Criminal Minds

Previously on Criminal Minds: Evolution…

I used your birth name and you didn't even notice.

This is where Lee Duval died and where Elias Voit was born.

Do you feel in your heart of hearts that you're a good person?

I feel like I can be.

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

What is it you think you have?

Dare I say a manifesto.

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

- Hello, Brian. - Whoa. Special guest appearance?

Do not say one word about him being here.

Hi, you're live on the air.

With whom do we have the pleasure of speaking?

Call me God.

"Are you trying to profile me?"

I'm not speaking to you.

I'm speaking to Lance Kingston, the man you're holding captive.

Penelope, talk to me.

Okay, I got him. I got him.

He's at the Stash-All Storage Facility in Richmond, Virginia.

It's a garage unit being rented by Lance Kingston.

- Is he there? - Is who here?

- Voit. - No.

Stop! He's gonna kill me.

- Yes, he's here. - No!

Voit is here! Elias Voit is here.

You can talk to him.

What just happened?

You just caused a man's death.

We've got roadblocks up in a five and ten mile radius.

We might have a victim inside, and he might still be alive.

FBI, open up!

Oh, Jesus.

Is that…

It's flesh.

Burnt flesh.

He's been branded.

The residual smoke from the burn would only last five to ten minutes.

Well, then the Fan couldn't have gotten far.

Let's go.

- You find a pulse? - It's there.

It's weak and thready, but it's there.

Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise.

Seek what they sought.

Matsuo Bashō.

Lance Kingston is alive.

Oh!

Thank God!

Oh!

Oh… …Oh!

Sheila said this.

She said this… …right before she left me.

She said, "You're going to get somebody hurt."

And then it came true. She was right.

I don't know how it happened, but she was right. Ah!

Pfft.

I am done.

No more Sicarius Files . No more conspiracies.

I am out for real.

- For real? - Absolutely!

What happened to Lance is gonna weigh on my heart for the rest of my life.

Oh, I'm sorry to say this, but I'm very happy to hear that.

I'm kinda over-leveraged right now because of the success of the podcast.

I was okay before the money or the perks,

I mean, I'll… …find a way to be fine again.

Yeah.

Wait,

did you throw up in here?

I was literally sick with worry.

Emily, I'm so sorry.

Bill me for a new one,

like a fancy one.

Ugh.

Is Brian Garrity moonlighting as a janitor for the FBI?

No.

He is not moonlighting as anything anymore.

Good, because we just got this.

Mm-hmm.

Look at this.

What's this?

Crime scene report from the storage locker where we found Lance.

Well, it's pristine. Is this post-forensics?

This is the forensics.

No fibers, no hair, no nothing.

And based on the Fan's OCD, I doubt he left any trace.

Which means you probably struck out too, didn't you?

Yeah, I did.

The Fan paid for the storage unit in cash under Lance's name,

and the rental agreement was typed up on the same typewriter we know so well.

Which he also used when he escalated to this.

There are eight letters in the word pathetic,

so the Fan put eight brands on each of Lance's arms.

Oh.

What?

This is the most detailed MO we've seen from the Fan.

Does he still strike you as a "hasn't killed yet" type unsub?

No, he doesn't.

So why didn't he kill Lance?

There you go.

Doesn't hurt.

Why doesn't it hurt?

Third degree burns destroy the nerves in your skin, including your pain receptors.

Lance, anything you can remember about what happened from the moment

you were abducted will help us catch the person who did this to you.

I woke up.

I was facing a monitor.

He told me to read off it.

That's all he said.

Is this because of Laura?

What do you mean?

First time you questioned me was because…

Because I was being an asshole to Laura after she dumped me.

Is this all revenge for that?

- It's complicated. - Mmm.

We think that he may have targeted you

so that we were distracted investigating you instead of him.

Maybe I was pathetic.

Maybe I still am.

But I don't deserve this.

No, you don't.

So, anything you can remember…

You contact me.

And you can show him how not pathetic you are on the witness stand.

All right?

We got another case.

It doesn't stop.

Of course we do. Where's this one?

Right in our backyard, uh, two women who made their living

showing their wares on the internet as cam girls have been murdered.

Regina Madsen and Lexie Clery.

Both were super popular streamers.

Did they stream on the same site?

No, different platforms.

Camgirls stream from all over the world.

How did the unsub find two in the same geographical area?

Well, if either girl made a video that showed outfacing windows or mentioned

their location even vaguely, a good tracker would be able to find them.

Uh, like how we found Laura Boyd using that tree in the background.

- Mmm. - Is it possible this is the Fan?

He uses Lance to give us the message he's not pathetic,

and then leaves the dead bodies of two cam girls to prove it?

Well, don't jump to conclusions yet. We don't know if it's connected.

- Garcia, continue. - Correctamundo.

What we do know is that last week Regina went live

to show her dead body, and then last night, same deal with Lexie.

Wait, so now i-is this real money?

Mm-hmm. Green American dollars.

They both asphyxiated on it.

That's a hell of a murder weapon.

Based on the width of the marks on their bodies,

looks like both women were restrained with leather belts around their torsos.

Easier for the unsub to force-feed them.

Can we source the leather?

We could try if the unsub hadn't taken the belts with him.

Wait a minute, Lance Kingston said he was restrained by leather belts

and that the Fan took them with him as well.

And Lexie was murdered the same night Lance was branded,

less than ten miles away from where we found him.

Now let's jump to conclusions.

There's a shared MO of binding the victims with belts.

You might see that, but definitely not three times in one week.

Displaying the bodies of the cam girls on a live stream speaks to a desire

to get out a message, but it… it's also a type of exhibitionism.

It is similar to the Fan using Garrity's live podcast to exhibit his power.

Okay, what's the opposing argument?

Well, if both cases are the Fan,

then his MO is all over the place.

And what, the money stuffed down the throats

could be him making a statement about the cam girls perceiving greed.

That's very different from branding "pathetic."

Exactly. So, we have two murders and one maiming.

Some of the details overlap, some don't.

So, we are going to go where the evidence takes us.

These are two different perpetrators.

Dave, you and I will work on the Fan.

The rest of you investigate the cam girls,

no matter what happens, the clock is ticking.

So, we need to move fast.

- Penelope, can you come with me please? - Yeah.

I know I'm asking the impossible, but I need you on both cases.

- Can you do that? - Absolutely.

That means prioritization, triage, and when necessary,

you call an audible and ask for help.

Uh, hi. I'm Penelope Garcia. This is what I live for.

I mean, I know that the gaggle of you

is the John, Paul and George of crime fighting, but I am the Ringo.

You know, his birthday is July 7th.

That means he's a Cancer and I'm a Cancer rising,

so we're the same person, and I've got this.

All right, I have the footage of Lexie and her boyfriend Rocco.

Let's run down the timeline.

Lexie and Rocco had just finished a performance.

And the show was, "Hell if the devil was a dominatrix."

Yes.

So, uh, looking at this, they did the entire stream from right here.

Bad boy.

Lexie gives Rocco a final shock.

- Ah. Red. Red. - Uh.

Rocco yells out the safe word and they stop the performance.

- Oh. - Here.