Criminal Minds

Help me...

Aah!

Capricorn? Really? Me, too.

Let me buy you a drink.

I think he really likes you.

What's the matter with you, Kevin?

I almost had a heart attack.

Yeah, not much of a pickup line,

but then again, he is a corpse.

Seriously, you can be such a jerk.

Just relax. I was just trying to...

Grayson's coming. Come, help! Help me here.

Everything all right in here?

Yes, ma'am. I thought I'd come in early to prep.

Save you some time.

Mr. Hilliard, have you ever heard of Eddie Haskell?

No, ma'am.

I think you might be a direct descendant.

Well, thank you, ma'am.

Mm-hmm.

Let's get started.

Oh!

Are you ok?

Yes. It's just...

I never worked on a real person before.

Cadavers aren't people, Ms. Flanagan, they're things.

Slabs of flesh we briefly inhabit, like motel rooms.

You check in, you stay a while, you check out.

Well, that's a weird place for a tattoo.

This is Joan Grayson with the county coroner's office.

I need to speak with Detective Trejo in homicide.

Right now.

Hey! Welcome back.

- Hi. - Mmm!

I missed you so much.

You must be Walker.

Great to finally meet you.

It's really great to finally meet you.

I've heard nothing but wonderful things.

Uh, ok, speaking of wonderful things,

let's have it. How's your mom doing?

She's ok. You know, we have good days and bad days.

So, are you still going to be going to Houston

on the weekends to visit her?

No, actually, I...

Excuse me.

Dr. Reid here.

What?

All right, stay there. I'll be right...

I'm on my way, ok? Thanks.

Sorry, guys, I have to go.

Everything all right?

A water pipe broke at my apartment.

Tell Prentiss I'll call her when I can.

What was that all about?

Reid apparently has a plumbing emergency at home.

Oh, no, what a pain.

We'll need to bring him up to speed later.

Right now we have a case.

Last night, in Tampa, this semi sort of doodle

was discovered on the arm of a cadaver

that was being dissected in an anatomy class.

What is it, some kind of tattoo?

No, it's an ink pen drawing.

Yeah, and luckily for law enforcement,

the teacher of the anatomy class

is also the county coroner, and she recognized the marking.

She'd also seen it on...

Helen Bollinger.

Helen was found dead in her car 10 days earlier

with 50 sleeping pills in her system

and it was ruled a suicide.

With that scribbled on her arm?

Please tell me there was an equivocal death investigation.

There was, but the M.E. determined that the evidence

didn't meet the threshold to rule it a homicide.

The marking on the second body

has an extra line added to it.

The design could be a work in progress.

Do we have an identity on the cadaver?

Yes. George Findley. He's a Gulf war vet.

He lived on the street for years.

He died of a heroin overdose.

Marking looks like an initial, an "A", maybe.

It could also be a partial triangle.

Or the unsub's got a brand all his own

and he's sending a message...

"these victims belong to me."

If it's a message, why place it

on such an obscure part of the body?

A sophisticated staging like this takes time and practice.

This unsub's killed before.

Which means we need to move fast.

Reid can meet us later in Florida. Wheels up in 10.

Don't worry, I'm never coming back!

Whoa, what are you doing?

Leaving.

You can't leave. We have an agreement.

You signed a contract.

The contract didn't say anything

about a crazy person threatening my life.

She did this on purpose. Goodbye.

Is she gone?

Mom, what did you say to her?

She was trying to get information from me.

Kept asking questions!

Of course she was. She's supposed to.

I told you to be careful about the people you bring into this house.

There are spies everywhere!

She's not a spy. She was here to help you.

Shh! She might still be out there listening.

Don't ever let her come back in here again, please.

Promise me.

I will promise you that,

because she is never coming back!

She walked out!

Good.

Because we can only trust each other now.

Nobody else. Just you and me.

"We must remember that Satan has his miracles, too."

John Calvin.

Ok. Bye.

So?

Short version... Spence took his mom

out of the clinical study study in Houston early

and brought her home with him.

Did he say why?

Evidently the experimental medicine isn't working.

Which facility is he putting her in up here?

He isn't. He said that he is bringing his mom

to stay with him.

At his apartment?

The instinct is admirable,

but does Reid have any idea

how difficult that's gonna be?

Well, if he didn't before,

he is gonna get a crash course now.

This morning his mom got into a fight

with the new caretaker,

then she left the bathroom faucet running,

flooded the apartment, the caretaker quit,

but Spence still wants to be patched in

for the video conferencing now.

Garcia's standing by.

Be careful not to slip.

I have to jump on a conference call for work.

Are you gonna be ok for a few minutes?

Spencer, I'm sorry. This is a mess.

It's ok. I know it was an accident.

Your books are ruined.

Just a few of them. It's ok.

No, it's not.

Destroying a book is like...

Destroying a whole world.

You want to maybe lie down for a little while

and get some rest?

Yes, that's a good idea, honey.

I need rest.

Hey-o. Beaming Reid into the starship BAU.

Hey, there's my favorite genius. Welcome back.

It's good to be back. I'm sorry about all this trouble.

No, don't be silly. And if there's anything

we can do to help, just let us know.

Thank you. I had a chance to look over the case files.

Do we know anything new about the two victims in Tampa?

Only about how little there is to learn,

and Garcia can't find any connection

between Helen Bollinger and George Findley.

Which isn't that surprising.

Homeless vet, upper-middle-class suburban mom.

Not much overlap there.

What about their personal lives?

Well, George was homeless,

so his personal life was sort of problematic.

Helen, on the other hand, ticks every box

on the wholesome soccer mom checklist.

President of her PTA, super active at church,

heavily involved in charity work.

Spence, have you looked at the ink markings yet?

I did. Whatever it is,

it doesn't come from traditional sources

of art, mythology, and literature.

Except for the incomplete base of a triangle,

the design is evocative of the pagan symbol for earth.

Garcia, look into other questionable suicides

and accidental deaths in the Tampa area recently.

Searching the sad stuff. On it.

Rossi, when we land, you and Lewis check in with the M.E.

Alvez, see what you can find out about George Findley.

JJ, Helen Bollinger's husband is coming in.

I'd like you to talk to him to see if he can fill in some of the blanks.

Walker and I will set up with the local P.D.

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I knew it. Helen would never have killed herself.

Can you tell me about the day she died?

It was a... It was a day like any other day.

You know, she got up, headed off to her pilates class.

Um, our daughter Crystal had a ballet recital at school that evening.

I was just gonna meet her there after work.

And how old is Crystal?