- The BAU team is on the trail of a serial killer targeting families throughout the Midwest. Meanwhile, Morgan is concerned when Ellie runs away from her foster family and pays him a visit.
- Two families consisting of a mother, father and two children are murdered in two consecutive days in the Iowa/Nebraska border area. The children are strangled, the mothers killed by blunt force trauma and the fathers stabbed multiple times. The father in the second set of murders was also eviscerated crudely postmortem, meaning that it was done not as torture but rather out of curiosity. The autopsies show that the mothers suffered the most pain in their deaths, making the BAU believe that the mothers are the key to the unsub's rage. In reviewing the crime scenes, the BAU come to the realization that the unsub was known to the victims and that he is a minor. As the BAU determine more about the unsub, including that he is a ward with a criminal record, the unsub is dealing with his next target, the Riverton family, its mother, Nancy Riverton who does her best to temper the inner rage of the unsub. Evidence at one of the earlier crime scenes leads the BAU to come to understand where the unsub is heading which if they get there in time may save both Nancy Riverton and the unsub's ultimate target. Meanwhile, Morgan receives an unexpected visitor from Los Angeles. While working on the case in Iowa and Nebraska, Morgan has to figure out what to do with his guest, both in the short term and the long term.—Huggo
- The BAU must track down a teenaged serial killer when he kills two families within two days, the team knows that this teenaged unsub is clearly disturbed, but he is also very violent towards the families, he has killed the mothers and fathers in a very brutal manner and he asphyxiates the children. The team soon discovers that the teenaged unsub has been killing families as surrogates and he has developed a more sinister agenda when he plans on going after his mother and his sister as revenge for abandoning him. Meanwhile, Morgan gets an unexpected visit from Ellie, after she runs away from her foster family in Los Angeles. Morgan tries to figure out another way to help Ellie and he has Penelope try to locate Ellie's mother.—dawsonpersi
- Two families without any obvious connections are found murdered in Iowa. The MO's are similar, so the BAU is called to investigate before another family is killed.
"All humanity is one undivided and indivisible family. I cannot detach myself from the wickedest soul." Mahatma Gandhi
Ellie Spicer shows up at Quantico from Los Angeles. She tells Morgan she doesn't want to stay with her foster family. As the BAU leaves for the Midwest, Morgan asks Garcia to take care of Ellie.
The team determines the killer apparently had been invited into the home and had eaten dinner with the family and then allowed to sleep in the same house. It appears as though both families had known the culprit. Prentiss and Hotch think the unsub is targeting the women specifically.
After a reverend is found murdered in his truck on the side of the road, the profile becomes clear. The unsub appears to be vulnerable and people readily offer to help. He might be a young teenager.
The unsub (Jeremy) meets a woman (Nancy Riverton) and her two daughters at a rest stop and gives them a fake story about how he came to be there. Nancy thinks the best thing to do is to take him to the police station, but her daughters convince her otherwise. Nancy invites Jeremy to stay with them. Morgan discovers Ellie's foster mother didn't even realize she had run away. Morgan requests Garcia start the process for moving Ellie into the Virginia Child Protective Services system.
Reid narrows down the list of suspects to 33 boys who were made wards of the state by the Safe Haven Law, which allows anyone to drop off a minor under 18 at a hospital with no questions asked. The first victim had worked at a hospital.
Nancy asks Jeremy for his mother's number so she can call her. He gives her the phone number for his first victim. Nancy leaves a message on her answering machine.
The team arrives at the first victim's house and discovers the message, which leads them to Nancy's house. They find her children tied up and learn Nancy left with Jeremy. They are headed to Jeremy's mother's house, but Jeremy tells her to stop before they get there because he doesn't want her to know where he lives. He stabs her before he leaves the minivan.
Jeremy arrives at his mother's house. Garcia pulls up suspicious ER visits and finds a file on nine-year-old Carrie Sayer, who had suffered a fractured arm by her brother, Jeremy. The team manages get to the Sayer home before Jeremy kills his mother.
On the plane, mention is made of how Nancy Riverton survived and of how lucky she was and how brave she was in controlling Jeremy as well as she did. Back at Quantico, Ellie's mother arrives. Ellie doesn't want to see her. Morgan convinces her she should give her mother another chance.
"But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep, and miles to go before I sleep." Robert Frost
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