"I'm so sorry Spence- I don't know how to tell you this but... It's Cat Adams.", JJ said and Reid's heart skipped a beat. He hadn't heard that name in years. Last time he checked Cat was on death row, awaiting execution for her crimes.
"What about...
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MADI DEARS
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"How did she get out? She's supposed to be on death row. ", Reid asked. They were all gathered in the BAU conference room. Max and Reid immediately called Ely and the school, canceling his classes for the day and as soon as they were ready they drove off to Quantico.
Emily and JJ were already waiting for them. JJ had taken over as unit chief after Emily became FBI director but for a case like this Emily came back. For her wife and for Reid.
Reid still worked for the BAU, just not full time, so he knew the current team pretty well. JJ, Luke, Matt and Tara had stayed with the team for all these years. Rossi finally went into retirement ten years ago but he still invited them over to his mansion a lot.
Penelope had found her dream job and never returned to the FBI but her most recent replacement, a young man who everyone called Poe, might give her a run for her money. He was the one that got most of the information that Emily was now explaining to him.
"The security footage shows that Cat was freed by two people we could identify and one unidentified third person drove the car they escaped on.", JJ explained before showing the security footage on the big screen. It showed a guard and two women escaping the prison together.
"We were able to identify a guard, Wallace Graham and a former cell mate of hers, Nadia Petrova. She was released from prison 5 years ago but the two stayed in contact. We're assuming that she manipulated Nadia to do her bidding like she has done in the past. We don't know how she got Graham to help them yet but he seemed to be nothing more than a tool to them and they disposed off him once he served his purpose.", Emily continued, pointing each of them out on the video.
"Disposed?",Max asked, raising an eyebrow just before the footage cut to a different angle outside the prison.
"They killed him before driving off with the third unidentified subject.", JJ said just in time for the video to show Nadia pull a gun on Graham and shoot him.
Reid saw Ely divert his eyes but the boy still flinched at the sound of the gun shot and Reid reach out to take his hand. He knew that Ely wasn't good with violence. They tried to shield him from all this as good as possible, from Reid's job, his past, but they couldn't shield him from this.
"Do you have any leads on them yet?", Max asked, after squeezing Ely's other hand as well. Reid could tell that she was putting up a brave front but she was terrified, too.
Last time Cat kidnapped Max' family and she tried to ruin Max' and Reid's relationship before it even started. God knows what her plan was now but whatever it was, it couldn't be good.
"Tracking the car turned out to be a dead end. There wasn't a lot of footage in the area and we lost them after the first 20 minutes. Right now we are investigating Nadia Petrova because she is the only one that is somewhat trackable. We're also following a lead when it comes to our third unsub.", Emily explained and the video switched to a picture of Nadia Petrova. A woman in her late 30s with long blond hair and brutally sharp features.
