Criminal Minds (TV Series)

Children of the Dark (2007)

Matthew Gray Gubler: Dr. Spencer Reid

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• Aaron "Hotch" Hotchner : We're looking for two men. Probably white, given the neighborhoods that they hit, mid to late twenties, intelligent, and organized.

  Derek Morgan : These are career criminals. One or both has done hard time, but neither presents as a convict. They would appear clean-shaven, well dressed...

  Emily Prentiss : Neighborly. This helps them talk their way into the homes. They may also be using a ruse.

  Lt. Nellis : What kind of ruse?

  Aaron "Hotch" Hotchner : Given that the invasions have taken place in the evening, it could be anything. Could be door to door sales, person in distress, car trouble.

  Dr. Spencer Reid : Uh, Derrick Todd Lee used a tape of a baby crying to get women to open their doors in Baton Rouge. Never underestimate their creativity.

  Emily Prentiss : These men share a very tight bond, and a mutual compulsion to kill, but their signatures reveal two very distinct personalities.

  Aaron "Hotch" Hotchner : One brutalizes the parents. This is the dominant one. Sadistic, remorseless, extremely volatile.

  Emily Prentiss : The other prefers a needle. His injections are consistent with an angel of death. He's more withdrawn, sensitive, and he has a warped sense of mercy.

• Aaron Hotchner : So The Laybournes were abusing their daughter, where's this going?

  Dr. Spencer Reid : One of the unsubs decimates parental figures, but we know the statistics there. It's-- It's likely he was abused himself.

  Aaron Hotchner : So you're saying the unsub recognized the signs of abuse, flew into a rage, and killed the parents?

  Dr. Spencer Reid : Anger displacement. He's getting revenge for his own childhood abuse.

  Lt. Nellis : So you think what, the victims were beating their kids?

  Dr. Spencer Reid : Uh, the Laybourne case was just the trigger, but now they see all the parents the same.

  Lt. Nellis : That doesn't explain the kids.

  Derek Morgan : Maybe it does. Think of the family annihilators John List and Mark Barton. They thought they were saving their kids by killin' em.

  Lt. Nellis : But what is he savin' them from?

  Derek Morgan : Life without their parents, without love, life like his.