Criminal Minds

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Oh, god.

This place is ratchet.

The sign said "under construction."

That's just to keep the people away.

The workers still have to use the bathroom, don't they?

And I can't hold it anymore.

This is totally like one of those horror movies

where the killer's hiding in the bushes with a chainsaw.

Would you please stop?

Come with me.

Are you crazy?

I can tell from here it's going to smell like a sewer.

I'll sneak in with you.

To the bathroom?

So it's a maybe?

You sure you don't want me to come in with you?

No, I got it. I got it.

All right.

Baaahhh!

I hate you.

Just let her use the bathroom so we can be gone.

Ohh...

I wouldn't go in there.

Wash your hands before you come back out.

We got a call from Bridgewater, Florida, PD.

The body of Rebecca Strong was found last night

in a rest stop women's room

with and without things.

Whoa.

Yeah, and then it gets worse.

All the telltale signs are here.

Pentagram, legs and fingers gone.

There's even one neat aspect.

Her earrings and jewelry are laid out

equidistant on the floor.

Sure as hell looks like him.

Looks like who?

Floyd Feylinn Ferell.

A psychotic cannibal who'd been killing

under the radar for years.

He killed 10 prostitutes

then moved up to low-risk victims.

He kept slipping through the cracks and avoiding justice

so people referred to him as lucky.

The worst of it was he owned a barbecue joint,

and he fed one of the victims to the search party.

That is a very...

I... I have a computer...

Was it something I said?

No. That's not you.

Um... We were working Ferell's case

when she was shot.

Garcia was shot?

10 years ago.

Happened right in front of her apartment building.

Was it a random act of violence?

No, he lured her

into dating him before she IDed him.

Turns out, he was a dirty cop named Colby Baylor

and she was getting close to exposing him.

So he shot her.

Where is he now?

He's dead.

Good.

Let's just give her a few minutes.

Tara, what were you saying?

Projected cannibalism.

The act of inducing others to consume human flesh unknowingly.

You do not see that very often.

Well, projection seems to be a thing for Ferell.

He fed the fingers of 10 previous victims to a later one.

His way of telling us he was 10 victims deep

before we even knew he existed.

You think he's back?

Not unless he really lives up to his nickname.

He's been locked up in the Hazelwood

psychiatric hospital for the past 10 years.

Well, then it's a copycat

wanting to ride the wave of horror

left in Ferell's wake.

Statistically, copycat killers

tend to be vulnerable narcissists.

Though overtly boastful, they harbor deep-seated

feelings of inadequacy.

Emulating notorious crimes makes them feel powerful.

Ferell was found to be mentally incapable

of assisting in his own defense,

so, he skated without a trial.

If this unsub is anything like Ferell,

he's got a taste for it.

And copycats typically don't stop after one victim.

Wheels up in 20.

JJ, can I talk to you for a second?

Dinnertime, Floyd.

Sausage links. Your favorite.

Come on, Floyd, you must have worked up

an appetite over the weekend.

Not tonight.

I'm already full.

"I like to turn things upside down"

to see pictures and situations from another perspective."

Ursus Wehrli.

The rest stop victim, Rebecca Strong, was a sex trade worker.

High risk, like the early victims

Ferell preyed on back in 2007.

After that, he graduated to low-risk victims

like Sheryl Timmons, who's also the only known survivor.

Garcia, track down Sheryl.

On it.

What was Rebecca like as a person?

She's described as strong-willed, determined.

Working to support her two kids.

When was Rebecca last seen?

Well, her boyfriend, and by boyfriend I mean pimp,

Jason Carlsbad, reported her missing

when she didn't show up and donate to his college fund.

I'm sending you deets right now.

Normally, I would want to look at him.

Pimps hurt women they exploit to gain control,

but an M.O. this complex doesn't add up.

Yeah, the cannibalism angle wouldn't make sense either.

Eroticizing the consumption of human flesh

is a pretty specific fetish.

Are we sure that he's copying that from Ferell?

We need to nail that down. Dave, Tara,

go to the M.E.'s office.

Matt and Spencer, head to Hazelwood State.

Notorious criminals have fans

who might want to copy their work.

Luke, you and I will head to the PD

and set up a base of operations with Detective Russ.

Hey, Garcia.

I've been thinking about doing this all night.

Get it together, kid, get it together.

Ok.

Oh, great. I was just coming for you.

So I have the handwritten notes...

Hey. Um, you know,

we can call in someone else to work this case.

No, there's no reason to do that. Why...

You stayed behind 'cause of me, didn't you?

Emily and I were worried.

Ohh...

I... I guess...

I guess I thought, I don't know,

I thought I'd gotten over it by now.

We were working this case when you got shot.

It was the biggest physical trauma you've ever had.

It's only natural that dredging up one

would trigger memories of the other.

Ok. Like I put it in a box. I let it go.

Really?

You know it doesn't work that way, right?

You know what? It's been 10 years,

so, enough time for the wounds to heal.

And although no amount of kitten videos is gonna make this better...

Let's get to work. What do you got?

Thanks for coming, Emily.

Alex, this is Agent Luke Alvez.

Hi. You two guys, you know each other.

Alex left the Bureau a few years ago to take this job.

Tough call, though. When my dad passed,

I wanted the kids to spend some meaningful time

with their grandma down here.

I heard Detective Jordan retired early and you replaced him.

Yeah. He couldn't shake the stink of this case.

It's taken the community a decade to recover from Ferell.

Now we have a damn copycat.

Well, they thrive on media attention.

That wouldn't be good for anybody.

Agreed. We rob him of his 15 minutes

and work under the radar.

I'd like to shut him down quietly. Before the town loses all hope.

I was deputy coroner in 2007.

Didn't think I'd ever see this again.

Legs and fingers removed antemortem.

Inverted pentagram postmortem.

Cause of death exsanguination?

Mm-hmm. Due to bisection of the carotid

when her throat was slashed. Just like before.

Looks like blunt force trauma to the head as well.

Again, just like the historic cases.

Whoever is doing this has Ferell down to a "T"

That doesn't make sense.

Ferell's been locked up for years.

Why would someone be copying him now?

Can't tell you, but this copycat

seems to be an exact copy.

How so?

I x-rayed the stomach contents

before I removed them.

5 fingers in the stomach,

fed to the victim just prior to her death,

none of them hers.

Only Ferell knew that signature aspect.

We never released it to the public.

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