Criminal Minds Series Rewrite: Season Three

Doubt: Part Two

"What is it?" Gideon wonders.

"These markings could have easily come from a taser."

"Here is the employment list or campus security. How we gonna narrow this down?" Jim asks, handing over the mile-long list.

"This unsub chose a closed community on purpose. He'd want to inject himself into the investigation. Can you check the records, find out if any of these security guards responded to every crime scene?"

"You got it."

"In the meantime, call Garcia. Have her check the list against criminal records."

"Okay," you nod and call Penelope right away.

"Talk to me, girlfriend."

"I need to give you a list of security guards."

You give her the list of names, but nothing promising comes of it.

"I got nothing."

"Nothing?"

"Nada.Security guards are all clean and squeaky. No criminal records."

"What about a recent rejection? Something set him off. Have any of these guys got fired recently, or did their wife leave?"

"I'm sorry, Y/N. That's far too general, even with my powers of snooping."

"Okay, let me change tracks. You're a security guard," you begin to roleplay.

"I don't like where this is going."

"You probably had higher ambitions. Could you cross-check these guys against police and military records? See if any of them got kicked out or rejected?"

"I got one, but it's not recent," she says, clacking away at her keyboard.

"Give it to me anyway."

"Nathan Tubbs, rejected from the police academy, 2003. Failed his psych eval."

"I got a list of responders. Only four guards were at every scene," Jim says, walking into the room."

"You got a Nathan Tubbs on here?" When Jim nods, you turn the conversation back to Penelope. "Anything else you can give me?"

"I got a court appearance six days ago. Looks like the judge gave his wife full custody of their daughter. No visitation rights."

"How much do you want to bet his ex-wife is a brunette? You are the best."

"Word," she hangs up.

"It's Nathan. It's a possible."

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You and your team break into Nathan's apartment, but he isn't home. Hotch and Derek take the two rooms by the front door while the others take the rest of the apartment. You head into his bedroom and stop when you see what's on his wall. There are newspaper clippings everywhere as well as ripped photos of the young girls who have died. This sick bastard is keeping these photos as mementos since he can't visit the bodies after he kills them.

"Gideon. Check this out," you say.

Gideon and Derek meet you in the back room while the rest of the team searches the place for any kind of evidence on where he might be.

"I've got his work schedule here. He's not on duty," Emily says.

"Where is he?"

You look around his apartment and look for things that might be missing like his car keys and his taser.