Stars | Aaron Hotchner

8

     "Don't get comfortable, there will be time to debrief on the plane," Hotch spoke as soon as I entered the conference room at the BAU.

     "Where are we heading?" I asked.

     "New York." He responded. "Garcia, you're coming with us. We need access to their surveillance systems." Hotch spoke.

     "Yes sir," Garcia responded.

     "What do we know?" Prentiss asked.

     "All killings are mid-day. Single gunshot to the head with a 22." Hotch responded.

     "Any witnesses?" JJ asked.

     "No." He responded.

     "No witnesses? In New York City?" Morgan asked.

     "It could be that people aren't even registering the gunshot until the unsub is already leaving the scene."

     "They sound like mob hits," Rossi added.

     "Except none of them had ties to organized crime," Hotch responded.

     "He wears a hood, and keeps his head down," Rossi said as the footage of the last killing played on the TV.

     "This guy is bold. Attacks in crowded areas in broad daylight." I added.

     "So they're completely random?" Morgan asked.

     "Seems that way." He responded.

      As we boarded the plane, we went straight to our seats to debrief.

     "Each victim killed in a completely different neighborhood." Hotch began.

     "This doesn't make any sense. There's no common victimology, no sexual component, no robbery, and no geographic connection. It's completely random." Ried added.

     "He's killing roughly every two days," Hotch said.

     "Let's catch this son of a bitch then," Morgan added.

     When the plane landed, we headed straight for the NYPD. A blonde woman came walking up to us.

     "Kate," Hotch said as we approached her. 

     "Hotch. How have you been?" The blonde woman asked.

     "Well, thank you. Kate, this is SSA's Rossi, Ried, Morgan, Prentiss, Jareau, Garcia, and Gideon." Hotch said, introducing us.

     "Thank you for being here," Kate responded.

"Is it just me, or does that look a lot like Hailey?" JJ whispered.

"It's not just you," Prentiss whispered back.

"His ex-wife?" I asked. They both nodded.

     "Will I have complete access to the city's surveillance system?" Garcia asked.

     "They're already expecting you." The blonde told Garcia.

     "I'd like to get a map of the city, I want to do a comprehensive geographical profile of the area in order to ascertain the unsubs mental map," Reid asked.

     "There's a map set up on the board in there," Kate responded, pointing to an office. "This office over here is set up for you all to use. Hotch, may I have a word?" Kate said, pointing to the office.

     "Excuse me," Hotch said to the team.

     "Do they know each other?" I asked.

     "I'm pretty sure they went to school together," Rossi said as I watched them enter her office through the glass windows. After a few minutes, he came back out.