- The BAU team must profile a serial killer covered in tattoos, who commits suicide but leaves clues to the whereabouts of his last victim.
- In Tallahassee, Florida, a man calls 911 to report his impending suicide. At the location where he is found dead, the authorities find a wall plastered with photos and associated news clippings of women that have been killed throughout the country over the past ten years. He has left a journal recounting the murders of these women. Images of those women, complete with first name and year of death, are tattooed on his body. The only person with a photo that does not have an associated tattoo is Rebecca Daniels, who has been missing for three weeks. The BAU believes she may still be alive because of the tattoo issue. The team look for clues in the nature of the tattoos and in the journal to understand how Rebecca may still be alive when her probable prime captor has just killed himself.—Huggo
- A 911 dispatcher gets a call from a man with a deep, raspy voice. "There's a body in a warehouse," the creepy man says. Asks the dispatcher: "Are you sure the man is dead?" Growls the man: "He will be in a second." A shot ring out and we see a hand holding a cell phone fall into a lap. Later, a team of cops arrives in the dead of night to investigate -- and discover a heavily tattooed body with a gunshot wound to the head. The walls, meanwhile, are lined with newspaper clippings of missing women.
Cut to BAU headquarters, where the team is about to break for the weekend. Not so fast, agents. Jennifer arrives with news: a Florida coed has gone missing -- and police have found an apparent suicide with a possible link. "The tattoos are portraits of previously missing women," Jennifer explains. "Rebecca is shown on the wall, but there's no image of her on the body. The detective thinks that means she might be alive somewhere."
So the team heads to the crime scene. Detective Barton has confirmed that all the victims are from the southeast. Inside, Jennifer notices that the clippings go back 10 years. "The new abductions happen before the previous body is found, so he has a year-long cycle," Hotch notes. Rossi, meanwhile, notices an empty spot on the man's arm. A place reserved for Rebecca perhaps? Derek and Emily are assigned to read the man's journals but they pass the task onto Reid, with the excuse that it will take D and E 3 days to go through the books. A short time later, wonder boy notices the word "we." "He has a partner," Reid announces. Uh oh.
A beautiful, young woman named Juliet, in the meantime, receives a letter in the mail from the dead man. "Raise our beautiful child," the note reads. "My last hope is that you finish what we started." Juliet goes to a room in the back of the home and opens a door to reveal Rebecca, who pleads to be let go. "This is all your fault!" Juliet cries. Back at the crime scene, Hotch pulls Barton aside. He wants to know why the detective has twice referred to the missing girl as "Becky." Barton denies a personal connection, explaining that "sometimes it's just too much ... you take it personal." Fair enough -- for now.
Rossi and Emily head to the local tattoo parlor for information. "Can you tell if the same artist did these?" asks Rossi, showing pictures of the dead body. The clerk notices a rose tattoo that doesn't quite fit. In fact, it appears to cover a poorly drawn cross. "This wasn't done professionally," the clerk says. "More like in jail." Garcia is immediately alerted. Apparently, prisons catalog inmate body art. Sure enough, Garcia almost immediately finds 53 inmates with matching tattoos -- and the narrows the field to one likely candidate based on release dates prior to 2000 and the nickname Bob (which the killer used to rent the warehouse).. Could Robert Matthew Burke be the dead man? Most likely.
Barton knows the man, who is a registered sex offender. Burke was apparently a suspect in the case who was scheduled to be fingerprinted on Monday. "That's what changed," Hotch notes. "He knew it was only a matter of time before you caught up to him." Later, Reid uses black light to find hidden tattoos on the man's body, including an embryo. "His partner is a woman -- and they're having a baby," Reid theorizes. Probably soon, too.
Cut to Juliet's home, where the kidnapper begins to bleed from between her legs. Captive Rebecca barters: she will help the mother and unborn baby if Juliet unlocks her chains. A few moments later, Juliet thrashes on the mattress while Rebecca acts as midwife. We soon hear a crying baby. "Tell me it's a girl," Juliet gasps. "It can't be a boy." But it IS a boy. "Get him away from me!" Juliet screams. "I don't want it! I thought for sure I was having a girl." Rebecca, soaked in blood, begins to plead for her life again. Back at the warehouse, the team huddles to brainstorm. Emily calls Garcia with a request: search for prison visitors who suddenly stopped visiting as soon as Burke was released. Sure enough, baby girl quickly comes up with a name: Juliet Monroe. "She owns a house in northern Florida," Garcia says. Cut to the team wearing bullet-proof vests and surrounding the house. They come upon Rebecca and the newborn. Juliet, meanwhile, is dead in the corner. Barton is quick to comfort Rebecca, offering the gal a fatherly hug.
Later, Hotch pulls aside a clearly shaken Barton. "We wouldn't be here if you didn't work the case as hard as you did," the BAU leader says. "It's impressive work, detective." Now it's Barton's turn to be comforted. On the plane ride home, Jennifer worries about the fate of the baby born under such horrible circumstances. Rossi and Hotch promise that the child will be well cared for. So everyone goes home happy.
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