12x22 - Red Light

[bunniefuu]

Rossi: Previously on "Criminal Minds"...

It wasn't Scratch who framed me.

It was a woman.

Prentiss: If you compare the partial prints found at the scene to Lindsey's, it proves she did this.

We're taking you home.

Ta-da.

We have to deal with Cat Adams again?

Cat and Lindsey were behind the m*rder of Nadie Ramos.

Alvez: She's been nursing a grudge for a long time and setting up Reid, now kidnapping his mother.

Now, if the good doctor wants his mommy back, send him to me.

He knows where to find me.

After all, he put me here.

But then again, I kind of returned the favor, didn't I?

He and I have unfinished business.

Spencie.

Where's my mother?

I missed you.

What did you and Lindsey do to her?

How did you...

Now stop.

You don't get to walk in here and hiss at me like I'm the criminal.

Now, we do this my way.

[Chair clatters]

Have a seat.

How was prison?

Did you like it?

No.

It's not fun, is it?

Unlike you, I didn't deserve to be there.

How did you stay sane?

A brain like yours needs stimulation in such a gray place.

I worked in the laundry room and I played chess.

That's 3, maybe 4 hours, tops.

What about the other 20?

I read.

That's still not enough.

You have to...

go someplace.

Up here.

Or else you go crazy.

Do you want to see where I go?

I'll show you.

Come here.

No touching.

Close your eyes.

Good.

Now keep them shut.

Sit back and relax.

Now, when you open your eyes, I want you to look at me like I'm the first woman you've seen after being in prison for 3 months.

Now...

Open.

Hello, Cat.

[Giggles]

You're here!

You're really here.

There's nowhere else I would rather be.

You're good at this.

You're so good at this, I almost believe you don't want to k*ll me.

I don't want to k*ll you.

No?

No.

What if I let your mother die?

Then would you k*ll me?

Or would you just...

Hurt me?

Would you pin me down and leave bruises that don't go away?

Is that what you want?

I guess I just want to know if you would.

If you could.

No.

No?

It's not the kind of man I am.

Do me a favor and tell blondie over there to step aside, because we're gonna play another game.

And this time, we're going to find out exactly what kind of man you are.

Let's play.

Let's!

Prentiss: "The villainy you teach me I will execute, "and it shall go hard.

But I will better the instruction." William Shakespeare.

Cat: Are you hungry?

No.

Me neither.

So the same game as last time?

I answer every question you ask honestly?

No, this time you get to ask the questions.

About what?

Well, I know a secret.

About you.

And you can ask me as many questions as you like to figure it out.

But you only get one guess as to what it is.

Now, guess correctly, I take your phone, I call our friend Lindsey, and I tell her to release your mother unharmed.

If you don't...

[Giggles]

Is there a clock?

There's always a clock.

Give it to me.

Now, you'll have 4 hours.

Not yet.

You have to wait till the second hand comes around.

You want to give me a hint before we start?

Do I look like a girl that gives hints?

Actually you do.

Ok, how about this?

It's a secret you'll never admit to.

Go.

Up till now, Cat Adams has only worked solo.

But this is a partnership.

So we need to figure out how these two hit women were able to work together, especially when one of them was in solitary.

And hit men are drive by profit and self-preservation.

They don't take a job unless they know all the angles.

So, to predict their behavior, we need to ask ourselves a simple question.

We know why Cat wanted revenge on Reid.

Why does Lindsey?

Rossi: 10 years ago, Reid tried to talk Lindsey's father out of one last m*rder.

Cut to last year and she finds out her BFF Cat has been arrested by the same federal agent who tried to stop her daddy.

Alvez: So Lindsey's emotions trumped her professionalism.

She could grab and k*ll Reid's mother without a trace, but instead, she waltzed Diana into his prison because she wanted him and us to know that she was involved.

Prentiss: But there's risky and there's reckless.

It's kind of hard to buy that Lindsey would commit to doing all of this just because Reid kind of sort of got in her way 10 years ago.

[Muffled cries]

[Trunk slams]

We're missing something.

[Text message]

Oh, damn.

Lindsey's APB didn't turn anything up.

Neither did Diana's photo on the national center for missing adults database.

Lindsey's too good to get caught in those dragnets.

She's probably already changed cars and appearance by now.

[Text message]

Prentiss: Ok, I want a full breakdown on Lindsey's life.

Aliases, contacts, hits, where she gets her hollowpoint rounds.

Yeah, Walker and I will take that.

Then I want a list of everyone who was in Cat's prison in the past year.

Cat was communicating with Lindsey through a maximum security facility.

Somewhere there is a weak link to her chain.

We'll find her.

Hey.

I...

I got your text message.

I'm confused.

You want me to see if there are any missing children?

No.

I asked if any Amber alerts had been issued tonight.

No.

Is that important?

Yes.

I'm gonna put one out.

You're gonna put out Diana Reid's face and says she's a missing child?

No, I'm gonna put Lindsey's out as an abductor.

People pay attention to Ambers, and that's what we need.

Ok.

Oh...

I'll do it.

Penelope, no.

It's my call.

Which means I'll take responsibility for it.

Just pull the screen up, ok?

I need you to leave.

Right now.

All right.

We got 30 employees that worked on Cat's wing.

And these 4, they don't have any disciplinary problems.

So Cat used one, or more likely more than one to coordinate with Lindsey on the outside.

That's the good news.

Oh, lovely.

We need more bad news.

The guard union got wind that I was sniffing around.

These 26 potential accomplices, they can't be interviewed without submitting all questions through the local 292 and their accompanying attorneys first.

Ok.

Let's do some digging.

A couple of these folks are gonna look more guilty than the rest.

We'll winnow it down and then deal with the local.

What have you got?

We looked for overlap with all of Lindsey's known aliases and we found one.

She made multiple purchases using multiple IDs at the same location.

Fords g*n shop.

And wouldn't you know it, he has the largest selection of hollow point amm*nit*on in the tri-state area.

Go, quickly.

We are on Cat's clock now.

We only have 3 1/2 hours left.

I know what the secret is.

You do?

Why else would you put me through all this?

Ooh.

Phrasing it in the form of a question.

That way it doesn't count as a guess.

Very smart, doctor.

I'm gonna walk you through a scenario and your face is gonna tell me how close I am.

From the moment I arrested you, you watched and waited for the right time to take your revenge.

When you learned I was going to Mexico, you took it.

You and Lindsey framed me for m*rder so I'd be put in prison and treated like a criminal, and then you kidnapped my mother so I would know how it feels to have a parent manipulated, because you want to prove that you and I are the same.

Am I right?

[Yawns]

Mm.

Sorry, I couldn't hold that in any longer.

What were you saying?

Psychopaths get bored easily.

You're right.

Let's speed this up.

Shall we?

Why don't you think about all the pain you've suffered in your life.

What would I capitalize on, do you think?

Is it the death of your mentor, SSA Jason Gideon?

No.

Because we caught the man who k*lled him.

What about Agent Morgan?

And your guilt over not visiting his little boy.

I was in prison.

Yeah, but you had time before that.

Why didn't you go?

Truthfully, I got distracted.

I was trying to figure out a way to help my mom.

She didn't have time.

Morgan, Savannah, and little Bobby did.

So there's absolutely no shame in admitting that.

Morgan would understand.

I agree.

That's why that's not the secret.

Good job, Spence.

[Line ringing]

Go ahead, JJ.

So Cat has deep background on Spence.

She knew about Gideon death and Morgan leaving the team for his family.

She's throwing him off-balance.

Yeah, but Spence also purposely gave the wrong name of Morgan's son, and she didn't correct him.

She must have gotten her hands on Reid's confidential FBI file.

It would mention relevant team information but wouldn't name Morgan's baby because of confidentiality reasons.

We were thinking she's been getting help from someone inside the prison.

This goes deeper than that.

Huh.

Nope.

You've never seen this woman.

She didn't buy hollow point rounds from you?

No, ma'am.

See...

see, it's the way you said "huh." it makes me think you have seen her and then you decided to cover and say no.

Huh.

Look, Mr.

Fords, we appreciate that our kind isn't welcome around here.

Hey, I don't judge folks by the color of their skin.

Well, I was thinking more us being federal agents.

The last thing you want is your customers to see you ratting them out to us.

Something did bother you about this woman.

Like how she was so petite and yet so experienced around a hand cannon like a .50-caliber Desert Eagle.

Or the fact that she used multiple identities when she was buying amm*nit*on for it.

Second.

That's the amendment that guarantees my customers' right to bear arms.

Fifth.

That's the amendment where my customers' right to privacy is established.

Griswold v.

Connecticut, I believe.

This woman works for the drug cartels.

We need to find her before she kills another victim.

Cartels.

Her.

Jesus wept.

That's one hell of a story.

Well, tell us another one, then.

The reason why that little miss has multiple IDs is because she's been harassed by bigots her entire life.

And now her and her fiance fell in love.

Her fiance?

She was engaged?

And just as I don't judge race, I don't judge folks by who they love, either.

Now get the hell out of my store, 'cause unless there's a Supreme Court case I haven't heard of, Obergefell v.

Hodges is still the law of the land.

Working deductively, the secret wouldn't be any of the topics you've already volunteered, because you wouldn't want to make it that easy on me.

Genius, truly.

So what is left that I wouldn't want to admit?

Love.

Is that what this is all about, love?

Or my mother?

No.

For you.

You want me to admit that I am actually in love with you.

Don't get me wrong, I love my fairy tales, clearly, as much as the next girl, but I'm not delusional.

Are you sure about that?

Very sure.

So sure, in fact, that I had Lindsey leave a clue for you in your little scrapbook in your house.

I couldn't have you come all the way down here and make a guess until I was positive.

That is...

Until I tested positive.

What, you're pregnant?

We're pregnant.

No.

Oh, yes.

Mazel tov.

[Doors clanging, indistinct chatter]

Here you are, ma'am.

Thank you.

[Buzzer, door clangs shut]

Reid: It's not possible.

Even if you are pregnant, the baby's not mine.

Except for the part where it is.

That's completely preposterous.

You've been in prison.

So have you.

And we've never...

I know.

We've never...

Ask me how I did it.

Come on, ask me.

How did you do it?

I had Lindsey dose you in Mexico.

You lost time.

And I gave her very specific instructions to get you in the mood.

What, did she pretend to be you?

Why, would that have worked?

No.

Yeah, I know, I know.

Believe me, I know exactly where I stand on the Spencer Reid hot or not list.

I told her to pretend to be Maeve.

Maeve Donovan.

The love of your life.

Who had her brains blown out right in front of you before you two could even kiss.

So dark....

Yet so useful.

You're lying.

Spencer, it's Maeve.

It's ok.

Spencer, Spencer...

Spencer, it's Maeve.

It's ok.

Come here.

Shh.

You want this.

It's ok.

You want this.

It didn't happen.

Hey, I was thinking, if it's a boy, we should definitely call him Spencie Junior.

But if it's a girl, I think we should call her Maeve.

I mean, after all, she played such a huge role in her own conception.

Spence, we might have something.

She's 3 months.

The timeline matches, but that doesn't necessarily mean...

I'm sorry, it's not you.

I just need a minute.

JJ, you there?

Uh, yeah.

Yeah, go ahead.

So far we don't have anything on the prison employees.

Somebody in there is helping her, but nobody jumps out as the obvious culprit, and it doesn't help that they're blocking us at every turn.

We have something, but, uh, it's out there.

I'll take out there.

The g*n store owner was more of a libertarian than you would think.

He talked about how he never judged his customers or who they love.

That's weird.

Not as weird as when he mentioned Obergefell.

The Supreme Court decision that legalized gay marriage.

You said we were missing something in the relationship between these two women.

What if it's this?

The risks that Lindsey's taking, the bond she as with Cat, it's not professional.

It's romantic.

Well, this casts a big shadow over Lindsey's next move.

By exposing their plan to us, she knows there's no happy ending, no future with Cat.

And she's going to take Reid's mother with her.

And that's the ultimate act of revenge against the guy who took her lover away.

JJ, what do you have?

Will you take me off speaker.

[Beep]

Are you kidding me?

Are you kidding?

Well, here's where it gets tricky.

Do we believe her or not?

On the one hand, getting pregnant is a power control move straight out of the female psychopath handbook.

On the other hand...

If her story is true, it meant she sent her lesbian lover down to Mexico to get Reid to...

ugh, yeah.

Either way, she is pregnant.

I just refuse to believe it belongs to Spence.

It could be the person inside the prison who's been helping her.

Getting pregnant serves two purposes...

Gaslighting Reid and emotional blackmail against that employee.

Yeah, but, Emily, we don't know who that guy is yet.

[Cell phone beeping]

And Alvez and Rossi aren't going to in the time they have left.

JJ, I gotta call you back.

How ya doin', good-lookin'?

Come on, now, it doesn't cost anything for a smile.

[Cell phone alert]

[Cell phone alert]

Hello.

Uh, yeah, 911?

That alert you guys sent out...

I think she's here.

I mean, she's blond, but I think I heard noises coming from her truck.

Yeah, I was...

[w*apon cocks]

[Buzzer]

[Door clangs shut]

Reid: Let's pretend you're telling the truth.

That means I guessed it, right?

The secret, the one I don't want to admit to?

It's my child?

Is that your guess?

You only get one, remember?

No.

It's too easy.

Believe me, getting pregnant with your baby was not easy.

You misunderstand.

It's too easy emotionally.

Because I can take your child from you.

The child I had absolutely no role in creating, but a child that I would care for better than you.

That's rude.

It's true.

You can't be a mother, Cat.

I'm not trying to insult you.

It's your psychological makeup.

You literally do not have the emotional skills to care for another human being.

You'd lose interest in your own baby the way a 6-year-old loses interest in a pet hamster.

This baby is simply a means to an end, which is to keep me here playing your game, guessing like a fool, assuming something I never should have assumed in the first place.

And what would that be?

My mother's already dead.

She was dead before I walked in here.

She's not dead.

Yes, she is.

No, because that would be cheating and I don't cheat.

You cheat.

I'm done playing.

Get back here.

Goodbye, Cat.

I'll let you talk to her!

[Line ringing]

Yes, I'm here.

Garcia, get ready to trace a call on Spence's phone.

Fired up, plugged in.

Ready to go.

[Dialing]

[Line ringing]

You're early.

Yeah, I know.

Did he guess?

No, not yet.

We need proof of life.

All right.

Hold on.

Diana: Spencer!

Mom, Mom, are you ok?

I don't...

know.

[expl*si*n]

Mom!

Gotta go.

Mom!

What the hell was that?

I don't know.

Lindsey said you were early.

Was that a signal?

Was that a prearranged signal to k*ll my mother?!

Tell me the truth!

I am!

Tell me the truth!

I am.

You want to know the truth?

Your mother is an Alzheimer's-ridden moron who's getting dumber day by day, and if she's dead, it's your fault.

Spence!

I'm going to k*ll you.

Spence.

I'm going to k*ll you.

Spence, she's pregnant.

Spence, she's pregnant!

Stop it!

I'm going to k*ll you.

Come on.

Come on.

[Gasps, coughs]

Richmond County police just reported a gas station expl*si*n.

One victim, a male.

Whatever Lindsey did, we have to assume your mom's still alive.

Hey.

I'm really scared this is who I am now.

No.

Don't say that.

Je...

Jennifer, you don't know...

I do know.

I know two inmates, Frazier and Duerson, k*lled your friend Delgado in front of you.

And I know they wanted you to move their heroin, and I also know that if you didn't, you would have been next, right?

Spence, anyone in your spot would have done the same thing.

You wouldn't have.

Yeah.

Yeah, I would have, Spence.

If someone was threatening my life, you bet your ass I would.

It doesn't make you a bad person.

'Cause you know who does think like that, that...

that in you doing what you had to do to survive somehow makes you a psychopath?

She does.

She does.

She does.

Because she...

she knows.

That's the secret.

What I don't want to admit about myself.

Hold up.

Let's play this out, because she will not lose to you twice.

She already said that this wasn't about the two of you being the same.

Then she's all about the game.

She thinks that I cheated last time because I lied about her dad, so it's integral to her that she beats me by following the rules.

Yeah, but, Spence, she controls the rules, and she will change them to ensure that she wins.

Which means that I'm locked in.

Like she is.

And she needs me locked in, playing by her rules a game I can't win, so she...

I got it.

Guess that's one way to get you to put your hands on me.

Dance with me.

Why?

Because I don't want the people watching us to hear what I'm going to say next.

You guys got this up?

Streaming now.

Ok, uh, listen, you're gonna hear a lot of weird stuff, like Spence saying he is the father of Cat's baby.

Don't let that distract you.

Uh, I'm sorry.

Full stop.

Why would Spence say he's the father of...

Quiet.

You had eyes on me while I was in prison, didn't you?

Spencie, don't ruin the moment.

I don't want to, but I'm on the clock.

Answer my question.

Am I right?

Yes, you're right.

I wanted to make sure things were just as uncomfortable for you as they were for me.

That's what we missed, the inside man that's been helping them.

He didn't just work at Cat's prison, he worked at hers and Reid's.

Garcia, look for any overlap.

Compiling now.

Here's something.

Lionel Wilkins.

He worked at both Mount Pleasant and the Millburn correctional facility.

Ok, look, this guy could have gotten her pregnant, but there's no way he could have gotten his hand on Reid's file.

Well, not directly.

He could have called in a favor from a friend at the Bureau.

So someone must have wanted to screw us this whole time.

Someone who's not gonna work for the Bureau much longer.

That's how you timed everything so perfectly.

Like sending my mom and Lindsey to visit me when I thought I was at my lowest.

Thought?

You sure you weren't?

No, I wasn't.

Because I didn't feel bad.

I felt scared.

At how much I enjoyed poisoning the other prisoners.

I had a hundred ways of getting myself out of that situation, and I picked the one that would cause them the most pain.

Well, look at that.

You might end up saving your mother's life after all.

Ok, Lionel Wilkins' primary residence is in Falls Church, but I also have a second address.

It's a cabin off of the Rappahannock river.

The cabin is in Lindsey's zone based on the gas stations.

Helos are on the roof forming up.

Let's go.

She's in the backseat.

All right.

I did everything you and her wanted.

I'm done here, right?

They won't get there in time.

They must be on their way, right?

Your team is too good to wait around, but, you know me.

I always have a contingency plan.

So, they're walking into a trap.

[Helicopters]

And the only way out is if you give me your phone and your guess, right now.

When we first sat down, you said you were going to show me what kind of man I am.

And you have.

Every time I touch this, you're getting warmer.

I'm waiting for a phone call.

So are we, Lindsey.

[Ringing]

Whoa, whoa.

It's ok.

There it is.

If this is a trick, I'm going to k*ll all of us.

I swear to you it's not a trick.

And you'll want to hear what the person on the other end of this line has to say.

Reid: At first I was furious, because the secret had to be the baby inside you.

How could it be anything else?

But then I realized that somehow, you knew I liked hurting those men.

Now I know it's both things.

So which is it, Spence?

Come on.

Don't fumble it now.

You're at the one-yard line.

You're not pregnant with my child.

You got pregnant with Wilkins to put me in as compromised a position as possible.

But it should be mine.

I wish it were mine.

Because you and I...

We deserve each other.

That is the real secret.

[Ringing]

k*ll her.

Lindsey, I said...

You bitch.

You're pregnant?

Lindsey, sweetheart, it's complicated, ok?

No, it's not.

Playing the game with Reid was more important than being faithful to you.

And if you do this, she wins.

Don't let her win.

We're clear.

Is my mom ok?

Yeah.

She's fine.

We do deserve each other, by the way.

You guessed right.

You lied, by the way.

You were going to k*ll my mother regardless.

Yeah, I think you really liked hurting those men.

And once you cross that line, you can't ever go back.

Watch me.

♪ You've only got one more river to cross ♪ ♪ one more storm to go through ♪ ♪ you've only got one more journey to walk ♪ ♪ I know the water's wide ♪ ♪ you've only got one more mountain to climb ♪ ♪ one more hand to reach for...

♪ Spencer's here.

♪ ...on the other side ♪ Hi, Mom.

♪ You only got one more river to cross ♪ ♪ and one more storm to go through ♪ ♪ you only got one more journey to walk...

♪ Don't leave me, ever again.

I won't.

[Cell phone rings]

♪ You've only got one more river to cross ♪ ♪ one more storm to go through ♪ ♪ you only got one more journey to walk ♪ ♪ though the water's wide ♪ ♪ you've only got one more mountain to climb ♪ Where is he?

I put him in your office like you asked me to.

Thank you.

♪ You've only got one more journey to walk ♪ ♪ and on the other side...

♪ Hey.

We need to talk.

Derek, oh, my God.

Oh, princess.

Princess, princess.

It is so good to see you.

I'm liking your new digs.

Ohh.

I'm not crazy about how I earned them.

It's been a tough year.

Yeah, I heard some of what you've been going through.

I mean, not everything.

Why didn't anyone tell me that the kid had been arrested?

Reid made a list of people he was willing to see as visitors.

You weren't on it.

He was humiliated, and honestly, we were barely keeping it together.

Garcia almost quit over it.

All right, well, that might explain this text that I got, but I don't know.

Just something didn't feel right.

Garcia texted me, said that Reid was out of prison and that he did want to see me.

And he was staying in an FBI safe house where he was putting his mother up for the night.

I didn't approve that.

You don't call, you don't write.

Rossi...

[Both laugh]

Ohh...

You don't even give us a heads-up and you decide to pop in at 3:00 in the morning.

Oh, blondie, come here, come here, come here.

Hi.

Mmm.

Oh, it is so good to see all of you.

Look, I wish I could say I was just here to say hello, but, um, we may have bigger problems.

You see what I'm saying about that text?

It does not sound like Garcia.

You do know what it does sound like.

A trap.

Hey, baby girl.

Oh, my God!

Oh, my God, it's you!

It's really you!

Oh, you smell like...

you smell like hope and happiness.

It is really you.

Yes, it's me, it's me, but listen.

You gotta focus, ok?

Yeah.

Anything.

Anything.

Focus.

Focus on what?

This text.

Oh, crap.

I know we're all tired, but we might have a new lead on Mr.

Scratch.

Somebody did a bang-up job of cloning my cell phone to send Morgan a fake text luring him to a non-existent safe house.

And whoever that somebody is has mad skills.

The kind of skills Scratch has.

Were you able to trace where the hack came from?

Do you see what I have to put up with?

Alvez, you'll always get a location with this one.

You guys are all good to go.

Prentiss: Obviously Morgan can't come with us.

He's a civilian now.

We'll miss you out there.

I'd be lying if I said I didn't miss it out there in the field with you guys.

I think about it every day.

But between my old friends and my new friends, you guys are gonna go out there, you're gonna handle your business, you're gonna make people feel safe, and then you're gonna come home.

And that's all that matters.

Let's saddle up.

Hey.

Walk me back to my lair.

So what's the other reason you're not going with the team?

Baby girl, I made a promise to my son.

Now, obviously he's not old enough to understand it, but that's not what matters.

My promise was that I would come home to him every night, and so far, I haven't broken it.

How is Hank?

He just started walking.

Well, it's more like this little waddle.

But the kid is walking.

You know, I had no idea that I could love this much.

Ok, I just have to say something.

Of all the heroes I have met, and I have met a lot of heroes, you, Derek, "Chocolate Thunder" Morgan, are the most heroic.

Ohh, ohh, ohh!

That's for you.

This is for Hank.

And Savannah.

This one is for you again.

Oh, as for Hank, if you leave right now, you'll get home before he wakes up.

Actually, I told Savannah I was going to catch a later flight.

I reached out to Reid for real.

I want to see him, I gotta see him, so, I'm gonna bring him some breakfast and make sure him and his mom are ok.

I am so proud of you.

I love you, always.

But do you think you can try to be a little friendlier to Alvez?

Oh, my God.

Hey, hey, hey.

Look at me.

He seems like a pretty all right kid.

He...

I...

it's complicated.

I'll try.

I make no promises.

[Sighs]

Go save some lives, baby girl.

Ok.

Meow.

I hate it when you go, but I love when you walk away.

Here's another one.

Got it?

Uh-huh.

Mm-hmm.

Me...

Too...

You.

All right, Voltron, sound off.

Have we dispatched units to the location Scratch tried to lure us to?

I coordinated it before we left.

They're on their way.

SWAT will meet us on site at Scratch's house.

I know we all want this son of a bitch's head on a platter, but SWAT has to clear every single room before we step foot inside.

Have they been briefed?

This guy's traps set traps.

The house itself could be a setup.

Or a waste of our time so he can get away.

Whatever it is, he's gonna try to take us by surprise.

We have to be ready for anything.

Is everyone OK?

Yeah.

Yeah, yeah, we're good.

[Engine roaring]