Trama

The BAU team heads to Portland, Ore., to investigate a chilling abduction that may be linked to a local couple killed in their home a week earlier.

Alvez is not too excited about Lisa's want to host a housewarming party, it solely a means for her to get to know his BAU colleagues, the only intended invitees. Whether or not the party happens will have to wait until after the BAU's next case, which takes the team to Portland, Oregon, where a yet unidentified young, fit looking man bound with duct tape on several parts of his body and clad only in boxer shorts was caught on home surveillance footage taken outside the home yelling (paraphrasing) "he's after us" before the "he" is seen taking the man away. This man's abduction is seemingly related to the murders a week earlier of married William and Sarah Mendelbaum, a retired pediatrician and community volunteer respectively, in their home, they bound with duct tape on several parts of their bodies, and their eyes singed before they were stabbed multiple times. The word "us" in the abducted man's yells for help implies that there is another person abducted with him, probably a wife or partner. And from the footage, Reid can see that the man's eyes are also singed. In interviewing the Mendelbaums' son, Ray Mendelbaum, who discovered the bodies of his parents, J.J. discovering that he failed to mention to the police in his earlier interview with them that power was turned off in the house brings into question either his mental state or other items about his parents he would rather not discuss. The darkness in the house leads the team to believe that the unsub has some sort of visual impairment, the reason for singeing his victims' eyes. The Mendelbaums end up being the keys to this case, but even if the team is able to discover why the Mendelbaums were targeted, they still have to discover the identity of the young man and his not yet seen partner, and their connection to the Mendelbaums for the team to discover the identity of the unsub.—Huggo