Criminal Minds Series Rewrite: Season Four

To Hell...: Final Part

According to Will's mother, when Lee disappeared, she begged her son to go out looking for her. It wasn't fair to ask that of him since he'd just gotten home from Iraq, he'd just started therapy for losing his leg, and he hadn't even processed what happened to him yet. Still, he did what she asked, found her, and brought her home.

For two weeks, her mother had Lee going to meetings and trying to turn her life around. She even got her daughter into Welfare, but the day after the first check came, she disappeared. The first check came in on the 2nd, the day after she cashed a welfare check. Going along that theory, Spencer found out that the men are abducted around the 1st and the 15th of every month, which is when welfare checks are issued.

What if the unsub isn't intentionally clustering men and women? What if this is how he best isolates them? He must have a way to isolate them based on how they cash their checks, then he spends the rest of the month kidnapping prostitutes. It would explain the pattern he's created.

However, there is no way to find out where they cash their checks because apart from Lee, you don't know their last names. Luckily for you, Derek went back and talked to one of the men he spoke with about where he cashes his checks. Now, it depends on what they want the money for. Everyone either has to spend their checks on food or shelter, and not everyone wants food and shelter.

So, there is a motel called Greyburn Lodge on 3rd Street that allows people to cash their checks and use them for drugs or other things that aren't food or shelter. The motel cashes the check for thirty cents on the dollar provided they don't use their rooms. They walk away with drug money but they're still on the streets.

Turns out Lee cashed her check there, too.

You make your way to the motel on 3rd Street and walk right up to the attendant who looks scared shitless.

"What's going on?"

"FBI. Have you seen any of these men?"

Derek slides the pictures of the men through the small opening in the window.

"Maybe."

"Not maybe. It's a yes or no question."

"Have you been giving them cash in exchange for their welfare checks?"

"They need the cash and I need the business. Nobody gets hurt, folks."

Hotch gets tired of him evading the questions and goes through the back to confront the man in person.

"Garcia traced Lee to this location on the night she disappeared. The others were here, too."

"Have you seen this girl?" Hotch asks and shoves Kelly's picture in his face. Kelly is the only girl who isn't accounted for, and you fear she is the next victim.

"Yeah, she was here fifteen minutes ago."

Hotch turns and uses the printer to fax her picture to the agents back in Canada.

"Did anybody approach her when she left?"

"There was a dealer across the street. He just sits there and then they signal."

You walk away from the booth and toward the street to see if you can see where Kelly is and if she had gotten into a car with someone. Kelly appears before your eyes and walks across the street to a car that looks older and has two tail lights on either side that look like small rectangles. She gets into the car and the car jiggles as if there is a struggle.

Then, the unsub drives away. You have no clue where he's taking her.

If the unsub was here fifteen minutes ago, then he's already on his way through the checkpoint into Canada. Your team heads over there as quickly as possible and meets up with Spencer and Rossi. You think you get there fairly quickly, so if the unsub is going to pass over, you're going to spot him easily.