Criminal Minds

In the farmhouse in Sarnia, Ontario, Mason Turner is very resistant to the FBI being there and repeatedly asks them to leave. He attempts to call 9-1-1 with a voice-activated phone.

RCMP Officer Jeff Bedwell angrily confronts Rossi and Hotchner about trusting the profile, and states, “Does that man look capable of assaulting anyone?” He says he had trusted them and let William Hightower, who confessed to the crime, out of jail, and he now finds it clear that they were wrong. He tells them to leave.

Outside, Morgan and Prentiss find a bin next to the pig pen that contains bloody shoes and realize they are probably looking for over 100 bodies - not 10. Reid stares down at the pigs and comments there probably won’t be any bodies to find because “pigs will eat anything.”

Bedwell quickly retracts his order to leave and calls for extra officers. Hotchner calls in Garcia to examine Mason Turner’s laptop because the computer is his sole communication device and there would be files stored on it. Hotchner and Reid examine the pigpen and determine the pigs couldn’t have eaten a body that fast and Kelly Shane, kidnapped girl, must still be there and hopefully alive.

Meanwhile, Kelly wakes up in what appears to be a cave, with her clearly distressed captor rocking back and forth in the fetal position in the corner. She pleads with him to let her go, but he doesn’t appear to hear her as he concentrates his focus on the cell phone in his hand.

Back at the farm, Rossi begins interrogating Turner, while turning around the mirrors that provide Turner with a view outside his bed and removing his headset to prevent him from dialing 9-1-1. Rossi questions him about the victims while fiddling slowly, but menacingly, with Turner’s breathing tube. He pressures him to tell him where Kelly is. Turner warns him about his brother, Lucas, and says he is crazy and killed the others, and made Turner a quadriplegic. He tells them his brother is extremely strong and threatens,” If you don’t kill him first, he’ll kill all of you.”

As the Ontario Provincial Police begin to arrive, Rossi and Hotch discuss the latest information received on the unsub. They voice their concerns that Turner’s warnings to shoot his brother before even talking to him is either helpful advice or a way to get rid of his partner.

The next morning, the OPP comb the farm for information, and JJ begins to deal with the media and families coming forward to look for their loved ones. Reid searches the barn and finds Lucas’ “room” in the loft with child-like drawings on the walls and a blanket on the floor. He believes the drawings do not suggest psychosis, but autism or moderate mental retardation in that he doesn’t comprehend what he’s doing. Meanwhile, Morgan gives Hightower the dog tags that he had given to his sister, which confirms she had been one of the unsub’s victims.

Looking through the woods for signs of Kelly, Morgan talks to Prentiss about his frustration with the job. Although they may be really good at what they do, there will always be other cases - the whole time he had been working with the BAU, the brothers were killing people and he didn’t even know. Prentiss reassures him they are making a difference.

Back at the farm, Garcia searches through Mason Turner’s computer. She finds out he had been performing experiments on the victims to help him fix himself. Turner explains he gave them the opportunity to become part of a cure and be useful to society. Besides, he reasons, what jury would believe that he hurt anyone and what punishment would be worse than the life he leads. Outside the window, Hightower listens while shaking with rage.

In the cave, Kelly befriends Lucas and tries to win his trust. She asks him to get her some food so he will leave the cave. While he is gone, she tries to escape, but finds the door locked. She grabs Mason’s cell phone and tries to call for help, but is interrupted before she can.

The FBI and RCMP search the woods for Lucas and Kelly. Morgan tackles someone he believes to be Lucas, but the man is actually a nearby farmer out hunting rabbits.

Kelly then convinces Lucas to take her outside to go to the bathroom. When his back is turned, she uses the cell phone to contact the FBI. Garcia triangulates the call and they find her position. The team rushes to the coordinates in the woods and discover the cave. They enter and Lucas begins to get up, but he appears to be very confused. Kelly pleads with Lucas to do what the FBI says. In compliance, Lucas rises, but the snipers shoot him as Morgan frantically tries to wave them off.

Back at the farm, William Hightower seizes a weapon that had been left leaning against the porch, enters the house, and shoots Mason Turner.

The dejected team flies back to Quantico. Scenes flash to Kelly reuniting with her mother and the team returning to BAU headquarters, and Hotch’s voice can be heard via voiceover.

“Sometimes there are no words, no clever quotes to neatly sum up what's happened that day. Sometimes you do everything right, everything exactly right, and still you feel like you failed. Did it need to end that way? Could something have been done to prevent the tragedy in the first place? Eighty-nine murders at the pig farm, the deaths of Mason and Lucas Turner make 91 lives snuffed out. Kelly Shane will go home and try to recover, to reconnect with her family but she'll never be a child again. William Hightower, who gave his leg for his country, gave the rest of himself to avenge his sister's murder. That makes 93 lives forever altered, not counting family and friends in a small town in Sarnia, Ontario, who thought monsters didn't exist until they learned that they spent their lives with one. And what about my team? How many more times will they be able to look into the abyss? How many more times before they won't ever recover the pieces of themselves that this job takes?”

Hotchner enters his apartment, and tosses his keys on the couch and his briefcase on the floor. He places his weapon on a table and pours himself a drink. As he sips from the glass, a darkened figure appears out of the shadows behind him. As he slowly turns around, the hooded figure cocks his gun, which is leveled at Hotchner’s head. The intruder informs him, “You should have made a deal.”

Hotch’s voiceover continues, “Like I said, sometimes there are no words, no clever quotes to sum up what's happened that day. Sometimes, the day just… ends.”

Then the sound of a gun shot is heard.

[recap written by scooterstarr]