Adam Rodriguez credited as playing...
Luke Alvez
- Penelope Garcia: [arriving at Alvez's desk laden with shopping bags] It's just a little something.
- Luke Alvez: For me?
- Penelope Garcia: No, not for you. It's for Roxy. But you have opposable thumbs, so you can open it for her.
- Luke Alvez: [snickering, he opens a small box] Wow. Biscuits.
- Penelope Garcia: Yeah. They're all organic, human grade. Quite delicious, if I do say so myself. Uh, plus...
- [indicating a larger bag]
- Luke Alvez: It's a sweater.
- Penelope Garcia: Oh! Isn't it amazing?
- Luke Alvez: [halfheartedly] It is... amazing.
- Penelope Garcia: What was that?
- Luke Alvez: What was what?
- Penelope Garcia: You paused.
- Luke Alvez: No, I didn't.
- Penelope Garcia: You don't like it.
- Luke Alvez: No, I didn't... I didn't say that.
- Penelope Garcia: Oh, you might be a profiler in training, but I am a profiler by association, and I can tell a lie when I hear one, and liar.
- David Rossi: So, knocking on doors kind of remind you of fugitive hunting?
- Luke Alvez: Yeah, a little bit. That was a... that was a one-man show, though.
- David Rossi: And this is a team sport.
- Luke Alvez: Yeah.
- David Rossi: Yeah, well, that could take a little getting used to.
- Luke Alvez: A little bit, yeah.
- Luke Alvez: M.E.'s preliminary time of death confirms that we couldn't have missed him by more than a few minutes.
- Dr. Spencer Reid: There was extreme overkill here. Victim was shot six times and then bludgeoned. He's decompensating.
- Luke Alvez: Or evolving.
- Jennifer Jareau: Yeah, he doesn't care about the family anymore. He's going straight for the bully.
- Dr. Spencer Reid: [leaving] Hey, guys? Austin's room.
- Jennifer Jareau: The other murders, the unsub left the homes undisturbed.
- Luke Alvez: [finding the murder weapon] Well, it certainly looks like this is what he bludgeoned the victim with.
- Dr. Spencer Reid: He could have left it in the living room with the body, but instead he brought it back in here and destroyed Austin's other sports trophies.
- Jennifer Jareau: Yeah, you know, everything about this, the overkill, trashing the room, going after Austin's prizes, it fights against our profile of mission oriented organization and impulse control.
- Dr. Spencer Reid: Well, he's more stressed now. He knows we're closing in.
- Jennifer Jareau: Yeah, it's more than that. His behavior reads juvenile.
- Dr. Spencer Reid: Our unsub isn't an adult. He's a child.
- David Rossi: Garcia, we need the records of every student at Pillsbury who filed a bullying complaint against Amanda Bergstrom, Matt Doherty, and Austin Settergren.
- Emily Prentiss: Also, anyone who received counseling for being bullied by those students.
- Penelope Garcia: [typing] Wow. This is a really big pool. I've got twenty-seven names.
- Emily Prentiss: Any of those students bullied by all three?
- Penelope Garcia: No.
- David Rossi: Like Bakken said, most victims never come forward.
- Penelope Garcia: So I'm seeing the tip of a really big iceberg.
- Luke Alvez: Nobody wants to be a snitch.
- Emily Prentiss: Also, bullying is often so widespread, it's normalized.
- Jennifer Jareau: It would only amplify the unsub's feeling of powerlessness.
- David Rossi: The pool of suspects is still too big.
- Luke Alvez: Garcia, can you crosscheck the names you pulled with any mentions on social media of bullying?
- Penelope Garcia: Oh, that is a boss idea. I'm gonna do that right now, and...
- [typing]
- Penelope Garcia: ...oh, this is interesting. I pulled up six names from my list, and they all belong to a private chat group.
- Jennifer Jareau: Some kind of bullying support group?
- Penelope Garcia: It's called the Anti-Terror Squad, but yeah, that's exactly what it is.
- Emily Prentiss: It's an apt analogy. Ongoing bullying would feel like terrorism to those experiencing it.
- Penelope Garcia: They warn each other about which stairwells and bathrooms to avoid on any given day. They walk each other to and from school. That kind of thing.
- Jennifer Jareau: I tell Henry school's a safe place, but for these kids, it's anything but.
- Emily Prentiss: Are there any mentions of retribution or payback, uh, planning?
- Penelope Garcia: No. But there's a lot of content here. I'll do a keyword search. It'll take a while.
- Emily Prentiss: Okay, so these kids took back some of their power by banding together. They call themselves the Anti-Terror Squad, so they see themselves as righteous.
- David Rossi: The unsub may be one or all six of these kids. Garcia, I need you to locate their cell phones.
- Penelope Garcia: Sure. Um...
- [typing]
- Penelope Garcia: They're all in the exact same place. All six of them are in a classroom at Pillsbury High.
- David Rossi: Just got off the phone with Garcia. Fergusson's alibi checks out.
- Emily Prentiss: I can't even begin to imagine it. Her whole family gone in the blink of an eye. She's devastated.
- Luke Alvez: Fergusson seems to think that Amanda was some kind of conniving shrew.
- Emily Prentiss: Well, Amanda may well have been hostile towards him, but for good reason.
- Jennifer Jareau: She wanted her parents to stay together. Typical kid. She was candid about what went on. She was genuinely baffled by who would do this and why.
- Emily Prentiss: Agreed. That last text from her mom, that one's gonna haunt her.
- David Rossi: What's gonna happen to her now?
- Emily Prentiss: She has an aunt and uncle in Seattle. They flew in today. So it sounds like she'll be going home with them.
- Luke Alvez: We know Fergusson's way too disorganized to pull this off, so where does that leave us?
- Jennifer Jareau: Well, the family had their problems, but they were getting back on track.
- David Rossi: And yet someone wanted this family dead.
- Emily Prentiss: But it doesn't make sense that they'd be targeted by a family annihilator.
- David Rossi: What if it's not about *this* family? What if it's just about families?
- Jennifer Jareau: So the Bergstroms could be surrogates.
- Emily Prentiss: Meaning our unsub will probably strike again.
- Luke Alvez: All right, look, there are five cell phones here and there's six members of the club.
- David Rossi: Garcia, what have you got?
- Emily Prentiss: These kids would never voluntarily leave their phones.
- Luke Alvez: Whoever's still got their phone, that's our unsub.
- Emily Prentiss: If his friends turned on him, the unsub would experience that as a huge betrayal. He's been killing for them and he's just discovered they're not grateful to him for it.
- David Rossi: [hanging up his phone] Okay. The kid whose phone isn't here is Kyle Ecklund. He's our unsub. But there's no signal.
- Emily Prentiss: What do we know about him?
- David Rossi: Bare bones biographical details. He's an only child. Mom left him as a toddler. His dad's an alcoholic.
- Luke Alvez: That explains why he's mature.
- Emily Prentiss: Without a reliable caretaker, he was parentified at an early age.
- David Rossi: And now he's switched the focus of his rage from bullies to his own peer group. The family he's seeking to annihilate has expanded.
- Luke Alvez: Yeah, but if we wanted to kill them, why wouldn't he do it here? Why move them?
- Emily Prentiss: He's making a statement.
- Penelope Garcia: Kyle Ecklund has been bullied for a lot of years by a lot of kids. I mean a lot of kids.
- Emily Prentiss: He unleashed on Austin Settergren. What did Austin do to him?
- Penelope Garcia: Let's see... Oh, yes, yes, yes. Okay, so Austin was the ringleader of a particularly horrifying incident that happened a few years back.
- Luke Alvez: We need to know where it happened.
- Penelope Garcia: It happened right there at the basketball courts at school.
- Luke Alvez: This place is a maze.
- David Rossi: Garcia, can you guide us?
- Penelope Garcia: Absolutely.
- Penelope Garcia: The Bergstrom family was killed in their home in Winona, Minnesota last night. Mother, father, and little boy, all shot execution style.
- Jennifer Jareau: Any suspects?
- Penelope Garcia: Therein lies the mystery. The Bergstrom family was as low-risk as they come.
- Dr. Spencer Reid: What about murder-suicide?
- Emily Prentiss: That was ruled out. There was no murder weapon found at the scene, and both Bridget and Scott Bergstrom were shot in their bed.
- David Rossi: But there was a survivor. A teenage daughter.
- Penelope Garcia: Yeah, seventeen year old Amanda. She was out past her curfew at the moment of the murders.
- Jennifer Jareau: And she's the one that found the bodies.
- Dr. Spencer Reid: It almost seems like a hitman scenario.
- Luke Alvez: Maybe a mafia retaliation kill? But that doesn't seem likely in Winona, Minnesota.
- Emily Prentiss: But it does seem like a revenge killing.
- David Rossi: If the unsub expected to wipe out the entire family, he screwed up big time leaving Amanda alive.
- Dr. Spencer Reid: Unless she had something to do with it.
- Penelope Garcia: That's a question mark, but according to the M.E.'s preliminary report, she can't be the shooter based on alibi and time of deaths.
- David Rossi: On the surface, they were a well-liked family living a low-risk lifestyle.
- Dr. Spencer Reid: The daughter, Amanda. Where is she?
- Penelope Garcia: Protective custody, in case the unsub sees her as unfinished business.
- David Rossi: We good?
- Luke Alvez: Mm-hmm.
- David Rossi: We fly.
- David Rossi: Bridget and Scott Bergstrom grew up in Winona and have deep ties to the community.
- Jennifer Jareau: Scott was a local distributor of farm equipment, Bridget cut hair at a salon in the mall.
- Emily Prentiss: And yet they were murdered by a family annihilator.
- Penelope Garcia: Sad, but true. The Bergstrom family had their share of dirty laundry. Though who of us does not?
- Dr. Spencer Reid: Scott developed a Vicodin habit a few years back after a skiing accident.
- Emily Prentiss: So he could have been in over his head with his dealer.
- Jennifer Jareau: So, Bridget was having an affair?
- Penelope Garcia: Yeah. I looked at their financials. She's got a credit card secret just in her name, with charges to a motel just outside of town and nothing else.
- David Rossi: She might have cut things off, causing him to go off the deep end. Can you get us a name?
- Penelope Garcia: Yeah, I'm already into it. You'll have lover boy's name ASAP.
- Dr. Spencer Reid: What about Amanda, the sole survivor? Any motive there?
- Penelope Garcia: Deep sigh. I hate that you're asking that. And deep sigh again, I am bound by duty to report the facts. There's a modest insurance policy; seventeen year old Amanda is the beneficiary.
- Emily Prentiss: $100,000.
- Luke Alvez: That would seem like all the money in the world to a teenager.
- David Rossi: People have been killed for a lot less. That's an unlikely motive for the daughter, but we can't rule her out.
- Dr. Spencer Reid: Whatever set this unsub off, he made the whole family pay for it.
- Sheriff Wilson: Poor kid was so distraught we took her to the ER. They ended up sedating her. She'll be coming around soon. I've got a deputy stationed outside her room over at County General.
- David Rossi: Good. If the unsub wanted to wipe out the entire family, she could be in danger. What about the wife, Bridget? We heard she might be stepping out on her husband.
- Sheriff Wilson: Yeah, that was an open secret. She was seeing Ron Fergusson. They met at the gym. He was a trainer.
- Luke Alvez: Was? What... what happened?
- Sheriff Wilson: Sticky fingers. Ronny got caught stealing personal items from lockers. They called us over, but nobody pressed charges. Just sent him packing.
- David Rossi: Fergusson sounds like bad news.
- Sheriff Wilson: He's no altar boy. Couple DUIs and a few assault convictions; bar fights, mostly. But nothing like this. You don't think he's involved in this, do you?
- Luke Alvez: The guy's got a temper and he likes to drink. That's not a good combo.
- David Rossi: We believe the unsub is a variation of what we know as a family annihilator.
- Emily Prentiss: The garden variety family annihilator is usually a narcissistic male patriarch experiencing psychological stress. This causes him to become homicidal and then suicidal.
- Dr. Spencer Reid: His narcissism often manifests as rage directed at a specific family member, prompting him to murder the entire family as an act of punishment and revenge. He then blames the object of his rage for his violent outburst.
- Luke Alvez: Once the entire family is dead, the patriarch typically commits or attempts to commit suicide.
- Jennifer Jareau: But this unsub is murdering families that are not his own.
- Dr. Spencer Reid: There's a distinct punishment component to the annihilation that's driving this unsub.
- David Rossi: He's more organized than the typical family annihilator, with greater impulse control and a high level of sophistication.
- Emily Prentiss: His sophistication is apparent in the fact that the object of his rage is deliberately spared rather than murdered.
- Jennifer Jareau: This allows the unsub the satisfaction of inflicting ongoing psychological pain on the object of his rage.
- David Rossi: We're looking for a male in his late twenties, early thirties. He's mature and highly intelligent.
- Luke Alvez: Amanda Bergstrom and Matthew Doherty may be surrogates for individuals who wronged the unsub when he himself was an adolescent.
- Emily Prentiss: Amanda and Matt both attend Pillsbury High School, and we have not identified any other connection between them or their families.
- David Rossi: Pay close attention to the faculty and administrators of the high school.
- Sheriff Wilson: A lot of the parents are wondering if we should shut down the high school.
- David Rossi: The school itself has not been a scene of violence. Closing it would not deter this unsub.
- Luke Alvez: We need you to beef up patrols and warn the public of the ongoing danger.
- David Rossi: And we ask you to encourage the entire Pillsbury High School community to report any suspicious individuals they may encounter.
- Luke Alvez: [Rossi invented them for a drink at O'Keefe's] Hey, I just wanted a beer
- Penelope Garcia: Well, there may be a glimmer of hope for you yet. But just so you know, the new guy pays!