Criminal Minds Series Rewrite: Season Four

Pleasure Is My Business: Final Part

With that out of the way, Hotch plays back the phone call to analyze her words.

"Don't compare yourself to the men I see. You are nothing like them. You're just another whore."

"Her use of the word whore is interesting. It suggests she's trying to disassociate herself from her actions, but she's become more personal with the murders. She's changed her MO from poison to a gun. She's changed her victimology, too. Trent Rabner was faithful to his wife until she died. They didn't have kids. Her whole justification for who's worth killing and who isn't is gone."

"She's obviously devolving," Rossi says. "This is gonna be ugly. She's the type who could go on a spree and take out anyone she sees as a target."

"Can you go to the end just before she pulls the trigger?" Hotch asks Spencer who goes to the end of the recording.

"You want to show the world all these bad me, and my investigation's just getting in your way."

"No, Aaron. You're not doing your job!" she yells. "You don't want to arrest me and don't want me in custody because you're in their pocket. You just want me to disappear, just like they do."

"Who's 'they'?" you ask.

"I'm assuming the men she's sleeping with."

"No, it's bigger than that. She's lumping Hotch in with the lawyers. Maybe it's anyone in a position of power who could cover this and her up."

"You said the purity ring you found was tiny, right?" Rossi asks you.

"Yeah, only a little girl could have worn it."

"She wouldn't buy that for herself. It was a gift. Maybe she's talking about her father."

"Well, if her father was anything like these CEOs, he probably walked out on her, too."

"The teachers in school were like this. After they got caught, every single teacher and staff member refused to talk about it. They covered it up because they didn't want something like that associated with their school. She was called so many mean names, whore included. Her parents weren't any better. I saw them through Megan. Her dad was the worst," you whisper.

"Okay, so you're rich, you've slept with your teacher, and now you're sleeping with men who are like your father to get back at him. Was the teacher like her father?"

"I don't know. I've never met him."

"How does she go about finding clients that are like her father? Could she have started with the service?" JJ asks.

"She wouldn't need to. The madam says that she trains these girls how to act around these men. Megan already knows how to do that. She said that their client list was like their 401k. They sell it when they retire. So, maybe Megan bought her client list from another call girl."

"It makes sense. They're expensive names. Only someone who came from money could afford it."

"We need to look into who's recently retired."

"Hotch, the reunion is tonight. Megan might have been bullied because of what she did, but she was wildly popular. It's as if what she did made all the girls want to be her. She's not going to pass up an opportunity to go to a reunion and show off her money and sexuality. Can I go to this reunion? I know she'll be there."

"We should all go."

"I'm sorry, but I don't think that's the best idea. This entire place is for the 1999 graduating class. If everyone shows up, and she sees you, we won't catch her. I went to that school. She doesn't know I'm FBI. I need to go alone."