Criminal Minds (TV Series)

The Tall Man (2018)

Aisha Tyler: Dr. Tara Lewis

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• Penelope Garcia : I'd like to direct your attention to two oddities. Oddity number one is Ally Macready's medical exam.

  Emily Prentiss : Give us the headline.

  Penelope Garcia : Despite outward appearances, Ally had a sum total of zero wounds on her. So whose blood is on her clothes, you ask? DNA report is not back yet, but typing and matching points to the other girls.

  Dr. Tara Lewis : She could have escaped before the unsub got to her. Holding three girls takes a lot of control.

  Emily Prentiss : What's oddity number two?

  Penelope Garcia : That would be a text exchange between Bethany and Chelsea. Bethany says to Chelsea "What if we do it in the woods tonight?", to which Chelsea responds "We'd have to do it fast. Ally can't see us coming."

  Dr. Spencer Reid : Vaguely threatening. Although Ally didn't say anything like that in her interview.

  David Rossi : Two of the girls had some agenda besides the Tall Man. We need to see if it played a part in their disappearance.

  Jennifer Jareau : Chelsea's dad, Tom, he dated my sister in high school, so I can talk to him.

  Emily Prentiss : Good. Do that. We will divide and conquer when we land. We will investigate this as if Bethany and Chelsea are still alive, and we will not sleep until we find them.

• Matt Simmons : Ally has schizophrenia?

  Dr. Tara Lewis : Early onset. And we confirmed it with her parents. It's rare in teens, but it can happen. The telltale symptom was her face blindness. Schizophrenics have extreme visual processing problems, most obviously in meeting new people or experience new environments.

  Luke Alvez : Her parents were trying to keep her off medication. That's why the cops and Garcia didn't flag it.

  Emily Prentiss : Besides the parents, who else knew?

  Dr. Tara Lewis : Just Bethany and Chelsea. Why?

  Emily Prentiss : Lot of holes in her story.

  Luke Alvez : Well, we noticed that, too. I mean, she wasn't bound, but the other two were. She could have escaped, instead she magically woke up in the forest.

  Matt Simmons : Covered in her friends' blood. And most schizophrenics are not violent, but they can be pushed to violence if they're threatened. Maybe she did this, but in her mind, it was the Tall Man.

  Emily Prentiss : And that brings us back to Bethany and Chelsea's texts about Ally, and if their agenda was upsetting enough to induce a break. JJ's with Chelsea's dad now. Maybe she can find out what they needed to talk about.

• Dr. Tara Lewis : This process is called Eye Movement Desensitization and Reconditioning. And all you have to do is focus on the movement of the metronome and the sound of our voices.

  Luke Alvez : [Tara sets the metronome in motion]  Okay, let's go back to the last thing you remember in his lair.

  Ally Macready : I don't want to.

  Luke Alvez : Nothing bad is gonna happen to you, Ally. You're safe, okay?

• Penelope Garcia : The police recovered all three girls' phones in the woods. And you know how teens and myself spend way too much time on our screens? Well, the breakdown on the lab report from the girls' cell phones suggests a surefire way to get us all to stop. Please look at that report on your tablets.

  Dr. Spencer Reid : Fentanyl, as in the opioid derivative?

  Penelope Garcia : Yeah, trace elements were found on all three screens. Now, the medical patch it comes in knocks you out instantaneously.

  Emily Prentiss : Wait, hold up. Full stop. Let's retrace the girls' timeline. They went to a party, then somehow the unsub manages to get his hands on all three of the girls' phones to lace them?

  Matt Simmons : He could have been at the party.

  Emily Prentiss : But then he'd have to time that out with when they went into the woods. No one's that good. Factor this in now: you're a teenage girl. You keep your cell phone on you at all times. Who would you maybe hand it over to?

  Dr. Tara Lewis : Your best friend.

• Dr. Tara Lewis : Ally, open your eyes and focus on the metronome. Now help us find your friends. Describe the room.

  Ally Macready : There's the door that he came through. It's like I'm in a tunnel or something. There's windows along the walls, but they're covered in this weird cloth.

  Jennifer Jareau : Ally, what's on the ceiling?

  Ally Macready : Stars. But they're pink.

  Jennifer Jareau : I know where they are.

  [cut to the precinct] 

  Jennifer Jareau : [taking a map off the murder board]  It's a train car. It's abandoned. We used to have parties there back when I was in high school. Somebody put pink stars up on the ceiling. Okay, so it's-it's right here if it hasn't moved.

  Emily Prentiss : Okay, you'll lead SWAT. Tell them to watch their front sight. There are teenagers in there.

• Matt Simmons : This is mislabeled. Unsub's older, predatory.

  Emily Prentiss : Yeah. Let's add it all up. The unsub gives the girls he grooms a necklace. But Chelsea stole Bethany's to figure out who he is.

  Dr. Tara Lewis : And it's the smoking gun of their affair, dangerous enough to ruin his life if discovered. So he and Bethany come up with a plan to get it back.

  David Rossi : This guy's been at it for a while. So who's in Bethany's life who also overlaps with JJ's sister?

  Matt Simmons : Well, there's one obvious suspect. It's Tom Davis. He's Chelsea's dad, and he was Roslyn's old boyfriend.

  Emily Prentiss : Matt, Luke, bring him in. He has an alibi, and I wanna stress test it.