Criminal Minds

The unknown subject we're looking for

is a male, most likely in his 20s,

based on the two victims so far.

But before we go any further,

we need to be clear.

Age is the most difficult variable to predict.

He could be in his 40s.

A very fit 40s.

So our point is,

the profile is a guide only.

It's an investigative tool,

and we need to stress that.

All we have is a series of deductions,

but one of those deductions

is that the unsub knew his victims personally.

Which is why we're delivering the profile to you,

because you also knew the victims.

So, our goal is not to make you uncomfortable

or suspicious. Normally we wouldn't

even give the profile this early,

but you are our best chance

at discovering the identity of--

Yes?

I have a question for agent Rossi.

Go ahead.

Why did your last book...

Suck so bad?

Uh...well, we're not gonna talk about that now.

Really? that's all I want to talk about.

I mean, you even consider that Tommy Yates was a patsy?

Look, we get it, OK?

You have no reason to trust us.

We're the FBI, and you are the official community

of the Roswell, new Mexico, truthers.

Thanks for not calling us conspiracy theorists.

Well, we know you don't like that term.

While we don't agree with your opinions, a lot of people do.

Like how September 11th was an inside job,

or how vapor trails from jets are poisonous,

or how lizard people are secretly running the government.

Ah-ah-ah! confirmation from the FBI.

You all heard it.

No, no, see that's specifically not what I was...

OK. We need your help

to stop a killer who is hiding in this group.

That's why we are having this here in this legion hall

and not at the police station.

We don't want you to feel surveilled--

What did you put in my pocket?!

Gun! drop it!

Drop it!

Prentiss: All right, everybody calm down.

What's your name?

I'm Emily.

Emily Prentiss. It says right here.

The reason I'm asking is so we can have a conversation.

Doug.

I'm Doug.

Great, Doug. Let's just take a second.

Let's think through the logic of this.

I--I didn't do any of this!

We're not saying you did,

but you are making things worse with that gun.

The reason we asked you here,

the only reason, is to listen. That's all.

OK? so just listen.

Listen. Put the gun down.

I know a false flag when I see one.

You bitch! No!

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Garcia: "once you eliminate the impossible,

"whatever remains, no matter how improbable,

must be the truth."

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

Can I go home now?

No. We're holding you and your friends for 24 hours.

You're all persons of interest

in a murder investigation.

Murder? what, Doug killed himself.

True. But there are still two other victims to account for.

Now, normally when there's a public suicide,

it's because the suspect is the serial killer

and he's killed himself out of guilt.

But we can't prove that yet,

so, our investigation is still open.

He said this whole thing was a false flag,

which means he thought you were trying to frame him.

I know what a false flag is.

The FBI doesn't frame people.

What, not anymore?

You know, all of your friends have lawyered up.

Called us Nazis, or both.

But you haven't.

So?

So that tells me you want to get

to the bottom of this just as much as we do.

Do you know what a podcast is?

I do.

Well, I have one.

So if we're actually gonna do this,

you give me back my phone

and I record our conversation

for my podcast, 'cause I'm not talking to you

without documenting everything.

You want this on the record?

Of course. I want this on the record.

Otherwise I'm lawyering up with all my friends.

So what do you say?

Prentiss: The answer's no.

I think we should consider it.

No. She will control the audio.

She can twist your words,

edit them to make the bureau look bad.

We already look bad.

The brass is gonna want to know

how and why Doug killed himself in front of us.

Yeah, and that's my ass,

but I'm not making this situation worse

than it already is.

Garcia, have we confirmed that this truther's even legit?

Garcia: Of course I've confirmed that, and she is.

Melissa miller has a pretty popular truther podcast,

especially around Roswell.

She promotes all kinds of conspiracies,

but her cause celebre is staged shootings.

So she thinks the reason we have gun violence,

it's been faked by the government

as a pretext to revoke the second amendment. Nice.

It's another reason not to do this.

Or it's the exact reason to do this.

What was tonight, other than a staged shooting,

and why is she the only one willing to cooperate?

Unsubs like to insert themselves

into the investigation.

Profile skews male, but she could be a partner.

OK, then, if she isn't involved,

I can get her to talk.

I'm a forensic psychologist.

I'm trained to outwit and outsmart

clinical psychopaths far more dangerous than her.

But if we're wrong, she's going to post her podcast.

Then what? then we're the next example of fake news.

Look, everybody, give us a second.

You, too, Garcia.

We don't just have egg on our face,

we have blood on our hands.

It's not like these conspiracy theorists

are gonna be quiet.

I am aware of that. I need options.

We're out of them.

The profile says it's a truther,

and only one of them is talking to us.

We have to throw a Hail Mary.

Say something. We need to make sure

the levels are good.

I'm Dr. Tara Lewis of the BAU--

No. Say something interesting.

Tell me how you really feel about truthers.

My audience could use a sense

of the FBI's bias against us.

I got my PHD. By taking a theory,

testing it, and then proving my results.

Now, proving my results means that I take those results

and I turn them over to other scientists

to see if they can replicate them.

And if they can't, then my theory was wrong.

See, that's science. A consensus of evidence

that we call truth.

What you do is different.

Oh, no, it's not.

Yes, it is.

Because your theories are unprovable.

Give me one.

Uh, president Obama wasn't born here.

He was born in Kenya.

Perfect. That's perfect.

So, I show you his long-form birth certificate,

and then you would respond that it's been faked

because that's how deep the conspiracy goes.

And then that becomes your argument

against any evidence that I provide.

It's a cognitive trick that keeps you

from having to admit that life is messy.

It's random. Not everything fits

the easy explanation that a conspiracy gives you.

All right, then. Well, let's talk about the murders.

When did you first hear about them?

Yesterday. When we were invited in.

Garcia: It's time to get out our tinfoil hats, my fine furry friends,

because we are on our way to Roswell, new Mexico,

aka, ground zero of conspiracy theorists

because of a certain alien crash-- I mean weather balloon.

The sheriff there has had two suspicious deaths

over the last 48 hours.

Both victims were members of the truther movement.

Yes, which is a group of conspiracy theorists

who share their out-there beliefs online with each other.

No judgment here. Let's look at our first victim Bryan Behar.

He believed that the fluoride they put in our drinking water

is a mind-control agent meant to keep us docile.