Previously on Criminal Minds: Evolution...
Copy of your work phone.
You cloning that phone put a price on my head.
Sorry.
Me too.
FBI! - Drop the weapon.
If you provide the bureau with actionable information
that leads to the apprehension and conviction of Gold Star,
the DOJ is prepared to offer you a deal.
What is North Star?
North Star is where it all starts.
- What? - This Stuart House place
was the perfect crucible to create serial killers.
A white paper that Jason Gideon and I drafted but never submitted.
You're saying that somebody got a hold of this paper
and created Gold Star out of it?
It began with North Star.
And North Star
is us.
Man, what is this?
Where am I?
You.
Me.
Uh, we-we talked at the bar. You, uh...
Did you spike my drink?
I'm going to give you one chance to tell the truth.
If you don't...
Wh-What is that?
What is all this?
Why her?
What?
Why did you do this to her?
Her who?
What the fuck? Oh, my God.
Why her?
Why Emma?
Did you knock her out first?
Uh...
Yeah. Yeah, man. I knocked her out.
You sick fuck! [cries] You sick...
What are you doing? You sick fuck.
Did you take turns?
What?
No! No, no, no, no, no!
Did you take turns?
All of you?
Yeah. Yeah, yeah, sure.
Who else was there?
Who else?
I want names.
Tony.
And?
Um...
D-Darren...
and, uh-- Uh, David.
There was no Darren.
And there was no David.
And I told you, you only get one chance.
No. No. No! Help me!
No! No!
Roger!
I'm on it.
Okay. Okay.
Okay, okay, okay, okay.
It's okay, it's okay, it's okay.
Hi.
Hmm.
There you go.
Yeah?
You feel like letting Mommy and Daddy sleep a little more? Hmm?
Sure, you do.
Okay.
"Through pride, we are ever deceiving ourselves.
But deep down below the surface of the average conscience
a still, small voice says to us, something is out of tune." Carl Jung.
Did you get any sleep last night?
After finding out that our research is behind Gold Star?
Yeah, slept like a baby.
I know we have a lot on our plate,
but we still have our day jobs, and Bethesda, Maryland needs our help.
Yeah, the local cops are reeling. We have three disappearances.
Alan George, Tony Woon and Craig Park.
Disappearances. No bodies?
No, but three men of the same race in the same zip code,
Bethesda, isn't taking any chances.
Any evidence of foul play?
They found Craig Park's watch with some of his residual DNA on it.
The band had a monogrammed clasp with Craig's initials.
So, it was, like, dumb luck that the police recovered it at all.
All right. If this is an unsub, he certainly has a type.
Okay, so, if our unsub is racially profiling his victims,
we need to keep two conflicting ideas in our head at the same time.
He's a racist, and he hates them,
and two: He identifies with them.
Well, without bodies, it's going to be hard to profile.
I mean, we need to determine abduction and murder locations
or all we're left with is victimology.
Well, that, and timeline.
The first two victims disappeared within a week of each other.
Craig was only two days later.
Okay, so his cooling off period's getting shorter.
He could be on a mission, or a spree.
I need you two to stop him before he completes either.
Just out of curiosity,
what's the next step with Gold Star
now that we know that the BAU is the North Star behind the monster?
We're working on it.
And what is this?
Uh, Tara and I categorized all the overlapping characteristics
between your paper and Gold Star.
Wow.
Man, you and Gideon were really out on a limb with this shit.
You were talking about epigenetics back in the '90s?
That's partly why we didn't publish.
You can't think of anyone who would've had access to this back then?
No. We buried it so nobody could find it, but somebody did.
Hmm.
Okay, let's start with an analysis of-- Who's handwriting is this?
Uh, mine.
Your T's have a loop.
Means you're sensitive to criticism, might be paranoid.
No, I'm...
You got me.
I was just reinstated as team leader. I gotta flex a little bit.
Okay, so let's start with epigenetics,
because that's how the Gold Star program found its candidates. What do we know?
Right. So the field originated in 1942,
but it didn't take off until the genome was mapped in the 2000s.
It revolves around the question
of how our genes are affected by environmental factors.
- Diet, sleep, smoking. - Exactly.
But when it gets to the question of mental illness,
that is when the science gets--
and I mean this in the most technical of senses-- bananas.
Especially in the case of Gold Star, where the experiment was,
"Can you identify emerging psychopathy in kids,
then promote it, direct it and control it?"
And that gets us to Stuart House.
That whole site was an experiment in creating psychopaths,
starting during the pubescent years.
Yeah, but we're still stuck on who started it.
I mean, whoever did, they have done a hell of a job of hiding it.
Where are we with Sebastian Gasper?
Not talking. He's not going to. He'll make bail, flee the country.
We can declare him a flight risk.
He's gotten out of prisons worse than D.C. lockup.
Okay, Tara, you and Mr. Sensitive here, keep working on the breakdown.
Emily, I could use a hand with something.
What's all this?
BAU files from 1993 through 1997.
All of them?
Well, evidence logs are mixed in.
We have to do, uh, a hand search to see who might have checked out my paper.
Hey, we didn't have Penelope Garcia back then.
All we had was Jill.
Jill.
- Jill! - Ah, Jill.
Let's talk to her. She helped you guys in the beginning.
- No. - Why not?
She had access to the paper, didn't she?
- Probably. - Well, then, what are we waiting for?
Garcia can track her down, and we can ask her--
Stop.
Now, in all the time we've worked together I've never played this card,
but I'm playing it now.
I am forbidding you from contacting Jill.
Forbidding?
This job has cost her more than you and me combined.
And that's saying a lot. So, do not bother her.
I just-- I've never been forbidden before.
That's adorable.
I mean it, Emily.
Okay, I won't bother her.
Thank you.
Now, if you would...
...together we can aggravate our asthma by going through these boxes.
I don't have asthma.
You will in about an hour.
I didn't hear you come to bed last night.
I was in the basement.
You must be exhausted.
Yeah.
I fell asleep in the nursery trying to put the baby back to sleep.
I'm never gonna love him.
Don't say that.
It's true.
I'm never gonna love him.
I'm defective.
You're not defective.
Dr. Moreno told us you were at risk for this. It's postpartum depression.
It's not.
It's not depression.
Emma.
We have a son and he needs you.
I have a son.
You didn't have him. I did.
And I know that's not fair.
But it's not fair that you're doing all the work.
It's not fair that I thought we could get past this, but we can't.
I can't.
I found number three.
Is that why you were up all night?
Yes.
Did he admit it?
No.
These cowards. They never admit it.
Did you make him suffer?
I did.
Good.
But there were four.
I've already found him.
I wanna be there the next time...
because I can do what you can't.
I can get him to admit it.
If I do this last one, will you...
can you be a mom, please?
Yes.
Once I know they're gone,
then I can lie, then I can pretend...
then I will be the best mom ever.
And we can be a family?
We can try.
Hey, excuse me.
Sup?
Can I ask you a question?
Do you know Emma?
You do, don't you?
I don't know an Emma, bro.
Can-- Can I show you something?
Please-- Please don't kill me.
I'm not going to.
My wife is.
Okay, so the science of epigenetics works like this:
Our genes can actually turn on and off.
Which happens, you know, when you're developing in the womb
or if you're trying to manage a low-fat, high-protein diet.
Which is why some people are genetically stronger,
others prone to epilepsy.
Right.
What the white paper asked,
and what Gold Star's version of Doctor Mengele experimented with,
is, can we turn empathy off and on?
Right. Situational psychopathy.
Which, as you can imagine, would be an incredible tool
for training soldiers or snipers or even first responders.
May I pull Tyler on to a job?
Uh, there's a resource that may help us get to the bottom of this.
Yeah, sure.
You're not gonna mess with my head again, are you?
Of course I am, but not with this.
Does the name Jason Gideon mean anything to you?
Uh, just what Garcia told me. He and Rossi started the BAU, right?
Yeah.
Back in the 1980s, down in the basement of Quantico,
trying to solve cold cases with some cockamamie thing called a profile.
Walked away, didn't he?
He did.
Uh, this job took a mental toll on him and then a physical one.
He was murdered by a serial killer who was obsessed with him in 2015.
I'm sorry to hear that.
Does the name Jill Gideon mean anything to you?
Mmm.
Doctor Jill Gideon, Jason's ex-wife.
They split up in 1999, but even after they did,
she was still the only therapist he trusted.
That's how I got to know her. They would do sessions in his office.
You think she might know something about the white paper.
I-I think she helped write it.
Jill was a silent partner in getting the BAU off the ground.
Jason wanted it that way because he was afraid their work might put her at risk.
That's understandable considering what happened to him.
Here's the clincher.
Jill's specialty was biological psychology.
That's a field that studies
how genes and physiology shape our psychology. Sound familiar?
Epigenetics.
That is correct.
Garcia gave me her home address. I'm hoping you can help me recruit her.
Why me?
You have a certain skill set that can be very persuasive.
Let's hit the road. You're driving.
Ah.
Vincent.
Gentlemen, the last time I checked,
Mr. Voit was allowed attorney-client privilege.
Now it's safe for us to speak.
Where are we with my sentence?
You already plead guilty. Your sentencing hearing is next week.
There's rumors that my deal's not going through.
No, no, no. The Attorney General's office has officially reduced the charges
to manslaughter and kidnapping a federal agent.
Your deal isn't just going through, my friend. It is gone.
Great.
There's one more thing I need your help with. I need you to find something.
It's kind of a break-glass- in-case-of-emergency contingency.
Elias, I am your lawyer, not your task rabbit.
Why is your shirt wrinkled?
Excuse me?
Your shirt, why is it wrinkled?
Well, I was in a hurry to see my favorite client.
Well, remember when your favorite client hired you,
and I was complaining about how my wife sold me out?
And you told me that the secret to a successful marriage
is a woman who knows her place,
like your wife who cooks, cleans and irons your shirts.
Something tells me your wife's forgotten her place.
- We separated last month. - Oh.
And thanks for fishing but my business is my business.
Not for long.
Pretty soon half of your business is gonna be her business.
Be a shame if something happened to her.
Good thing you don't know someone who knows a lot of someones
who can make that something happen.
Where am I going?
Grab a pen. You're gonna want to write this down.
So what's the-- What's the plan when we knock on Jill Gideon's door?
I know this is weird, but I can't tell you.
Can you tell me why not?
Uh, because if I tell you,
you'll be psychologically primed to act a certain way around Jill.
I'm trying to avoid that.
I just want you to be you.
I don't wanna be that guy anymore.
Sorry?
I don't wanna be that guy.
I get that I have a certain reputation but, uh, I'm trying to do better.
What are you talking about?
I know what my value is to this team.
You need me to do the off-the-books, black-bag stuff and I get it.
I've done some things. I'm not proud of them.
- Maybe at first-- - Let me-- Let me get through this.
Please.
When we meet Jill,
I don't wanna knock her unconscious, or pull out her fingernails,
or shoot her in the knee to get her to talk.
I wanna stay on the right side of the law.
What do you think we're going to do?
Well, you said I had a certain skill set.
I didn't mean that.
Oh.
What did you mean?
Polite, nonviolent?
Got it.
Can do.
- Can you just forget that I said all that? - Oh. Just, uh, fucking drive.
Yeah.
We might have an MO and an explanation as to why we don't have anything else.
Lab came back with the breakdown of the recovered watch.
- Anything we can profile off it? - Yeah.
A chemical that ate almost everything except the rubber.
A mixture of sulfuric acid and hydrogen peroxide.
He dissolves the bodies.
Yeah. Everyone thinks you're supposed to use hydrochloric acid.
That stuff takes weeks. This takes three hours.
They call it piranha solution.
This unsub doesn't just want to kill these men.
He wants to obliterate them.
There's a victimology connection we're missing.
Yeah. Well, maybe Penelope can help us find it.
I mean, your average technical analyst
isn't even gonna look at the junk folder, but not me.
Now, see, I wanna wade through the trash until I find treasure.
I wanna go through all the meaningless until I find something of value.
It's why you and I are finally friends.
Finally.
What did you find?
I found an anonymous email with a bunch of numbers and letters
where the ".com" should be.
And it is why all of the victims' servers flagged it as spam.
But it's our unsub?
Well, I would think so. Considering the tone of each email is, uh, similar.
Oh.
Though it would seem our unsub thinks these men got his wife pregnant.
Either willingly or unwillingly. I'm guessing unwillingly.
All right. Do any of our victims have a history of sexual violence?
Yes. One does. Alan George, sexual assault conviction.
That would give us motive.
Yeah. One that leads to a pregnancy.
- Thanks. - Yeah.
- Thanks, friend. - You're welcome, friend.
Okay. First of all, you got the wrong guy.
I don't think so.
I don't know who the hell you think I am, but I didn't do that.
I would never do that.
I'm not the one you have to convince.
- Oh, God. - Remember me?
Oh, God.
Now admit what you did.
That sounds like a confession.
Honey?
I can't.
I can't do it.
I thought I was strong enough, but I'm not.
It's okay.
I can be strong enough for both of us.
What the fuck is this?
No solicitors. Thank you.
Jill. It's SSA Emily Prentiss. Do you remember me?
Hello?
- Emily from the BAU? That Emily Prentiss? - Yeah.
Oh, my God. So nice to hear your voice. How have you been?
- Uh, good. I was wondering-- - How's Hotch? How's he doing?
Um, he left the unit a couple of years ago.
- Well, what about Derek Morgan? - Also left.
Uh, Spencer?
- Yeah. Sabbatical. - Oh.
Um, I was wondering if we could talk.
We have a situation that needs your attention.
Oh. Hmm.
Let me think. Yeah. No. Absolutely not. But thanks for stopping by.
Jill, it's important.
Do you remember the paper Controllable Variables on Emerging Teenage Psychopathy?
Someone released it into the wild.
Fuck me.
Come on in.
- You holding? - Yeah.
Yeah, put it right in there. I hate guns.
Close it. Okay, so walk me through this shit storm.
It's over.
It's finally over.
Honey?
No, you're right.
It is.
Why don't I feel better?
I'll get him.
Got another one. Number four.
Jeremy Moy. Yeah.
Did he get a spam email?
He did. He told his fiancé he got a strange email about someone named Emma.
His fiancé is bringing the laptop in for Garcia.
Fiancé. Is that spelled correctly?
- Yes, it is. - That changes everything.
Yes, it does.
Okay, uh, found it. Email from the unsub.
What? What does it say?
- Uh, Penelope, could you-- - Oh, yeah. Yeah, of course.
Oh, God.
I am so sorry for your loss.
That email, what did it say?
This may be hard to hear.
All right. What did it say?
"You raped Emma and you know it."
I don't--
I know how hard this must be, but I have to ask,
did Jeremy ever show any signs of violence?
What? [sniffles] No.
No, Jeremy and I grew up thinking that who we had sex with would get us killed.
And then the world changed.
Suddenly, not only could we get married, but everyone was fine with it.
And now you're telling me that Jeremy is dead because of someone
he didn't have sex with, somebody he couldn't have sex with.
We had just picked out our tuxes.
We need you to come to Quantico and help us with the white paper.
I can't.
Look, I understand how difficult it is
to get back into the headspace of a profiler.
And I can't imagine what you've been through since Jason--
Stop. Jason died nine years ago. I have mourned that loss.
I have processed that grief. I have moved on.
Then why not help us?
Because of a certain agent I'm fearful you are still working with.
Who?
About yay-high, writes books,
has a goatee he thinks makes him look very distinguished.
Rossi?
What could you possibly have against David Rossi?
He's the best agent I've ever worked with.
Ha.
Jill, no offense. I loved Jason.
He loved you back.
That-- That actually means a lot.
Hmm.
But, uh, what I'm trying to--
Please don't think I'm speaking ill of the dearly departed when I say this,
but Jason could be a little--
Dramatic. Melodramatic. Histrionic.
Yes. And David Rossi is the opposite of all that.
Let me ask you something.
What was the reason David Rossi gave you for leaving the BAU in 1997?
He was sick of the FBI bureaucracy, and he wanted to write books.
Yeah, that's-- That is not the reason.
No. No.
Yes.
Did he break your heart?
Oh, please. I broke his.
Uh...
Look, rape is a crime of power, not sex.
So Jeremy Moy could have-- But I'm not buying it.
Well, you don't have to,
because another part of our case just fell through.
Oh, great. Which part?
Alan George, the victim with the sexual assault conviction?
Yeah. He, uh-- He was arrested for going to the bathroom outside of a bar
during happy hour.
There was a kid in the crowd,
and an overzealous DA decided to charge it as attempted sexual contact with a child.
- These guys aren't rapists. - No, they're not.
But our unsub thinks they are.
- And the wife? - Could go either way.
Maybe it's a folie à deux between them.
Yeah. But they killed the wrong guys.
Even if they're deluded, why go so far as to kill the wrong guys?
Think we're missing something?
I do.
We can't deliver the profile till we know for sure.
He said those words, "I forbid you"?
Those words came out of David Rossi's mouth?
Yeah. Can you believe it?
You know, you could prove him wrong by coming back to Quantico.
No. Nice try but no. But you're proving my point.
David Rossi can be dramatic, melodramatic and histrionic with the best of them.
I'm sorry, I can't help you. Thank you for coming.
- How's JJ? - Ah.
- She's a profiler now. - She is?
Yeah.
I think it's important we help the younger agents
with the benefit of our experience, but--
Oh. Tyler Green. Jill, this is Tyler Green.
He's a consultant working this case with us.
Tyler, Jill. Jill, Tyler. I wanted you to meet him.
Oh.
Emily, you are a great profiler and a terrible liar.
Uh, what is happening?
You weren't brought here because you're a consultant.
You were brought here because you have a similar facial structure
to my son, Stephen.
No offense, but he's a lot more handsome than you are.
And that's relevant how?
Emily is trying to use morphopsychology as a trigger to get my amygdala to fire.
Do you know why?
Because that's where the neurons connected to emotions tied to memory go crazy,
but it's not gonna work.
I am a biological psychologist. I know these tricks.
Tyler is only here because I wanted you to meet the next generation of the BAU.
Oh.
And if someone like him or JJ were to get killed in the line of duty
because of some connection you could have filled in,
I know you wouldn't be able to live with yourself.
Not even Jason was this manipulative.
But that's not a no.
Tricky. Close the door.
No, no, no.
Roger!
No, no, no. It's okay. It's okay. I'll be right back.
I'll be right back, okay?
Something's wrong. - What do you mean?
I don't know, but something's really wrong.
Oh.
What's happening?
It must be a complication from the delivery.
No, it is not the delivery.
Those men. They did something to me. They left something inside of me.
I'll take you to the hospital. I'll get the baby.
No, no, no, Roger, please! They will interrogate you.
And you will tell them everything, because that's who you are.
You're not strong enough.
What should we do?
Just get me help.
Go get me Dr. Moreno. She'll know what to do.
It's okay, it's okay, it's okay.
It's okay.
It's okay, baby.
- No. Roger, no. I'm bleeding. I can't. - Shh. You know I can't take him with me.
Will you be a parent for once?
Please.
All I hear from you is "no". I c-can't hear it anymore.
You're right.
You're right, I'm sorry. I'm sorry, okay?
We'll do it your way.
Just please, please hurry.
I love you, Roger.
I don't think we have much time.
You got four victims, barely 24 hours between three and four.
Question is, is he done or not?
If he's targeting the wrong guys, he could see any man who triggers him
as one of his wife's rapists.
Maybe she's prodding him along.
See that's the part where a wall goes up in my mind and says, "No."
That he's this deluded or that the wife's a part of it?
Both.
Look, we have come so far in understanding rape trauma.
Yes, women black out. Yes, details get forgotten, mistaken.
You name it. But...
But naming the wrong assailant four times, it's...
Wouldn't happen. No woman would do that.
Right, now factor in the obvious.
Okay. Well, the physical similarity of the victims.
I mean, that can't be an accident. It's almost like...
Like what?
Like these men are a manifestation of himself.
You said earlier that he was obliterating them.
Well, what if he's not obliterating them,
but he's obliterating himself over and over.
Because he feels responsible for some trauma.
Some trauma that he externalizes as his wife's rape.
Damn. That's one hell of an externalization.
Don't hate me for saying this, but what if there was no rape?
Huh. Go on.
We've established that these guys aren't rapists.
Let's assume that the pregnancy is a fixed variable,
- and that part happened. - Okay.
But what if he views these men as being able to do something that he can't,
because he's infertile.
Of course.
That's why they all look similar.
They are a manifestation of himself, a genetic manifestation.
His brain rewires it as rape, but we know what they actually are.
They're sperm donors.
Yes.
Oh, my God.
Dr. Moreno?
- Roger? - Hi.
What is this? Where am I?
Emma needs your help, Doc.
What? Needs my help? How?
You warned us against taking this baby to term, you were right.
So, you're the only one who can fix it.
What is--
My family. I need to tell them I'm okay.
Emma first.
Roger, let me out of here!
Emma first.
Why are you doing this?
Emma chose you because you make house calls.
This isn't what I meant.
Now it is.
Our known suspect is Roger Song.
He and his wife, Emma, pursued IVF treatments from this woman,
Dr. Maria Moreno.
And Dr. Moreno was just reported missing by her husband.
We believe Roger Song has abducted her.
The four previous victims have been confirmed as being potential donors
in the couple's IVF treatments.
Wait, how does our guy know that? Isn't that information kept anonymous?
It is, but this company has an option
where parents can contact donors after the baby's been born.
And this is where the couple's behavior gets erratic.
According to the clinic records,
the implantation was a success, but there's no record of a birth.
Now, we believe that Roger's controlling personality
forced Emma to deliver at home.
Somewhere in that window, Roger suffered a break from reality.
And he now thinks that these men are rapists that impregnated his wife.
- How about the wife? - That's still unclear.
She could be a victim of his delusion or a participant in it.
Yeah. Our number one priority right now is Dr. Moreno and the baby.
We have to proceed with caution,
because Roger's delusional psychosis, it makes him incredibly dangerous.
All right. Is there any questions?
Let's go.
Okay. Talk me through this from the beginning.
What's wrong with Emma?
- She's bleeding. Bleeding bad. - All right.
Whatever this is, let me out and I can help her.
I can't do that.
Roger!
If I can't see her, how am I supposed to help her?
Uh-- Uh...
Write her a prescription. Something that will stop the hemorrhaging.
Hemorrhaging? She's hemorrhaging?
I think so. I don't know.
Roger!
I'm trying! Roger. Please, listen.
You need to take your wife to a hospital.
- I can't do that. - You have to.
If she's hemorrhaging, she is going to die.
For once in your life, think about her.
All I do is think about her!
I'm so sorry.
This has all been for her.
No, it hasn't.
You wanted this. She didn't.
That's not true-- It is.
I told you both.
Emma has hypertension.
She's at risk for a late-term miscarriage, which could jeopardize her life.
I begged you not to deliver at home.
- She wanted it. - No, you did!
And then you ground her down until she agreed.
I see this all the time.
Husbands who hear "no" from their wives as an attack.
Who hear her raised voice as criticism.
Who tune out anything that doesn't fit with their personal narrative
of what a baby should be.
Roger. I can't hold the baby!
- I think I'm dying! - Just wait. Wait!
Who are you talking to?
My wife. She's...
She's...
Roger Song.
Roger Song, this is the FBI. Come out with your hands up.
You heard that, right?
Can you help my wife?
Roger, put your hands up.
We can get medical attention to your wife and baby. You just keep your hands up.
Keep your hands up.
- Hands up, sir. - Officers moving in!
No, no, she needs help now.
Can you come in here now? She's bleeding a lot.
I tried to help her.
- I just didn't know what to do. - Roger, put your hands up.
Put your hands on top of your head, Roger.
- What's wrong? - Roger, don't you smell that?
And we can be a family?
It's okay, it's okay, it's okay.
There you go.
I can't take him with me.
Roger, I'm bleeding, Roger, I--
Will you be a parent for once?
I'm not the one you need to convince.
What the fuck is this?
She needs help.
You're safe.
Please help my wife.
Tell her I love her. Tell her the baby is hungry.
Yeah. Okay, Roger, I'll tell her.
Hello?
Are you shitting me with this?
Turn on the app I told you to download.
Dick.
Oh, you're close. Keep digging.
This is some bullshit.
What is this? Here's what's gonna happen.
I am going to give you a protocol to reach out to a man named Damien,
and then you are going to give Damien that case.
Elias, if I'm participating as an accessory to a felony--
We are way beyond that.
So, you're gonna give Damien this combination:
Four, zero, zero, eight.
Hey, Vinny.
What?
That case is special.
There's no other one like it. Do not, for any reason, open it.
Yeah.
I can't.
Yes, you can. Just take your time.
- Hey. - Hey, you.
- Is that Jill Gideon? - Oh, yeah.
I don't know what I was thinking. I mean, this isn't Jason's office anymore.
No, it's not.
Sorry.
Would you like me to give you a minute?
Yeah.
Okay. We'll be right outside.
Hello, David.