Caged~ Criminal Minds

Children Of The Dark

JJ: "The Halbert family. They were murdered in their home last night in the Denver suburb of Cherry Creek. It's the third home invasion like this in the last month."
Hotch: "They kill everyone."
JJ: "Parents, kids, pets if they have them. Always families, nice neighborhoods."
Morgan: "What do they take?"
JJ: "Nothing they can't fit in their pockets...cash, jewelry."
Hotch: "Hundreds of ways to get cash and jewels without killing entire families."
Watson: "That's why home invasions are so hard to profile...multiple motives."
Reid: "National statistics show an uptick in home invasions over the last few years, 18% in Colorado."
Hotch: "You know it's bad if they're inviting us back."
JJ: "Back?"
Hotch: "Well, things went bad after the Jonbenet Ramsey case when a couple of agents publicly criticized local detectives."
Morgan: "Well, they didn't need us to make them look bad."
JJ: "And that was in Boulder."
Hotch: "Yeah, but the statewide media ran with it, and it took on a life of its own."
JJ: "Well, I talked to a lieutenant nellis. Trust me. They want our help."
Emily: "They need it. The first 2 invasions were 20 days apart. This last one was just 9 days later."
Watson: "So they're killing in faster cycles, acquiring a taste."
Hotch: "And getting better at it every time."

Emily: "In the city, crime is taken as emblematic of class and race. In the suburbs, though, it's intimate and psychological, resistant to generalization, a mystery of the individual soul... Barbara Ehrenreich."

On the plane

Reid: "Home invasions typically involve the elderly and single females. The fact that entire families are being targeted suggests multiple unsubs."
Morgan: "Could mean gang-related, revenge motive, personal business."
JJ: "I don't think any of these victims are running in gang circles."
Emily: "Sewing circles, more like it. P.T.A. moms, gray-flannel dads...these guys are killing the cleavers."
Reid: "Strange."
Hotch: "The pattern?"
Reid: "No, the cleavers. Of all the names for a 1950s idyllic tv family, I mean, it's rife with violent implication. Kind of makes you wonder how the writers really felt about suburbia, huh?"
Hotch: "Focus, please."
Watson: "Uh, ok, what about, um, class-based uprising? Helter Skelter?"
Morgan: "There's no graffiti, no messages, at least not visible ones. There's no rituals."
Reid: "Manson's aim was to start a race war. There's no proof of any hate crime here."
Hotch: "The parent murders are brutal, messy. The instruments vary. Uh, golf club, kitchen knife, iron."
Morgan: "Household implements, symbols of family."
JJ: "But the kids were different. They died by injection, pentobarbital."
Reid: "It's a barbiturate sometimes used as an anticonvulsant for epileptics, anxiety disorders, and state executions."
Hotch: "The invasions are well planned. Phone lines are cut. Ligature marks show the parents were bound and gagged."
Watson: "Looks like these guys had some robbery experience."
Emily: "And then found their true calling."

When arriving at the latest crime scene, Hotch and Emily go inside with the detective to look around the place, as Watson and Reid talk to a witness outside 

Woman: "I came by about 9:00 to return the pyrex. No one answered when I rang the bell, but lights were on inside."
Reid: "Did you happen to look in the windows?"
Woman: "Not then, no. I had my cell phone. I was gonna call, but I...I couldn't get a signal, which was strange."
Watson: "Why was that strange?"
Woman: "You always get a signal here. There's a tower on the next block. Uh, I left the dish. This morning, it was still here...so I came over. Th-that's when I looked inside."
Reid: "And you called the police on your cell."
Woman: "Yeah."