason
that sticks out

is because he asked me
to write a dedication

on the inside cover
of the book.

It's something I add
for an extra 20 bucks.

You know? and sometimes
I use the wild man font

and the truthers all go,

"oh, wow, look, he actually
wrote stuff in my book."

Tara,
we have something.

Found it, Emily.

What does it say?

"to my darling Melissa,
love always, Carl."

We were dating.
That's not a crime.

So why hide it?

The truther
community is small,

and we're gossipy.

Also, we're already
convinced

agents like you
are watching us.

So Carl and I
covered our tracks.

So well, in fact,
that the great
and powerful Garcia

is not going
to find them.

I believe you.

Which is why
we had to rely

on old-fashioned profiling

to figure out this next part.

And it started
with a question
you asked first.

Why would Doug kill
himself for no reason?

So, we reconstructed
Doug's suicide
to see what we missed.

So you were there
and I was here.

Right.

And then he was
screaming at you,

"I know a false flag
when I see one, bitch."

And then bang.

No, that's not right.

He said all those
things, but not to me.

He was looking at you.

No, no. If someone
made eye contact with me

and called me a bitch,
I'd remember.

Maybe he wasn't looking
at either of you.

He was looking between you.

Uh...JJ, you were
posted up over there

yeah.
For line of sight.

OK, there's only
one one other woman

in the room
he would have been
talking to.

The reason
we asked you here,

the only reason,
is to listen.

That's all.

So just listen.

Listen.
Put the gun down.

I know a false flag
when I see one.

You bitch!

[gunshot]

It all started
with Carl's text.

"I'm close
to finding out
who it is."

He was talking
about Melissa,

as in, "I'm close
to finding out who
she's cheating with."

She was cheating
with Doug?

Yes. And when
she found out

Carl was onto her,
she killed him.

Whoa. Slow down there,
partner.

Think about it.
It's the oldest
motivation in the book--

Sex. Melissa is cunning
and manipulative,

and she is a psychopath,
and a good one.

I mean, she sat there
while I laid out
this entire case,

she did not tip a thing.

Now, Doug's prints
were on the gun
because of the suicide,

but with Carl, Melissa
could have used gloves,
and...

What?

Why is everybody
staring at me?

Tara, I want to believe that.

An arrest would relieve
a lot of tension

on this case, but...

But we don't have
the evidence,

and without the evidence, we're
no better than the truthers.

No better than the truthers.

Melissa...

Thinks that sandy hook
was staged.

I was there...

That day, and I counseled
those parents,

and I saw...

I saw those kids.

So the day that I lose
to someone like her...

That's the day that I quit.

It's biased thinking,

and if we allow it
to color our profile

and the arrest
falls apart,

we'll be a stain
on the bureau.

OK, so what, we just...
We just back off on Melissa?

No. We back up our profile.

You have a theory, Tara.
Now prove your results.

Now, once we're inside
Melissa's house,
what are we looking for?

Well, maybe
she cleaned up
Carl lee's crime scene.

The gun's accounted for,
but the missing bullet
and casing aren't.

Great start. What else?

I admit my bias,
out loud,

because
I wasn't able to see

what was right in front
of me the whole time.

I thought anyone
who believed
in conspiracy theories

had to be deluded.
There was no way
they could outsmart me.

And I was wrong.
There is a conspiracy
in this case.

And you
are at the center of it.

So, allow me to be clear
from this point forward.

I'm going to give you one
chance to tell the truth,

one. Keep in mind
we are already
searching your place.

If you lie, if you
hold back in any way,

I will know about it,

and I will nail you
for it,

all the way to
a life sentence.

Wow.

What's the point of this?

I guess there's just
one last thing to say

before I invoke my right
to an attorney.

Good luck.

Rossi: Anything?

Melissa's house
was spotless.

Zero evidence
of her involvement.

How are you guys doing?

Yikes.

Yeah, every time
we try to reason it out,

we keep hitting
different walls.

We have to make an arrest

or release all the truthers
from custody.

Give me the version
that makes the most sense.

OK, well, Doug was holding
the gun that killed Carl,

but there is nothing
behaviorally

that points to him
being a killer.

And Melissa's the
undiagnosed psychopath,

and Carl was figuring out
that she was cheating.

And as his girlfriend,
she would know where
he hid his guns,

and so we--
We're thinking this.

Carl and Melissa
were fighting.

Psychopaths aren't known
for their small egos

or impulse control,
and so Melissa got angry

and she waits for Carl
to turn his back,

Carl!
And then bang.

So she cleans up
as best as she could,

but now she has to hide
what she did.

So we asked the truthers
to listen to our profile,

and she thought, "a-ha!
I'll turn this to my advantage.

"I'll frame my boyfriend,
who is the most likely suspect

if they put this together."

So she slips the gun
into Doug's pocket.

And Doug walks through
without incident

because the metal
detector is broken.

He doesn't notice
the gun in his pocket

until midway through
our profiling and he panics.

What did you
put in my pocket?!

Gun! drop it!

He assumes,
like all truthers,

that no one in the government
is gonna believe him,

so his last words
aren't to us,

but to Melissa.

I know a false flag
when I see one.

You bitch!

[gunshot]

That's the version
that makes the most sense.

Even if I buy it,
a DA won't.

We need more, guys.

Well, the only thing
that's left

is the bullet
and the casing.

But she could have
dumped that anywhere.

No, that's not
the only thing.
The podcast.

She--she had us right
where she wanted.

She could have
posted the audio
of our conversation

to prove we were
trying to cover this up,

but instead she deleted it.

Which she only
would have done

if she had revealed
herself somehow.

She didn't say anything
incriminating

when I talked to her.

Me neither.

Then it was me.
She let something slip,

something she doesn't
want me to remember.

So, what?

Aurora, Orlando,
sandy hook.

The united states government

shot up a bunch
of empty buildings

and then gathered
everything up

and traded it
amongst themselves,

because that's how
plausible deniability works.

[exhales]

She traded it.

Traded what?

The bullet
and the shell casing.

She took the evidence and she
gave it to someone else.

And you know this
because...

Think about a conspiracy
theory like a pathology.

What disgusts her,
what she fears most
in other people,

that's the action
she'll copy

to justify her own
belief system.

So who has the bullet?

Who else?

The unsub we've
been looking for

is Melissa miller,
and we think

she's made one of you
an accomplice

to her murder
of Carl lee.

Rossi: An unwitting accomplice.

We aren't keeping you
in custody.

Anyone who wants
to leave can,

and everyone that wanted
representation

has a lawyer present.

All we want is for you
to listen to our theory.

After Carl lee's murder,
Melissa approached one of you

and she told you
that the US government

was going to frame
both Bryan and Carl's murder

on the truthers.

Right on cue,
we showed up.

So, she gave you
a box or bag,

told you
not to look inside,

said it was all part
of our cover-up.

What she gave you
was material evidence

of Carl's murder.

Now, you can think
what you want of us,

we are not here
to frame anyone.

We're not the murderers.
She is.

Did anyone accept
something like this
from her?

I did.

It's--it's at my house.

You know what that is,
Melissa?

That is a magic bullet.

Stand up.

Melissa miller,
you are under arrest

for the murder
of Carl lee.

You have the right
to remain silent.

You have the right
to an attorney.

So we faked ourselves
on the ending *

And breathe in
their lies *

While the water
brings no cleansing *

Just reflects
strangers' eyes *

Lewis: "everyone is entitled
to his own opinion,

but not to his own facts."

Daniel Patrick Moynihan.

Truth was too hard
to mention *