Criminal Minds

Previously on Criminal Minds: Evolution…

They will let anybody up on the sixth floor now, huh?

Alvez and I are retired army grunts. We met in the ARC program.

The Army Recovery Care Program.

We help ill and injured service members reintegrate into civilian life.

The tumor spread.

There's nothing else we can do.

I'm sorry.

Hey, sorry to interrupt. Do you have a second?

If you'll excuse me.

Did you notice how he checked you out? You look like his wife who just left him.

Welcome to The Sicarius Files . I'm your host Brian Garrity.

My guest, the Sicarius killer himself, Elias Voit.

Saved you a whole bunch of fan letters.

It's sad how pathetic I am, but you know what's even more pathetic?

Someone who makes a show about it, and anyone who listens to it.

Lance Kingston is the one who took those photos,

but he's not the guy who sent it to you.

Turns out your fan stole them.

Lance, he's just a means to an end. He's a sacrificial pawn.

Perimeter breach. Ground floor.

One casualty. Outer corridor.

Do you have visual?

Negative.

You motherfuckers!

Reload.

- On my lead. - Moving.

Agents under fire. We need backup immediately.

Copy. Backup's on the way.

No!

Shut up. Shut up.

Please, don't.

Hey, you take one more fucking step… Hmm?

Easy now. We wanna help.

- I don't want to die. - No one's gonna get hurt.

Don't you fucking lie to her.

Sir, just put the gun down.

Look, what's your name?

Fuck you. That's my name. Why are you keeping them from me?

- Keeping what from you, sir? - My meds! I need my goddamn meds.

Okay! Okay. Put the gun down, let the woman go,

- and I promise you... - Hey!

You think I don't fucking see you over there? Huh?

- You want this little lady to die? - Hey, no! Sir, sir, we do not!

Then give me my goddamn meds!

Agent Lowell, is target acquired?

- Negative. - Reposition. Acquire target.

Miss, what's your name?

- Melissa. - Melissa...

Don't! Don't talk to her! You talk to me!

- Command, target has been acquired. - You understand?

O-ho-ho-ho!

- I have the shot. - This guy over here, huh?

This guy over here, he wants to kill me so bad that he can taste it.

Except, what if he misses? And this little one takes the hit.

- Sir. - Enough of this bullshit, okay? Enough!

Hey, I'm gonna count to three,

- and either you get me my goddamn meds… - Please, no.

…or I'm gonna blow her fucking head off.

Lowell, you're clear. Send it.

Okay?

- One. - Just give him what he wants!

- Two. - Sir, you kill her, we kill you!

- Take the shot. - Three!

What the fuck? What the fuck?

I took the shot.

Holy shit. What did you do?

Abort! Abort! Abort the exercise.

That was a live fucking round.

- Holy shit. - Get O'Connor.

We need medical. Stat.

Secure your weapons now. Magazine check.

I got blanks.

Same.

Billy? Billy, we're unarmed, okay? Put down the gun.

Talk to us, Billy.

Medical's coming.

He's dead.

I took the shot.

- Security. - Initiate lockdown. Now.

We have an active shooter.

This is not a drill. I repeat, this is not a drill.

Copy.

Billy, in about 30 seconds, the real deal is barreling in here,

and they will kill you.

You don't want any more blood on your hands, do you, Billy?

Please. Hand me that weapon.

Let me help you, Billy, okay?

Hey.

I don't fucking get it, man.

Hey, what were you thinking?

I had… I had the shot.

I took the shot.

Attention, all personnel. This is an emergency.

You are under lockdown.

Remain in your location until further notice.

This is not a drill. I repeat, this is not a drill.

"We cannot grow when we are in shame, "

and we can't use shame to change ourselves or others."

Brené Brown.

So Tom Milliken was shot?

During a training exercise for selectees from the hostage rescue team.

- An exercise with live rounds? - Well, there's a lot to unpack here,

which is why Rebecca's asked the BAU to get eyes on it.

God, does Alvez know yet?

He's on scene with JJ.

Tom Milliken was like family to him.

Brian, what have I told you about phone calls on Saturdays?

Emily, I wouldn't trouble you were it not of the utmost importance.

I have in my possession evidence of a precrime.

God, what the fuck is a precrime?

- Is that Tara? - Hi, Brian.

What's with this precrime?

It's the thing that happens before one commits said crime.

No, I get the term. What is it you think you have?

Well, dare I say a manifesto of sorts.

Addressed to me by a fan. It says, and here I quote,

"Some may call me a fan, but He must call me God."

And since this same declaration is typed over and over again like…

Do you remember Jack Nicholson's character in The Shining ?

Like, he starts to go wacko, and he types this one sentence

over and over and over.

"All work and no play make"...

- Yeah, I've seen the movie. - Well, you should see this.

Not only has he repeatedly typed his affirmation,

but he's also printed it into shapes.

The whole thing is so wackadoodle. It's like…

And admittedly I'm no profiler, he's clearly itching to do no good.

Where are you?

Not far. Literally around the proverbial corner.

You really should take a look-see.

Okay, I'll have a visitor's pass waiting for you.

God, when it rains, it pours.

Okay. Look, David and I can handle this for you.

Thank you. Yeah, I have to get to the training facility.

Yeah, yeah.

Or I'm gonna blow her fucking head off.

- One. - Just give him what he wants.

- Two. - Sir, you kill her, we kill you!

- Three! - Who else knows?

With the lockdown, we're on a need-to-know basis.

Director, AG, president.

I'd say the news blackout holds another 24 hours.

But it's not like we have a lot of friends in this administration.

An agent-on-agent incident like this is exactly the kind of pretext

that they can use to gut the department.

Peter, I'm so sorry.

It's still hard to believe.

Emily, this is Peter O'Connor, Milliken's chief of staff.

Tom spoke very highly of you and your team.

He brought you a case recently, didn't he?

He did. An equivocal death investigation,

and, incredibly, he's now the subject of one.

Well, not so equivocal, I'm afraid.

Agent Selectee Billy Lowell fired the fatal shot.

His weapon was the only one with live rounds.

Yes, that seems evident.

However, officially, there still needs to be

a determination of homicide or accidental death.

Of course.

I know it's been a while since I was in training,

but is it common now for HRT to conduct an exercise with actors and real weapons?

No, it's not common,

but Tom had his own methodology and carte blanche from up top.

If he wanted to do something, he did it.

In this case, he felt that the selectees were in need

of a far more real-world experience.

So did this exercise include the entire selectee class?

No, just Agents Helm, Barlow and Lowell. They were a three-man unit.

Well, Agent Lowell is already in custody,

but we are going to need to interview.

- Agents Helm and Barlow as well. - Sure.

Has the medical examiner taken possession of the body?

- Uh, he's doing that right now. - Excuse me.

Luke.

I need a minute.

I tried to tell him that maybe he should sit this one out.

Yeah.

- Brian. - Tara.

Well, I… What a delight it is to see you again.

Where's Emily?

She thought it best that Tara and I took a look at what you've got.

Okay. Um…

The thing is, given our previous history,

wouldn't it be better if Tara and I were to...

No. This way.

"Some may call me a fan. But He must call me God."

What did I tell you? "Red rum, red rum."

When did you get this?

- Yesterday. - Yesterday?

I opened it today.

Uh-oh.

Postmark: Kensington, Pennsylvania.

You guys have seen this before, haven't you?

Would you give us a second?

Don't touch anything.

It's virtually identical to what he sent to Voit.

But why has he sent it to Garrity?

He is listening to Garrity's podcast.

But the message still goes to Voit.