willow, criminal minds [ 1 ]

016. red light

"Up till now, Cat Adams has only worked solo." Emily says. "But this is a partnership. So we need to figure out how these two hit women were able to work together, especially when one of them was in solitary."

"And hit men are driven by profit and self-preservation." Luke says. "They don't take a job unless they know all the angles."

"So, to predict their behavior, we need to ask ourselves a simple question." Tara says. "We know why Cat wanted revenge on Reid. Why does Lindsey?"

"Ten years ago, Reid tried to talk Lindsey's father out of one last murder." Rossi says. "Cut to last year and she finds out her BFF Cat has been arrested by the same federal agent who tried to stop her daddy."

"So Lindsey's emotions trumped her professionalism." Luke says. "She could grab and kill Reid's mother without a trace, but instead, she waltzed Diana into his prison because she wanted him and us to know that she was involved."

"But there's risky and there's reckless." Emily says. "It's kind of hard to buy that Lindsey would commit to doing all of this just because Reid kind of sort of got in her way 10 years ago. We're missing something." Her phone vibrates and she looks at it before sighing. "Damn. Lindsey's APB didn't turn anything up. Neither did Diana's photo on the National Center for missing adults database."

"Lindsey's too good to get caught in those dragnets." Rossi says. "She's probably already changed cars and appearance by now."

"Okay, I want a full breakdown on Lindsey's life." Emily says. "Aliases, contacts, hits, where she gets her hollowpoint rounds." She says as Penelope walks out of the room.

"Yeah, Walker and I will take that." Tara says.

"Okay, then I want a list of everyone who was in Cat's prison in the past year." Emily says. "Cat was communicating with Lindsey through a maximum security facility. Somewhere there is a weak link to her chain."

"We'll find her." Luke says.

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"All right. We got 30 employees that worked on Cat's wing." Luke says. "These four, they don't have any disciplinary problems."

"So Cat used one, or more likely more than one, to coordinate with Lindsey on the outside." Rossi says.

"That's the good news." Luke says.

"Oh, lovely. We need more bad news." Rossi says.

"The guard union got wind that we were sniffing around." Molly says. "These 26 potential accomplices, they can't be interviewed without submitting all questions through the local 292 and their accompany attorneys first."

"Okay. Let's do some digging. A couple of these folks are gonna look more guilty than the rest." Rossi says. "We'll winnow it down and then deal with the local." Luke and Molly nod.

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"Go ahead, JJ." Rossi says, answering his phone.

"So Cat has deep background on Spence. She knew about Gideon's death and Morgan leaving the team for his family." JJ says.

"She's throwing him off balance." Rossi says.

"Yeah, but Spence also purposely gave the wrong name of Morgan's son and she didn't correct him." JJ informs.

"She must have gotten her hands on Reid's confidential FBI file. It would mention relevant team information but wouldn't name Morgan's baby because of confidentiality reasons." Emily says.

"We were thinking she's been getting help from someone inside the prison. This goes deeper than that." Rossi says.

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