Caged~ Criminal Minds

The Uncanny Valley

JJ: "Rita Stuart, 25, second victim in Atlantic City."

Rossi: "Pretty public spot for a dump site."

Reid: "You know, technically, I think it would qualify more as a disposal site. You don't leave a body on a merry-go-round out of convenience."

Emily: "He took some time with her appearance, didn't he?"

JJ: "Yeah. Her nails were polished, her hair was cut, clothes were brand-new."

Morgan: "Wants her to look her best when found. That's a lot of remorse."

Hotch: "Who is victim number one?"
JJ: "Stacia Jackson, 29. She was found at a local playground."

Watson: "A change in victimology."

Hotch: "What's the connection between these women?"

JJ: "There is none. Rita was married, Stacia was single. Rita worked at a diner, Stacia was a corporate lawyer. According to their credit cards, they never came within 10 miles of each other."

Hotch: "Both women were taken 2 months ago?"

JJ: "Yeah. They lived such completely different lives, the police didn't tie their abduction together until now."

Watson: "Was there any evidence of sexual assault?"

JJ: "There was no evidence of violence of any kind."

Hotch: "So how did they die?"

JJ: "Rita had a stroke, Stacia had a brain hemorrhage."

Reid: "Look at this, the unsub gave them a battery of drugs-atracurium, doxacurium. These are neural inhibitors. They block signals from the brain to the muscles."

JJ: "He put them in medical comas for 2 months."

Reid: "Actually, they weren't in a coma. You'd need phenobarbital to keep them unconscious, and they didn't have that."

Morgan: "So, wait a minute. These victims were paralyzed but they were still conscious?"

Reid: "They could open their eyes, hear, probably even feel stimulation."

Rossi: "Physical immobility but mental awareness. This unsub wants total domination over them."

Hotch: "And he turns their bodies into prisons to do it."

Reid: "Mildred Lisette Norman wrote, "anything you cannot relinquish when it has outlived its usefulness, possesses you, and in this materialistic age, a great many of us are possessed by our possessions."

On The Plane

Rossi: "Keeping women in a conscious paralysis reads as sadism."

Morgan: "Definitely dehumanizing, reducing them to objects."

Rossi: "But there's nothing else about this profile that takes us down that path."

JJ: "These women were found in excellent condition. There was no evidence of bed sores, they were well fed through an I.V."

Reid: "His access to I.V.s and drugs-he almost certainly has medical training."

Emily: "Are we sure this is a he? The care this unsub shows these victims, although they are dehumanized, the profile says female."

Hotch: "What about the postmortem posing? That's a lot of dead weight for a woman to carry."

Watson: "These women are petite. They're under 100 pounds." she shrugs looking at images of the women