Criminal Minds

We've got you, Ms. Garcia.

If you say so, suit.

We've got evidence of your off-site servers

and of your hack into the cosmetics company.

They test on animals.

Yes, they do. But it's not illegal.

What you've done is a felony and it's punishable by prison.

Well, if you've got me, J. Edgar...

It's agent Hotchner,

and I'm from the behavioral analysis unit.

And I'm here to offer you an option to prison.

You come work for me.

You'd be our technical analyst.

So I teach you how to use Google,

that kind of thing? That's fun.

You'd help us hunt psychopaths.

I'm a psychopath.

No, you're not.

In hacker circles you're known as the Black Queen.

And you are rigorously moral.

All of your online attacks reflect a fierce desire

to protect those who you think are being hurt.

If you accept my offer, you can do the same thing

for the federal government.

I just need a resume to give to human resources.

Or we prosecute you.

Well, I'm not in the habit of bringing my resume

to events I am handcuffed at,

but I have some stationery in my purse

and I'll write down some computer stuff I know and think about it.

I took out her phone and laptop. Everything else is harmless.

Hotchner.

We'll be right there.

We have a suspect.

I need an answer.

Yes, if I can keep my purse.

Good choice.

Do you have a key?

Oh.

Beauty and brains.

Hey, eyebrows.

When they do the men of the FBI calendar,

is it just 12 months of you?

Welcome to the team.

So, let's talk about sexual harassment.

Sexual harassment isn't always a quid pro quo arrangement.

Maybe it's a conversation between two co-workers

that makes you feel uncomfortable.

Maybe these co-workers use phrases like...

"Baby girl."

"Chocolate thunder."

Or..."Where's my big black twelve-pack?"

Who?

And that creates a what?

A hostile work environment.

So messages like, "more cushion for the pushing"..

Not appropriate.

"I'll be Coco to your Ice-T."

Not appropriate.

"Flarpy blunderguff."

I don't even know what that means,

but not appropriate.

Ms. Garcia, you really have to stay for this.

I'm sorry, but I got... I... I have to... I'm so sorry.

I'm so sorry.

I'm so... I'm so, so sorry.

Not appropriate.

Oh, sir, I am so, so, so sorry about this.

Take a look at this.

Is this real? Is this happening?

Yes. And we're on our way to the Attorney General's office to explain it.

Uh, when you say we, you mean the whole team or...

I mean you and me.

Oh.

Oh.

In 2004, the BAU flew to San Jose for two reasons.

One was to recruit Garcia,

the other was to arrest this man Sam Russell.

The prostitute killer.

8 victims. He didn't fit the profile exactly,

but he waived his rights and admitted to all 8.

Isn't San Quentin putting him to death in two weeks?

Yes. And we've been tasked to review his conviction.

Why us?

Garcia?

Ok. Uh, this morning,

the justice department website was hacked.

When you log on, you see this

and then this.

Are these crime scene photos of the victims?

The San Jose police department was also hacked.

Garcia says this must have been months in the planning.

Any idea who's behind it?

Best guess is it's an online collective known as Star Chamber.

They're one of several justice oriented groups that sprung up

in the wake of the Steubenville rape case.

Star Chamber. Interesting name.

It's derived from a 17th century British court

designed to ensure fair enforcement of laws

against the rich and the powerful.

Actually, according to my research,

they named it that because it's also the name

of a mediocre yet awesome Michael Douglas movie from 1983.

Ok, but why Sam Russell?

He confessed without any coercion.

Because in addition to being a monster,

Sam Russell is a hacker extraordinaire.

I don't know the man, but I learned from him.

So the Star Chamber is rallying behind one of their own

before the state of California can put him to death.

And we get thrown the political football

to make the negative attention go away.

We have to separate ourselves from the politics of it

and ensure that they're executing the right man.

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Morgan: "People often say that this or that person

"has not yet found himself.

"But the self is not something one finds,

it is something one creates."

Thomas Szasz.

Well, looking at the history of Star Chamber,

they love riddles.

So this message, "They died in vein,"

spelled V-E-I-N,

that's not just a homonym mistake, it a clue.

Yeah. That's their game... "we know something you don't."

They're fiercely libertarian and anti-secrecy,

which goes hand-in-hand with conspiracy theorizing.

As far as they're concerned, the whole Sam Russell thing is a cover-up.

Why did close in on Russell as a suspect?

He was arrested repeatedly for solicitation.

All streetwalkers, all drug addicts.

His victims match that type.

Well, you said he didn't fit the profile.

It sounds like he fit it perfectly.

There was an issue with M.O.

4 of the prostitutes were stabbed and 4 were strangled,

and the unsub alternated between kills.

It sounds like two unsubs.

That was our profile until Russell confessed to everything,

including names and details. As far as we could tell, it was just him.

Yeah, but we can't that that for granted.

Dave, Blake, and Reid, go over the old files.

We need to re-interview everyone associated with the old case.

Morgan and Garcia, dig into Star Chamber.

We don't want to validate them, but we need to know what they know.

And JJ and I will go to San Quentin.

Om mani pame hum. Om mani pame hum.

Om mani pame hum. Om mani pame hum...

Agent Hotchner, thank you for coming.

This is agent Jareau.

Hi. Good to meet you.

Have a seat.

Are those prayer beads?

Uh, yes. I don't go anywhere without them.

They're bound with hair?

Well, uh, I exist on death row, agent Jareau

hair is all I have left.

And these beads, they help me accept my fate

that I'm gonna be murdered for crimes I did not commit.

This prison's filled with men who didn't do it.

Why should we believe you?

Have you heard of desoxyn?

It's a pharmaceutical grade methamphetamine

used to treat ADHD and narcolepsy.

In 2004, I found an Internet black market that sold it,

and when I started popping those pills like candy, I was gone.

I would just hack in 100-hour stretches, I'd sleep for 4.

I was an addict...

Not a killer.

So you're saying desoxyn caused you to sign a confession to 8 murders?

Yes.

Look, here's something you don't know.

The man who arrested me, detective Bob Cooper,

he found my pills and then he introduced me

to the good stuff, the I.V. stuff.

And the more prostitutes I confessed to killing,

based on information that he fed me,

the higher the dose. And I never

fully sobered up until last year

when I discovered Buddhism, but by then it was too late.

No one would listen.

But the Star Chamber did.

That's their whole message, right?

"They died in vein"?

How are you communicating with them?

I'm not gonna tell you that.

I'm not gonna let you interfere with work they're doing on my behalf.

Odd behavior from a supposedly innocent man.

You know what? I've howled for 10 years

against a system that wouldn't even notice me

until the Star Chamber embarrassed them,

and then it noticed.

I'm not gonna cooperate and help you find the Star Chamber.

They're the only ones fighting to keep me alive.

So, how long ago did you retire, Detective?

Oh, about 4 years.

You know, they say that you never turn off being a cop, but, uh,

I sure did.

Detective Cooper, we need to ask you a few questions