Criminal Minds (TV Series)

Conflicted (2009)

Thomas Gibson: Aaron Hotchner

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• Derek Morgan : Where are we?

  David Rossi : Honestly? Nowhere. We just watched our two most viable suspects walk out the door.

  Emily Prentiss : If Adam isn't our unsub, he has all the makings to become one someday.

  Aaron 'Hotch' Hotchner : Reid?

  Dr. Spencer Reid : Tell me the question that he spiked under in the polygraph.

  Derek Morgan : It was a control question to set the baseline.

  Dr. Spencer Reid : It was a geometric equation?

  Derek Morgan : Reid, I really think he was just intimidated. He tried, he got it wrong, but he wasn't supposed to know the answer anyway.

  Dr. Spencer Reid : What if he lied? What if... what if he knew the answer to the question but intentionally got it wrong?

  Jennifer 'JJ' Jareau : Why would he do that?

  Dr. Spencer Reid : Because he realized that he wouldn't know that answer.

  Derek Morgan : You're losing me, kid.

  Dr. Spencer Reid : Adam said he wasn't getting any rest. He takes midday naps because he's always exhausted. He has a history of blackouts, reclusive behavior, prolonged repeated abuse suffered at the hands of a dominant male who transferred abuse from his female spouse to his prepubescent child.

  Aaron 'Hotch' Hotchner : Where are you going with this?

  Dr. Spencer Reid : What if our ubsub couple isn't a couple at all?

  Aaron 'Hotch' Hotchner : Dissociative identity disorder.

  David Rossi : You think Adam's a multiple personality?

  Emily Prentiss : Well, it fits. Recurrent physical abuse, knowledge he shouldn't have. We've seen this before.

  Dr. Spencer Reid : Look at this. All right? The-the first intervention is timid. It's apprehensive, right? But then he gets knocked down... there's a moment of calm, and then his entire body language changes. I saw this exact same transformation when Adam left the station, only it wasn't rage, it was, uh... arrogance. Like... like the alter ego wanted me to know.

  Aaron 'Hotch' Hotchner : Why?

  Dr. Spencer Reid : I don't know. Power, control. All I know is the person that stared me down over there was not Adam. He's not assertive like that. He doesn't make eye contact.

  Jennifer 'JJ' Jareau : So you think the stress of the interrogation blurred the line between Adam and his alter personality?

  Dr. Spencer Reid : I think the unsub surfaced for just a moment. It-it-it knew the answer to the question, realized Adam wouldn't, and lied.

• Jennifer 'JJ' Jareau : National media's picked up on the story. We're gonna need to make a statement when we land.

  Aaron 'Hotch' Hotchner : We want to make people aware without obviously causing panic.

  Jennifer 'JJ' Jareau : Stress hyper-vigilance, the whole buddy system. Yeah, I'm all over it. I just don't think anyone's gonna listen.

  Dr. Spencer Reid : What do you mean?

  Jennifer 'JJ' Jareau : Come on, drunk college students don't exactly want to hear they shouldn't talk to strangers.

  Dr. Spencer Reid : Right.

  [goes to sit] 

  Emily Prentiss : [to Garcia on the webcam]  Was there any DNA left on the scene?

  Penelope Garcia : Uh, yeah. Too *much* DNA. This portion of The Garcia Show will be brought to you by the letter "I" for icky. The lab has recovered over a hundred different trace samples as multiple guests create a cesspool of DNA. Also, there is no way to determine the exact time of "secretion" or to eliminate anyone actually working at the hotel.