The Flight

Time to Dig

"Great," Cruz sighs as he puts his head in his hand as he sits in the conference room alone with Garcia. "Assess the scene and then get back here. We've got to figure this all out."

"You got it," Rossi replies as he closes his phone and heads over to Hotch and the others. "He says to look this place over and then get back so we can go over everything again."

Hotch nods slightly, "okay, well the coroner's office is on their way over to take the body back and start an autopsy."

FBI techs arrive and look over the house while the team stands in the corner of the bedroom, trying to understand what had happened.

"It looks like he was strangled," JJ says as she makes her way over to the body.

"And there was definitely a struggle," Morgan states as he gestures to furniture that is on its side and broken objects around the room.

"But the doors were not broken in, correct?" Reid brings up.

Rossi nods, "the back door was intact."

"So was the front," Hotch adds.

JJ shakes her head slightly, "so Johnny let the guy in."

"Or the killer forced his way in. Johnny wasn't that big of a man, he could have easily been pushed back," Morgan suggests.

The coroner finishes preparing the body for transport and with help, places the body bag on a stretcher and begins to wheel it out of the room. 

"I'll send the report over as soon as I finish," says the coroner as he exits the room. 

"I believe we have all we need for now. Let's head back to the office and sort this out," Hotch says as he and the team exit the room and leave the house.

Once they arrive back at Quantico, they head to the conference room where Cruz and Garcia are as they were when they left. They all take their seat and each pick up a new file which had been placed in front of them.

"These are the records we requested for Kyle and everything we could get on Johnny is on its way. I also put in a request for the rest of Marty's files, so they should be here soon," Cruz explains as everyone glances at the files.

"Kyle's psych evaluation came back awfully clean, almost too clean," Morgan states.

"I agree," Cruz replies, "I asked to meet with the instructor who overlooks the testing. He should be here in an hour or so."

"Hey," Reid says as he looks up from the file, "did you notice that Kyle also got a phone call in the middle of the night from a federal number. It came from the same number."

"Garcia noticed that one," Cruz responds as he nods at Garcia, who is sitting at the opposite end.

"Turns out I'm more than a pretty face," she says with a smile. "Okay, on to a more serious  note, the call both Marty and Kyle received was at 2 a.m. from a federal number that I traced back here. Oddly enough, I couldn't get any further because all the lines here are secure, so it will take a little more time and magic."

"Good work Garcia," Hotch compliments.

"Thank you sir," she replies with a small smile.

"Excuse me sir?" Agent Anderson says as he knocks on the door. "I brought those files on the pilot, Johnny."

Cruz stands to greet the agent, "thank you Anderson," he says as he shakes his hand and takes the files.

Anderson nods and exits the room while Cruz sits back down, passing out the newly delivered files.