Caged~ Criminal Minds

Empty Planet

Reid: "Hey! Mornin', JJ. How was your...weekend?" he asks as she ignores him and speed walks to Hotch's office
Hotch: "Yeah?"
JJ: "Homeland security just reported a bomb threat for an unspecified urban area. It was phoned into the national news network."
Hotch: "I'll call you back. When?" he asks hanging up his phone
JJ: "Last half hour. They need a threat assessment ASAP."
Hotch: "Get the team together."
JJ: "Yeah."
Woman: "I'm sorry, Did you say a bomb, sir?" they hear on a recorded message
Man: "On a bus in the city where it all began. Get my message out."
Woman: "Message? What message?"
Man: "That this is only the beginning. Until it is brought back under control, people will die."
JJ: "In the last 20 minutes, virtually identical threats have been made to most of the coast-to-coast news networks in the country. It's the same information just slightly different words."
Morgan: "So it's not a recorded message or script. Displays a measure of confidence."
Reid: "He could have easily just called one network. This guy obviously wants attention."
Gideon: "It's typical behavior for a personal cause bomber. One bomb has a finite impact. It's just a little package. Make bunch of phone calls, that magnifies my explosion 100 times."
JJ: "We have the additional recorded calls being gathered for assessment."
Garcia: "Networks say the calls came from a restricted number. Two have given limited permission to trap and trace the lines if we should need to."
Hotch: "You got a news organization to agree to a trap and trace?"
Garcia: "Who could say "no" to me?"
Morgan: "This is not likely Al-Qaeda. They don't call unless they bomb something."
JJ: "At Homeland security's request, the networks are going to keep this quiet until we've assessed the situation."
Hotch: "It doesn't feel like a hoax. His voice is calm, resigned. He's made his decision. He's committed to it."
Watson: "Plus he said: "This is only the beginning" The beginning of what ? And he also said: "until it is brought back under control". What's it?" she asks looking at the transcripts of the message 
Reid: "He has to call back. And if this threat isn't followed by an event, no one will take any future calls seriously."
Garcia: "So, we're going to tell the media to go ahead with the story?"
Hotch: "Absolutely not."
JJ: "Threats like this, with an unspecified location will just cause tremendous panic."
Garcia: "Then, what are we gonna do?"
Gideon: "Unfortunately, all we can do is wait."

Gideon: "Robespierre wrote: "Crime butchers innocence to secure a prize And innocence struggles with all its might against the attempts of crime."

Reid: "So Seattle's where it all began." he says as they get out the cars, arriving at the scene where a bus exploded
Morgan: "We just need to figure out what it is. And off the top of my head, I can think of grunge music and overpriced coffee."
Watson: "That doesn't seem significant enough for terrorism."
Gideon: "It's a personal cause bomber. It only needs to be of significance to him."
Nick: "Agent Nick Casey, Seattle field office."
Hotch: "S.S.A. Hotchner, how do you do? This is Dr. Spencer Reid, S.S.A. Morgan, S.S.A. Watson, agent Jareau, and S.S.A. Gideon. Have you identified the device?"
Nick: "Looks like a small pipe bomb attached to an umbrella."
Morgan: "I'd like to take a look at those bomb fragments as soon as possible I've got bomb squad experience."
Nick: "As soon as they're catalogued."
Reid: "How many people were on the bus when the explosion went off?"
Nick: "25 including the driver. Explosion killed two. The driver and a young male. Injured seven."
Morgan: "A pipe bomb on a crowded city bus and only two people are killed?"
Nick: "Had a relatively small charge. The two dead were found closest to the bomb at the time of detonation. Sylvia Cohen, an elderly passenger, found the umbrella on the floor at her feet. She said the young man volunteered to take it to the driver for her. She's pretty broken up about it."
Hotch: "Have you vetted and debriefed the rest of the passengers?"
Nick: "I have their info if you want to talk to them."
Hotch: "Did you get their positions?"
Nick: "Sorry?"
Hotch: "Where they were on the bus?"
Nick: "No."
Hotch: "JJ, maybe you can recontact the passengers and map their locations."
JJ: "Yeah, you got it."
Gideon: "Nobody saw anyone leave the umbrella?"
Nick: "No.  But, you know, from the style it looks like a remote detonator on the corner over there."
Watson: "You say remote?"
Nick: "Limited frequency remote."
Reid: "Like a garage door opener?"
Nick: "Something like that."
Morgan: "That's awfully risky. Anyone on this bus could have accidentally detonated the bomb just by pulling out of their garage."
Nick: "That's right."
Hotch: "He used a remote from the corner. Did he want to be close enough to see what happened or did he need to be mechanically?"
Morgan: "Those remotes are pretty limited. He probably needed to be."
Hotch: "Then he might have been nervous."
JJ: "Maybe that made him stand out. I could set up a public service announcement encouraging anyone who was in the area of the time of the bombing to contact us."
Gideon: "Well, we do need a press conference. But it'll be about getting this unsub to call us." he says as JJ holds a press conference while Morgan, Watson, and Reid head to the police station to look at the bomb fragments