This is an excellent episode because their is many intense scenes and a shocking twist in the end that you won't see coming.
The team goes to a small town in Texas because of the deaths of 3 kids in one month, starting with a 6 year old boy. When they get there they enforce the "buddy system" and a 5pm curfew, but soon enough another child, Matthew, goes missing. His younger brother has a secret, saying Matthew was just going to "ring the doorbell" of the haunted house on the hill. The team investigates the house not finding the man who owns it until they go to the woods outside the house. Buried outside the house, the old man is dead, the boy nowhere to be found. Reid and Gideon are looking outside by the staircase when they here something, yelling at the person to come out comes a small voice "don't hurt me" and out comes 8 year old Matthew unharmed. He says he was hiding because he heard a tree branch. Although the boy is unharmed, they still don't know who the unsub is. Then they get some shocking news about who their unsub may be, the officer who as been helping them this whole time. They go to his house and find him carrying a bag, once they catch him they look through the bag and find a red hat, the hat the first child was wearing while alive, but was missing after he was killed. They take in the officer and question him, but of course he denies everything. Then the team gets the information that the officers 8 year old son never showed up for school. Thinking he killed his son Morgan starts yelling at him. Then reality hits them, and hits them hard, the officer is not the killer, his 8 year old son, Jeffrey, is the killer. And now an 8 year old girl, Tracy never showed up at home. Through the buddy system she was walking home with the Jeffrey, the killer. Through a shortcut, Tracy becomes tired and wants to get home. Jeffrey gets mad and throws her book bag, and then goes at her with a bat. She kicks him in the kneecap, making him fall, and she takes off running. The team finds the bus stop, splits up and goes from there ending in the same woods as the two kids. Hearing her screams as he comes after her, the team runs towards them. As Jeffrey finds Tracy and goes for one hard swing of the bat, Gideon runs up and seizes the boy and the bat, while JJ grabs the girl taking her to safety. The boys is shown being taken away in a police car. The children are now safe. The teams heads back to headquarters for their next assignment.
The team goes to a small town in Texas because of the deaths of 3 kids in one month, starting with a 6 year old boy. When they get there they enforce the "buddy system" and a 5pm curfew, but soon enough another child, Matthew, goes missing. His younger brother has a secret, saying Matthew was just going to "ring the doorbell" of the haunted house on the hill. The team investigates the house not finding the man who owns it until they go to the woods outside the house. Buried outside the house, the old man is dead, the boy nowhere to be found. Reid and Gideon are looking outside by the staircase when they here something, yelling at the person to come out comes a small voice "don't hurt me" and out comes 8 year old Matthew unharmed. He says he was hiding because he heard a tree branch. Although the boy is unharmed, they still don't know who the unsub is. Then they get some shocking news about who their unsub may be, the officer who as been helping them this whole time. They go to his house and find him carrying a bag, once they catch him they look through the bag and find a red hat, the hat the first child was wearing while alive, but was missing after he was killed. They take in the officer and question him, but of course he denies everything. Then the team gets the information that the officers 8 year old son never showed up for school. Thinking he killed his son Morgan starts yelling at him. Then reality hits them, and hits them hard, the officer is not the killer, his 8 year old son, Jeffrey, is the killer. And now an 8 year old girl, Tracy never showed up at home. Through the buddy system she was walking home with the Jeffrey, the killer. Through a shortcut, Tracy becomes tired and wants to get home. Jeffrey gets mad and throws her book bag, and then goes at her with a bat. She kicks him in the kneecap, making him fall, and she takes off running. The team finds the bus stop, splits up and goes from there ending in the same woods as the two kids. Hearing her screams as he comes after her, the team runs towards them. As Jeffrey finds Tracy and goes for one hard swing of the bat, Gideon runs up and seizes the boy and the bat, while JJ grabs the girl taking her to safety. The boys is shown being taken away in a police car. The children are now safe. The teams heads back to headquarters for their next assignment.