Criminal Minds Series Rewirte: Season Five

A Rite Of Passage: Final Part

"Where are all the deputies?" JJ asks.

"Maybe they found another head."

"No, the sheriff would have contacted us. Have you heard from her this morning?" Hotch asks JJ.

"No, sir, I wasn't expecting to, though."

"JJ, come with me." Hotch and JJ walk into the station and you follow them to see what's going on. The receptionist is on the radio talking to someone when you enter. "What's going on?"

"It's the sheriff. She's missing. She never came in this morning. Her cruiser's missing, too. The whole department's looking for her."

"Did she say anything to you? Was she working on something?" Hotch asks.

"She was gone before we left here last night."

"Gone where?"

"I thought she went home."

"I called her last night but she didn't answer. I wanted to question one of her deputies," you say.

"Have Garcia trace her cell phone and see if she had any incoming calls last night."

The CB radio the receptionist is using crackles to life and Deputy Boyd's voice comes over the radio knowing you're listening in.

"This is Boyd. Oh, God. I found her. God, she's all... Just get me some help. Hurry."

Dread creeps down your spine at his words. You have a feeling he killed her to shut her up. Your team heads over to the place where the Sheriff is. Her other deputies are already on the scene having heard Boyd on the CB radio.

"Deputy. Is that the sheriff?" Hotch asks.

"Yeah, that's her."

You walk over to her with Rossi and Hotch only to see her dismembered. Her hand is missing, her eyes are gone, and her tongue has been cut out. Everything that Omar said he'd do to send a message. No, this is all wrong. Omar didn't do this. Boyd did. His energy is everywhere and Omar's is nowhere to be found.

"This isn't the same. This is angry. It's a completely different MO."

"It's a new victimology," Rossi says. "He goes from impossible to identify illegal immigrants to a law enforcement officer?"

"We're profiling a guy who picks on the weakest in a crowd. I didn't know her that well, but weak doesn't seem to fit the sheriff."

"It's not random," Hotch says. "It's what Omar Morales said he would do to a body to send a message."

"It's not Omar," you say to Hotch. "It's Boyd. He killed her. His energy is everywhere. I don't see Omar's at all. God, I should have questioned Boyd before he went home."

"It's not your fault, but we were in the interrogation room without Boyd. He didn't hear any of what he said."

"I'm just telling you what I see."

You walk back to the police cars where everyone else is.

"Is it her?" Spencer asks.

"What's left of her. Is there anything in her car?"

"Nothing that would indicate where she was headed last night. There are no notebooks and no logs."

"Her body is mutilated in exactly the way that Omar Morales, the drug trafficker, said he would mutilate a body. Y/N thinks is Deputy Boyd. His energy is all over the place, but only Ruiz and I heard Omar say that."

"Wait, Boyd and I heard it, too. We were outside watching by the window," JJ says.

"Deputy Gannon, where's Deputy Boyd?" Hotch asks.