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[rattling] 3 women murdered inside a gated community in southeastern new mexico in the last 2 months. all 3 inside.

marjorie west was strangled in her home in the middle of the night while her family was out of town. they found her the next morning. jill long was strangled in the laundry room while her husband and sons were camping in the backyard. and last night, aubrey jacobs was killed in her home office while her daughter and husband were asleep in the house. occupied dwellings is as high-risk as it gets. and he's fearless. proximity, the chance he might get caught-- that could be part of it for him. you said gated community. i'm assuming that means security? a small security staff and perimeter cameras. everything's recorded 24-7, and no one has entered or left the compound since last night except residents. it looks like the unsub is part of the community. the local detective says that demographics, general makeup, and socioeconomic status of the residents is essentially the same. that's going to make a profile difficult. unless we examine a different set of parameters. different parameters? rossi's working on that right now. what took you so long, cadet? what took you so long? here you go. the mannequin is your wounded partner. you and your wounded partner must make it over that wall.

where's your head at, cadet? what you thinking? let's move! let's move! use the rope to get your partner over the wall. let's move! use the rope to get your partner over the wall, cadet. are you paying attention? are you thinking with your head? get your partner over the wall. here we go. move, cadet! move, cadet! there you go! there you go! watch her. that's how you do it! that's how you do it, cadet! there you go! yes! yes! that's about the fastest i've ever seen anyone figure that out. is this the first time she's ever done that? change the task every day. agent seaver. sir. you remember ssa rossi from the behavioral analysis unit? of course. it's been quite a long time. yes, sir. you weren't easy to find. you're supposed to be working the reception desk at the washington field office. i'm on my break.

i was told that i could run the course in my free time if i wanted to. at ease. my concussion-- if this is how you want to spend your free time, you have at it. i'm gonna let the two of you talk. dave. yeah. thanks, bill. i know you're too busy to just visit. i want to show you something. because of my impressive academy scores or my childhood? let's take a ride. you remember agent hotchner? yes, of course. hi. good to see you. thank you. glad to see you're doing so well. yes, sir. have a seat. i told ashley she may be able to help us with this case. we have an unsub who manages to live in close proximity to his victims without raising an alarm. that we've seen before. what's new here is what the local police are telling us

about the community itself. demographically, everyone's basically the same. most of the parameters we would look for to build a profile seem to exist in most of the men. but we thought if the unsub has children, and the statistics tell us that he probably does, would the children exhibit certain specific behavior? so this isn't about my academic scores. no. great. give me 15 minutes. i have a change of clothes in the car. agent, we're not detailing you to the unit. we want to ask you some questions. right. i see. do you have some concerns? i want to help, and i know that i can. but i don't think i can tell you what to look for without seeing the families myself. you understand you go only as a consultant on this one case? and you're to do nothing i understand. without another member of the team present.

yes, sir. this won't be easy, ashley. it may trigger some extremely painful memories. i appreciate the concern. but when your father kills 25 women before you're a teenager, painful memories don't need a trigger. they just are. captioning made possible by abc studios, llc and cbs, inc.

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hotch: "when we were children, "we used to think that when we grew up "we would no longer be vulnerable. "but to grow up is to accept vulnerability. to be alive is to be vulnerable." writer madeleine l'engle. i've notified the primary detective and the oak tree hills security office of your requirements. you should know that that security office is particularly efficient. except someone's killing people right under their noses. call me old-fashioned, but that doesn't seem like efficient security. yeah. i'm running background checks on all the male residents, too. good. and check wider in new mexico for similar crimes, stranglings in occupied dwellings. wish you, command me. i shall call you the moment i have anything to contribute or an overwhelming desire to speak to my beautiful derek morgan, whichever comes first. let me guess who'll win. mm-hmm. and you'd be right. i bid you adieu and safe travels, mon amis. they called from downstairs. ashley's on her way up. have you decided what to tell the team

about who she is? they're going to need to know. but as far as how she wants to tell them, i thought we might play that by ear. i assume since she goes by seaver that she doesn't want people knowing who she is. there she is. kind of makes you feel old, doesn't it? no. me neither. ashley. agent trainee seaver, supervisory special agents prentiss and morgan. i've heard a lot about both of you. well, i hope it was all good. very, sir. anything specific? i mean about me in particular. oh, please, don't encourage him. agent seaver is on loan to us from the academy while she's in remedial training with an injury. concussion. hand-to-hand got a little out of control. don't ask. how's the other guy? i was remediated in the academy also. agent seaver, dr. reid. um, what was your issue? what was my issue? marksmanship, physical training, obstacle course, hogan's alley,

you know, pretty much everything that wasn't technically book related. they ultimately had to make exceptions to allow me into the field. agent seaver's going to accompany us to new mexico. as a consultant. she is? on? she has a unique perspective. they don't know? well, we weren't sure how you wanted to, uh... seaver's not my original last name. it's my mother's maiden name. mine used to be beauchamp. my father is charles beauchamp. as in the redmond ripper charles beauchamp? that's him. he killed 25 women over 10 years in rural north dakota. i think that you caught him, right, rossi? hotch was on that team, too. based on her life experience, we were hoping that agent seaver might recognize something in the family dynamics inside the community that could be helpful. we have a plane waiting. her father was a serial killer? that's definitely a different set of parameters.

i don't want her presence to get us sidetracked. it's a long shot that she's gonna see anything helpful. we work it like any other case. you got it. [mouthing silently] i.d., please. agent hotchner, fbi. harvey brinkman, chief of security for the development. nice to meet you. detective ruiz is in the model home. park on the right. thanks very much. reid: well, the fact of the matter is, "beam me, up, scotty" was never actually said. the closest they ever got was, "scotty, beam us up" in "the gamesters of triskelion" and "the savage curtain" episode, but interestingly enough-- reid, reid, come on. give it a rest. detective ruiz? that's right. call me felix. i'm agent hotchner. these are agents morgan and prentiss. dr. reid, agent rossi, and agent seaver. thanks for coming. as your tech requested, we moved everything from the station right here into the model home. thank you. agent prentiss and i would love to take a look around, get a feel for the area. we'd like to see the latest crime scene, too, if that's possible. of course. let me just get everybody situated

and i'll walk you over there. oh, we can find it. you sure? yeah. it's no problem. they sure aren't the "mind your own business" types, are they? so how come none of them have seen our unsub? these are the evidence boards. as you can see, we're still in the process of moving in. i didn't think the whole neighborhood needed to see the photos. you're right. it's a lot of work, detective. thank you. color-coded and annotated. yeah, well, i'm not just the primary detective. i also live in the community. really? 3 blocks right up on the left. my wife thought it would be an excellent place to raise the kids. she's chanced her opinion in the last couple months. rossi: yeah, i guess so. you ok? yeah. let's get to work. i hope you don't mind, but i also worked up a cursory profile. you did? yeah. i took an fbi seminar on serial crime in albuquerque. twice.

let's see what you've got so far. all right. he's organized. he took everything to the scene, he left nothing behind. which means he lives with a spouse or some kind of long-term partner. has a steady, skilled job. physically, he presents himself as non-threatening, but he craves power and control, so he may have a job or an activity that gives him that. not bad. [sighs] unfortunately, i just described 64 of the 71 men who live in the subdivision.

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what is that in your voice? what's what in my voice? oh, my god, you think she's pretty. what? i never said that. ho ho, you totally do. ha ha! p.g. out, lover boy. what's all that? our technical analyst ran background checks on the suspects. oh, i could have given you that. we typically gather our own intelligence. out federal databases tend to have more detailed information. well, how do you know they're more detailed if you haven't seen ours? it's nothing personal, chief. it's just, you could have asked. next time i will. has anyone vetted them? garcia's doing a separate check on police and security staff. why? law enforcement and security are the kind of jobs that would attract this unsub. dennis rader, btk, was a compliance officer in park city, kansas. kenneth bianchi, one of the hillside stranglers, worked as a security guard in california and washington.

psychopaths love official jobs and uniforms. where were you the night of the 12th? are you saying you think this was me? answer the question! are you kidding me? you interviewed every adult male in the community? more than once. they're all digitized. were all the interviews confrontational like this? is that wrong? you didn't get much out of them, did you? no. that's when i started thinking maybe i needed some help. they don't have anything? after the second woman was killed, detective ruiz said they had evidence. the police are doing everything they can. and now you're telling me you have nothing? you have no idea who did this? i don't understand how something like this could happen and no one heard or saw anything. it's because the kind of person who does this spends their life practicing.

and what they're good at is getting away with it. yeah, well, aubrey never hurt anybody in her whole life. i wish i had answers for you. it's my--my daughter. i gotta get her out of here. everywhere she looks... where is she now? she's in her room. do you need to talk to her? no. that's all right. sir, the unsub came through the garage? yeah. detective ruiz said the remote openers in this compound only have 5 unique codes. well, you'd think they would tell you that when you moved in, right? anyone could just drive around and open up a fifth of the garage doors. i usually make sure all the inside doors are locked up, but aubrey stayed up late and... we're very sorry for your loss. daddy?

um, it's, uh, it's my daughter. can i... yes, of course. thanks. all that stuff you said about btk and the hillside strangler, it's all in your head? i have an eidetic memory. so you know everything my dad did, then. i only know what i was told and what was in the papers. i don't have a lot of details. uh, what sort of details-- agent seaver. there's going to be a community meeting tonight. we're going to all look for visual cues, but i want you specifically to concentrate on family interactions. yes, sir. chief. we need to have a place to hold a town meeting. well, there's a church on the east side of the development. will you have your men notify residents that there'll be a meeting there tonight? stress that it's important but not compulsory. yeah. thank you. 6 p.m. sir. agent hotchner. you should see this. this guy's frank morris.

i do? how do i know that? i run the damn neighborhood watch. that means you're walking around at night. now, the profile could include somebody in the neighborhood watch, right? it could. we'd have to know more about his activities. exactly. i'll have him brought in. we're going to try something else. can you make some officers available to run a sign-in table at a community meeting tonight? one of the things we're going to be examining is body language in a group environment. body language. it's something that the unsub won't be able to control even if he were to try to. right. right. i'll have some uniforms detailed to the meeting. will you also tell brinkman that the unsub will display something that he can't control. ok. you think they'll be able to keep that to themselves? let's hope not. looks like she was writing a story or something. yeah, her husband said she was taking classes. she wanted to be a novelist. i want to get this over to garcia so she can do her thing. man, this job. what we see, all these lives cut short.

i know, prentiss. i was just thinking about you. baby girl, listen. we got a laptop here that was owned by the last victim. i'm gonna hook it up for you over at the model home so you can work your magic, all right? what kind of magic? well, she was a writer, so maybe she kept a journal? maybe she noticed somebody following her or just felt something weird, i don't know. so we're fishing. yep. fish away. ok. i just so happen to have a pair of chartreuse waders i never get to wear. oh, and, garcia, the suspects who are left, see if any of them have a tech background, enough that they would know how to modify a remote garage door opener. done, love you, ciao. modify a remote? marjorie west's family was out of town. jill long was strangled in her laundry room while her family was camping outside. and right here the unsub's able to get through the entire house only to find a room where somebody was awake? does that sound like somebody just randomly checking garage doors [cell phone rings] to see if the fifth one will open? no. that sounds like someone who can open the garage he specifically needs opened. prentiss. we'll be right there. rossi wants us at the church.

they're setting up a community meeting. let's go. we just came from the last victim's house. the unsub used the garage as access. maybe a remote door opener made to be universal. the police are saying it's random, but how could you randomly find a woman so vulnerable? garcia's going over backgrounds again, trying to highlight anyone with tech experience. she's also doing a full workup on brinkman and ruiz. they had that kind of access. has anyone seen ruiz? i saw him a while ago. he set up everyone filling out forms, but i haven't seen him since. we need to ask for help in a different way. tell people that we're looking for someone who might have seen something rather than someone who did something. no one thinks that their friends or neighbors are capable of this. we should get started. [heavy breathing]

[heavy breathing] we're hoping that someone may have seen something and not even realized it. maybe you have a neighbor who takes his trash out late, works on his car in his garage, anything that might put someone outside at an odd hour and giving them the opportunity to see something. is there anything we can help you look for? it won't be overt. the kids probably won't be afraid of dad. they won't? these guys have explosive tempers, don't they? definitely. anger wasn't normal at my house. usually when it happened, when it exploded, it was an anomaly. a surprise. if anything, my father was overly solicitous. too nice.

and if i wanted anything... bicycles, toys, dolls... all i had to do was ask. in groups, he always held my hand. always. sometimes so tight, it almost cut off the circulation. but i can never remember him putting me on his lap, holding me in any way. ashley. and... he'd always have these talks with me.

he was terrified someone would take me. because he knew what was out there. yeah, men like him. you know, maybe this man recently bought gifts for his kids. my dad used to buy me things all the time. what kinds of gifts? anything. everything. i told you, there was nothing... my whole life, there's only one thing i wanted that i couldn't have. which was? a pet. [teakettle whistling] aah!

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