12x05 - The Anti-Terror Squad

[bunniefuu]

[Music playing on car stereo]

[Girls laughing and chattering]

Oh, I love this song.

[Laughing]

Turn it down. I don't want my parents to hear us.

You're already busted. Your mom's been blowing up your phone with texts.

Yeah. She hates when I break curfew.

At least it was worth it.

Ha ha.

Later b*tches.

Bye.

See you, Mandy!

[Whispering] Damn.

[Alarm clock buzzing]

Daddy?

Mom...

Aah!

It's just a little something.

For me?

No, not for you. It's for Roxy.

But you have opposable thumbs, so you can open it for her.

Wow. Biscuits.

Yeah. They're all organic.

Human grade. Quite delicious, if I do say so myself.

Uh, plus...

It's a sweater.

Oh! Isn't it amazing?

It is... Amazing.

What was that?

Huh? What was what?

You paused.

No, I didn't.

You don't like it.

No, I didn't... I didn't say that.

Oh, you might be a profiler in training, but I'm a profiler by association, and I can tell a lie when I hear one, and liar.

Ok. I'm sorry.

It...

It's the biscuits.

You know, Roxy, she's on a raw food diet.

Oh.

They're mostly peanut butter, but my bad. Ok.

But this is great, huh?

Y-yeah. This is...

This is amazing.

It is.

And very, very thoughtful.

It was, wasn't it?

It was. Thank you.

You're welcome. Roxy's welcome.

I can't wait to see her in it.

[Text message]

Oh.

We got a case.

The Bergstrom family was k*lled in their home in Winona, Minnesota, last night.

Mother, Father, and little boy, all sh*t execution style.

Any suspects?

Therein lies the mystery. The Bergstrom family was as low-risk as they come.

What about m*rder-su1c1de?

That was ruled out. There was no m*rder w*apon found at the scene, and both Bridget and Scott Bergstrom were sh*t in their bed.

But there was a survivor. A teenage daughter.

17-year-old Amanda.

She was out past her curfew at the time of the murders.

And she's the one that found the bodies.

It almost seems like a hit man scenario.

Maybe a mafia retaliation k*ll?

But that doesn't seem likely in Winona, Minnesota.

But it does seem like a revenge k*lling.

If the unsub expected to wipe out the entire family, he screwed up big time leaving Amanda alive.

Unless she had something to do with it.

That's a question mark, but according to the M.E.'s preliminary report, she can't be the sh**t, based on alibi and time of deaths.

On the surface, they were a well-liked family, living a low-risk lifestyle.

The daughter Amanda, where is she?

Protective custody, in case the unsub sees her as unfinished business.

We good?

Mm-hmm.

We fly.

[Punk music plays]

♪ Hey, I want it, I need it ♪
♪ I want it, I want it, I want it ♪
♪ I need it, you get it, you get it ♪
♪ you get it, I want it, I need it, I love it ♪
♪ I hate it, I want it, I need it, I love it ♪

Reid: "The malicious have a dark happiness."

Victor Hugo.

Bridget and Scott Bergstrom grew up in Winona and have deep ties to the community.

Scott was a local distributor of farm equipment.

Bridget cut hair at a salon in the mall.

Yet they were m*rder*d by a family annihilator.

Sad but true. The Bergstrom family had their share of dirty laundry. Though who of us does not?

Scott developed a Vicodin habit a few years back after a skiing accident.

So he could have been in over his head with his dealer.

So Bridget was having an affair?

Yeah. I looked at their financials.

She's got a credit card secret just in her name, with charges to a motel just outside of town, and nothing else.

She might have cut things off, causing him to go off the deep end.

Can you get us a name?

Yeah, I'm already into it.

You'll have lover boy's I.D. asap.

What about Amanda, the sole survivor? Any motive there?

Deep sigh. [Sighs] I hate that you're asking that.

And deep sigh again, I am bound by duty to report the facts.

There's a modest insurance policy.

17-year-old Amanda is the beneficiary.

$100,000.

That would seem like all the money in the world to a teenager.

People have been k*lled for a lot less.

That's an unlikely motive for the daughter, but we can't rule her out.

Whatever set this unsub off, he made the whole family pay for it.

Ok. JJ, Spencer, Emily, you go directly to the crime scene.

Luke, you're with me. We'll set up H.Q. at the local P.D.

Unsub entered on the second floor through the cut screen.

He had to be physically fit.

He knew the house well enough to know this was the room to enter.

He went straight to the parents' room.

He wanted to remove the greatest thr*at first.

Prentiss: Based on the b*llet trajectory, he was standing here at the foot of the bed when he fired.

He wanted to stare at them both before f*ring.

And that woke Bridget up.

[Screaming]

She was attempting to flee when the unsub sh*t her.

Oh, no! [Screaming]

[g*nsh*t]

Did he enjoy watching her terror and panic, or was it inexperience on his part?

Bridget's scream...

Aah!

[g*nsh*t]

.. is probably what woke Kevin.

So the unsub heads down the hallway where Kevin is coming out of his bedroom.

Mom?

Dad?

And he runs into the unsub.

Who are you?

[Gasps]

So it seems this unsub knew who lived here and where each person slept implying a personal connection to the victims.

In spite of the home invasion, there's no sign of burglary, so he's mission-oriented.

He's highly organized and sophisticated.

The big question is Amanda.

Did he think she was home, or did he deliberately strike when she was out.

We need to talk to her.

Poor kid was so distraught, we took her to the E.R.

They ended up sedating her.

She'll be coming around soon.

I've got a deputy stationed outside her room over at county general.

Good. If the unsub wanted to wipe out the entire family, she could be in danger.

What about the wife, Bridget?

We heard she might be stepping out on her husband.

Yeah, that was an open secret.

She was seeing Ron Ferguson.

They met at the gym. He was a trainer.

Was? What happened?

Sticky fingers.

Ronnie got caught stealing personal items from lockers.

They called us over, but nobody pressed charges.

Just sent him packing.

Ferguson sounds like bad news.

He's no altar boy.

Couple of DUls and a few as*ault convictions.

Bar fights, mostly. But nothing like this.

You don't think he's involved in this, do you?

The guy's got a temper and he likes to drink.

That's not a good combo.

Where is he now?

Living off unemployment, just outside town out by I-90.

Let's go talk to him.

So, knocking on doors kind of remind you of fugitive hunting?

Yeah, a little bit.

That was a... that was a one-man show, though.

And this is a team sport.

Yeah.

Yeah, well, that could take a little getting used to.

A little bit, yeah.

This is it.

Rossi: Ronald Ferguson.

FBI. Like to ask you a few questions.

[Indistinct]

Where do you think you're going? Huh?

This takes me back.

I didn't do nothin'.

We want to know about Bridget Bergstrom.

I don't know, it was messed up.

But I didn't have nothin' to do with it.

Bridget and me broke up a while ago.

Ok. Where were you last night?

Out at the CC club... in town.

My buddy Steve got in a fight, got cut, so I took him to the hospital.

What about afterward?

I was there all night.

Waited with him while he got stitched up.

I didn't get home till almost 6 a.m.

And there were security cameras in the waiting area.

You can check.

We will.

That's the truth.

No matter what that little liar says.

Who are you talking about?

Amanda.

Bridget's kid.

She knew you were having an affair with her mother?

Yeah. And she blackmailed me for almost a year.

Threatened to tell her dad all the time.

Amanda acts all innocent, but she's always working some angle.

I was supposed to be home by 11:00.

That's my curfew.

But there was a party and I stayed all night.

My mom, she was really mad at me.

She texted me...

Sweetie, she wouldn't have stayed mad at you.

Ok? Please believe that.

She said she was disappointed in me.

That's the last text she sent.

And I ignored it.

Teenagers break curfew. It's normal.

I'm sure she loved you very much.

Amanda, we need your help to find whoever did this.

We need to ask you some difficult questions, ok?

Ok.

Ron Ferguson said that you knew about him and your mom.

Is that true?

Yeah.

He said you threatened to tell your dad about the affair.

Well, that was just to keep him away from my mom.

I didn't really want to tell my dad.

I didn't want him to know.

How come?

Because of the pills?

Yeah.

Yeah, after my dad broke his leg, he got addicted.

And, um...

It was really bad for a while.

And that's when your mom started having the affair?

He was always yelling, at everybody, even Kevin.

And my mom and him almost split up.

Then he worked really hard to get clean.

I didn't want to tell him about Ron because I didn't want him to give up.

He was doing N.A. and everything, and he was doing really good, and then my mom even thought so, and so when he got his 6-month chip, she broke up with Ron.

How did Ron feel about that?

Ok, I guess. I mean, I'm pretty sure he was already seeing someone else.

Things were just starting to get good again.

I thought I was getting my family back.

Why did this happen?

Why is my family dead?

Just got off the phone with Garcia.

Ferguson's alibi checks out.

I can't even begin to imagine it.

Her whole family gone in the blink of an eye.

She's devastated.

Ferguson seems to think that Amanda was some kind of conniving shrew.

Well, Amanda may well have been hostile towards him, but for good reason.

She wanted her parents to stay together. Typical kid.

She was candid about what went on.

She was genuinely baffled by who would do this and why.

Agreed. That last text from her mom, that one's gonna haunt her.

Rossi: What's gonna happen to her now?

She has an aunt and uncle in Seattle.

They flew in today. So it sounds like she'll be going home with them.

We know Ferguson's way too disorganized to pull this off, so where does that leave us?

The family had their problems, but they were getting back on track.

And yet someone wanted this family dead.

But it doesn't make sense that they'd be targeted by a family annihilator.

What if it's not about this family?

What if it's just about families?

So the Bergstroms could be surrogates.

Meaning our unsub will probably strike again.

[Dog barking in distance]

Man: Hey.

[Clatter]

[Barking]

[Dog yelps]

[Clatter]

[Barking, yelping]

[Thud]

[Woman screaming]

[g*nsh*t]

[Ringing]

911. What's your emergency?

Please help.

There's someone in my house.

He's sh**ting.

Sir, I can't hear you.

If you're unable to speak, just press any button.

Are you there, sir?

[Beep]

Ok, we'll track your phone and send someone to your address.

[Siren]

FBI!

Body down.

JJ: I have two bodies down back here.

Alvez: Let me see your hands.

Let me see your hands.

JJ: You're safe now, Matthew.

You're safe.

Matthew, we want to find who did this.

So if there's anything you can remember seeing or hearing, anything at all, it could help us.

What you did, calling 911, that was brave.

JJ: That call saved your life.

Anything?

He's traumatized.

I heard him walking.

Then he stopped.

He was in my room.

Right there.

Why am I alive?

Why me?

Wish we had an answer for him.

He's right. The unsub must have known he was there.

If he was in that bedroom, he would have seen the puddle, just like Alvez did.

The unsub deliberately spared him.

But not out of compassion.

He wanted them to feel the pain of losing their families.

I think we've inverted our victimology.

We've been focused on the m*rder*d family members.

We should be focusing on the survivors.

They are the real victims, the ones the unsub wants to hurt.

We believe the unsub is a variation of what we know as a family annihilator.

The garden variety family annihilator is usually a narcissistic male patriarch experiencing psychological stress.

This causes him to become homicidal and then suicidal.

His narcissism often manifests as rage directed at a specific family member, prompting him to m*rder the entire family as an act of punishment and revenge.

He then blames the object of his rage for his violent outburst.

Once the entire family is dead, the patriarch typically commits or attempts to commit su1c1de.

But this unsub is murdering families that are not his own.

[g*nshots]

There's a distinct punishment component to the annihilation that's driving this unsub.

He's more organized than the typical family annihilator, with greater impulse control and a high level of sophistication.

His sophistication is apparent in the fact that the object of his rage is deliberately spared rather than m*rder*d.

[Screaming]

This allows the unsub the satisfaction of inflicting ongoing psychological pain on the object of his rage.

We're looking for a male in his late 20s, early 30s.

He's mature and highly intelligent.

Amanda Bergstrom and Matthew Doherty may be surrogates for individuals who wronged the unsub when he himself was an adolescent.

Amanda and Matt both attend Pillsbury High School, and we have not identified any other connection between them or their families.

Pay close attention to the faculty and administrators of the high school.

A lot of the parents are wondering if we should shut down the high school.

The school itself has not been a scene of v*olence.

Closing it would not deter this unsub.

We need you to beef up patrols and warn the public of the ongoing danger.

And we ask you to encourage the entire Pillsbury high school community to report any suspicious individuals they may encounter.

Ok, that's it.

Hi, folks.

Thanks for showing up.

We will be holding these forums every day, before and after school, and I encourage all students and parents to come as often as you want.

Now I'll turn it over to Mr. Bakken, our school counselor.

Thanks, Mrs. Dahl.

We welcome all members of our Pillsbury family.

I'd like us all to start by acknowledging the hurt that each and every one of of us has experienced this week.

Students, if you're here with a parent, please turn to him or her now and just...

Just label your feelings.

Sad, scared, depressed, angry.

Whatever you're feeling.

Seriously?

I told you this would be stupid.

We don't want to label our feelings.

We want to know what you're doing to protect our families and our kids.

We are in constant contact with law enforcement, but we just don't know anything more than you do.

Then what are we doing here?

I want you to know that school is a safe place for your kids.

I don't need some loser in a cardigan sweater telling me my kid's freaked out.

I need to know the son of a bitch who did this is going to jail.

[Indistinct chatter]

[Laughs] Good one, Austin.

Ha ha! What are you looking at, loser?

Ha ha ha. Oh, man.

Shall we?

[Beep]

Boom, baby.

Rossi: What's up, Garcia?

Do you have any idea how many selfies the average teenager posts on social media on any given day?

I'm gonna tell you before you say anything.

So many. And like the guys, too.

Actually, some studies indicate that men take twice as many selfies as women 'cause it's considered to be an acceptable form of male vanity.

How many pictures of yourself do you really need?

And they're basically making the same expression...

Oh my God.

Am I officially not young?

You, my dear, are the portrait of everlasting youth.

I'm timeless, right. Good answer.

Ok. Back to my point.

I have been drilling into the social media footprint of both of our adolescent survivors.

Any connection between Amanda and Matt?

Yeah. Stay with me while I go around here for a second.

So, basically, both of their Facebook pages are just an outpouring of love and support from their peers.

And it's touching, really, and it's very reassuring for the hope of our species.

What did you mean, "basically"?

In between all the wonderfulness, there's a tiny tributary of nasty comments from some of their peers, saying that Matt and Amanda got what they deserved.

Well, they're kids. Kids can be cruel and thoughtless.

Right. But we all know that cruelty is sometimes inspired by previous action, which made me wonder what Matt and Amanda might have done to provoke some of their peers to saying some of these things on their Facebooks.

So I looked into their school records, and both Matt and Amanda have complaints against them for "harassing behavior."

They're bullies.

Were they disciplined?

No. To paraphrase the Violent Femmes song, nothing went down on their permanent record.

So the victims were also victimizers.

If the unsub was bullied himself as a teenager, that could be the original narcissistic wound that's fueling his present day rage.

Turning his surrogate victimizers into victims is the point for our unsub.

Bullying leaves lasting scars.

Our unsub could be a teacher or staff member at the school who seems himself as an avenger of students who are current victims of bullying.

Someone who punishes the bullies when no one else does.

From the unsub's point of view, the bullies themselves are responsible for the v*olence he's perpetrating against their families.

We need to dig into the backgrounds of the teachers and staff of Pillsbury High and identify anyone who was bullied as a kid.

Already got digital shovels already throwin' up dirt.

We also need a list of any other known bullies at the school so that we can warn and protect their families.

Oh, here's something.

There is a school counselor there named Eric Bakken.

Not only is he the school administrator who's in charge of handling bullying complaints from the students, but when he was 15, he was charged with as*ault.

He was arrested. He claimed he was provoked by a long-time bully, but the charges were dropped.

Let's get him in here.

In theory, our community has a zero tolerance policy on bullying.

But not in practice.

In practice, most of the bullying that goes on at Pillsbury High never makes it to my door.

Why not?

Coming forward requires courage and a willingness to claim the pain.

That's hard.

And sometimes, I'm sorry to say, can make things worse for the victim.

It must be hard for you to see kids being bullied, knowing you can't do anything to stop it.

It is.

It must make you angry.

Angry?

Yes.

I bet some of these kids were best friends with the people who started bullying them in junior high and high school.

That's right.

And it only intensifies the pain for them.

Was that your experience when you were bullied?

It was.

My best friend all through elementary school and junior high.

All of a sudden he turned into a popular kid and I didn't.

He never targeted me directly, but he also never stopped his new cool best friend from tormenting me.

At first I fought, with my fists.

But that doesn't solve anything.

It just landed me in more trouble.

I've worked through my own experience.

I had to in order to work in a high school so I wouldn't project my own experience onto any of the students.

That sounds very healthy.

Thank you.

It was hard work, but well worth it.

I know I can't help every young person who needs it.

And I know I'm a joke to lots of the students.

But I do help some of them, and that makes everything worthwhile.

Is Bakken our guy?

No. He has none of the rage our unsub has.

But he did give us some names.

Garcia sent the addresses of 6 students to your phones.

They're the most notorious bullies at the school.

Now, they and their families are in immediate danger.

We need to warn them.

All right, let's go.

We've got 5 families safely in protective custody.

Good.

That's the house up there.

The front door's open.

[Crying] Austin. Austin, my son.

My boy.

My boy's dead.

That's my boy.

Please help him.

M.E.'s preliminary time of death confirms that we couldn't have missed him by more than a few minutes.

There's extreme overkill here.

Victim was sh*t 6 times and then bludgeoned.

He's decompensating.

Alvez: Or evolving.

Yeah, he doesn't care about the family anymore.

He's going straight for the bully.

Reid: Hey, guys.

Austin's room.

The other murders, the unsub left the homes undisturbed.

Well, it certainly looks like this is what he bludgeoned the victim with.

He could have left it in the living room with the body, but instead he brought it back in here and destroyed Austin's other sports trophies.

Yeah, you know, everything about this, the overkill, trashing the room, going after Austin's prizes, it fights against our profile of mission-oriented organization and impulse control.

He's more stressed now. He knows we're closing in.

It's more than that.

His behavior reads juvenile.

Our unsub isn't an adult, he's a child.

I can't believe there's a psycho m*rder*r out there.

I mean, nothing ever happens here, and then this.

It's so weird.

Yeah. Maybe he's not a psycho.

Seriously, dude?

You know, I heard that Matt cried in the closet when his family was getting k*lled.

For real?

Yeah.

Where'd you hear that?

What difference does it make?

I don't know. It just makes you feel sorry for him, that's all.

What?

His whole family got k*lled.

And from ninth grade until about a week ago, Matt Doherty made your life a living hell.

I know, but still...

No wonder you're a punching bag.

Do you even remember why we started the Anti-Terror Squad?

To help protect each other from bullies in school.

And we said the bullies are t*rrorists. Do you remember that?

Yeah, but the Anti-Terror Squad is just a name.

It's just something we made up to feel less pathetic.

We're not the pathetic ones.

They are.

Zach, they are t*rrorists.

God.

You know what some politicians say.

The best way to handle t*rrorists is to take out their whole families.

That's messed up, man.

Nobody's family deserves to die like that.

Not even the families of real t*rrorists.

Pull over.

Why? I can just drop you at your house.

Yeah, I'd rather walk.

[Beep]

Garcia, we need the records of every student at Pillsbury who filed a bullying complaint against Amanda Bergstrom, Matt Doherty, and Austin Settergren.

Also, anyone who received counseling for being bullied by those students.

Wow. This is a really big pool.

I've got 27 names.

Prentiss: Any of those students bullied by all 3?

No.

Like Bakken said, most victims never come forward.

So I'm seeing the tip of a really big iceberg.

Nobody wants to be a snitch.

Also, bullying is often so widespread, it's normalized.

It would only amplify the unsub's feeling of powerlessness.

But he didn't actually say he k*lled anybody, right?

He practically said it.

That's what I'm trying to tell you.

What did he say exactly?

He said Amanda and Matt deserved what happened to them.

I feel really bad about what happened. I do.

But for like a nanosecond I thought the same thing.

Don't judge. I already feel guilty enough about it.

I get what Kyle's talking about.

I mean, just because something awful happened to them doesn't make them good people all of a sudden.

Amanda's still Amanda. Her and all her friends have been really mean to me since like fifth grade.

So, you don't think I should tell the cops about this?

We gotta tell somebody.

No, we don't.

People are dead.

But if you're wrong, you could ruin Kyle's life.

Think about it. He could get railroaded by all the hysterical nut cases in this town and the star of "Making a m*rder," season 8.

If Kyle's off the rails, we need to tell somebody.

Hey.

No one told me that the Squad was meeting.

Oh, it's not really a meeting.

It kind of looks like one.

So, please, I don't want to interrupt.

What was that about Kyle going off the rails?

The pool of suspects is still too big.

Garcia, can you cross-check the names you pulled with any mentions on social media of bullying?

Oh, there's a boss idea.

I'm gonna do that right now, and...

Oh, this is interesting. I pulled up 6 names from my list, and they all belong to a private chat group.

Some kind of bullying support group?

It's called the Anti-Terror Squad, but, yeah, that's exactly what it is.

It's an apt analogy.

Ongoing bullying would feel like terrorism to those experiencing it.

They warn each other about which stairwells and bathrooms to avoid on any given day.

They walk each other to and from school. That kind of thing.

I tell Henry school's a safe place, but for these kids it's anything but.

Are there any mentions of retribution or payback, planning?

No. But there's a lot of content here.

I'll do a keyboard search. It'll take a while.

Ok, so these kids took back some of their power by banding together.

They call themselves the Anti-Terror Squad, so they see themselves as righteous.

The unsub may be one or all 6 of these kids.

Garcia, I need you to locate their cell phones.

Sure. Um...

They're all in the exact same place.

All 6 of them are in a classroom at Pillsbury High.

Alvez: All right, look, there are 5 cell phones here and there are 6 members of the club.

Garcia, what have you got?

These kids would never voluntarily leave their phones.

Whoever's still got their phone is our unsub.

If his friends turned on him, the unsub would experience that as a huge betrayal.

He's been k*lling for them and he's just discovered they're not grateful to him for it.

Ok.

The kid whose phone isn't here is Kyle Ecklund. He's our unsub.

But there's no signal.

What do we know about him?

Bare bones biographical details.

He's an only child. Mom left him as a toddler.

His dad's an alcoholic.

That explains why he's mature.

Without a reliable caretaker, he was parentified at an early age.

And now he's switched the focus of his rage from bullies to his own peer group.

The family he's seeking to annihilate has expanded.

Yeah, but if he wanted to k*ll them, why wouldn't he do it here? Why move them?

He's making a statement.

Zach: You don't have to do this, Kyle.

I didn't have to do any of it.

I did this for you, Zach.

And you, Megan. Sam, Ryan, Josh.

I did this for every time that we got tripped or punched or spit on.

I did this for me.

Megan: Please, Kyle!

Shut up! Keep walking!

Kyle Ecklund has been bullied for a lot of years by a lot of kids. I mean a lot of kids.

He unleashed on Austin Settergren.

What did Austin do to him?

Let's see. Oh, yes, yes, yes.

Ok, so Austin was the ringleader of a particularly horrifying incident that happened a few years back.

We need to know where it happened.

It happened right there at the basketball courts at school.

This place is a maze.

Garcia, can you guide us?

Absolutely.

Where are we going?

We're going to the court.

Come on, Kyle, you don't want to go back there.

Oh, shut up, Zach.

You don't know what the hell I want, man.

I thought you did. I thought you were my friend.

But you are just like everybody else.

I'm sorry, Kyle. I'm sorry.

You will be.

You're under arrest! Stand down!

Stay back!

I've got a g*n. I'll use it.

You do what you have to do.

I'm ready.

[Crying]

Shut up!

Prentiss: Nobody's moving in, Kyle.

Nobody's gonna sh**t you. You are not in danger.

I know that I'm not getting out of here.

I am ready.

That's not how this has to go, Kyle.

I know what happened here.

I know what Austin did.

Girl: You're a loser, Kyle.

Are you ready?

[Laughter]

Yeah! Yeah!

I said, are you ready?

[Cheering] Yeah! Yeah!

Here we go.

Austin, please, please don't.

Girl: Go on, get him.

Boy: What a loser.

Yeah! Yeah!

Let's do it again.

Yeah!

[Indistinct voices in crowd]

Boy: Get him, Austin!

[Sirens approaching]

I know they left you out here all night, and you weren't found until the next morning, and that nothing happened to the people who did that to you.

You don't care.

Nobody cares.

I do care, and I'm sorry.

I'm sorry about what happened to you.

But nothing ever changes.

Mr. Bakken is a joke.

Everything he does just screws everything up.

I know. You're right.

Bakken failed you. Everybody failed you.

And they made everything worse.

But, Kyle, what you're doing now, this makes everything so much worse, and I know you don't want to be responsible for that.

I know you don't really want to hurt your friends, the only ones who truly understand what it's like.

You're better than this.

Kyle, please let me go.

Reid: "Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you."

Jean-Paul Sartre.

Heh. What's this?

It's a present for Roxy.

Are you gonna do this every day?

Although I am generous to a fault, every day would be beyond the pale, and I am nothing if not moderate.

I was just thinking about how your Roxy probably saw some pretty intense stuff while you were with the Rangers, and maybe a pink sweater isn't her thing.

Not that pink isn't super bad-ass, just sweaters are restrictive and this may be more her jam.

Hey, this...

This is dope.

You like it?

Yes. Thank you.

Roxy thanks you.

Oh, good. I knew I'd eventually get it right.

Feels good to get it right.

I may not be able to prevent myself.

From random acts of dog kindness.

Not every day, mind you, because that would be excessive.

Oh, yeah. And you're the queen of moderation.

I am the Queen of it.

We're heading to O'Keefe's for a drink. You in?

Oh, hell, yes. I'm ready to call ahead for my margarita.

Luke, you joining us today?

No. This one doesn't do the whole bonding over drinks thing.

I'm in.

What? Oh, you're not fooling me, Alvez.

He just wants us to think he's a smoldering basket of mystique and contradictions.

I don't buy it.

Hey, I just want a beer.

Well, there may be a glimmer of hope for you yet.

But just so you know, the new guy pays.