Criminal Minds

Wai-Wai-Wai-Wait!

Just--Just look at me! Please!

Is this-- Is this the hospital?

D-Did i make it out?

I made it!

This isn't the hospital.

Ohh...

Oh, god. Ohh...

No, no, no. No.

No, please. My god.

Oh, please, please...

Mister...

Please.

You're not teaching today?

This afternoon.

What's this?

It's genius.

You have chaplin on film?

My great-Granddad was an accountant

At one of the first movie studios.

He lived in California?

No, no, no. Chicago.

Essanay studios. Closed 1920.

Back then, 4 of 5 movies were made in the u.S. Chicago.

They closed down and let my grandpa take a...

Eh, a couple of extra prints home.

They let him?

Well, that's the family story. We're stickin' to it.

This guy's a genius.

How come you haven't brought these in before?

Showing it to my cadets today.

I try to leave 'em with some kind of strategy

For dealing with the stress the job brings.

Like comedy.

Greatest gift my granddad ever left me.

What's going on in here?

Oh, mr. Chaplin. Funny guy.

Huh. You know, if what i hear is true about that man,

That right there was the original player.

Ok, but, guys, seriously,

What's up with the rickety projector?

They don't have this on dvd?

Hey, some people like things run through a projector.

I think i'm gonna let you two old-Timers

Do your thing. I'm out.

Hey, i got a couple little tramp reels if you have time.

I got a few minutes.

That's...

Agent Jareau?

It's open.

Detective McGee, Kansas City p.D.

I called last week.

About some missing people in downtown Kansas City.

Uh, right, right. Um...

I'm sorry. Didn't i ask you to send me your files first?

Yeah. Um, about that,

I--I don't, uh, have any files.

No--No one's actually been reported missing yet.

It's--It's more like a theory.

Theory.

Yeah. Um...

Brought you the most relevant ones.

I have, um, like,

40 more of them.

I catalogue everybody i come in contact with on the street--

Um, names, descriptions,

Uh, what they're wearing, identifying marks.

Anyways, my department assigned me to keep an eye on downtown,

Uh, skid row, dopers,

Um, hooker stroll, whatnot. Typical stuff.

And everything was going good

Until i started noticing there were less and less every week.

Of...

Of--Of them. Less vagrants,

Less--Less prostitutes, less junkies strung out on the corners.

Well, sounds to me like you're doing a good job.

Yeah, that's what my bosses think.

I actually, uh...

Got an award last week from the mayor's office. Oh.

So... so i'm not doing it.

Crime went down because the people

Committing the crimes have disappeared.

And--And then, over the last several weeks,

People seem to be disappearing at a couple a day.

Isn't that the nature of these particular groups

Is that they're transient?

No. No. N-Not this many this fast.

I-I'm telling you,

I can--I can talk to somebody at lunch,

And by dinnertime, they're wiped off the face of the earth.

Ok. Um, how many is it?

63.

63 people?

At least 63.

63 people that i regularly used to see

Are just not there anymore.

And then last week, i, um...

I got this in the mail at the stationhouse.

"There are two types of people in the world.

"Those who do the work and those who take the credit.

You should be ashamed."

Somebody else knows that i'm getting praised

For something that i did not do.

63 people.

You're--You're sure about this?

Something is happening out there, Agent Jareau.

Something bad.

You aren't sure whether anyone is in fact missing.

No, i--I am sure. I just can't seem to convince

Anyone else of it.

But there's been no official investigation?

No.

63 people can't be coincidence, right?

Reid, any stats on the percentages of, um,

Well, i don't really know how to phrase the question.

Homeless who go missing?

The very nature of homelessness suggests

A lifestyle of fluidity,

Yet honestly, they're not as transient as you would think.

They generally stay in small,

Well-Defined areas based on familiarity

And what services are nearby.

So--So you're saying they don't just disappear.

Not normally, but i mean, that doesn't

Preclude the possibility.

Names, addresses, descriptions.

Do--Do you have any information that might help us find them again?

I--I didn't have a need for it at the time.

Do you have enough here

To see if they've been reported missing by someone?

I don't-- I don't know.

I--I ran them all through our computers and came up blank.

None of them turned up deceased?

Checked the morgues and the hospitals?

I--I have checked everywhere, sir.

Simply being gone isn't a federal issue.

We're gonna need an official invitation into your jurisdiction.

An official?

Police chief, chief of detectives.

It has to come down through the chain of command.

We have no authority to look into this.

Um, i don't know that i-- I can do that.

Unless we're officially asked,

We can't help you.

Jurisdictional issues aren't open for debate.

Sorry. It's out of our hands.

Oh.

Uh, hotch...

There could be 63 victims here.

Well, i suppose you and i could go back

With the detective and talk to his commanders

And try to impress upon them the serious implications.

Thank you.

If we get an invitation,

We could send for the rest of you.

I just don't want to give the appearance that we're running over them.

I'll wrap my class up.

If anything changes, let me know.

I should be available by 4:00.

J.J., be ready in 30.

Agent. Um, sir.

He--He took 2 of my book--

Uh, if you could leave your notebooks with us,

We can unofficially go over them

And maybe develop some more information.

How about i show you, uh, which people aren't around anymore

And you can copy down all the information.

Ok. Well, you heard agent Hotchner.

You got 30 minutes to brief us on 63 people.

Ok. Um...

"Of all the preposterous assumptions of humanity,

"Nothing exceeds the criticisms made of the habits of the poor

By the well-Housed, well-Warmed, and well-Fed."

Herman melville.

Landing in 10 minutes.

What?

We're landing in 10 minutes.

Already?

It's a fast plane.

He's really into those notebooks.

Almost obsessional.

You mean clinically obsessional.

Obsessive note-Taking could be a form of o.C.D.

So the only witness we have to any of this

Might be mentally unstable? That's possible.

This may be be a wild-Goose chase.

But as someone i greatly respect suggested,

63 people may be in trouble,

And i think that that's worth the chase.

Damn.

That is a lot of people.

Homeless men, homeless women,

Runaways, prostitutes,and drug users.

Can all of their disappearances be a coincidence?

Yeah, technically it wouldn't really be a coincidence,

Since a number of these people

Share high-Risk traits, which throws the curve off.

You see, the word "coincidence" implies more--

Hey. Hey, kid, we do not need a vocabulary lesson right now.

Right. Sorry.