Show: Criminal Minds - 18x9
Previously on Criminal Minds: Evolution...
Get down!
Agent Lewis's prognosis it not what we might've hoped for.
No matter how scared you are, no matter how hurt you are, I'm here.
Rebecca, this team, they're my chosen family.
That's why I needed to ask you this in front of them.
Will you marry me?
Darcy's place was tossed, wasn't it?
You think Darcy found something?
Something the Disciple needed time to catch and kill.
How you doing there?
What's the matter, boy?
You look like you seen a ghost.
The Disciple knows more about Voit and his condition than Orlov could've ever told him.
So, what, someone in the hospital is part of this?
Let's just lock everything down.
I'm going to recommend that your nursing staff be completely turned over every two weeks.
That's impossible.
Unfortunately, it has become an unavoidable security precaution.
Perry?
John Perry?
Hi.
I'm Dr.
Julia Ochoa.
Hi.
So it says here you've been an orderly at Melgren for 11 months?
Yep.
No criminal record.
No disciplinary issues.
Occasionally tardy.
I can...
I'm working on that.
So, what have you heard about this position?
Uh, I know it's a two-week gig.
Then I rotate back downstairs.
And I know it involves a VIP.
Well, he's actually not a VIP.
We're treating a high-value informant for the FBI.
So we have to go above and beyond our usual HIPAA security standards.
Every record gets submitted twice.
Every syringe gets accounted for.
And your phone stays in your pocket at all times.
Got it.
I mean it about the phone thing.
We've already had to let some people go.
This job pays double-time, right?
That's right.
Well, my wife has instructed me to tell you that, in this economy, I will suck dick for double-time.
So I can keep my phone in my locker.
Okay, thank you.
Well, we'll be in touch.
Despite his social graces, his supervisor says he's solid.
Not straight A.
But solid.
All right, well, put him on the short list.
Who's next?
Simple question.
If the Disciple can talk to you like he's Cyrus, who else knew about you and Cyrus?
No one.
When I was in Cyrus's house, it was just him and I.
Then how did he become a person of interest in a local case?
Wait, he was?
When?
2004.
No, I was gone by then.
Wh-Wh-What was the case?
Silvio Herrera.
Silvio...
Never heard of that guy, but...
Mm-hmm.
I saw that.
Hey.
Give me a break?
M-My kid, he woke up with a 103 fever.
Want to bring him in?
No.
But my wife, she's working nights all weekend.
I'm not on call, am I?
You're good.
Keep it in your locker.
Hey, how's that little boy doing?
Well, the fever broke, thank God.
But only after I drugged him to get him to sleep.
What's going on here?
Strap yourself in for ten hours of watching paint dry.
It's a waste of our goddamn time.
We're never finding the Disciple this way.
Maybe not, but we have guys from the network in custody.
One of them will start talking to us.
We're closer than you think.
Hey.
Oh, hey.
How you feeling today?
Uh, good, good.
Good.
Is there something else I can help you with?
Oh, yeah, um, do you, do you like dark chocolate?
I love dark chocolate.
Why?
Oh.
Good, then...
maybe you'll like this.
Oh.
Well...
First of all, thank you very much.
Very welcome.
And secondly, Elias, I'm your doctor.
Yeah...
Oh.
And that means...
No, I-I know.
I just...
I-I don't even like that brand.
I thought maybe...
I don't need gifts.
Okay?
This is my job.
Yeah, I-I know.
I was just thinking...
I...
Look, I don't know what I was thinking.
I'll-I'll just take it back.
Oh, whoa, get out of here.
You're not taking back my chocolate.
What?
Huh?
What?
Oh, no.
Oh, no.
No.
Oh.
I know.
Assemble the team.
Is this...
We're gonna find out, all of us.
The team.
Now.
Yeah.
Yes, this is SSA Prentiss for the Deputy Attorney General.
I understand.
Please pull him from the meeting.
What do we have?
Go ahead, Penelope.
Last night, Kathy Wolner was shot point-blank in her home with a nine millimeter.
Based on the irregular muzzle imprints, Manasses PD believe that the unsub used a suppressor.
Kathy Wolner?
Who's Kathy Wolner?
She's the wife of Trevor Wolner.
One of the guys on the network we arrested before they could kill themselves.
They have a son.
Yes.
Andrew.
He wasn't on the scene.
The locals believe he was abducted.
And they also found this.
Signing their work like they always do.
Yeah, but what they don't do is take a hostage.
So why start now?
Continued leverage.
What is the one consistent element of Voit's old network and this new one?
Suicide pact.
You kill yourself before you get caught so you don't bring down everyone else with you.
So the Disciple is sending a message: This is what will happen to you if you don't follow through.
The network is closing ranks and eliminating any lead we have.
Then Voit's a target, too.
Dr.
Ochoa has him on lockdown, and I've doubled the number of marshals covering him.
We need to secure everyone we have in custody and their families and the victims we saved in the Tate Andrews case, just to be safe.
Rebecca's coordinating with the Bureau of Prisons.
We are going to divide and conquer everyone else.
Shit.
What happened?
Trevor Wolner hung himself in his cell this morning.
And as for his partner, Steve Morris, yes, he was in a different facility, but two hours ago, he jabbed a sharpened pencil in his carotid artery and bled out.
The network must have gotten to him, so he took himself off the table.
That leaves two suspects for us to worry about.
Uh, Ronald Graber's brain-dead, and, um, Voit already killed his family.
Which leaves Kyle Mackey, the Undertaker.
I have a call in to FCI Petersburg to have him put in solitary.
Okay.
I will have Garcia follow up.
Can you have his ex-wife and daughter brought here?
Yeah.
We are in a race with the network, and we're already behind.
This is Rebecca Wilson with the DOJ.
I need to put in a WITSEC order for Torres, comma, Lainey and Mackey, comma, Ava to MCB Quantico.
CARD Team has us on their notify list for the boy.
If they have a lead, we'll be the first to know.
Work this out with me.
The network shoots the wife to show they're not kidding and then keeps the boy to make sure Trevor Wolner goes through with his suicide.
Yeah.
Wolner and Morris are off the table.
It's mission accomplished.
So what's the Disciple gonna do with a ten-year-old boy?
Let's go find out.
To gain access to my network, I needed collateral so that I could...
scorch the earth.
Scorch the earth meaning, if they don't kill themselves, you kill their whole family?
Yeah.
Did you learn that after killing Ronald Graber's family?
Maybe.
Inspired by.
But after Graber, I never...
actually went through with it.
I think he might be holding back because of me.
Should I step out?
No.
We want him on his back foot.
Let's say you did do it.
Would you ever take a hostage?
Or spare a child to make sure that they went through with it?
No.
That's not how you scorch the earth.
Okay, then why...
why would this unsub abduct a ten-year-old and not kill him?
What?
What am I missing here?
Elias?
Hey.
Guys.
Wait.
What was that all about?
The unsub didn't take Andrew as collateral.
He took him because he's a pedophile.
Hey, hey, hey.
Were you able to secure the survivors with the Disciple?
You know, the truck and the spiders and the...
We did.
They're safe.
Why?
Well, I'm on Undertaker duty, which is a phrase I hate saying, and it turns out that Mr.
Kyle Mackey, although remanded to FCI Petersburg last week, they have no record of actually receiving him.
This isn't over.
How is that possible?
A great question...
great as my outfit today...
that has baffled both me and the intake officer.
Well, it looks like you're not the only one.
More bad news?
What else?
Lainey Torres and Ava Mackey disappeared this morning.
No.
No.
That means we've lost our bad guy and his whole family.
Lainey told her detail she was dropping Ava off at school.
They never came home.
Cell phones are off.
No credit card usage.
No sign of her car.
Just poof, gone.
So we're oh-for-three with the network?
No bodies yet, but based on the pattern, it would seem so.
Okay, I need a pick-me-up.
Can I see your engagement ring?
Oh.
Uh, actually, there-there was something that we wanted to talk to you about.
Uh, yeah.
Maybe-maybe not now.
Emily needs me on the second floor.
No.
No, that's not fair.
You can't say there's something to talk about in a happy way and then drop it because duty calls.
Okay.
Walk with me.
Okay.
Oh, I totally forgot to ask.
How are you doing with the...
?
Uh, better, yeah.
I mean, still moving slowly.
Rebecca won't let me lift anything heavy, which is very sweet, but I had to draw the line when she told me I was brushing my teeth too hard.
Well, you do.
Gingivitis kills, Becs.
Uh-huh.
Okay, in-in regards to this news you're gonna tell me, is it lawful good or chaotic good?
I don't know what that is.
What?
Are you kidding?
You've never played Dungeons & Dragons in your entire...
Never mind.
All right.
Boiling it down, lawful good means doing good within the system.
Mm-hmm.
Chaotic good means you're a rebel with a conscience and a cause.
Will you marry us?
What?
Rebecca and me.
Will you marry us?
Yes.
Of course, yes.
A thousand times, yes.
I can't believe you're asking me.
But not so tight.
Oh, God, I'm so sorry.
I forgot that you got, um...
Ooh, wait, why are you asking me?
Well, because I'm chaotic good and Rebecca is lawful good, and you're the best parts of both of us.
That's the loveliest thing anyone's ever said.
Look, I'll let you know the date, okay?
When we set it.
Yes.
You better.
Okay.
Okay.
All right.
Oh.
Hey.
What do we got?
Another package was delivered to us with the same handwriting on it as the box with the Yase-Otoko mask.
Is it another mask?
I don't think so.
Why not?
This time, they sent us something bigger.
Notify the CARD Team.
Where's my mom?
Hey.
Hey.
How's he doing?
His aunt and uncle are on the way.
Pediatrician says that he's completely unharmed.
Physically, anyway.
But there's s-something else.
What is it?
When I told him that he was at the FBI, he asked to speak to "Agent JJ".
We're recording?
Thank you.
Hi, Andrew.
Who are you?
I'm JJ.
Were you guys playing Rat Slap?
You know how to play?
Are you serious?
I crush at Rat Slap.
Can we?
Yeah?
Okay.
Let's see.
Got to make sure they're shuffled really good so you don't cheat.
All right.
There we go.
So...
I heard you wanted to talk to me about something?
There's a prayer.
I'm supposed to say it to you.
A prayer?
Mm.
Yeah.
They made me memorize it.
They did?
There's more than one?
Did you see their faces?
No.
They wore these...
weird masks.
Okay, what about their voices?
Were their voices deep or...
Ah.
They sounded like the girl on TikTok.
You know, that fake voice.
Oh.
Were they...
nice to you?
The first guy, he wasn't nice when he came to my house.
After that, they were very nice.
Then one of them told me I had to go to sleep.
That's when they told me the prayer.
Do you want to hear it?
I do.
Okay, it goes, "Now I lay me down to sleep.
Your husband's soul is God's to keep.
Lainey and Ava will be safe...
if you release the man who dug their graves."
That's it.
That's the prayer.
Andrew, you're a very brave boy.
And you are also kicking my butt, so I am gonna go get Agent Stacey to come in and play with you.
Okay?
Okay.
Take it easy on her?
Bye.
Those motherfuckers.
Just hang on.
They threw my dead husband in my face.
Yeah, they did, okay?
But Emily thinks that they overplayed their hand.
What?
JJ, the network has made a critical error.
But to understand it, we need to go over Andrew's prayer. "
Lainey and Ava will be safe if you release the man who dug their graves."
Who are they talking about?
It's a ransom demand.
They have Lainey and Ava.
They're willing to trade them for Kyle Mackey, the Undertaker.
The one who dug their graves.
But why give us this message?
They got to the other two without making demands.
Because they couldn't find him in the prison system either.
Exactly.
They assume we already released Mackey to protective custody, so they're trying to trade for him.
Except the collateral they're offering?
They don't have it.
They don't?
No, they don't.
I had Tyler talk to the marshal in charge of their case.
He told us something critical to our investigation.
We are on the record with U.S.
Marshal Andy Murray.
Thank you for coming in.
Any news on Lainey or Ava?
Not yet.
That's what we're hoping you can help us with.
Can you walk me through how you learned they were missing?
Lainey didn't return from school drop-off.
After 30 minutes, I initiated witness recovery protocol.
But when I searched the apartment, I saw that their closets were empty.
Empty?
Yeah.
Fucking bone dry.
Our concern was that they were kidnapped.
But they're on the run.
Someone tipped off Lainey and Ava.
Told them they were in danger.
So the network tried to bluff.
And trick us into releasing Mackey.
Yeah, but they wouldn't go this big unless they were this desperate.
Which means we're not out of the race.
There are suspects and survivors who I think can help us crack open the whole network.
We have to find them, all of them.
Garcia is looking for Kyle Mackey.
Luke, I want you helping her.
Dave and I will stay on wife and daughter detail.
JJ, I need a word.
We haven't talked about the first line of the prayer.
Why would they bring up Will?
To dysregulate me.
To push my buttons.
To make me make a mistake.
That has been the pattern, hasn't it?
They push our buttons, we screw up.
But the buttons are getting more and more precise, to the point where a little boy used your nickname that...
Who else knows about that outside of this team?
Not a lot of people.
Shit.
This case has a leak.
I have Garcia running a systems analysis in case they hacked us.
Who else should we be looking at?
Uh, the survivors from the back of the truck.
Tara's covering that.
I'm covering everyone under our roof.
Who else?
Uh, Ochoa's staff at Melgren.
Can you...
I'm on it.
Uh, uh, just a minute.
Dave, you wanted to see me?
Oh, hang on!
What the fuck?
Okay, now, when does "hang on" mean "come in"?
What's wrong with you?
What's wrong with me?
What are you hiding?
What the hell is that?
Ozempic.
Ozempic is administered by injection, Dave.
Look, I...
I took your advice.
I've been seeing a psychologist, who referred me to a psychiatrist, who's put me on a low dose of...
Well-bu-bur-ten.
Never heard of that drug.
Wellbutrin.
Okay?
As it turns out, the combination of the therapy and the antidepressants actually have made a difference in...
on my whole seeing weird stuff.
I love it!
Oh, come on!
I know.
Get it together!
Okay.
Yes...
We love to hear it!
Very, very nice.
Ah.
Now, okay.
Oh, God.
Now, good.
Now that your end zone dance is over, I have this hunch about the Disciple that is a waste of my time.
But since I can't make you write on the chalkboard that "I will not come in before David Rossi says 'come in, '" I will waste your time instead.
So, please, sit down.
David Rossi.
David...
There you are.
What are you doing?
Oh, no, no, no.
Don't even try to be charming.
You will fail.
I am at the red line, and the red line says, "She has had it".
And that "she" is me.
Emily asked me to check to see if we've been hacked, and...
Oh.
It looks like we're clear.
And meanwhile, I'm still trying to find this Kyle Mackey person somewhere in the prison system we've lost.
And I have told you not to chat with your fantasy football buddies on here.
All right, look, if I help you find this certain lost inmate, can you keep the football thing under your hat?
Oh, that entirely depends upon how helpful you are.
When I was on the Fugitive Task Force, I got an education in how the prison system works.
Inmates go missing because their names get misspelled or Social Security numbers get written down the wrong way.
Sometimes they get sent to the wrong prison because people get their wires crossed.
Okay, so, to not go down the rabbit hole of the complicated, I'm gonna start with simple clerical errors and look up Kyle Mackey's name in prison requisition forms.
Uh, respectfully, I have a better idea.
Why don't you pull the paperwork that his lawyer filed?
Fine.
I still get a little mad when you have a good idea.
Wait, there it is. "
Kyle McKay".
His lawyer typed it wrong on his admission form.
Looks like he got sent to Devens Prison Camp instead of FCI Petersburg.
Mackey planned this all along.
He knew that once we arrested him, the network was going to put a target on his back.
But thanks to you...
We got our last bad guy back.
You're a hard guy to find, Kyle.
You want to know how we did it?
No?
Well, I'm gonna tell you anyway.
See, here's the thing about collateral.
It has to hurt to lose it.
But Lainey and Ava, you...
you didn't care if they died.
Hell, you buried your daughter alive and then asked the network for tips on how to get away with it.
And you gave them two family members you didn't really give a shit about as collateral.
But you were never gonna off yourself, were you?
No.
Guy like you always has one last move to make.
Indeed I do.
Well, we're here now.
You better take your shot.
On the network, there was a discussion about something called "Project Checkmate".
As in, the last move.
The one that wins the game.
And I'll be happy to tell you all about their little plan.
But you got to let me walk.
You're a murderer, Kyle.
We don't let murderers go.
Well, you might.
If you get to catch all the other murderers.
We can't.
No, we're not going to. "
A", it would be stupid. "
B", this could just be another head fake from the network.
Get us to look right while they move left.
We either got to trick him or coerce him into giving us Project Checkmate, but how do we do that?
He wants another shot at his wife and daughter.
He's nursing a narcissistic wound that they got away the first time.
What if we pour some salt in that wound?
If we find them, we could taunt him that they're beyond his control.
Yeah, we got to find them first.
And I don't understand how they've been so good at staying off the grid this long.
Uh, maybe they had help?
Yeah, but who would want to help them?
And be that good at it?
Elias told me that you'd promise me a new life, but it wouldn't matter.
And he's right.
JJ, what?
I know exactly who helped them.
Who?
Are we sure about this?
We will be in about 30 seconds.
Let's go.
Hands behind your back.
What?
Behind your back.
What's going on?
Ow.
Fuck.
Easy.
Is it you?
Huh?
Where is it?
Are you the one that's been leaking information about this case?
What?
No.
You're not gonna find anything.
You sure about that?
Oh, Jesus.
Elias, where did you get this?
I can't tell you that.
You told Lainey and Ava to run.
Hey, where are they?
I can't tell you that either.
Jesus.
Let's go.
Elias Voit, you're under arrest for obstruction of justice and conspiracy to commit murder.
Elias, think about this.
I did.
You have the right to remain silent.
I'm sorry if I disappointed you.
Anything you say can and will be used against you in a court of law.
You have the right to talk to a lawyer.
If you cannot afford a lawyer, one will be appointed to you.
With these rights in mind...
do you wish to speak to me?
I'm glad that it's you doing this.
You deserve it.
Yeah.
I have no idea how this happened.
Call Metro Police.
Have them sweep the room.
I-I guess, bring in the crime scene tech team, and they have to be thorough...
now.
Um...
I invoked.
I thought you might be lonely.
All right, w-wait.
Do you have a piece of paper?
For you.
Any luck unlocking Voit's phone?
I.T.
has it now.
Here's what they can tell.
Voit wiped it and reprogrammed it.
But the passcode on it, it's got a "one strike and you're out" protocol.
So if we guess once and we're wrong?
The phone is bricked.
Total garbage.
Well, one thing we know Voit's good at, it's blowing up evidence he doesn't want us to have.
Yeah, looks like we're stuck until he decides to cooperate.
Not quite.
No?
No, there's still the question of how he got the phone in the first place.
JJ and I think there's a leak.
But this phone cements our suspicion that it's someone on Ochoa's staff.
So he's been in front of us the whole time.
Yeah.
Well, not for much longer.
And...
You're clear.
Gracias, Teresa.
Next staff member, please.
Hey, John.
What's all this about?
Elias Voit, our high-value informant, he got his hands on a phone he shouldn't have.
We need to see if it was a careless error or if someone slipped it to him.
Uh, can we check yours?
Look, I did take it out, but it was just the one time.
That's not what we're looking for.
We need to see your SIM card, 'cause it has identifying keys that might be a match to the phone we recovered, so fork it over, please.
Thank you.
And you're clear.
Thanks, John.
Next.
Hey.
Hey, Monica.
I'm so sorry about this, but we need to...
I know the drill.
Thanks, Monica.
All right.
ICCID and credit card are a match.
What?
A match?
What does that mean?
You need to come with me.
Wait a minute.
Wait a minute.
What did that thing say?
We are gonna go talk about that.
If you refuse to answer questions, we will have to place you under arrest.
But what did I do?
That's what we're gonna go talk about.
Julia, you know me.
It wasn't me.
It wasn't me.
Okay.
This way.
Come on.
I can't believe this.
Do you think I would destroy my career over Elias Voit?
Are you kidding me?
So, Dave had a waste-of-time hunch that wasn't a waste of time at all.
Oh.
Which was?
What if the Disciple is a woman?
Based on what?
Voit used collateral to scorch the earth, but the Disciple didn't scorch the earth.
Instead, he...
Or she.
...
or she sent us back a little boy.
Not only that, he...
Or she.
...
or she took pains to make sure that the little boy wasn't hurt.
They masked their voices around him.
Because Andrew would have noticed if a woman had taught him a prayer.
So we went back over the Cyrus LeBrun case.
We looked for any connections with a double-X chromosome.
Well, I went over that file, too.
Cyrus was a person of interest in the Silvio Herrera case, but he was never interviewed.
And the reason he was never interviewed is because the North Carolina State Police were told he was out of the country.
Huh.
Who told them that?
The woman who answered his door.
20 years old.
She identified herself as Tessa LeBrun.
She said she was Cyrus's daughter.
And Cyrus was not the type to procreate.
This is from 2004, so Voit had left Cyrus by then.
He'd outgrown Cyrus.
He wanted to be his own man, his own killer.
So Cyrus replaced him.
And Voit 2.0 would have had to been someone that Cyrus could completely dominate.
Any leads on where she is now?
We're looking into it.
She's got to be 40 by now.
And brilliant enough to run the network.
How many people do you know who are this good with computers?
We can take Penelope off the table.
Who does that leave?
Voit.
Maybe Tessa inherited his knowledge.
Maybe he taught her.
Either way, we need him to talk.
And there's only one way that can happen.
You ever play this with your girls?
It's my turn.
Give it back.
Who-Who's better at it, uh, Holly or Harlow?
Yeah, I know this trick, Dave.
You get me talking, and then I just tell you everything.
Can we just play the game, please?
Are we really gonna do this?
Are we really gonna wait for a lawyer?
Yep.
A lawyer who, let's face it, is not gonna want to take you on as a client, because your lawyers die faster than the drummers from Spinal Tap.
I-I'm not sure if it's the amnesia or you're just old.
But I don't, I don't get that joke.
You know what I think?
I think you didn't leak dick.
Don't tell me.
Tell your team.
Now, you-you got a phone somehow, but it was just to-to reach the mom and her little girl and tell them to run.
That's all.
Am I close?
Why do you always think you know me?
Because I do.
I knew you when you were a killer, and I know you now.
And I know that saving Ava from being buried alive did a number on you.
Am I wrong?
You're wrong.
Oh, well, then, she didn't remind you of your own daughters?
Nope.
Well, then, you are the psychopath you've been all along, and you fooled all of us.
So, what do you think?
You think I...
I-I stole a phone someone left at the nurses station so that I could use everything I know to help keep Lainey and Ava off the grid?
That's exactly what I think.
Wow, I must be a real son of a bitch to sabotage your case like that.
Everyone else thinks that, but they haven't seen what I've seen.
Something I've never seen in 40 years of profiling.
A psychopath who's grown a conscience.
So, where's Lainey and Ava?
I-I can't trust you with that information.
Why not?
Because you're not good enough to save them.
No matter how good you are, no matter how good your team is, innocent people always wind up dying.
Sometimes it's because of me, so for once, I wanted to help save lives.
And help them stay saved.
Elias, I swore I would never make this promise again.
But I promise we will keep Lainey and Ava safe.
But we can't until you unlock that phone.
Ava!
Luke.
Hey, what's up, kid?
Aah!
Hi, Lainey.
How are you?
Not great.
Tyler said something about us moving us to a safe house?
It's already set up, but, uh, we need your help with something else.
Come on.
After everything we've been through?
Hey, Ava, you want to come with me to the family room?
It's got really cool toys.
No.
I want, I want to stay with my mom.
It's okay.
I'll be right behind you.
And, look, we'll be right in here, okay?
Just in here.
No offense.
I'm just still having nightmares about my asshole ex almost burying my daughter alive.
Yeah, I get it.
And that asshole ex is actually why you're here.
Oh, God.
Now what?
He's, uh, ransoming his cooperation for his freedom.
And we were hoping that maybe you could say something to him, get him to talk.
Where is he?
This way.
Tessa?
You're sure her name is Tessa?
Yeah, she told the cops she was Cyrus's daughter.
That name means nothing to you?
No.
I've never heard of her.
I need a minute.
Alone.
Listen to me, you limp-dicked sack of shit.
I will personally tell everyone on cell block D you tried to kill your own daughter.
Spousal privilege.
We can't listen.
So think about how many times you're gonna get fucked unless you tell them everything that they need to know right now!
He'll talk now.
Those guys in the back of the truck, the guys you rescued, they're the loose ends, after me.
That's Project Checkmate.
They kill them, then they disappear.
Bullshit.
It is.
It's what they talked about.
Bullshit.
We know how the network thinks now, Kyle.
We know how they move.
They leak misinformation to scramble our profile.
And then they get away clean.
So let's start here.
Who is the leak in this case?
Yeah, we know about that.
Okay.
There's this guy.
Calls himself "the Engineer".
And he showed me how to rig up the explosives in my coffins.
And he made the, uh, small ones with the spiders.
Uh, and also, uh, for his gun, he made this, uh, this, like, silencer thing.
Keep talking.
Well, if anyone's leaking, it's him.
But that makes him the last loose end.
After me, he's the most direct connection to the network.
'Cause he knows too much.
This Engineer, what's his name?
I don't know.
Then what good are you?
Uh, w-wait, wait, wait.
When he, when he made his, uh, silencer, he bought a 55-gallon drum as an agitator to, uh...
Shit, how did he put it?
To anodize the aluminum.
Make it as quiet as possible.
There's not a lot of guys in the District that can do that, right?
If what you're saying gets us to this Engineer, then perhaps God and the justice system will take pity on you.
But if this is another smoke screen, God himself cannot save you.
Is anodized aluminum a thing?
Oh, it's a thing.
And based on that size, he's right.
Not a lot of people could do it.
You think we're still in a race with the network?
Yeah, I do.
Why?
I think, for the first time, we're in the lead.
I'm being set up.
I believe you.
We just had a break in the case.
Look, somebody...
somebody skilled...
bought a cell phone using your credit card, had it shipped here, intercepted it before you could get it.
He calls himself "the Engineer".
Can you think of anybody like that? "
Engineer"?
No.
God, you don't work here if you're an engineer.
Okay.
Well, you're-you're free to go.
Monica, I am so sorry.
Monica's worked here longer than I have.
She has two kids.
How could I ever think that she would do this?
Can you think of anyone who would want to frame her?
No.
I mean, you were there.
You saw it.
Everyone else checked out.
Tell me you have another way to catch this guy.
We do, actually.
Please tell me I don't have to accuse anyone else on my staff.
No, but my team has to try and convince the Internet that someone who's still alive is actually dead.
Who?
This guy.
Kyle Mackey.
Hey.
What's all this?
The survivors from the Tate Andrews case.
If the Disciple takes the bait that Kyle is dead, then, yeah, he should head for the Engineer.
But just to be safe, we're gathering them here and we're staking out their homes.
Seriously?
That's eight simultaneous stakeouts.
That's-that's a hell of a lot of resources.
Emily called in a lot of favors.
Where are we with the Engineer?
There are a handful of industrial plants with anodizers that big, but like you thought, only one was purchased by a civilian.
A guy by the name of John Peters.
Delivered to his home in Manassas three months ago.
That is right next to last night's victims, the Wolners.
Of course it is.
They've been putting the pieces in place for Project Checkmate for months.
We're in the process of getting a warrant.
Judge Robinson is being a pain about probable cause.
Push.
I am.
We have Alvez and Tyler patched in.
Guys, you copy?
Copy.
We're here.
Okay, we can't breach for an arrest, but if the Disciple comes for Peters, move in.
Should be easy to spot.
Especially if the Disciple loves that stupid mask as much as the network does.
Anything?
Lights haven't even come on.
Where are we with the warrant?
We're working on it.
Get down!
Agent Lewis's prognosis it not what we might've hoped for.
No matter how scared you are, no matter how hurt you are, I'm here.
Rebecca, this team, they're my chosen family.
That's why I needed to ask you this in front of them.
Will you marry me?
Darcy's place was tossed, wasn't it?
You think Darcy found something?
Something the Disciple needed time to catch and kill.
How you doing there?
What's the matter, boy?
You look like you seen a ghost.
The Disciple knows more about Voit and his condition than Orlov could've ever told him.
So, what, someone in the hospital is part of this?
Let's just lock everything down.
I'm going to recommend that your nursing staff be completely turned over every two weeks.
That's impossible.
Unfortunately, it has become an unavoidable security precaution.
Perry?
John Perry?
Hi.
I'm Dr.
Julia Ochoa.
Hi.
So it says here you've been an orderly at Melgren for 11 months?
Yep.
No criminal record.
No disciplinary issues.
Occasionally tardy.
I can...
I'm working on that.
So, what have you heard about this position?
Uh, I know it's a two-week gig.
Then I rotate back downstairs.
And I know it involves a VIP.
Well, he's actually not a VIP.
We're treating a high-value informant for the FBI.
So we have to go above and beyond our usual HIPAA security standards.
Every record gets submitted twice.
Every syringe gets accounted for.
And your phone stays in your pocket at all times.
Got it.
I mean it about the phone thing.
We've already had to let some people go.
This job pays double-time, right?
That's right.
Well, my wife has instructed me to tell you that, in this economy, I will suck dick for double-time.
So I can keep my phone in my locker.
Okay, thank you.
Well, we'll be in touch.
Despite his social graces, his supervisor says he's solid.
Not straight A.
But solid.
All right, well, put him on the short list.
Who's next?
Simple question.
If the Disciple can talk to you like he's Cyrus, who else knew about you and Cyrus?
No one.
When I was in Cyrus's house, it was just him and I.
Then how did he become a person of interest in a local case?
Wait, he was?
When?
2004.
No, I was gone by then.
Wh-Wh-What was the case?
Silvio Herrera.
Silvio...
Never heard of that guy, but...
Mm-hmm.
I saw that.
Hey.
Give me a break?
M-My kid, he woke up with a 103 fever.
Want to bring him in?
No.
But my wife, she's working nights all weekend.
I'm not on call, am I?
You're good.
Keep it in your locker.
Hey, how's that little boy doing?
Well, the fever broke, thank God.
But only after I drugged him to get him to sleep.
What's going on here?
Strap yourself in for ten hours of watching paint dry.
It's a waste of our goddamn time.
We're never finding the Disciple this way.
Maybe not, but we have guys from the network in custody.
One of them will start talking to us.
We're closer than you think.
Hey.
Oh, hey.
How you feeling today?
Uh, good, good.
Good.
Is there something else I can help you with?
Oh, yeah, um, do you, do you like dark chocolate?
I love dark chocolate.
Why?
Oh.
Good, then...
maybe you'll like this.
Oh.
Well...
First of all, thank you very much.
Very welcome.
And secondly, Elias, I'm your doctor.
Yeah...
Oh.
And that means...
No, I-I know.
I just...
I-I don't even like that brand.
I thought maybe...
I don't need gifts.
Okay?
This is my job.
Yeah, I-I know.
I was just thinking...
I...
Look, I don't know what I was thinking.
I'll-I'll just take it back.
Oh, whoa, get out of here.
You're not taking back my chocolate.
What?
Huh?
What?
Oh, no.
Oh, no.
No.
Oh.
I know.
Assemble the team.
Is this...
We're gonna find out, all of us.
The team.
Now.
Yeah.
Yes, this is SSA Prentiss for the Deputy Attorney General.
I understand.
Please pull him from the meeting.
What do we have?
Go ahead, Penelope.
Last night, Kathy Wolner was shot point-blank in her home with a nine millimeter.
Based on the irregular muzzle imprints, Manasses PD believe that the unsub used a suppressor.
Kathy Wolner?
Who's Kathy Wolner?
She's the wife of Trevor Wolner.
One of the guys on the network we arrested before they could kill themselves.
They have a son.
Yes.
Andrew.
He wasn't on the scene.
The locals believe he was abducted.
And they also found this.
Signing their work like they always do.
Yeah, but what they don't do is take a hostage.
So why start now?
Continued leverage.
What is the one consistent element of Voit's old network and this new one?
Suicide pact.
You kill yourself before you get caught so you don't bring down everyone else with you.
So the Disciple is sending a message: This is what will happen to you if you don't follow through.
The network is closing ranks and eliminating any lead we have.
Then Voit's a target, too.
Dr.
Ochoa has him on lockdown, and I've doubled the number of marshals covering him.
We need to secure everyone we have in custody and their families and the victims we saved in the Tate Andrews case, just to be safe.
Rebecca's coordinating with the Bureau of Prisons.
We are going to divide and conquer everyone else.
Shit.
What happened?
Trevor Wolner hung himself in his cell this morning.
And as for his partner, Steve Morris, yes, he was in a different facility, but two hours ago, he jabbed a sharpened pencil in his carotid artery and bled out.
The network must have gotten to him, so he took himself off the table.
That leaves two suspects for us to worry about.
Uh, Ronald Graber's brain-dead, and, um, Voit already killed his family.
Which leaves Kyle Mackey, the Undertaker.
I have a call in to FCI Petersburg to have him put in solitary.
Okay.
I will have Garcia follow up.
Can you have his ex-wife and daughter brought here?
Yeah.
We are in a race with the network, and we're already behind.
This is Rebecca Wilson with the DOJ.
I need to put in a WITSEC order for Torres, comma, Lainey and Mackey, comma, Ava to MCB Quantico.
CARD Team has us on their notify list for the boy.
If they have a lead, we'll be the first to know.
Work this out with me.
The network shoots the wife to show they're not kidding and then keeps the boy to make sure Trevor Wolner goes through with his suicide.
Yeah.
Wolner and Morris are off the table.
It's mission accomplished.
So what's the Disciple gonna do with a ten-year-old boy?
Let's go find out.
To gain access to my network, I needed collateral so that I could...
scorch the earth.
Scorch the earth meaning, if they don't kill themselves, you kill their whole family?
Yeah.
Did you learn that after killing Ronald Graber's family?
Maybe.
Inspired by.
But after Graber, I never...
actually went through with it.
I think he might be holding back because of me.
Should I step out?
No.
We want him on his back foot.
Let's say you did do it.
Would you ever take a hostage?
Or spare a child to make sure that they went through with it?
No.
That's not how you scorch the earth.
Okay, then why...
why would this unsub abduct a ten-year-old and not kill him?
What?
What am I missing here?
Elias?
Hey.
Guys.
Wait.
What was that all about?
The unsub didn't take Andrew as collateral.
He took him because he's a pedophile.
Hey, hey, hey.
Were you able to secure the survivors with the Disciple?
You know, the truck and the spiders and the...
We did.
They're safe.
Why?
Well, I'm on Undertaker duty, which is a phrase I hate saying, and it turns out that Mr.
Kyle Mackey, although remanded to FCI Petersburg last week, they have no record of actually receiving him.
This isn't over.
How is that possible?
A great question...
great as my outfit today...
that has baffled both me and the intake officer.
Well, it looks like you're not the only one.
More bad news?
What else?
Lainey Torres and Ava Mackey disappeared this morning.
No.
No.
That means we've lost our bad guy and his whole family.
Lainey told her detail she was dropping Ava off at school.
They never came home.
Cell phones are off.
No credit card usage.
No sign of her car.
Just poof, gone.
So we're oh-for-three with the network?
No bodies yet, but based on the pattern, it would seem so.
Okay, I need a pick-me-up.
Can I see your engagement ring?
Oh.
Uh, actually, there-there was something that we wanted to talk to you about.
Uh, yeah.
Maybe-maybe not now.
Emily needs me on the second floor.
No.
No, that's not fair.
You can't say there's something to talk about in a happy way and then drop it because duty calls.
Okay.
Walk with me.
Okay.
Oh, I totally forgot to ask.
How are you doing with the...
?
Uh, better, yeah.
I mean, still moving slowly.
Rebecca won't let me lift anything heavy, which is very sweet, but I had to draw the line when she told me I was brushing my teeth too hard.
Well, you do.
Gingivitis kills, Becs.
Uh-huh.
Okay, in-in regards to this news you're gonna tell me, is it lawful good or chaotic good?
I don't know what that is.
What?
Are you kidding?
You've never played Dungeons & Dragons in your entire...
Never mind.
All right.
Boiling it down, lawful good means doing good within the system.
Mm-hmm.
Chaotic good means you're a rebel with a conscience and a cause.
Will you marry us?
What?
Rebecca and me.
Will you marry us?
Yes.
Of course, yes.
A thousand times, yes.
I can't believe you're asking me.
But not so tight.
Oh, God, I'm so sorry.
I forgot that you got, um...
Ooh, wait, why are you asking me?
Well, because I'm chaotic good and Rebecca is lawful good, and you're the best parts of both of us.
That's the loveliest thing anyone's ever said.
Look, I'll let you know the date, okay?
When we set it.
Yes.
You better.
Okay.
Okay.
All right.
Oh.
Hey.
What do we got?
Another package was delivered to us with the same handwriting on it as the box with the Yase-Otoko mask.
Is it another mask?
I don't think so.
Why not?
This time, they sent us something bigger.
Notify the CARD Team.
Where's my mom?
Hey.
Hey.
How's he doing?
His aunt and uncle are on the way.
Pediatrician says that he's completely unharmed.
Physically, anyway.
But there's s-something else.
What is it?
When I told him that he was at the FBI, he asked to speak to "Agent JJ".
We're recording?
Thank you.
Hi, Andrew.
Who are you?
I'm JJ.
Were you guys playing Rat Slap?
You know how to play?
Are you serious?
I crush at Rat Slap.
Can we?
Yeah?
Okay.
Let's see.
Got to make sure they're shuffled really good so you don't cheat.
All right.
There we go.
So...
I heard you wanted to talk to me about something?
There's a prayer.
I'm supposed to say it to you.
A prayer?
Mm.
Yeah.
They made me memorize it.
They did?
There's more than one?
Did you see their faces?
No.
They wore these...
weird masks.
Okay, what about their voices?
Were their voices deep or...
Ah.
They sounded like the girl on TikTok.
You know, that fake voice.
Oh.
Were they...
nice to you?
The first guy, he wasn't nice when he came to my house.
After that, they were very nice.
Then one of them told me I had to go to sleep.
That's when they told me the prayer.
Do you want to hear it?
I do.
Okay, it goes, "Now I lay me down to sleep.
Your husband's soul is God's to keep.
Lainey and Ava will be safe...
if you release the man who dug their graves."
That's it.
That's the prayer.
Andrew, you're a very brave boy.
And you are also kicking my butt, so I am gonna go get Agent Stacey to come in and play with you.
Okay?
Okay.
Take it easy on her?
Bye.
Those motherfuckers.
Just hang on.
They threw my dead husband in my face.
Yeah, they did, okay?
But Emily thinks that they overplayed their hand.
What?
JJ, the network has made a critical error.
But to understand it, we need to go over Andrew's prayer. "
Lainey and Ava will be safe if you release the man who dug their graves."
Who are they talking about?
It's a ransom demand.
They have Lainey and Ava.
They're willing to trade them for Kyle Mackey, the Undertaker.
The one who dug their graves.
But why give us this message?
They got to the other two without making demands.
Because they couldn't find him in the prison system either.
Exactly.
They assume we already released Mackey to protective custody, so they're trying to trade for him.
Except the collateral they're offering?
They don't have it.
They don't?
No, they don't.
I had Tyler talk to the marshal in charge of their case.
He told us something critical to our investigation.
We are on the record with U.S.
Marshal Andy Murray.
Thank you for coming in.
Any news on Lainey or Ava?
Not yet.
That's what we're hoping you can help us with.
Can you walk me through how you learned they were missing?
Lainey didn't return from school drop-off.
After 30 minutes, I initiated witness recovery protocol.
But when I searched the apartment, I saw that their closets were empty.
Empty?
Yeah.
Fucking bone dry.
Our concern was that they were kidnapped.
But they're on the run.
Someone tipped off Lainey and Ava.
Told them they were in danger.
So the network tried to bluff.
And trick us into releasing Mackey.
Yeah, but they wouldn't go this big unless they were this desperate.
Which means we're not out of the race.
There are suspects and survivors who I think can help us crack open the whole network.
We have to find them, all of them.
Garcia is looking for Kyle Mackey.
Luke, I want you helping her.
Dave and I will stay on wife and daughter detail.
JJ, I need a word.
We haven't talked about the first line of the prayer.
Why would they bring up Will?
To dysregulate me.
To push my buttons.
To make me make a mistake.
That has been the pattern, hasn't it?
They push our buttons, we screw up.
But the buttons are getting more and more precise, to the point where a little boy used your nickname that...
Who else knows about that outside of this team?
Not a lot of people.
Shit.
This case has a leak.
I have Garcia running a systems analysis in case they hacked us.
Who else should we be looking at?
Uh, the survivors from the back of the truck.
Tara's covering that.
I'm covering everyone under our roof.
Who else?
Uh, Ochoa's staff at Melgren.
Can you...
I'm on it.
Uh, uh, just a minute.
Dave, you wanted to see me?
Oh, hang on!
What the fuck?
Okay, now, when does "hang on" mean "come in"?
What's wrong with you?
What's wrong with me?
What are you hiding?
What the hell is that?
Ozempic.
Ozempic is administered by injection, Dave.
Look, I...
I took your advice.
I've been seeing a psychologist, who referred me to a psychiatrist, who's put me on a low dose of...
Well-bu-bur-ten.
Never heard of that drug.
Wellbutrin.
Okay?
As it turns out, the combination of the therapy and the antidepressants actually have made a difference in...
on my whole seeing weird stuff.
I love it!
Oh, come on!
I know.
Get it together!
Okay.
Yes...
We love to hear it!
Very, very nice.
Ah.
Now, okay.
Oh, God.
Now, good.
Now that your end zone dance is over, I have this hunch about the Disciple that is a waste of my time.
But since I can't make you write on the chalkboard that "I will not come in before David Rossi says 'come in, '" I will waste your time instead.
So, please, sit down.
David Rossi.
David...
There you are.
What are you doing?
Oh, no, no, no.
Don't even try to be charming.
You will fail.
I am at the red line, and the red line says, "She has had it".
And that "she" is me.
Emily asked me to check to see if we've been hacked, and...
Oh.
It looks like we're clear.
And meanwhile, I'm still trying to find this Kyle Mackey person somewhere in the prison system we've lost.
And I have told you not to chat with your fantasy football buddies on here.
All right, look, if I help you find this certain lost inmate, can you keep the football thing under your hat?
Oh, that entirely depends upon how helpful you are.
When I was on the Fugitive Task Force, I got an education in how the prison system works.
Inmates go missing because their names get misspelled or Social Security numbers get written down the wrong way.
Sometimes they get sent to the wrong prison because people get their wires crossed.
Okay, so, to not go down the rabbit hole of the complicated, I'm gonna start with simple clerical errors and look up Kyle Mackey's name in prison requisition forms.
Uh, respectfully, I have a better idea.
Why don't you pull the paperwork that his lawyer filed?
Fine.
I still get a little mad when you have a good idea.
Wait, there it is. "
Kyle McKay".
His lawyer typed it wrong on his admission form.
Looks like he got sent to Devens Prison Camp instead of FCI Petersburg.
Mackey planned this all along.
He knew that once we arrested him, the network was going to put a target on his back.
But thanks to you...
We got our last bad guy back.
You're a hard guy to find, Kyle.
You want to know how we did it?
No?
Well, I'm gonna tell you anyway.
See, here's the thing about collateral.
It has to hurt to lose it.
But Lainey and Ava, you...
you didn't care if they died.
Hell, you buried your daughter alive and then asked the network for tips on how to get away with it.
And you gave them two family members you didn't really give a shit about as collateral.
But you were never gonna off yourself, were you?
No.
Guy like you always has one last move to make.
Indeed I do.
Well, we're here now.
You better take your shot.
On the network, there was a discussion about something called "Project Checkmate".
As in, the last move.
The one that wins the game.
And I'll be happy to tell you all about their little plan.
But you got to let me walk.
You're a murderer, Kyle.
We don't let murderers go.
Well, you might.
If you get to catch all the other murderers.
We can't.
No, we're not going to. "
A", it would be stupid. "
B", this could just be another head fake from the network.
Get us to look right while they move left.
We either got to trick him or coerce him into giving us Project Checkmate, but how do we do that?
He wants another shot at his wife and daughter.
He's nursing a narcissistic wound that they got away the first time.
What if we pour some salt in that wound?
If we find them, we could taunt him that they're beyond his control.
Yeah, we got to find them first.
And I don't understand how they've been so good at staying off the grid this long.
Uh, maybe they had help?
Yeah, but who would want to help them?
And be that good at it?
Elias told me that you'd promise me a new life, but it wouldn't matter.
And he's right.
JJ, what?
I know exactly who helped them.
Who?
Are we sure about this?
We will be in about 30 seconds.
Let's go.
Hands behind your back.
What?
Behind your back.
What's going on?
Ow.
Fuck.
Easy.
Is it you?
Huh?
Where is it?
Are you the one that's been leaking information about this case?
What?
No.
You're not gonna find anything.
You sure about that?
Oh, Jesus.
Elias, where did you get this?
I can't tell you that.
You told Lainey and Ava to run.
Hey, where are they?
I can't tell you that either.
Jesus.
Let's go.
Elias Voit, you're under arrest for obstruction of justice and conspiracy to commit murder.
Elias, think about this.
I did.
You have the right to remain silent.
I'm sorry if I disappointed you.
Anything you say can and will be used against you in a court of law.
You have the right to talk to a lawyer.
If you cannot afford a lawyer, one will be appointed to you.
With these rights in mind...
do you wish to speak to me?
I'm glad that it's you doing this.
You deserve it.
Yeah.
I have no idea how this happened.
Call Metro Police.
Have them sweep the room.
I-I guess, bring in the crime scene tech team, and they have to be thorough...
now.
Um...
I invoked.
I thought you might be lonely.
All right, w-wait.
Do you have a piece of paper?
For you.
Any luck unlocking Voit's phone?
I.T.
has it now.
Here's what they can tell.
Voit wiped it and reprogrammed it.
But the passcode on it, it's got a "one strike and you're out" protocol.
So if we guess once and we're wrong?
The phone is bricked.
Total garbage.
Well, one thing we know Voit's good at, it's blowing up evidence he doesn't want us to have.
Yeah, looks like we're stuck until he decides to cooperate.
Not quite.
No?
No, there's still the question of how he got the phone in the first place.
JJ and I think there's a leak.
But this phone cements our suspicion that it's someone on Ochoa's staff.
So he's been in front of us the whole time.
Yeah.
Well, not for much longer.
And...
You're clear.
Gracias, Teresa.
Next staff member, please.
Hey, John.
What's all this about?
Elias Voit, our high-value informant, he got his hands on a phone he shouldn't have.
We need to see if it was a careless error or if someone slipped it to him.
Uh, can we check yours?
Look, I did take it out, but it was just the one time.
That's not what we're looking for.
We need to see your SIM card, 'cause it has identifying keys that might be a match to the phone we recovered, so fork it over, please.
Thank you.
And you're clear.
Thanks, John.
Next.
Hey.
Hey, Monica.
I'm so sorry about this, but we need to...
I know the drill.
Thanks, Monica.
All right.
ICCID and credit card are a match.
What?
A match?
What does that mean?
You need to come with me.
Wait a minute.
Wait a minute.
What did that thing say?
We are gonna go talk about that.
If you refuse to answer questions, we will have to place you under arrest.
But what did I do?
That's what we're gonna go talk about.
Julia, you know me.
It wasn't me.
It wasn't me.
Okay.
This way.
Come on.
I can't believe this.
Do you think I would destroy my career over Elias Voit?
Are you kidding me?
So, Dave had a waste-of-time hunch that wasn't a waste of time at all.
Oh.
Which was?
What if the Disciple is a woman?
Based on what?
Voit used collateral to scorch the earth, but the Disciple didn't scorch the earth.
Instead, he...
Or she.
...
or she sent us back a little boy.
Not only that, he...
Or she.
...
or she took pains to make sure that the little boy wasn't hurt.
They masked their voices around him.
Because Andrew would have noticed if a woman had taught him a prayer.
So we went back over the Cyrus LeBrun case.
We looked for any connections with a double-X chromosome.
Well, I went over that file, too.
Cyrus was a person of interest in the Silvio Herrera case, but he was never interviewed.
And the reason he was never interviewed is because the North Carolina State Police were told he was out of the country.
Huh.
Who told them that?
The woman who answered his door.
20 years old.
She identified herself as Tessa LeBrun.
She said she was Cyrus's daughter.
And Cyrus was not the type to procreate.
This is from 2004, so Voit had left Cyrus by then.
He'd outgrown Cyrus.
He wanted to be his own man, his own killer.
So Cyrus replaced him.
And Voit 2.0 would have had to been someone that Cyrus could completely dominate.
Any leads on where she is now?
We're looking into it.
She's got to be 40 by now.
And brilliant enough to run the network.
How many people do you know who are this good with computers?
We can take Penelope off the table.
Who does that leave?
Voit.
Maybe Tessa inherited his knowledge.
Maybe he taught her.
Either way, we need him to talk.
And there's only one way that can happen.
You ever play this with your girls?
It's my turn.
Give it back.
Who-Who's better at it, uh, Holly or Harlow?
Yeah, I know this trick, Dave.
You get me talking, and then I just tell you everything.
Can we just play the game, please?
Are we really gonna do this?
Are we really gonna wait for a lawyer?
Yep.
A lawyer who, let's face it, is not gonna want to take you on as a client, because your lawyers die faster than the drummers from Spinal Tap.
I-I'm not sure if it's the amnesia or you're just old.
But I don't, I don't get that joke.
You know what I think?
I think you didn't leak dick.
Don't tell me.
Tell your team.
Now, you-you got a phone somehow, but it was just to-to reach the mom and her little girl and tell them to run.
That's all.
Am I close?
Why do you always think you know me?
Because I do.
I knew you when you were a killer, and I know you now.
And I know that saving Ava from being buried alive did a number on you.
Am I wrong?
You're wrong.
Oh, well, then, she didn't remind you of your own daughters?
Nope.
Well, then, you are the psychopath you've been all along, and you fooled all of us.
So, what do you think?
You think I...
I-I stole a phone someone left at the nurses station so that I could use everything I know to help keep Lainey and Ava off the grid?
That's exactly what I think.
Wow, I must be a real son of a bitch to sabotage your case like that.
Everyone else thinks that, but they haven't seen what I've seen.
Something I've never seen in 40 years of profiling.
A psychopath who's grown a conscience.
So, where's Lainey and Ava?
I-I can't trust you with that information.
Why not?
Because you're not good enough to save them.
No matter how good you are, no matter how good your team is, innocent people always wind up dying.
Sometimes it's because of me, so for once, I wanted to help save lives.
And help them stay saved.
Elias, I swore I would never make this promise again.
But I promise we will keep Lainey and Ava safe.
But we can't until you unlock that phone.
Ava!
Luke.
Hey, what's up, kid?
Aah!
Hi, Lainey.
How are you?
Not great.
Tyler said something about us moving us to a safe house?
It's already set up, but, uh, we need your help with something else.
Come on.
After everything we've been through?
Hey, Ava, you want to come with me to the family room?
It's got really cool toys.
No.
I want, I want to stay with my mom.
It's okay.
I'll be right behind you.
And, look, we'll be right in here, okay?
Just in here.
No offense.
I'm just still having nightmares about my asshole ex almost burying my daughter alive.
Yeah, I get it.
And that asshole ex is actually why you're here.
Oh, God.
Now what?
He's, uh, ransoming his cooperation for his freedom.
And we were hoping that maybe you could say something to him, get him to talk.
Where is he?
This way.
Tessa?
You're sure her name is Tessa?
Yeah, she told the cops she was Cyrus's daughter.
That name means nothing to you?
No.
I've never heard of her.
I need a minute.
Alone.
Listen to me, you limp-dicked sack of shit.
I will personally tell everyone on cell block D you tried to kill your own daughter.
Spousal privilege.
We can't listen.
So think about how many times you're gonna get fucked unless you tell them everything that they need to know right now!
He'll talk now.
Those guys in the back of the truck, the guys you rescued, they're the loose ends, after me.
That's Project Checkmate.
They kill them, then they disappear.
Bullshit.
It is.
It's what they talked about.
Bullshit.
We know how the network thinks now, Kyle.
We know how they move.
They leak misinformation to scramble our profile.
And then they get away clean.
So let's start here.
Who is the leak in this case?
Yeah, we know about that.
Okay.
There's this guy.
Calls himself "the Engineer".
And he showed me how to rig up the explosives in my coffins.
And he made the, uh, small ones with the spiders.
Uh, and also, uh, for his gun, he made this, uh, this, like, silencer thing.
Keep talking.
Well, if anyone's leaking, it's him.
But that makes him the last loose end.
After me, he's the most direct connection to the network.
'Cause he knows too much.
This Engineer, what's his name?
I don't know.
Then what good are you?
Uh, w-wait, wait, wait.
When he, when he made his, uh, silencer, he bought a 55-gallon drum as an agitator to, uh...
Shit, how did he put it?
To anodize the aluminum.
Make it as quiet as possible.
There's not a lot of guys in the District that can do that, right?
If what you're saying gets us to this Engineer, then perhaps God and the justice system will take pity on you.
But if this is another smoke screen, God himself cannot save you.
Is anodized aluminum a thing?
Oh, it's a thing.
And based on that size, he's right.
Not a lot of people could do it.
You think we're still in a race with the network?
Yeah, I do.
Why?
I think, for the first time, we're in the lead.
I'm being set up.
I believe you.
We just had a break in the case.
Look, somebody...
somebody skilled...
bought a cell phone using your credit card, had it shipped here, intercepted it before you could get it.
He calls himself "the Engineer".
Can you think of anybody like that? "
Engineer"?
No.
God, you don't work here if you're an engineer.
Okay.
Well, you're-you're free to go.
Monica, I am so sorry.
Monica's worked here longer than I have.
She has two kids.
How could I ever think that she would do this?
Can you think of anyone who would want to frame her?
No.
I mean, you were there.
You saw it.
Everyone else checked out.
Tell me you have another way to catch this guy.
We do, actually.
Please tell me I don't have to accuse anyone else on my staff.
No, but my team has to try and convince the Internet that someone who's still alive is actually dead.
Who?
This guy.
Kyle Mackey.
Hey.
What's all this?
The survivors from the Tate Andrews case.
If the Disciple takes the bait that Kyle is dead, then, yeah, he should head for the Engineer.
But just to be safe, we're gathering them here and we're staking out their homes.
Seriously?
That's eight simultaneous stakeouts.
That's-that's a hell of a lot of resources.
Emily called in a lot of favors.
Where are we with the Engineer?
There are a handful of industrial plants with anodizers that big, but like you thought, only one was purchased by a civilian.
A guy by the name of John Peters.
Delivered to his home in Manassas three months ago.
That is right next to last night's victims, the Wolners.
Of course it is.
They've been putting the pieces in place for Project Checkmate for months.
We're in the process of getting a warrant.
Judge Robinson is being a pain about probable cause.
Push.
I am.
We have Alvez and Tyler patched in.
Guys, you copy?
Copy.
We're here.
Okay, we can't breach for an arrest, but if the Disciple comes for Peters, move in.
Should be easy to spot.
Especially if the Disciple loves that stupid mask as much as the network does.
Anything?
Lights haven't even come on.
Where are we with the warrant?
We're working on it.