It's the Monday after the team returns from an out-of-town case. Prentiss and Reid have been at the office all weekend reflecting on what happened, Reid who is chastising himself for not seeing the truth earlier, Alvez has his arm in a sling as he recuperates from an injury sustained on the case, but arguably Rossi has the most deep seated scars, at least emotionally. As such, Prentiss sends him home as he has not yet unburdened himself from the case, he needing to do so with Krystall especially as their wedding will be taking place in three weeks and he internalizing his emotions is not what they need going into matrimony. That case started out as a single murder of fifty-something Monica Feinstein in Nashville, Tennessee, her dead body found in her burned house, she dead before the fire and her face removed from the rest of her head. Monica's nineteen year old son, college student Carl Feinstein who had only recently moved out, is certain the person that killed his mother was her boyfriend, Paul Macintyre, the two who had a whirlwind two month courtship and who had only gotten engaged the day before, something about which Carl was suspicious. This information is only the first clue in the team discovering that "Mac", only an alias, is a con man and master of disguise. They still had to reconcile the unsub's wooing of vulnerable middle-aged women against the fire and the removing of his victims' faces which are incompatible with the standard actions of a con. But what Rossi will have to reconcile himself is not so much the fact that he could have easily died at the unsub's hands, but what that situation actually means for his future with the BAU.
—Huggo
