Criminal Minds Series Rewrite: Season Three

Doubt: Final Part

Your entire team heads back to the police station to try and convince the lawyer if it's possible to hold Nathan any longer than seventy-two hours, but you know that won't go over well. The local police stay at the crime scene to clean it up, so you're not worried about that right now.

"Tubbs' lawyer has been here for the last hour demanding we release him. What's happened out there?" Hotch asks when your team gets back to the station.

"We have a copycat."

"Do you want to tell me why the hell my client hasn't been released?" Paul asks angrily from across the room.

"Cut me some slack here, Paul," Jim sighs.

"You've got another murder and a note from the real killer."

"We're discussing that."

"I'm not saying he's not a creep. I'm just saying he didn't do this."

"Just take a seat, please. Okay? Come on. Give us a second."

"Is everybody still in the conference room?" Gideon wonders.

"Yeah."

"How long can you hold that lawyer off?"

"Are you kidding? I was a prosecutor. I can hold him off for days," Hotch smirks, leaving your side to talk to Paul.

You head to the conference room where everyone else is. This whole case got everyone arguing because half of the team thinks Nathan is the killer and you've got a copycat, but the other half thinks Nathan is innocent since there is nothing to tie him to the crimes.

"So you think we're making a mistake, huh?" Gideon asks Derek.

"I know we're tired. There's a lot of pressure. We all want to believe that profile is right."

"It is right, Derek," you argue.

"What if we're wrong? Tubbs enticed that girl to get in his car. There's nothing to suggest that the unsub has ever done that before."

"There's also nothing to suggest he hasn't."

"I know how bad cops want to believe they got the right guy. I've been on both sides of that."

"Derek, how can you not see what's going on here? This last kill had a completely different signature and you know it."

"I know I also know that Richard Jewell fit the profile of the Olympic Bomber to a 'T' and he was innocent, but the accusations tore apart his life."

"Yeah? Well, how about the fact that I have been able to see nothing but red energy until this last crime scene, huh? This one was blue! A woman killed this last one."

"Even if you're right, Y/N, a jury isn't going to put him away because you see the world through energies and auras."

You thought Derek believed in what you can do, but it looks like he's only supported you because you've proven to be right in the past. He doesn't believe in what you can do, and it makes you wonder how many others feel that way about you. Do they really believe, or are they just pretending around you?

"I can't believe we're actually thinking about letting Tubbs go," JJ scoffs, trying to move the conversation away from this fight.

"JJ, we got no evidence. Tubbs' lawyer is not gonna let him talk, so we're not about to get a confession out of him."

"Yeah, but we can still hold him for another forty-eight more hours."

"You can't hold a suspect indefinitely with no evidence."