"These are victims 6 and 7 within a 2 week span." JJ states.
"All killed with a bladed weapon?" Emily asks.
"Yeah. The attacks are getting progressively worse." JJ says.
"The first five were lone victims." Spencer says.
"He's getting bolder." Derek comments.
"And more vicious." Jessica adds.
"Tell L.A. we can be there by 9:30." Hotch says and JJ nods.
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Jessica gets out of the SUV.
"Should have listened to me." Spencer says.
"It wouldn't have saved that much time, Reid. Let it go." Derek says making Jessica quietly laugh.
"The interchange between the 405 and the 101 freeways is consistently rated the worst interchange in the entire world." Spencer informs.
"Why do you know that?" Derek asks.
"It's a government report." Spencer says.
"So what?"
"So you work for the government. What, you don't read the reports?"
"On traffic patterns in a city 2,500 miles from where I live?"
"2,295 miles."
"Don't make me smack you in front of all these people." Derek warns and Jessica laughs.
"I'm Grady, LAPD." A man walks up.
"Derek Morgan." He shakes his head. "Dr. Reid, Jessica Taylor. The rest of the team's in an SUV behind us."
"Yeah, stuck in traffic." Spencer says, looking at Derek. Jessica bites her lip to prevent herself from smiling too wide. "Uh, so you had two more victims last night?"
"They were discovered a little after 3:30 by a cleaning crew finishing up in the building." Grady says.
"So that's 7 victims over the past two weeks." Jessica says and Grady nods.
"Bodies are in the alley." He says. "What's left of them."
"Same victimology?" Spencer asks.
"We don't have a positive ID on either one of them yet, but the clothing fits. You really think this is only one guy, huh?"
"The level of overkill suggests an unsub in a psychotic break. Multiple unsubs in violent psychotic breaks operating in the exact same location is exceedingly unlikely." Spencer explains.
"Yeah, it's probably one guy." Derek says.
~ ~ ~
"Did you know that a domestic cat loose in a normal neighborhood is the equivalent of a small scale ecological disaster?" Spencer speaks up.
"Excuse me?" Grady asks.
"They'll kill anything they can -- bugs, rodents, birds, other cats, small dogs if possible. Anything." Spencer says.
"That got something to do with this?" Grady asks.
"An unsub in a violent psychotic break is worse." Spencer states.
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"T.S.K.?" Hotch asks, looking at the letters spray painted on the wall.
"Twenty-third Street Killers." Grady says.
"Looks like they tried to fight back." Rossi says, holding a gun up.
"They failed." Spencer says.
"Are we sure this isn't some kind of gang retaliation kind of thing?" Grady asks.

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Fanfiction[ criminal minds seasons 1-6 ] Jessica Taylor Series: Deep End That's So True I DO NOT own Criminal Minds, any of the show's characters or storylines. I ONLY own my OC(s) and their storylines.