On Stage – Night
Garcia dons a black wig and is applying makeup to go onstage.
Garcia Voice Over: I believe humanity was born from conflict. Maybe that's why in all of us lives a dark side. Some of us choose to embrace it. Some have no choice. The rest of us fight it. And in the end, it's as natural as the air we breathe. At some point, all of us are forced to face the truth. Ourselves. For me that day has come.
Walden’s House – Georgetown – Night
A woman dressed like a 1950s star is crying.
Rhett Walden: My God! You look so beautiful. No, no, no, don't cry. Your mascara will bleed. Look at you. So perfect.
Kelly: My hands… I… I can't feel my hands. Please, cut me loose.
Rhett Walden: She has that something special so few have these days, don't you think?
Kelly: What do you want from me?
Rhett Walden: What you desire most. I saw it the moment I set eyes on you.
Kelly: Saw what?
May Walden: Fame.
Rhett Walden: You will never look more beautiful than this moment right now.
A man, Rhett Walden, takes her photograph while the silhouette of an elderly blonde woman, May, stands nearby.
On Stage – Night
Garcia removes her lipstick. She draws a heart on the mirror with the lipstick to imply that she is a victim of a crime.
Garcia Voice Over I was 18 when I faced a man who chose to embrace his dark side, and by doing so, he took my humanity. Every day since I have put on a mask to hide what now suffocates me. The truth. And nothing speaks louder than the truth.
Walden’s House – Georgetown – Night
A rickety movie projector plays without sound as a man recites some lines to a tied-up woman, Kelly, who is crying.
Rhett Walden: Out of the shadows, a taxi pulls into the alleyway. She moves into the light, radiant, captivating. Out of the shadows, Robert sees her. Never has she looked more beautiful than this moment right now. There's a sadness to her. For a moment, I didn't think you'd come.
Kelly: I had to.
Rhett Walden: What is it?
Kelly: What if… What if all we have is all we were meant to be?
Rhett Walden: No! No. No. It's had. Past tense. Had. Not have. Try it again.
Kelly: I can't. Not like this.
Rhett Walden: Don't cry. Don't cry. Otherwise you'll relieve the audience. Fight back the tears and they'll cry for you.
Kelly: Untie my hands. Let me move. I'll get it. I swear.
The elderly woman stepped in.
May Walden: Hold the moment and you hold the audience. What if all we had was all we were meant to be? My love, oh, my love, to my grave I will carry you in my heart.
Kelly: Oh, wait, please! Please, let me try it one more time!
Rhett Walden: Uhh! This is all you were ever meant to be.
Kelly: No, I can do it. I promise.
Rhett Walden: You'll never grow old.
Kelly: No, well, wait, wait. Just give me one more chance.
Rhett Walden: You should leave now.
Kelly: I can do it! Oh, God. Please, no, let me do it one more time, please. Oh, God, I don't want to die! No, no…
The man places a handkerchief over her mouth.
In The Car – Georgetown – Night
Rhett Walden suffocates Kelly in his car.
Kelly: Oh! Oh, my God! Oh, my God! Aah! Aah! Aah! Aah! Oh, my God!
On Stage – Night
Garcia: Melissa Crane?
Clarence: Get out.
Garcia: Alison Gardner?
Clarence: Get out before I call the police.
Garcia: I called them. And they'll be here, but not before I'm done.
Clarence: Done? Done with what?
Garcia shoots Clarence.
Garcia: Nine girls you raped and you butchered. You took from them what you took from me. But I survived. You should have killed me, Clarence.
In The Car – Georgetown – Night
Rhett Walden places a knife under the dead girl's lips.
On Stage – Night
Garcia and her co-actor, Clarence, bow to the audience from a theater stage.
In The Street – Georgetown – Night
Morgan and Prentiss arrive on the crime scene where they find the dead girl who had been dumped in a dark alley.
Morgan: Detective Croft?
Detective Croft: I've seen a lot over the years, but nothing like this.
Prentiss: Like what?
Detective Croft: I didn't notice it at first, but then when I saw it, I knew I had to call you.
Morgan: Look at her face, Prentiss.
Prentiss: Yep.
Detective Croft: I guess you guys have seen it all.
Prentiss: Thought I had. What do you make of it?
Morgan: Nothing good. All right, listen, I need wide-angle shots of her body, torso, close-ups of her face and her mouth.
Detective Croft: Whoever did this has a mind I don't want to understand.
Prentiss: That's a luxury we can't afford.
The unsub is with the elderly woman and they watch the news about the dead woman as he toys with the knife blade.
Conference Room – BAU – Quantico, Virginia – Night
Garcia: Kelly Landis went missing 3 days ago. 2 days ago, theGeorgetown "Monitor" received this. So whoever took this, took Kelly.
Hotch: And wanted the world to know it. Is that you?
Rossi: Where was she found?
Garcia: Uh, she was found inGeorgetown, in an alley, late last night.
Hotch: I sent Morgan and Prentiss.
Rossi: Only one victim?
Hotch: It's what he did to her that concerns me.
Garcia: Morgan sent these, also late last night.
Hotch: He and Prentiss are waiting in the district.
Reid: The body seems posed. Left arm raised… Oh… That's a first. I see your concern.
Garcia: What?
Rossi: A photo wasn't all he took.
Garcia: Reid, what?
Reid: Her lips have been removed.
Garcia: Oh, my God.
Rossi: Maybe a trophy.
Reid: Maybe he ate them?
Garcia: Ok, now I have that memory burned in my mind for the rest of my life.
Reid: You asked.
Rossi: The photo he sent to the "Monitor" and the way her body's posed and the mutilation, it must be a representation of someone.
Reid: At least by sending a photo, the media's opened a line of communication.
Hotch: Now that he's got the media's attention, we can expect more of these.
Walden’s House – Georgetown – Night
Rhett is with the elderly woman and they watch the news about the dead woman as he toys with the knife blade.
Reporter: Now for this late-breaking news.
Taylor Conwright: Kelly Landis was found dumped in an alley late last night. And I've been informed her body was mutilated by the killer. The FBI's behavioral analysis unit has been called in to investigate. This is Taylor Conwright, WVDC News.
OPENING CREDITS
Garcia Voice Over: "Fame will go by, and so long I've had you, fame. It goes by. I've always known it was fickle, so at least it's something I experienced, but that's not where I live." Marilyn Monroe.
Hall – Police Department – Georgetown – Day
Detective Croft: 33 years. 2 days left to retire. Not once did I have my name in print. Now it's alongside a 22-year-old girl left butchered in an alley.
Hotch: Who found her?
Detective Croft: Homeless guy.
Hotch: We need to compile a list of Kelly's direct relatives, friends, co-workers, boyfriends, everyone.
Detective Croft: When we got the photo, I expected a ransom, not a body.
Morgan: This isn't about money. It's about that. Attention.
Prentiss: By sending in the photo, the unsub's handiwork becomes the center of attention.
Detective Croft: It wasn't sent. It was walked into the "Monitor" building. No one saw a thing.
Hotch: From here on out, nobody talks to the press.
Prentiss: The last thing we need is the media naming her killer.
Morgan: It'll have an emotional effect on her killer, but positive or negative, neither one will help.
Detective Croft: You know, you guys usually work serial murders. All we have is Kelly.
Reid: What you have is unique, in fact. It's a first for all of us.
Morgan: Kelly represents someone specific to the unsub. Love and hate in equal measure.
Detective Croft: What the hell does cutting her lips off represent?
Reid: It's a fetish, an obsession linked either to a profoundly deep love or possibly disgust of lips. As Morgan pointed out, emotions that are in direct conflict with one another.
Hotch: It's his signature.
Morgan: And not one that's on any database.
Train station – Georgetown – Day
Rhett is sitting with May Walden and a little girl, Kiara.
Rhett Walden: I love to sit and watch people go by. You can tell a lot by the way someone walks.
May Walden: The way they hold their head.
Rhett Walden: Take that lady over there… the blonde with the ponytail, in the gray dress. You see her?
Kiara: That one?
Rhett Walden: No, no, no. Don't point. That's rude. That is not a walk. She's keeping her head down and avoiding eye contact. You know why?
Kiara: No.
Rhett Walden: Everyone's in her way. She's either late for something or… Mad at the world.
Kiara: Mad at the world.
May Walden: That's why I've always told you, Rhett, never have children. I'm going to go buy some flowers.
Rhett Walden: You see that, how she glides, you can't take your eyes off her? How do you walk?
Kiara: I can show you.
The girl shows him how she walks.
Rhett Walden: I'd like that.
Hall – Police Department – Georgetown – Day
Hotch: The office for theGeorgetown "Monitor" is here on M street. Kelly's body was found in Rykers Alley here.
Reid: 3 blocks West is where he hand-delivered Kelly's photo.
Hotch: And 10 blocks farther East are offices of practically every major media outlet.
Rossi: Why choose the "Monitor"?
Morgan: He reads it or it's his comfort zone.
Detective Croft: You think he lives inGeorgetown?
Prentiss: Until we find signs of sexual assault, we can't be sure it's a he.
Morgan: It says that Kelly lives inAlexandria but she works on the Hill. Is that correct?
Detective Croft: She didn't have a chance. It was her first day as a Senate Page.
Prentiss: What time was she supposed to report for work?
Detective Croft:9 a.m. neighbors saw her leave in the morning. She didn't have a car. If she used the bus or the Metro, no one saw her.
Hotch: Can we see a copy of the autopsy report?
Detective Croft: Happening downstairs as we speak.
Hotch: And we'd like to see a list of everyone you've interviewed so far.
Detective Croft: I'll get it. It's on my desk.
Hotch: Kelly's body was dumped in the district. It's likely that she was abducted and killed here, too.
Morgan: Then he's local.
Hotch: And MPD's done a comprehensive neighborhood canvass.
Morgan: They have.
Hotch: They've probably already interviewed the unsub.
Train Station – Georgetown – Day
Rhett Walden: That's a great walk. Really quite wonderful. My mother says, when you're a movie star, you have to have a walk. 'Cause when you're on a screen15 feet high, you better have a good walk. And when you win that Oscar, you gotta walk across that red carpet like you own it.
He continues to watch the girl. A beautiful blonde passerby passes right behind the girl.
Rhett Walden: Stunning.
Kiara: You think so?
Rhett Walden: No, I think you're an ugly little girl who has nothing to give to the world.
Kiara: Mommy!
Rhett leaves hurriedly to follow her.
Morgue Department – Georgetown – Day
Rossi and Reid are with the coroner, Dr Karla Hecht.
Dr Karla Hecht: If she was offered food or water, she didn't accept it. Her stomach's empty, and she's dehydrated.
Rossi: Not that she could have accepted anything. She was restrained.
Reid: Dr. Hecht, did you find any signs of sexual abuse?
Dr Karla Hecht: No.
Reid: Cause of death?
Dr Karla Hecht: Suffocation. But not manual strangulation.
Reid: Was the mutilation post- or ante mortem?
Dr Karla Hecht: Post. Never get used to that.
Reid: There's something in her throat.
In The Street – Georgetown – Day
The detective, Morgan, and Prentiss visit the site where the victim had been dumped, and sympathizers and media are crowding the scene.
Morgan: 9 a.m. is a busy time of day to be abducting someone.
Prentiss: If she didn't know who took her, that's high-risk.
Detective Croft: Well, maybe Agent Hotchner and the whiz kid are wrong. Maybe she was brought into the district by somebody she knew.
Morgan: No one's going to bring a victim into D.C. Unless their base of operations is here. This is definitely his comfort zone.
Prentiss: Ok, so day one, Kelly's abducted. Day 2, the media gets a photo of her. Day 3, her body's found here posed. This all feels orchestrated.
Morgan: Well, if you orchestrated all of this, wouldn't you want to see it?
Prentiss: Why else leave a body here?
Detective Croft: I'll get one of my men to film the crowd.
Prentiss: Morgan, isn't this crime scene sealed off? There's someone in here.
Morgue Department – Georgetown – Day
Dr Karla Hecht: The air must have dislodged it, otherwise I'd have seen it.
The coroner removes a piece of paper from the victim's throat.
Reid: Thanks.
Rossi: A page from a book?
Reid: I don't know. It's old paper. The blood and the saliva have sort of smudged the words. There's a lot of text. It appears… to be in old courier. You know what? It's typed, not printed. "Nothing moves in the street. A cool breeze and gentle rain do little to silence Robert's beating heart."
Rossi: From the time Kelly was found, how long had she been dead?
Dr Karla Hecht: Lividity indicates half an hour.
Reid:Georgetown's where he kept her captive.
Rossi: Trihalomethane was found in her hair.
Reid: Chloroform?
Rossi: Who uses chloroform nowadays?
Reid: You know, chloroform, the glamour shots… it all feels like a throwback to another century.
He takes a photograph of the piece of paper.
In The Street – Georgetown – Day
Morgan: Where were you last night?
Marvin: Jail.
Prentiss: There was a homeless man here…6 feet tall, beard, late 40s.
Marvin: Impossible.
Morgan: No, there was definitely somebody right here last night.
Marvin: This place is my place. This alley's my home. Ain't nobody down here but me.
Detective Croft: Do we have a problem here?
Prentiss: The homeless guy who found Kelly's body, where is he?
Detective Croft: He was right here. He flagged down a patrol car and he brought them back here.
Morgan: You mind if I take a look?
Marvin: Do I have a choice?
Morgan takes a look and finds a message written in blood on the wall.
Morgan: Did you write that on the wall?
Marvin: Son of a bitch wrote on my walls!
Morgan: No, no, hey, hey! Don't touch that, please, sir. Sir, that is evidence that we need.
Prentiss: Come here.
Detective Croft: Please.
Morgan: "Robert hangs in the shadows, just as his life now hangs in the balance.
Garcia & Morgan: “But life without love is no life at all."
Garcia: We would be awesome together.
Morgan: Aren't we already?
Garcia: Like us, they are perfectly matched, but the are not found on any database.
Morgan: On what, then?
Garcia: On that piece of paper found shoved down Kelly's throat.
Morgan: The same words?
Garcia: Mm-hmm. Yeah. Derek, what is it? You're doing that silence. It means you're onto something.
Morgan: I'll call you back. Hotch was right. You have interviewed the unsub.
Detective Croft: How do you know that?
Morgan: Because the writing on the wall is the same as what was stuffed down Kelly's throat.
Prentiss: The homeless man who found Kelly's body wasn't homeless.
Detective Croft: Excuse me?
Morgan: He was wearing a disguise.
Walden’s House – Georgetown – Day
The elderly woman is wearing a nightgown.
May Walden: Read to me, Rhett. You know I love it when you read to me.
However, the unsub is busy applying lipstick on something on the plate.
Rhett: I'm tired. I'm so tired.
May Walden: Rhett, come upstairs and read to me. Scene 43. You know how I love the way you play it. Oh, I can't sleep when you don't read to me. Baby, I need you.
Rhett: Coming, mom. Just a minute. Just a minute, I'm nearly done.
May Walden: Get up here now! Rhett? Rhett…
He picks up the plate along with the script before heading upstairs.
Walden’s House – Georgetown – Day
The elderly woman, apparently the unsub's mother, is reading the newspaper.
May Walden: "Agents of the BAU investigate the Hill Ripper."
Rhett: Why are they saying these things?
May Walden: You're so much like your father was.
Rhett: Really? Tell me. Please.
May Walden: You're weak.
Rhett: What?
May Walden: You're weak just like he was.
Rhett: I did this. Not you! Not my father!
May Walden: A few bad words from the press and look at you. "Why are they saying all these things about me?" He was gutless and he was pathetic, but at least your father knew how to walk like a man!
Rhett: He gave you nothing. I've given you my life!
May Walden: And I am reminded of that every day.
Rhett: Oh, please! Don't say that!
May Walden: Do you have any idea what you have cost me? What I could have been?!
He shows her the latest kidnapped victim.
Penny: Ohh…
May Walden: She looks so much like me.
Rhett: But she's not you, mom. Look at her. Look at her, mom! Is that the work of a weak man? In a matter of hours, she'll be more famous than you ever were.
He shuts the door behind his mother.
Garcia’s Office – BAU – Quantico, Virginia – Day
Garcia: I can't match the words, sir, but if they're from a film, it's got to be the 1950s.
Hotch: Are you sure?
Garcia: Well, the picture that he sent of Kelly to the "Monitor," Kelly's makeup, ok, the foundation is like a pearl color and over it is this green powder. That powder gives it a whiter look. Her eyebrows are plucked, her cheeks are that flushed rose hue that is totally that era. But what really seals it is the dark eyeliner. She has bedroom eyes. That was Marilyn Monroe's trademark.
Hotch: Well, if Kelly's supposed to representMonroe, then the text we found may be from one ofMonroe's movies.
Garcia: Yeah, I know, it's not much, but…
Hotch: No, no, no, it helps the profile.
Garcia: Sir…
Hotch: Garcia, I'm sorry if I embarrassed you when I asked about your play. I certainly didn't mean to.
Garcia: Oh, oh, I know. I just, um, really, I gotta ask you that you don't share that with anyone, please.
Hotch: Of course.
Garcia: Oh, and one other thing. I was thinking, Kelly was missing for 3 days, and most stories… plays and films…
Hotch: I know, have a 3-act structure. Not unlike your play. You know, I saw the original production inNew York.
Garcia: Oh. Well, we sort of adapted it.
Hotch: Good.
Garcia: Thanks.
Hall – Police Department – Georgetown – Day
Hotch: Penny Hanley, 19. She lives inArlington, works in an art gallery. Yesterday she didn't make it to work or back home.
Detective Croft: She caught the Metro to Union Station. Her father dropped her off.
Morgan: Her purse was found a few blocks away on a side street. It's most likely where she was abducted.
Hotch: Kelly was taken for 3 days. If he's holding to pattern, Penny's already on day 2.
Rossi: Today theGeorgetown "Monitor" will receive a photo.
Prentiss: Whatever happens, we cannot allow another photograph like Kelly's to be published. We need to get ahead of the media. They've already named him "the Hill Ripper."
Detective Croft: I want undercover units to lock that building down. And if you see him, let him walk in. Do not apprehend him before.
Hotch: We're looking for a white male in his mid to late 40s, approximately6 feet tall, slim build.
Morgan: We think he's a local and a loner, and he's most likely unemployed.
Prentiss: He's moving his victims around the city unseen, so we know he has a vehicle. It's probably an older model, but well maintained.
Policeman: What does he think this is?
Reid: A page from what we believe is a script was found inserted in Kelly's throat. Somehow in the unsub's mind, Kelly seems to have failed expectations.
Rossi: Although there were no sexual interactions ante or post-mortem, the removal of the lips is in itself a sexual act.
Reid: A behavior which tells us we're dealing with a borderline personality.
Prentiss: Based on the obvious theatricality of the case, we think he worked in or around the arts.
Morgan: 3 days may represent a 3-act play, of which Kelly was the star.
Hotch: Kelly was killed 3 days after she was abducted. That means Penny may only have a day left.
Walden’s House – Georgetown – Day
The unsub finishes the latest victim's makeup.
Rhett: Look up. Oops. I missed one. Oh, yeah. Wowza.
He takes a photograph of her.
Rhett: You want to see?
Penny: I just want to go home.
Rhett: Trust me. I've had a lot of practice. You look great. What do you think? You like it?
He shows her the mirror with the first victim's pictures.
Rhett: She didn't have it. I thought she did, but she didn't. You have it in spades, my dear.
Penny: I don't want to be famous.
Rhett: We all want to be famous.
Train Station – Georgetown – Day
Reid: This building has 3 exits… north, south, and west. You're here to target a woman, but you don't want to attract attention.
Hotch: Well, standing in the middle gawking at passing women, would certainly attract attention. Like you're doing now.
Reid: What's that?
Prentiss: Just like that, I.Q. of 187 is slashed to 60.
Hotch: But sitting and reading the paper would give him an excuse to watch without being noticed.
Reid: Far enough away not to attract attention but close enough to make sure she's the right one. You know, she works 15 blocks east of here. Her father said she walked through this train station every day.
Prentiss walks past them.
Hotch: If he were sitting here, he's on camera.
Security Room – Building – Georgetown – Day
Hotch: How many cameras cover the area?
Security Guard: 3, but only 2 are operable… cameras 8 and 7.
Reid: Can you go back to yesterday around 4 p.m.?
Prentiss: Ok, camera 7. There she is.
Hotch: Can you bring up camera 8? Can you enlarge it and keep it rolling, please? See the girl walking in front of the man?
Prentiss: Well, he's seen Penny. Look.
Reid: Can you go back to the exact moment that he sat down? Freeze it right there. Ok, calculating the time code from the moment that he left the station, he sat there for over 3 hours.
Hotch: We profiled he has his own vehicle.
Prentiss: It was the only way he could abduct Penny off the street.
Hotch: 3 hours exceeds any parking meter. Get all this footage to Garcia.
Hall – Police Department – Georgetown – Day
Detective Croft: This is where her purse was found. This has to be where he grabbed her.
Rossi: High-risk but possible. Chloroform's old-school, but it's quick.
Morgan: They got the guy on tape stalking Penny.
Detective Croft: They have an I.D. on him?
Morgan: Not yet. Hotch seems to think that he may have some type of parking permit.
Rossi: This entire street is parking permit only.
Detective Croft: Well, maybe he has some kind of work permit.
Rossi: A guy like this can't hold down a job.
Morgan: A resident permit would give him all the time he needed.
Detective Croft: Permits go by zone.
Rossi: Then we need to shut this area down. This is where he lives.
Walden’s House – Georgetown – Day
Penny: Oh, God, oh, God, oh, God! Aah!
The unsub brings a pair of shoes for the latest victim to wear.
Rhett: I want to get this scene on its feet. To do that, you'll need these.
Penny: My toes are pushing at the end.
Rhett: I need some that will fit. I can do this barefoot. It'll be quieter. You don't want to wake your mother, do you? Good thinking. Some of the lines are missing.
Penny: We'll remember them, won't we?
Rhett: Every… Last… Word. Your lips are so beautiful.
Penny: What's the scene mean to you?
They recite their lines to each other.
Rhett: Love. Such extraordinary love. For a moment, I didn't think you'd come.
Penny: I had to.
Rhett: Tonight begins the rest of our lives. What is it?
Penny: I can't do this.
Rhett: Of course you can. I've got the tickets. The train is coming. We're going to make it.
Penny: I'm not so sure.
Rhett: What is it, my sweet? What's the matter? Everything's going to be all right.
Penny: What if what we had was all we were meant to be? My love, oh, my love, to the grave I will carry you in my heart.
The unsub thinks they are doing great until she bashes her head into his nose.
Rhett: Ohh!
Penny: Help me! Somebody help me, please! Help me! Somebody help me!
Rhett: You broke my nose! God!
Penny: Help me! Somebody help me! No! No… you sick son of a bitch! Aah!
He kisses her and she bites him.
Rhett: Uhh!
Penny: Aah! No!
He holds a chloroform-doused handkerchief to her face.
Rhett: You were right. Your toes were too long.
When she regains consciousness, she finds that the unsub had cut off her toes and the bloody shoes now fit.
Penny: Aah!
Hall – Police Department – Georgetown – Night
Morgan: We closed off this entire area. Cops are all over it.
Reid: They're going door to door where it's a 5-block-radius with over 2,000 homes.
Prentiss: Unless they get lucky, that could take days.
Rossi: Undercover units have staked out theGeorgetown "Monitor" building.
Hotch: Garcia, anything on the footage?
Garcia: Lab is analyzing it frame by frame, but it was pretty clear he doesn't know those cameras are on him.
Hotch: Permits?
Garcia: Cross-checking with the profile, we've got male, late 40s, truck, van, or SUV. That brings it down to 600 potentials.
Morgan: Garcia, what zone covers Rykers Alley... M street andCharlotte Street?
Garcia: Two zones.
Morgan: No, that doesn't help.
Garcia: Well, come on, I'm the high priestess of all things digital, but I'm not a God.
Prentiss: What permit covers all zones?
Garcia: Only one. Disabled.
Rossi: This guy isn't disabled.
Prentiss: Maybe he knows someone who is.
Detective Croft joins them.
Detective Croft: A kid on a BMX dropped this off at the "Monitor" a half hour ago. Said a bum gave him 20 bucks.
Rossi: Well, at least it didn't make the news.
Detective Croft: It buys us some time, right?
Reid: Until he finds another way to contact the media.
Hotch: We'll do it for him. Garcia, I need you here as soon as possible.
Garcia: Sure. What for?
Hotch: We need him to break cover, get out in the open. Call a press conference with every major media outlet present.
Garcia: Oh, I am not the one you want in front of that camera.
Hotch: Yes, you are. Detective, we need every available unit.
The team goes away. Morgan stays.
Morgan: Hey. You're gonna be fine.
Garcia: No, I will not be fine. I will suck. I will suck. And what happens then?
Morgan: Penelope. Penelope, stop it. We just gotta buy some time to get ahead of this guy.
Garcia: He'll be watching, you mean?
Morgan: I'm gonna be right by your side. Now get your butt over here.
Walden’s House – Georgetown – Night
The latest victim tries to escape, but she reaches a room that shocks her.
Penny: Oh, my God.
Rhett: Every great movie star has a walk. That's something you'll never have.
Building – Georgetown – Night
Garcia argues with Hotch over the phone while she is in a car.
Garcia: Sir, I've thought about this and I've decided it's a bad idea.
Hotch: All you have to do is stay calm. Don't let the room control you.
Garcia: How am I supposed to do that?
Hotch: Keep your answers short and to the point. Don't comment on the Kelly Landis case. Keep the focus on Penny.
Garcia: No, sir, I don't think you understand. I have a phobia about having a video camera even pointed at me. I get all nervous and I start to panic and I forget what I'm gonna say and my hands get all sweaty and then my hands start to shake. My hands are shaking right now. I cannot do things I am not good at, and I am not good at being in a room full of strange people. That's why I stay in a room 6 by9 feet. I feel safe there.
Garcia arrives.
Hotch: Garcia, what about the Tolgate Theater?
Prentiss: Tolgate Theater?
Rossi: What's that?
Reid: It's a small repertory theater inDean Street where they do a lot of…
Morgan: Reid, we know what it is.
Garcia: That is not the same thing. I…
Hotch: Garcia…
Garcia: I can't even look at you right now. I am mad. I asked you not to say anything.
Hotch: We need him to see a face and a look that he recognizes.
Garcia: Well, he likes blondes, and I'm red now.
Prentiss: We can change that.
Hotch: Toward the end, Morgan's gonna hand you a note. Take a moment, let the group settle… And when you have everyone's attention, read it out. You're gonna be fine.
Rossi: You'll be great, Red.
The team goes away. Morgan stays.
Morgan: Hey. This isn't about the unsub. It's about the girls. For him, it's all about making Penny famous.
Garcia: Then aren't we helping him realize his dream?
Morgan: Come on. We get this right, we end that dream. The press is calling him the Hill Ripper. They're gonna want to sensationalize this story even further. Now, they're gonna ask you how long he kept Kelly. They're gonna ask you how she died. Did he stab her? Did he torture her? Did he rape her? How many others has he killed? Garcia, you have to make it about Penny. You let whoever has her know that the entire world is watching, and then you make Penny the star. All we gotta do is get this guy to move. Hey. You can do this, baby girl. Give me your bag.
Garcia: Ok.
Building – Georgetown – Night
Wearing a blonde wig and 1950s make-up, Garcia speaks to the press.
Garcia: Penny Hanley went missing 2 days ago. We have received over 3,000 calls. Her family is obviously deeply worried and is looking forward to her prompt and safe return.
Reporter: Isn't Penny Hanley yet another victim of the Hill Ripper?
Garcia: Right now, all we know is that Penny is missing.
Reporter: Who sent that photo in just like the Kelly Landis case?
Garcia: We'd like to take this opportunity to reach out to the public. Penny was last seen here, leaving Union Station.
Reporter: You mean she was taken by the Hill Ripper.
Reporter: Rumors are that Kelly Landis was found with her lips cut off.
Garcia: We are not prepared to discuss the details of Kelly's case.
Reporter: Isn't the mutilation, if fact, what you call a signature?
Garcia: Penny Hanley's name has captured the attention of not only the nation, but also the entire world. This photo is the most recent image…
Morgan shows the press a photo of Penny. At home, Rhett is watching the TV with Penny.
Rhett: You hear that? The whole world knows who you are.
Garcia: We believe it was taken and sent by the person…
Penny: I'm so thirsty. I need water.
Rhett: She never got that kind of attention. They love you. Penny Hanley. The whole world knows your name.
The victim's father interrupts.
Peter Hanley: I want to say something. I want to say something to the sick son of a bitch that has my daughter.
Detective Croft: Mr. Hanley, we all want to find your daughter, but you really need to calm down.
Penny: Daddy.
Rhett: Let Daddy talk. Come on, Daddy, I want to hear what you have to say about this little girl. Ok. Why don't you speak?
Morgan: Mr. Hanley, don't do this.
Peter Hanley: You know, I say something, she dies, I plead for her life, she dies. I don't have any money, my wife passed away 2 years ago. She is all I have, and if this sick bastard gets away with this… just let me say something.
In The Car – Georgetown – Night
Hotch and Rossi are patrolling.
Taylor Conwright: Taylor Conwright, WVDC News.
Rossi: Prentiss and Reid are moving north down M street.
Taylor Conwright: What would you like to say to the man who has your daughter?
Hotch: She's losing the room. Morgan's gotta do this now. If the Hill Ripper is watching, what would you tell him?
Rossi: I hope this works.
Hotch: The M.E. said Kelly was killed only a half an hour before she was dumped. That means he must have killed her in his car.
Hotch calls Morgan.
Building – Georgetown – Night
Peter Hanley: My little girl right now is in your hands.
Rhett: That's right. That's right. She is in my hands. And what did you do? Nothing.
Peter Hanley: Maybe she's already with God. Either way, your life will be in my hands.
Garcia: Ladies and gentlemen, I have just received this…
Penny: He's going to find you.
Rhett: Shh! Shh!
Garcia: …That the general public reduces their movements around M street,Georgetown, for the next few hours.
Taylor Conwright: Do you have a lead in the Hill Ripper case? Agent Garcia, do you have a lead in the ripper case?
Garcia: No, we don't. We have an address.
Walden’s House – Georgetown – Night
Rhett carries the victim on his shoulders.
May Walden: Rhett, what have you done to us now? Why can't you get anything right?
Rhett: I got this, mom. I got this. Just don't answer the door, ok?
May Walden: Rhett, please don't leave me. I can't be in this house alone. I hate the dark. You know I hate the dark.
Rhett: I love you, mom. Just go upstairs and turn out the lights and do not answer the door.
In The Car – Georgetown – Night
Rossi: If he's moving, he's moving now.
Hotch sees a car, but it’s not the good one. He calls Reid.
Hotch: Slow down. There, down the alley. Reid, where are you?
Reid: We're headed south downJackson street. There's hardly anything moving.
Prentiss: Except cop cars. We've seen5 in the last 10 minutes. Hotch, if he's out here, he's got nowhere to go.
In The Car – Georgetown – Night
Rhett: Life without love… Is no life at all.
Rhett sees Hotch’s car.
Hotch: Back up.
Rhett starts suffocating Penny.
Penny: Aah! No! Ohh! Ohh!
Hotch: There's somebody in there.
Penny: No!
Hotch stops the car and gets out of it.
Hotch: FBI!
Rhett stops suffocating the victim and runs away. Hotch shoots him.
Hotch: Call an ambulance. Penny. Penny, it's ok. You're gonna be all right.
Rossi: Prentiss, Reid, unsub is headed south. He just passed you.
Hotch: There's an ambulance on its way.
In The Ambulance – Georgetown – Night
Hotch: Penny, your dad's going to meet us at the hospital.
Prentiss: He got away, but you hit him.
Reid: We found traces of blood down the alley.
Detective Croft: K-9 units are on the way.
Hotch: We'll get him, though. I promise.
Penny: Agent Hotchner.
Hotch: Yes?
Penny: Please don't leave me.
Rossi: Go ahead. We've got this.
Hotch: Thank you.
Rossi closes ambulance’s doors.
In The Street – Georgetown – Night
They recover the car and the unsub's disabled permit.
Rossi: This car has a disabled permit.
Detective Croft: Registered to who?
Room – Police Department – Georgetown – Night
Morgan: May Walden. The unsub is Rhett Walden, her son.
Garcia: Yeah, guys, we have an address.1503 Hope Street. Oh, my gosh.
Morgan: What?
Garcia: The photo… It's exactly the same as Kelly and Penny.
Morgan: When was it taken?
Garcia: 1956. It's a set photo from a movie called "Reflection of Desire." May was 19 when this was taken.
Morgan: She's got to be over 70 by now.
Garcia: Yeah. M street, Rykers Alley, they were all locations on this film. It was the only movie she ever made, and… she was 4 months pregnant when this picture was taken.
Morgan: Which ended her career. And the father?
Garcia: Co-star. Derek, do you think she made her son do all of this?
Morgan: Penelope, I think she made her son do a lot more than this.
Walden’s House – Georgetown – Night
Detective Croft: Rhett Walden, this is the police! We know you're in there. Come out with your hands up.
Rhett: You hear that, mommy? They're calling for us. I told you this day would come. You didn't believe it, but here it is. Are you ready?
May Walden: I'm ready, my sweet love.
Detective Croft: This is the police. We know you're in there. Come out with your hands up.
Rossi: He's coming out.
Rhett faces the police and FBI with his mother. In his mind, they are walking down the red carpet.
May Walden: What if all we have is all we were meant to be? My love, oh, my love… To my grave I will carry you in my heart.
However, in reality, he is carrying his mother’s corpse wearing the lips of the first victim.
Detective Croft: Get down on the ground! Need a medic!
Prentiss: Rossi. Her lips.
Reid: They're Kelly's.
Room – Police Department – Georgetown – Night
Morgan: Here.
Garcia: Oh, what a gentleman.
Morgan: Excuse me, missy, but when did you plan on telling me?
Garcia: Oh, I wasn't gonna tell you. We all have things for ourselves. You know, you have property, I have the theater.
Morgan: Can you at least tell me what it's about?
Garcia: Mm-hmm. It's about a woman who's attacked by a serial killer. But she catches him and she knocks him out, and she keeps him for days.
Morgan: Garcia, of all the plays in the world, you choose something like that?
Garcia: I get to vent.
Morgan: Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. How does it end?
Garcia: If I told you that, it wouldn't be a surprise, would it?
On Stage – Night
Garcia is again onstage for the play.
Garcia: I believe humanity was born from conflict. Maybe that's why in all of us lives a dark side. Some of us embrace it. Some have no choice. The rest of us fight it. In the end, it's as natural as the air we breathe. At some point, we're forced to face the truth. Ourselves.
This time, the camera pans out to show Hotch, Morgan, Reid, Prentiss and Rossi beaming in the audience.
