Criminal Minds

How much farther?

What?

Are we almost done?

You want to stop?

No.

Let's rest a while.

I promised I wouldn't slow you down.

You go ahead. I'll catch up.

I can wait.

Adam, please. It's your workout.

Go. I'll meet you at the point.

You're out of shape, Cheerleader.

Oh, yeah?

Let's see you do 3 back flips and land in the splits.

The point?

The point.

Hello?

Is somebody there?

Adam...

If you're trying to scare me, I'm gonna kill you.

Adam?

Adam. Adam!

Adam!

Oh, my God. Adam, please wake up. Adam.

Baby, please, Baby. Please!

Noooo!

Victim's the Lloyd boy, isn't it?

The quarterback?

Adam.

Just saw his parents yesterday heading up to Nantucket.

Listen get me their number up there, will you?

Sheriff Bridges.

There's something here.

What is it?

You're gonna want to see this, Sir.

Looks like the head is busted open.

Just like Adam Lloyd.

You want me to get the crime scene folks down here?

Yeah.

Wait. Hold on.

We're gonna need a lot more than the crime scene folks.

Easy there, Tough Guy. Have some coffee with your sugar.

I need something to wake me up.

Ooh. Late night?

Very.

My man.

Not that kind of late night.

Okay, so tell me, what does keep young Dr. Reid awake at night?

Wait, let me guess.

Memorizing some obscure textbook.

No, no, no, no.

Working on cold fusion.

No, I got it.

Watching Star Trek... And laughing at the physics mistakes.

Actually, there aren't that many scientific errors in Star Trek.

Especially considering how long ago it was made.

There are certain improbabilities, but not that many outright errors.

Right.

Hey, Morgan?

Uh, do you ever have dreams?

I'm sorry.

I guess nightmares would be a more accurate description.

Is that what's keeping you up?

I used to get them occasionally

but lately it's like I have them every night.

What are they about?

This. What we do.

Do you have nightmares?

Reid, I'm not sure if I'm the right person for you to talk to about this.

Why not?

It's just, uh...

Did you ask Gideon about it?

No.

You should.

Hey, Hotch wants everyone in the round table room.

Something up with you two?

No.

Mcallister. Western slope of Massanutten Mountain in Virginia.

2 bodies discovered in the woods

both with apparent blunt trauma to the head.

Skeletons?

One of them. The second victim was just killed this morning.

How do we know there's a connection?

They were found about 75 feet apart with nearly identical head wounds.

Where's the rest of the case file?

There isn't one. The sheriffs are on the scene waiting for us.

Their location is only a half hour away by plane.

What's the rush?

Well, there was evidence on the scene that

could cause a bit of a public uproar.

A satanic cult.

So Peter Ustinov said, "Unfortunately

a super abundance of dreams

is paid for by a growing potential for nightmares."

JJ, we need to obviously, keep this out of the press for as long as possible.

I'll do what I can.

Why is that so important?

There was a nationwide scare in the 1980s

involving satanic ritual killings and abuse.

The Satanic Panic, it was called.

It began after the publication of a book

about repressed memories being recovered through hypnotherapy.

Memories of growing up with devil worshippers

who use children in their rituals and ceremonies.

Most of the claims were later found to be false or just impossible.

Still, numerous therapists accepted the assertions as true

and began searching for similar signs in their own patients.

After one year, thousands of people reported the exact same repressed memories.

The bureau conducted an investigation and concluded that

most of the most of the ritual killings or abuse were more

urban legend than anything else.

You're saying that there's no such thing as devil worship?

Not at all.

But most of the satanism that we've seen is

juveniles damaging property, desecrating churches, cemeteries.

To my knowledge, there has never been a proven case

of a satanic ritual killing in the united states.

Well, maybe there is now.

Mornin'.

John Bridges.

Yeah. We spoke on the phone.

I'm agent Jareau, and this is Agent Gideon and Dr. Reid

with the FBI's Behavioral Analysis Unit.

Hi.

Thanks for coming out so fast.

Yeah. Of course.

There was an in service in Charlottesville last year

said if we ran into any unusual homicides

we were supposed to call you folks sooner rather than later.

Yeah, they were right.

Is this unusual enough?

It certainly is interesting.

You guys must get a lot of this, huh?

Satanic stuff?

Not really.

Who found the bodies?

A hiker found the first one at the trail

and my deputies located this one while searching for evidence.

We don't even know if it's a man or a woman.

It's a man.

The male pelvis is more narrow

and the opening at the bottom is heart shaped, as opposed to oval.

Melted wax?

Candle wax?

Candles are used in rituals.

They're also used on birthday cakes.

Actually, they were originally used to protect the birthday celebrant

from demons for the coming year.

As a matter of fact, down to the fourth century

Christianity rejected the birthday celebration as a Pagan Ritual.

What kind of doctor are you?

He was kind of a local hero.

A high school football star.

So a pretty strong kid, huh?

I know he used to run out here on the mountain all the time.

That's not easy.

Was he out here running today?

He was wearing sweats.

A crime of opportunity

or was the unsub laying in wait for this kid specifically?

Unsub?

Unknown subject. The killer.

If it is a cult, do you think they cared who the victim was?

Maybe. Maybe not.

So we're talking about a blitz attack on a high risk victim..

One who could defend himself..

With a weapon picked up at the scene.

Disorganized offender. It could be a cult.

The manson crime scenes were textbook disorganized murder.

This looks like a heavily traveled area.

A lot of the locals walk these paths.

Some tourists, too.

If you are gonna conduct a ritual killing?

Would you do it in the middle of a traveled path?

Well, if the other crime scene was a ritual site where the pentagram is

I might blitz the victim here and drag him to the other scene.

Why didn't they?

Does "Lod" mean anything to you?

Uh uh. I don't know of any significance in satanism, either.

Well, I could have Garcia research this "Lod" thing

if I could get a call out.

Not much of a chance of that out here.

Are there any cults in the area that you know about?

Secret groups?

People you see you don't know much about

people who stay to themselves mostly.

This is a very religious area.

Church on sundays, fellowship on wednesday, bible classes.

If there was a secret group, I'd probably know about it.

That's an inherent contradiction.

Excuse me?

He means if there was a group being secretive

you probably wouldn't know.

Look, people out here just want a quiet place to raise their kids.

What I know is none of them are capable of doing this.

Find anything interesting down there?

Yeah, it does look like some kind of ritual site.

Have any of you ever heard the expression "Lod" or the acronym "L.O.D."?

Not me.

Cherish? Cherish?