Criminal Minds

Morgan: Previously on "criminal minds"...

Woman, you are driving me crazy, you know that?

Derek? What's going on?

I don't know.

Derek! Derek, talk to me.

Derek!

Savannah...

Call hotch! Call hotch! Call hotch!

Are you there? What's wrong?!

We did just take down a network of online hitmen,

but is this is blowback, why Morgan?

Time to die.

Not yet.

Hey.

The next time you ask,

I will not be late for you.

Or our son.

I don't know if it's a boy. It could be a girl.

Will you marry me?

Yes.

Mommy!

Mommy, help!

Mommy, help me!

Ronnie?! Ronnie?!

Ronnie! Ronnie!

Mommy! Jim, wake up! Wake up!

Jim!

Aah!

Help, mommy! Help!

Ronnie, Ronnie, where are you?!

Ronnie, where are you?!

Ohh! Ohh!

Help, mommy! Help!

Ronnie, where are you?

Ohh! Ohh!

I can't see!

No! Aah!

Hey, hey, hey, hey. There you are.

How are you settling in?

Oh, you know. Like riding a bike.

You know, I've been meaning to ask,

um, I've got an opening in my poker group next week.

Why don't you join us.

Oh, my dance card's kind of full these days, rossi,

you know, getting ready for a baby.

Well, that's all the more reason to play,

you know, jump-start the kid's college fund with a little money.

Ok.

Ok, I'll see what I can do.

I left a file in the conference room.

I was just in there. I didn't see any files.

You sure about that?

Positive. No files.

I... I would have noticed.

All right, your eyes are starting to do that little thing that they do.

Let's have it.

Have what?

It's not my birthday.

And I said to you, please, no welcome back party.

All right, look, I'm not saying,

but I was supposed to distract you,

so do me a favor and act surprised when you go in there, all right?

All right, i got you covered.

And let's just keep it an extra 30 seconds, just to be sure.

No problem.

So my eyes do this thing, huh?

Little bit.

I better work on that before poker night.

Surprise! Surprise!

Welcome back!

Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, no, you didn't.

Savannah: Not my idea, babe. I was outnumbered.

How long has this been in the works?

Oh, two weeks. You didn't suspect?

I, uh, had no idea.

That's good. A certain amount of cluelessness

is nice in a husband.

Ok, hush up.

Amen to that. A woman is entitled to her secrets,

especially from a profiler.

Well, this profiler may not be changing any diapers,

but I will tear up some diaper cake.

Oh, you look like a diaper changer to me.

Yes, you will be changing some diapers.

Ladies, I was joking, i was joking.

Look, baby, I was joking. It was a joke.

Yeah, we're on the way.

I'll activate the child abduction rapid deployment team from here.

Yeah, thanks. Come in.

Hey, I have been sent to commandeer you.

Sir, party's in high gear.

There's been a double homicide and a child abduction in Wichita.

Uh, I'll go let the others know.

Jj.

Give them 10 minutes. There's time while the plane's being readied.

Morgan: "Parents are the bones

on which children sharpen their teeth."

Peter ustinov.

Thank you.

Ronnie brewer is still missing.

Both parents' eyes were filled with sand and glued shut.

Mr. sandman, bring me a nightmare.

This is a well organized unsub.

He managed to kill both parents,

perform a complicated ritual,

and successfully abduct the boy.

Jj's right. It's a lot of moving parts

for one person to orchestrate.

Could we be looking at a team?

This is reminiscent of the killing

of the clutter family in 1959, also in Kansas.

That crime was perpetrated by two ex-cons working together.

The "in cold blood" murders.

But that was a robbery gone bad.

It doesn't seem to be the case here.

Well, assuming Ronnie brewer was the ultimate target,

why risk entering the home at all?

I mean, wouldn't it be simpler just to grab the kid

on the way to school?

Well, the abduction of the child

from a place of presumed safety

must be an essential part of his ritual.

Who knows? Maybe the killer

had a score to settle with mom and dad, too.

The sealing of the eyes could indicate remorse.

He didn't want them to see what he was doing to their kid.

Then why not just kill them immediately?

I mean, he must have a reason

for rendering the parents functionally blind first.

You know, the sand in the eyes

could be a purely symbolic gesture.

The sandman was a mythical character

who would sprinkle magic dust

in the eyes of children while they slept.

Yeah, but I thought he was a benevolent figure,

a bringer of good dreams.

Not always. In one version of the myth,

he would actually pop the eyeballs out of kids

to use as food for his own offspring.

Please. I stand corrected.

All right, when we land, Dave, you and jj

go to the crime scene. Reid and Lewis to the m.E.,

and Morgan and I will get set up at the precinct.

An Amber alert has been issued

and police checkpoints have been established

here, here, and here.

I understand a witness saw a vehicle

leaving the area about the time of the murders?

That's right. A farmhand employed by Mr. brewer.

He reported seeing a white male in a gray sedan speeding away.

Did he get the make or model?

No. The car was out on the main road,

not the driveway, so the worker didn't think

much of it until he discovered the bodies.

About what time was that?

Shortly before dawn.

Well, this is a small agricultural community.

If the killer stalked the brewer family beforehand,

someone may have noticed.

Or he could be a seasonal worker

with no local connections.

Which would be our worst-case scenario,

someone who came from nowhere

and is now headed back to nowhere.

Rossi: No tread marks anywhere,

the unsub probably parked his car

along the main road abd walked in,

jj: Does the family have dogs?

No. No security system either.

Well, there's nothing around back.

The garage and storage were unlocked.

And I bet the brewers probably never locked

their front door.

You know, that's not so unusual.

I grew up in a place like this

and that's just how it was.

People trusted one another.

Trust is a good thing.

So are deadbolts and a rottweiler.

Hopefully some of this blood's the unsub's

and we can pull DNA.

Lyla brewer's body was found in the hallway.

Her husband never made it out of bed.

He must have been killed first.

Well, it makes sense.

Eliminate the primary threat

before moving on to mother and child.

Mrs. brewer spent some time stumbling around out here.

And in the child's bedroom

and in the bathroom and in the study.

She covered a lot of ground before dying.

There are, uh, fresh scratches on the floor here.

Too heavy for her to have moved.

What if the unsub did it to block the top of the stairs?

Seal off the child's escape, maybe?

Or prevent a blinded Mrs. brewer from taking a fall?

Strange that he'd be concerned for her safety

right before crushing her skull.

I don't get it. If the goal was the child

and Jim brewer's attack was quick and lethal,