Criminal Minds (TV Series)

Lucky Strikes (2017)

Paget Brewster: Emily Prentiss

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• Dr. Tara Lewis : [Garcia leaves a briefing]  Was it something I said?

  Emily Prentiss : No. That's not you. Um... we were working Ferell's case when she was shot.

  Luke Alvez : Garcia was shot?

  Jennifer Jareau : Ten years ago. Happened right in front of her apartment building.

  Matt Simmons : Was it a random act of violence?

  Jennifer Jareau : No. He lured her into dating him before she IDed him. Turns out he was a dirty cop named Colby Baylor and she was getting close to exposing him.

  Luke Alvez : So he shot her. Where is he now?

  Jennifer Jareau : He's dead.

  Luke Alvez : Good.

  Emily Prentiss : Let's just give her a few minutes.

• Penelope Garcia : We got a call from Bridgewater, Florida PD. The body of Rebecca Strong was found last night in a rest stop women's room with and without things.

  Luke Alvez : Whoa.

  Penelope Garcia : Yeah. And then it gets worse.

  Jennifer Jareau : All the tell-tale signs are here.

  David Rossi : Pentagram, legs and fingers gone.

  Emily Prentiss : There's even one neat aspect. Her earrings and jewelry are laid out equidistant on the floor.

  David Rossi : Sure as hell looks like him.

  Matt Simmons : Looks like who?

  Jennifer Jareau : Floyd Feylinn Ferell.

  Dr. Spencer Reid : A psychotic cannibal who'd been killing under the radar for years.

  Emily Prentiss : He killed ten prostitutes, then moved up to low-risk victims.

  Jennifer Jareau : He kept slipping through the cracks and avoiding justice, so people referred to him as "Lucky".

  David Rossi : The worst of it was he owned a barbecue joint. And he fed one of the victims to the search party.

• Dr. Tara Lewis : Projected cannibalism. The act of inducing others to consume human flesh unknowingly. You do not see that very often.

  Emily Prentiss : Well, projection seems to be a thing for Ferell. He fed the fingers of ten previous victims to a later one.

  David Rossi : His way of telling us he was ten victims deep before we even knew he existed.

  Luke Alvez : You think he's back?

  Emily Prentiss : Not unless he really lives up to his nickname. He's been locked up in the Hazelwood Psychiatric Hospital for the past ten years.

  Matt Simmons : Well, then it's a copycat wanting to ride the wave of horror left in Ferell's wake.

  Dr. Spencer Reid : Statistically, copycat killers tend to be vulnerable narcissists. Though overtly boastful, they harbor deep-seated feelings of inadequacy. Emulating notorious crimes makes them feel powerful.

  David Rossi : Ferell was found to be mentally incapable of assisting in his own defense, so he skated without a trial.

  Emily Prentiss : If this unsub is anything like Ferell, he's got a taste for it. And copycats typically don't stop after one victim. Wheels up in twenty.

• Penelope Garcia : The rest stop victim, Rebecca Strong, was a sex trade worker.

  Emily Prentiss : High-risk, like the early victims Ferell preyed on back in 2007.

  Penelope Garcia : After that, he graduated to low-risk victims like Sheryl Timmons, who's also the only known survivor.

  Emily Prentiss : Garcia, track down Sheryl.

  Penelope Garcia : On it.

• Luke Alvez : What was Rebecca like as a person?

  Dr. Tara Lewis : She's described as strong-willed, determined. Working to support her two kids.

  Matt Simmons : When was Rebecca last seen?

  Penelope Garcia : Uh... well, her boyfriend, and by "boyfriend" I mean "pimp", Jason Carlsbad, reported her missing when she didn't show up and donate to his college fund. I'm sending you deets right now.

  David Rossi : Normally, I would want to look at him. Pimps hurt women they exploit to gain control, but an M.O. this complex doesn't add up.

  Luke Alvez : Yeah, the cannibalism angle wouldn't make sense, either.

  Dr. Spencer Reid : Eroticizing the consumption of human flesh is a pretty specific fetish. Are we sure that he's copying that from Ferell?

  Emily Prentiss : We need to nail that down. Dave, Tara, go to the M.E.'s office. Matt and Spencer, head to Hazelwood State. Notorious criminals have fans who might want to copy their work. Luke, you and I will head to the PD and set up a base of operations with Detective Russ.

• Detective Alex Russ : Thanks for coming, Emily.

  Emily Prentiss : Alex, this is Agent Luke Alvez.

  Luke Alvez : [shaking hands]  Hi. You two guys, you know each other.

  Emily Prentiss : Uh, Alex left the Bureau a few years ago to take this job.

  Detective Alex Russ : Tough call, though. When my dad passed, I wanted the kids to spend some meaningful time with their grandma down here.

  Emily Prentiss : I heard Detective Jordan retired early and you replaced him.

  Detective Alex Russ : Yeah. He couldn't shake the stink of this case. It's taken the community a decade to recover from Ferell. Now we have a damn copycat.

  Luke Alvez : Well, they thrive on media attention. That wouldn't be good for anybody.

  Emily Prentiss : Agreed. We rob him of his fifteen minutes and work under the radar.

  Detective Alex Russ : I'd like to shut him down quietly. Before the town loses all hope.

• Dr. Spencer Reid : Ferell's been out on weekend home visits, so it is possible he's killing again.

  Emily Prentiss : I can't believe they'd be that reckless. How did this happen?

  David Rossi : Well, it happened with Hinkley and Vince Li, the cannibal who killed and beheaded a guy on a bus.

  Matt Simmons : And what's worse, 'cause this is a mental health issue, not a criminal case, they had no duty to tell us or the public.

  Detective Alex Russ : [entering]  Sorry to interrupt, but Ferell's lawyer, Billie Williams, is here. You're gonna want to hear what she has to say.

• Billie Williams : It's fortunate that you're here, Agents. I was just telling Detective Russ about our lawsuit against the FBI.

  Emily Prentiss : Don't waste our time with threats. We have work to do.

  Billie Williams : As a courtesy, I wanted to let you know that I just filed a motion to drop all charges against my client. I'm petitioning for his unconditional release.

  David Rossi : On what grounds?

  Billie Williams : It's clear from the current murder that Ferell is actually innocent. He was set up by the real killer ten years ago, and that guy's killing again.

  Emily Prentiss : The murders stopped as soon as Ferell was locked up, and they've started again now that he's on home release.

  Billie Williams : Supervised home release. And it's further proof that the killer is setting my client up. He only kills when he can blame it on Ferell.

  Detective Alex Russ : They caught him red-handed with one of the victims.

  Billie Williams : All that proves is that my client was under the influence of the real killer. He was clearly suffering from mental illness at the time.

  David Rossi : I'll say. He had human recipies, said he ate the victims, and had a satanic shrine.

  Billie Williams : He was manipulated by the real killer to say those things. There was never any actual evidence tying him to these murders.

  Emily Prentiss : Okay, well, we're confident that the facts speak for themselves. Now, if you'll excuse us.

• Emily Prentiss : Well, we've got our work cut out for us now. We need to attack this on two fronts. One, find out if Ferell is killing; two, look into his lawyer's "he was set up" theory.

  Matt Simmons : Are we really buying that Ferell had an accomplice and the team missed it before?

  David Rossi : No matter how confident we are in our past work, we need to look at all possibilities. Let the profile decide.

  Emily Prentiss : And let's find out if some phantom manipulative killer exists.

• Penelope Garcia : Okay, I found an isolated warehouse on Shelby Lane midway between the search site where Sheryl was taken and Ferell's house.

  Matt Simmons : Any freight lines nearby?

  Jennifer Jareau : One runs right alongside it.

  Luke Alvez : Sheryl confirmed Ferell's story.

  Emily Prentiss : Is it possible we were actually wrong about him from the start?

• Detective Alex Russ : We identified the body from the warehouse. Yvonne Westfield. She went missing six weeks ago on a weekday when Ferell was still locked up.

  Emily Prentiss : So there's deinitely another killer out there.

  Luke Alvez : I find it hard to believe that there's a master manipulator killer pulling Ferell's strings.

  Matt Simmons : But everything seems to be pointing that way.

  Emily Prentiss : Okay, let's get Yvonne's next of kin in here, find out everything we can about her.

• Emily Prentiss : Go ahead, Dave.

  David Rossi : Well, it looks like Yvonne Westfield is this unsub's first kill. He's new at it, experimenting with the taste of human flesh. And behaviorally, we know that it's not Ferell.

  Emily Prentiss : Okay, let's play this out. If this killer's responsible for all the kills attributed to Ferell, he'd be experienced. He wouldn't be starting from scratch.

  Dr. Tara Lewis : Yeah, and there'd be no reason for tentative bite or hestiation marks.

  Emily Prentiss : He also wouldn't have done such a poor job hiding Yvonne's body. I mean, that feels like a newbie mistake.

  David Rossi : You know, I agree. All of that rules out the theory that the current unsub was operating ten years ago.

  Emily Prentiss : Let's look at this from the other way around. What if Ferell isn't the patsy? What if Ferell has a patsy? Meaning he's had a plan all along to get out of Hazelwood State.

  David Rossi : So he trains a new unsub to kill using his exact same signature so we think that this new guy was killing ten years ago.

  Dr. Tara Lewis : Then it stands to reason this new unsub is gonna make more boneheaded mistakes.

  Emily Prentiss : First-timers hunt where they live, work, and play. He probably knew the first victim. I'll have Detective Russ bring in her family.

• Dr. Tara Lewis : We know, behaviorally, that Marcus was lying.

  David Rossi : Regardless, we have to turn over his dying declaration to Ferell's defense counsel.

  Luke Alvez : She'll use it to get him out.

  Matt Simmons : That's what Ferell wanted all along.

  Dr. Spencer Reid : He manipulated the mental health system to get out again by coercing Marcus into taking credit for his crimes.

  Detective Alex Russ : And I'm left with a cannibal about to be released back into my community. How do I protect them?

  Emily Prentiss : None of us wants to risk waiting for Ferell to kill again, and we all know believe he will, but there's simply nothing we can do legally at this time.

  David Rossi : Well, I can't leave here doing nothing. I'll try to get the hospital board to understand Ferell's hand in all this.

  Detective Alex Russ : I appreciate that, and everything you've done for us. Thank you.