[Criminal Minds] The Man in the Mirror

"RAC, Royal Automobile Club (Royal Automobile Club)?" Reid said to the evidence board.

"Kiddo, except for the British surname, they have nothing to do with the British royal family." Morgan interrupted his whimsy, "They are Americans, think again."

"Racialist, racegoer, or racketeer?"

"Rabbit-punch?"

Reid turned his head abruptly, and behind him was Yao Sulin accompanying Mr. Hudson, and they were looking at his neck.

Reid looks like he skipped class with Ethan and was found by his instructor. He turned over his collar and stood at an angle that just covered the bloody photos on the evidence board: "Don't look at it."

Yao Sulin wore a dark blue badge on her chest, and she explained in a soft voice: "It's okay, Mr. Hotchner said you're not well, and I can take a look at you. Look at your current appearance..."

"Hotch made things difficult for you in the hospital yesterday, what did he tell you?"

Yao Sulin was noncommittal: "It's okay."

Hotch and Rossi stayed in the morgue, and lying in front of them was Ethan Granger, which Yao Sulin and the others had just identified.The coroner uncovered the white cloth, it was a quick and easy face, if one ignored the fine sutures around it.

"The murder weapon was a lancet?"

"What's worse," said the young female forensic doctor in disbelief, "the dismemberment of these residual limbs was not cut randomly, they were all cut along the seams of the bones, in which the bones and various cartilage tissues were not damaged If the murderer is a professional physician, he must have at least ten years of experience."

"What about the gunshot wound?" Rossi didn't hesitate.

"Colt revolver, 9mm caliber, shoot from a long distance behind the head," the little girl said with a childish expression on her face, "Shooting before dismembering, there are such crazy...doctors in California?"

Sorry, except for overkill and victim research, the previous profile is invalid, and the characteristics of the crime are different, as if another scumbag came out of California to disrupt the situation.

Hotch called Garcia and asked her to do a cross-reference between the surgeon and the gun record, or the military doctor who came back from the Middle East, especially the deportee who failed the psychological test, about 35 years old, fit and well-spoken, able to get enough the trust of others. Rossi was lost in thought until he caught Hotch's attention.

"The most valuable evidence now is those three letters," Rossi maintained his composure, "Rack (torture rack, an ancient torture device that pulls people's limbs to disengage their joints), but isn't it too simple?"

"Dave, this is just speculation. Rebecca isn't a profiler, she's just—"

"Oh, your friend might have a better guess. A guy who's on par with Reid in intelligence, with a background in criminal psychology and a love of Conan Doyle's work, RACHE, that's it."

Hotch's face turned cold: "You mean, "A Study in Scarlet"?"

Morgan and the others arrived at the police station in the afternoon and had been to countless scenes. Frankly speaking, he respected these two brave young men. Ethan died in the living room and was dragged to the floor-to-ceiling windows. Charles died in the living room. The time between the two deaths was half an hour. Call Yao Sulin.

How much time did they spend hiding their families?How many tricks did it take to approach a murderer who was out of control?What happened in those half an hour of life and death?

They used their lives to protect their loved ones, the dearest people.

Mr. Hudson speculated that it was a matter of time before the murderer did not show the characteristics of the previous crime, but the arson shown before could be classified as a sex crime, and Reid discussed other possibilities with Yao Sulin about the three letters.

"The letter is capitalized, is it possible that it is a person's name?"

"If you want to emphasize something, you also use capital letters."

"Code name? There must be a secret between the three of you." Emily had experience with boys.

"Mycroft and Sherlock?" Yao Sulin smiled slightly, "If it's really a person's name, it must be a woman. Our Mycroft can change girlfriends at a speed comparable to Reid's reading books."