Émission TV: Criminal Minds - 17x6

Previously on "Criminal Minds: Evolution"...
Sebastian Gasper's phone files didn't just have payroll, they had assignments.
So this Gold Star isn't just one person?
No, it's a program.
Five members, five points of the star.
Damien is the leader.
What if we were to reach out to Damien and lure him into a trap?
What brings you out of the woodwork?
I can't say here.
We're gonna have to meet face-to-face.
That little tap-tap-tapping he was doing on the desk as they were talking was Morse code.
Final target codename is North Star.
What the fuck is North Star?
It's nothing.
Got a meeting time and a location...
Davenport, Iowa.
Please, help me.
You must be Jade.
You brought some friends.
Let's make a deal.
You look me in the eyes, I'll tell you how to find North Star.
How do we get North Star?
They gave me four words that are a "get out of federal custody free" card.
Teresa is in trouble.
Who is Teresa?
Hi.
It's me.
Call me back.
You might be in trouble.
How bad is it?
Restricted duty until the director sees fit.
The BAU is yours.
I'm not at my best right now.
None of us are, me most of all.
How did this happen?!
Voit was being transferred to his cell.
Then he made his move.
I fucking knew it.
We should have never let him out.
He couldn't have gotten far.
Dave!
Gun...
No, no, no.
Don't talk, okay?
Medical is on the way.
Voit has my gun.
Stay with him.
♪ When you're smiling ♪ ♪ When you're smiling, the whole world smiles with you ♪ Emily?
♪ When you're laughing ♪ ♪ When you're laughing ♪ ♪ The sun comes shining through ♪ Oh, way off, Davey boy.
Why don't you come back out, give me another shot?
Are you sure you really want that?
Oh, I'm sure.
All right.
Since you asked so nicely.
I do love a ménage à trois.
Shoot him.
Shoot him.
Sing.
♪ When you're crying ♪ ♪ You bring on the rain ♪ ♪ Stop your sighing ♪ ♪ Be happy again ♪ Shoot him now before he...
Oh, hey, let me show you how it works.
♪ When you're smiling ♪ ♪ When you're smiling ♪ Our virtues and our failings are inseparable, like force and matter.
When they separate, man is no more.
Nikola Tesla.
Damien is still a ghost.
No one laid eyes on him at the park.
Okay, what about Jade?
Unless she and Damien are under direct threat, I don't see them resurfacing.
I mean, I-I agree.
Damien killed that strike team and then went quiet for weeks.
They're probably lying low, planning their next move.
Except Voit tried to drive a wedge between them.
That could destabilize the partnership.
I think we should go back to Voit.
We're not doing that.
We could force him to reach out to Damien.
Actually, we can't.
Why not?
Voit's lawyer just petitioned for him to start his reduced prison sentence.
That doesn't even make sense.
Voit didn't get us Gold Star.
T-The director can't bend on that.
Well, the argument is that he got us as close as possible to Damien.
A-And the fact that we fucked up the takedown was on us, not him.
What, and Madison is willing to accept that?
Apparently he's considering it.
Shoot him.
Shoot him.
Um, h-has anyone heard from Prentiss?
Shoot him now!
I need to reach out to her, make sure that she's all right.
I...
I can do that.
Good.
Well, we've got a lot of work to do.
Um, we need to follow the money trail.
Yes.
Yes, sir.
I...
I have done that repeatedly.
Well, we're going to do it again because we...
we need to see where this program started.
Yes, yes, we need to chase...
chase the money.
I...
I...
Sir, I-I mean this with all the love and respect in the world...
Dave.
Dave?
Dave?
Same thing over and over and expecting...
expecting results...
Insanity.
♪ What you're smiling ♪ Dave?
♪ When you're smiling ♪ You feeling okay?
♪ The whole world smiles with you ♪ ♪ When you're laughing ♪ ♪ When you're laughing ♪ ♪ The sun comes shining through ♪ Sir?
Oh.
L-Look, I'm, uh...
I'm fine.
Some days we just spin our wheels.
This is one of those days.
Get to work.
He's not okay.
He's not okay.
No.
Not even a little.
But I'm gonna do it again because he said to do it again.
So I'm going to do it again.
Hey.
Hey.
You okay?
Uh-huh.
It's just a waste of time.
Mm-hmm.
Sure there's not anything else?
Wasting time is my third most hated thing.
It's between beige and bad kissing, and you know that.
Yeah, I do.
Strangely.
I also know something is up when you are quiet.
So...
spill it.
What's going on with Emily?
Hmm?
I've never seen her like this, and I've never seen Dave in whatever state that he's in.
And I don't know who to be more worried about.
All right, give me your keys.
Why?
My guess is she's sleeping it off at your place.
Okay.
You profiled that.
I did not tell you.
No.
You didn't.
You know what?
You're not going to be able to focus on this if you're worrying about Emily, so just come on.
Give me your keys.
Yeah.
Here.
Thank...
you.
I did not set the alarm because I could just imagine Emily accidentally making that go off.
Oh, when you stick the key into the top lock, you have to jiggle it a little.
Uh, what else?
I put a clean bucket by Emily's head.
I'm sorry if when you get there it's full.
Please.
I'm a mom.
I've seen worse.
Ooh, you're an angel of helping.
It's okay.
It's gonna be okay.
Hello.
Penelope Garcia...
cat guardian, technical analyst, all-around enchantress.
Not a good time.
Uh, what was that about?
I don't know.
And you know what?
I'm not asking any questions.
Because if I ask questions, I'm going to care.
And I don't care.
This is the face of someone not caring.
Well, then we can both count our blessings, then.
Because the only thing more awkward than you working with Tyler is him working with me.
Luke, we need you in here.
Put on your awkward pants.
Kidding me?
How is your day going?
I don't want to talk about it.
You don't want to talk about it period or just with me?
Oh.
With me.
You remember when I promised I'd stop taking advantage of our relationship?
I'm respecting that.
And I...
I have respect for you respecting that.
But also, you went in there, and then he went, and he was like, "You got to leave."
Who is she?
She's a possible connection to Gold Star.
And does she have a name?
Teresa.
Teresa...
?
Campos.
And you know Miss Teresa Campos because?
She's the woman I dated...
right before you.
Oh.
Oh, way off, Davey boy.
Let me show you how it works.
Yeah?
Hey, I...
Whoa.
Oh.
It's fine.
I-I'm just cleaning it.
Your finger was on the trigger, Dave.
What do you want to tell me?
Tyler's ex-girlfriend is here.
She's the Teresa that Brian Garrity mentioned.
It's too early to tell, but we think she may have something to do with Gold Star.
Well, that sounds pretty important.
Not as important as this is.
Look, it's not a secret that you've been struggling.
And it's not a weakness to talk about it.
I do.
I talk about it.
With who?
Emily.
Dave...
I'm guessing you've been avoiding your mandated trauma therapy?
All right.
Well, unless you have another forensic psychiatrist that you trust, would...
would you be willing to talk to me about it?
Is it PTSD?
Because that's what it looks like.
All right.
Is it getting worse?
You know something that I love about when it's just you and me working a case?
We can just sit together, you know?
Just...
quietly with our thoughts.
So I'm thinking, why don't you and I just sit here now, together...
quietly...
and you can know that you're okay?
Thank you.
Shh.
We're not talking.
O...
kay.
Emily?
You here?
JJ?
Um, is everything okay?
Uh, everything's fine, until it's not.
What are you even doing here?
Just making sure you're okay.
Thanks.
I'm fine.
Oh, sorry.
Thank you.
What time is it?
Time for hydration, I think.
Here you go.
Oh, it's got what plants crave.
It's got electrolytes.
You see that movie "Idiot City"?
Wait.
Idiot city? "
Idiocracy"?
That's it!
Hey, did you ever...
Did I ever what?
I don't know.
Wow.
You are in rough shape.
Chug that now, please.
Oh, no.
No, leave those chips!
Ah, chips!
Those...
The salt and vinegar!
They're underrated.
So are chopsticks, apparently.
Oh, you don't do this?
You gotta start.
The coating is delicious but insufferable.
It's worse if you have a hangnail.
And there's never napkins around.
Open up.
Oh.
Uh...
Mmm!
Yummy!
And no mess!
So what have you been drinking?
Wine.
Chablis.
Hmm.
Feels like it's more than a crisp white.
Emily Elizabeth Prentiss...
are you high?
I'm not not high.
Oh, my God.
She seems really cool.
I didn't know super-hot Latina was your type.
My name is Garcia.
I don't have a type.
And please don't start.
I'm not starting.
I just...
I'm confused.
When we had our ritual airing of the ex's, there was no mention of a Teresa Campos.
And I'm wondering why that is.
Hey.
You aren't allowed to give me the silent treatment.
I get it, your ex showed up, but she's on my turf, champ.
So if this has something to do with Gold Star, I'm going to find out one way or the other.
So who is she, and why is she here?
Feel comfortable sharing information with us?
Absolutely.
All right.
It all started last week when I got these.
Someone was following you.
That's what I was afraid of.
And then Tyler called me to say I might be in trouble.
He said your team could get to the bottom of it.
Yeah, we're gonna try.
But Tyler got this message from an unreliable source, so we're going to need to confirm a few things first.
Well, you recognize anyone here?
No.
Should I?
No.
No.
That's good.
Um...
Tell me the story of you and Tyler.
I'd just gotten my less-than-honorable discharge.
I had no job, no mission, nothing to do but drink...
at a bar...
where she worked.
I know it sounds clichéd, but I had a thing for army guys.
Still do.
I got my act together.
She gave me a reason to get my act together.
Yeah.
She was your new mission.
When I'm in, I'm all in.
Don't I know it?
And who doesn't love a good love bomb, am I right?
But then comes the inevitable "I can't do that for you" moment.
I had one.
I'm assuming she did, too.
He found a lead to his sister's murder, something involving a network of serial killers.
I told him to take it to the police.
I couldn't hand it over to the cops.
They'd just screw it up.
Oh, yeah, they would.
Better idea is to lie to your friends and clone phones and get shot by the psychopath who killed your sister.
All right.
Sorry.
Indulge me in one more question.
Who ended it?
You or him?
Him.
He just disappeared.
No goodbye.
No nothing.
I mean, I've been ghosted before, but not like this.
So there's been no contact between you two for a while.
Yeah.
Until those pictures.
Oh, God.
You okay?
Want an aspirin?
Yeah, I would.
Thank you.
Okay.
I'm sorry.
It's just the stress of all of this.
And you deal with this every day.
This or worse.
How do you manage it?
Some days better than others.
He's taking over.
Who's taking over?
Voit.
Okay.
All right.
How is he taking over?
Sometimes I talk to the UnSubs in my head.
It helps me profile.
Mm-hmm.
But now I'm talking to Voit all the time.
And it's...
Unwanted.
Yes.
Intrusive?
Hell, yes.
Okay.
Look...
Dave, what you're describing are classic symptoms of trauma survival.
Voit locked you in a shipping container under the ground.
Honestly, I'd be more worried about you if you weren't experiencing these kinds of symptoms.
Can it be managed?
With therapy.
Absolutely.
I recommend 90 minutes a day, minimum.
No, I'm not doing that.
Now is not the time to go all John Wayne on me.
All right?
You study human behavior.
You know what therapy can do.
And I also know that we're on the clock, and I don't have time to do therapy every day.
I mean, can't I, I don't know...
Can't you give me a pill or something for this?
No.
Absolutely not.
There is no shortcut through this.
And ignoring it is only going to make it worse.
All right, listen, tell me this.
When you've had UnSubs in your head before, what's made them go away?
Arresting them.
Okay.
Most of the time.
Most of the time?
Well, a handful of them have stuck around after I arrested them.
All right.
And what made those ones go away?
I go see them in prison.
And by doing that, I...
I believe that I've done everything that I can do.
Uh, absolutely not.
I'll go to therapy first.
This would be therapy, all right?
It would be exposure therapy.
It won't work.
The guys I saw in prison never got out.
Voit will because he's convinced the world he's not Sicarius.
Look, I don't know if this is going to be a magic bullet.
I-It might not work at all.
But I think if you want to keep Voit from taking over, you've got to get him to admit to you that he's Sicarius.
Maybe just seeing him behind bars will get the job done.
But either way, you got to confront Voit one on one.
Thank you for coming to my presentation.
May it please the court, I would like to give a brief, oversimplified, "do not try this at home" primer on how hacking works.
I present exhibit "A," Teresa, your phone.
Now, I did a breakdown of your tiny robot and discovered this, exhibit "B," which is a hacking app that had been put on your tiny robot unbeknownst to you.
Now, what this is doing is it's a bug that's transferring all of your data to a third party.
I saw this, I said to myself, "Hmm.
Where have I seen that before?"
And then I knew where I've seen it before.
It's exhibit "C," here, a few months ago, when a hacker had attempted a similar trick.
It's the same app.
Mm-hmm.
Good eyes.
It sure is.
This is called Phone Pulse.
It is a tactical app that civilians do not use.
So this is the same guy, right?
Mm-hmm.
Yeah.
One would think so, wouldn't they?
Can you get the cellular data thingamajobs to tell us who it is?
Oh, I can do one better, new friend.
Uh, this is what us hacker types call a "message in a bottle" attack.
And it was used on David Rossi's phone.
What am I missing?
It was me.
I did that.
Are you...
Is this real?
Well, no, it wasn't Tyler, because the date and the GPS data on your phone does not track with Tyler's phone.
Also, Tyler was consulting with us when you were being stalked.
Then why would someone do something like this?
Because someone wants you to think it was Tyler.
It's a hell of a frame job.
You know that 81% of stalking victims are stalked by somebody they know, and 43% of women are stalked by current or former partners?
I would like to acknowledge the, uh, sticky chemistry that is in the room between us all.
We need to transcend that and delve into the histories of you two.
Because whoever did this is someone from your lives.
In order to make this investigation less awkward, I'm gonna suggest that we do this, uh, boys with boys and girls with girls.
That's the less awkward option?
Yeah.
For me and Teresa, it is.
Sound good?
Sounds good.
Right.
I can feel your disappointed stare on my back.
Not disappointed.
Just didn't know you smoked.
I don't smoke.
Not blunts.
Stop judging.
It's legal in the District now.
I know.
And again, I'm not judging.
When I need to think or contemplate life, THC focuses me.
Contemplate life, huh?
My future with the FBI.
Look, you've been benched.
It happens.
Once Madison and the brass can tame the PR beast, you'll be back in the field couple days, tops.
No.
This is how careers come to an end at the bureau.
Not with a bang but a whimper.
So I'm going to take care of it myself.
What does that mean?
No, you don't mean that.
Yeah, I do.
I'm done, JJ.
I'm quitting.
You are not quitting.
Okay?
You are hung over and not "not" high.
But this today, right now, probably not the best time to make any big life decisions, right?
Besides, what would you do, anyway?
Be a catcher in the rye."
What?
A catcher in the rye, like the book.
Just run through the field, and you...
you catch all that rye.
You haven't read it, have you?
I have not.
Yeah.
But I do know this...
Voit is gonna get what he wants.
If not now, eventually.
And I crossed a line with him that I never thought I would.
And so, now I'm struggling t-to try to figure out why I'm fighting so hard to win this battle of good versus evil.
So if I'm going to go out, I want it to be on my terms.
Okay.
Come.
Sit.
We need to talk.
Ah!
What are you even looking for?
Every snack in the world is over here.
No, I need something sweet.
I've overdosed on salt.
Emily?
Yeah?
Why are the walls closing in?
Oh, the...
Did you...
?
Yeah, I did.
Um...
Those are edibles?
You're gonna need to lie down.
No.
Whoa.
No!
No!
No!
No!
Stop!
No!
Help!
Help!
No!
No!
Please!
Considering the scary nature of this business, I'm going to recommend that we start with your past paramours.
I don't have, like, a file of old boyfriends, but maybe we can look through the years.
Sure.
All right.
Tell me about him.
Remote.
Wounded.
Wounded enough to stalk you?
Mm, no, he had mommy issues.
Oh, that happens.
All right.
What about him?
Distant, as in, "I make less money than you do, so I'm going to be distant.
Ah.
Yeah.
I don't see any photos of Tyler here.
Yeah, we didn't take very many photos.
What was it about him?
I lost my mom a few years ago.
Oh.
I'm sorry.
Thanks.
And I just needed someone I could feel safe around.
And he has this, like, vibe, like pheromones.
Except I don't really believe in pheromones.
And now, just being around him, I know he's over me because I don't feel it anymore.
You know?
Oh.
Huh.
We should keep looking.
Sure.
Quick question.
When did you and Tyler start dating?
Look, why don't we start with Brian Garrity?
Whoever gave him the name Teresa has to be the stalker.
Garrity is desperate.
Leaving him out of this.
I need a list of anyone you've ever made angry.
Of course you do.
You love this, don't you?
No, I really don't.
All I know is that you like to go off lone-wolf style, and it gets you and everyone around you in trouble.
So why don't you just rattle off a list of your victims, you know, besides Penelope and Teresa?
Are you seriously?
Fuck you.
Okay?
You don't like me.
I get it.
But you're a ranger, right?
And what's the ranger motto?
Sua sponte.
Which, if I remember my ninth grade Latin, means "of your own accord."
So?
You ever act on your own accord, Luke?
Take matters into your own hands, not because you don't care about people, but because you do, because you don't want to get them hurt?
Yeah.
Thought so.
Now it's awkward.
Yeah, I know.
You want to de-escalate?
Sure.
Scott Adkins or Donnie Yen movies?
Are you kidding?
Donnie Yen.
Even when they're in the same movie, like "John Wick: Chapter 4," Donnie Yen.
Just wanted to be sure.
What do you say we make this easy on ourselves?
Um, Teresa said that this started a week ago.
Who have you pissed off recently?
You feel that, Sebastian?
I've got my thumb on about 50 units of Clostridium botulinum.
We used that in Darfur.
You remember?
Here I thought we were mates.
Shit.
Shit, shit, shit.
Who is it?
What did you do to him?
Shoot him.
Shoot him.
Shoot him now before...
Hey, Dave.
I haven't seen you around these parts for a while.
Hey, Galen.
How's it going?
Quiet.
Uneventful.
Just how I like it.
You here to see the main attraction?
I am.
Okay.
Oh, wait.
Um...
Would you do me a favor?
Did you do that?
Mm-hmm.
Are you gonna kill me?
Mnh-mnh.
Then why did you turn the cameras off?
Because we need to talk, just you and me.
I'm here.
Let's talk.
Your deal isn't going through.
It's not?
No, it's not.
The terms were for the apprehension and prosecution of Gold Star.
We've neither apprehended or prosecuted anyone.
It's not my fault.
It's all your fault, Elias.
Your deal isn't going through.
You haven't met my lawyer.
So you turned the cameras off just to tell me that?
No, no, it's not just that.
I want you to admit to me that you're Sicarius and to tell me that you killed 60 people.
62.
That's all I needed to hear.
No, no.
It's not.
You know why?
Because you don't think about me at all.
That's what you told me on your fancy jet.
You said, "I haven't thought about you at all, Elias."
So why would an FBI agent come all the way down here, when he doesn't think about me at all, just to confirm what he "already knows"?
I just needed you to say it.
Just once.
Tommy Yates...
You wrote about him in one of your books.
You said that you used to talk to an imaginary version of him, even after he was arrested.
And it wasn't until you visited him in his cell that he stopped haunting you.
Nobody haunts me.
Tommy Yates did.
Am I haunting you?
For the rest of your life, you're going to have to ask permission to take a piss, check your food for maggots, maybe, if you're lucky, get a half-hour of sunlight every day.
No, you don't haunt me.
Not anymore.
What?
Well, the way you said that, the subtext...
You know subtext, right?
The unspoken part?
The way you said, "No, you don't haunt me," what you meant was not anymore.
It started when I locked you in that shipping container, didn't it?
No.
No?
Okay, fine.
I don't haunt you.
So why are you here?
Because you mentioned Gold Star to Douglas Bailey.
Hmm.
What?
Nothing.
Yeah, nothing.
It usually is with you.
I don't think your troubled subconscious has anything to do with me.
I don't care.
You didn't talk to Tommy Yates in your head because he was a serial killer.
You talked to Tommy Yates in your head because there were 40 more victims that you couldn't find.
That was the fear, wasn't it?
The fear that you let down 40 other families?
Tommy Yates...
he was just a, um, a totem.
I think I am, too.
I think I'm just a totem for something you can't stop thinking about, something even worse than me.
Nothing is worse than you.
Think about what you just said, Dave.
Right there...
nothing's worse than me?
You would never give me that satisfaction.
Never.
Never, ever, ever, unless...
unless your repression is so deep, you'd rather lie to me than face the truth.
But I think you and I, we can figure out that truth...
together.
No.
Why not?
There are three people who know more about Gold Star than anyone in the world.
Two of them are in this cell, and one of them I...
Well, I had to shoot him in the face, but I think I can help you.
And how do you think you can do that?
Easy.
Take what we know...
we make deductive inferences, and from those inferences...
we build a profile.
Oh, mate, what have you got me into now?
This is ridiculous.
You brought me in here to ask me if I'm stalking a woman I've never met.
Well, if memory serves, you're vengeful.
So I'm betting you hacked her phone the same way I hacked yours.
What are you doing?
Let the record show I'm sitting here with Tyler Green and SSA Alvez.
I would like them both to stipulate that Tyler cloned this VeriTrax phone, serial 4RF64393, and that anything he or Alvez find off this phone is inadmissible in a court of law.
Sebastian, you're not under arrest.
If you're not behind this, we just need your help to figure out who is.
Nothing ensures compliance like the guarantee of going to hell together.
Want me to talk?
I need collateral.
I cloned the phone.
Agent Alvez and the FBI had nothing to do with it, so turn that off.
Half the loaf gets half the answers.
So here's what I'll tell you.
What you cloned wasn't my phone.
It was a work phone given to me by the ones who pay me.
Who pays you?
Do you think they're stupid enough to let me know that?
Come on.
You must have some idea.
They're private contractors, the kind who make the Wagner Group look tame and that don't care about collateral damage...
or you.
What do you mean, me?
That's the game, isn't it?
We get what we want and let the little people clean up after us.
That's not me.
Oh.
That woman who's in trouble because of you, she might disagree.
Don't you think? "
Upon further investigation, the claims against you have been falsified and are void.
Effective immediately, you are reinstated as unit chief of the BAU."
Hell yeah.
Let's go. "
Director Madison, effective immediately, I am resigning from the FBI."
Should I delete the "sent from my phone" handle?
N-No.
Stop.
Stop.
You can't...
No.
You can't send that.
Not...
Not until we can justify this.
Think about everyone who's come and gone since we met.
Gideon.
Morgan.
Hotch.
It's like the longer you stay in this job, the odds are you're going to lose yourself or someone you love or your sense of honor.
It just takes and takes and takes.
What's one thing this job has given you?
Well, most recently, the deep-seeded fear that someone from my son's high school will find the BAU-gate website.
Oh, no!
You found out.
Yeah, I found out.
Come on.
But you know what bugs me the most is you...
you didn't tell me.
D-Did you think I couldn't handle it?
No.
I knew you could handle it.
That doesn't mean you had to.
I'm supposed to protect the team.
I can't even do that.
It's another reason why I need to quit.
No, no, don't do that.
It's not about...
It's not about protecting us.
It's...
It's about being honest with us, with me.
I am.
Honestly...
I want to quit.
So this Gasper guy wouldn't say who he's working for?
We got everything we could out of him, but we don't have enough for an arrest, so we had to let him go.
What's the plan now?
Garcia does a deep dive into his background...
employers, known associates.
The good news is that if anyone can unmask whoever it is that's harassing you, it is Penelope Garcia.
I do not know why anyone would want your job, tracking killers and crazies alike.
He who hangs out with the wolves learns how to howl.
Something my grandmother used to say when I was a kid.
But what does that mean to you?
It's better to be smart than brave.
All right, Wolfman, that she has nothing to worry about because her grandson isn't even brave enough to tell his coworker how he feels about her.
No.
She knows I love her.
And she still has a thing for Tyler, I get it, but don't pretend like there's nothing there.
For your information, we went on one date, And?
And it was a hard pass for both of us.
You know, this job, dating a coworker is a bad idea.
Yeah, but that's every job.
Yeah.
What about you and Tyler?
Mnh-mnh.
Dating a customer is different.
Yeah.
It's, uh, equally stupid.
True.
Very.
So I guess maybe you and I should find a different dating pool.
Maybe.
You know what we need in here?
We need one of those big whiteboards where we can put all our case details on it, like you guys do in the, um, the circle table room.
No?
Okay, fine.
Well, it doesn't change our goal.
We just need to go through everything that's bothered you since my arrest, starting with number one.
North Star.
Bullshit.
That's not number one.
That's, like, last on the list.
I like to work backwards.
What is it?
Nothing.
I told you, it's nothing.
Then why did Damien and Jade respond to it?
Do you really like to play video games?
What?
Do you...
I-I'm not a fan-boy in here.
But you said in an interview once that you really like to play video games.
Do you still?
Well, it's been a long time since I picked up a controller.
Okay.
What kind of games did you like to play?
First-person shooters, racing games.
Did you play any quest games?
No.
What the hell does that got to do with anything?
Do you know what every current conspiracy theory is built upon structurally?
Video games, specifically quest games.
Oh, for fuck's sake.
You wander around looking for clues.
Those clues lead you to a boss.
You defeat that boss, the next level gives you more clues, another boss, yada, yada, yada, yada, yada.
Two generations have been taught that this is how the world works.
Games are not real life.
Yeah, real life's fucking boring unless you gamify it.
If you get the players to look for clues, it makes their sad, boring, depressing lives more interesting.
Damien and Jade did not lead boring lives.
No, they did not, but they are searching for clues.
So I threw them a loaded term and let them draw their own conclusions.
What is North Star?
Oh, Jesus Christ.
Okay.
You tell me.
What's North Star?
Astrologically, astronomically, I don't care.
Well, when you're looking for constellations, you start by finding the North Star.
Okay.
Or North Star is where it all starts.
What?
It's semantics.
Look, when you're lost and desperate and on a quest like Jade and Damien are, all you want is something to help you connect the dots.
Honestly, the clue was just a bluff, a meaningless, stupid bluff.
But it got their attention.
Given the fact that they're both revenge-driven killers, I thought maybe they'd want something to blame for why they are the way that they are.
Blame something like North Star.
I don't know who it is.
I don't know how the program got started.
I looked into it, trust me.
But I think maybe you know.
Me?
Maybe this is why I'm haunting you.
Maybe this is why I'm a totem.
Sounds like this Stuart House place was the perfect crucible to create serial killers.
Who would have given them that idea?
No.
I mean, it's just a profile.
And even with all the research, a profile really is just an educated guess.
Galen.
This was fun, Dave.
Should do it again sometime.
Hello?
You can make this all stop.
Gasper?
Listen very closely.
Teresa will have her life back.
But you need to do something for it.
I need the phone back, so I have an address for you.
Show up alone, unarmed, and this ends for her.
Your choice, Tyler.
You armed?
Wired?
You wanted me, you got me.
No offense.
It's not you that I want.
I'm going to reach into my pocket.
It's not a gun.
It's a copy of your work phone.
Very good.
I'll have to get it validated, of course.
Sebastian, don't let me leave here empty-handed.
Can't you give me some clue to who you're working for?
Who I work for isn't as important as what they want.
Which is what?
Invisibility.
I couldn't risk going to the feds, but two mates who are never truly mates, I figured that we could come to some kind of arrangement.
We always have.
If these people are as dangerous as you say they are, why the change of heart?
Because they are that dangerous.
You cloning that phone put a price on my head.
I've got a flight in an hour.
I'll make a delivery, and then you and I will never see each other again.
Now, if you don't mind, I'd like to get on with the rest of my life.
Please...
put the phone on the table.
Move.
It wasn't about the phone.
Need more than that to save your life.
You need proof I'm dead.
Sorry.
Me too.
Now.