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JJ: "Missing child in Wilmington, Delaware."
Watson: "Delaware." she says as JJ passes out files to all of them
Morgan: "You're from there aren't you?"
Watson: "Newark. It's about a 25 minute drive."
JJ: "11 year old Billie Copeland was last seen on the playground at 4:30 yesterday afternoon."
Hotch: "That's 20 hours ago. Child abduction response plan says we get notified immediately. What happened?"
JJ: "There was reason to believe she was with her father. Her cell phone shows a call to him around the time of the disappearance."
Gideon: "So they've since ruled him out?"
JJ: "He called the mother about an hour ago."
Gideon: "That doesn't mean he isn't involved."
JJ: "He's on his way to the family home, so you can talk to him there. But the local police are now considering this a stranger abduction."
Morgan: "20 hours late." he says in disbelief
Reid: "Long-term stranger abductions of children Billie's age are rare. They represent only of one percent of all missing cases per year."
Watson: "But they are usually more likely to be fatal. Of the children that are abducted and murdered, 44% die within the first hour. From that point forth, their odds of survival greatly decrease. 75% are gone after 3 hours. Virtually all of them are dead after 24."
Hotch: "Which means we have just under 4 hours to find her."
Gideon: "Shall we go?"
Gideon: "The poet, W.H. Auden wrote, "Evil is unspectacular and always human. "And shares our bed And eats at our table."
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Reid: "She's been missing 21 hours."
Hotch: "We're gonna go meet with the lead detective at the park where the girl was last seen." he says as Gideon, Reid, JJ, and Elle get out the car
Gideon: "We need to know everything that's being done."
JJ: "I'll find out what the press is running, See if I know any of them. We may need to manage what they put out."
Gideon: "Good. See what the uniforms know from the canvasses. Elle, I need you to be a liaison with the family."
Elle: "A liaison?"
Gideon: "In a child abduction, the parents are likely to break down if we aren't careful."
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Detective: "Put out a city-wide alert. We've got multi-agency law enforcement running canvass. Body and evidence grid search is up and running on foot with canine units. Talked to the press twice. Gave 'em a description of the SUV and the suspect and formed a round-the-clock volunteer-manned hotline service."
