two people's agreement

Rather than working overtime in the office alone, Hodge would rather take his work home and spend more time with Dani.

He's been out on the field more often lately than before.

Dany casually picked up Hodge's pile of documents and sat beside him to look through them.

"Jack is asleep?" Hodge looked up from the cumbersome documents.

"Yeah. He played crazy today, and he fell asleep after I told him for a while." Dany looked at the case file seriously.

That kind of focused eyes made her look very confident.

Hodge likes to see her like this.

She frowned slightly.

Hodge found out right away. "What's wrong?"

"Here." Dany brought the document in front of him, pointing to a photo of the corpse on it. "The autopsy report said it was a self-defense wound, but the angle was wrong. From the photo, I only saw this one, but there should be many more. This wound is consistent with a fatal wound to the heart."

"It means that there is more than one murderer?" Hodge looked at the wound she pointed out. This case was sent by the local police, and they haven't looked at it yet. The local police have some doubts about the suspect who has confessed.

"It's the murderer. Unlike their suspects, the angle of the stab wound is wrong." Dany said her thoughts seriously. "It was supposed to be a shorter guy who killed the victim first, and then a guy who stabbed the victim a few more times, and even though he wanted to do the same, there was a nuance."

"When did you even start to understand these forensic knowledge?" Hodge looked at the slight angle deviation. If Dany hadn't pointed it out, they wouldn't have noticed it at all.

"Didn't I tell you? Yu Pu majored in forensic anthropology." Dani told Hodge this matter calmly.

"No, I don't know." The rippling in Hodge's heart caused by this news made him feel tight.The question Dany had answered echoed in his ears.

"Then you will know today." Dany said indifferently.

"Do you want to go to BAU?" Hodge asked.

Dany's eyes darkened. "How is it possible? You work so hard, and my force value is so low. Besides, meeting Foye once made me scared to death, and meeting another serial killer again?"

Although what Dani said was very sincere, Hodge could still hear the loss in her heart.

His mind was thinking about a thought.

This idea has been proving its existence in the next few days.Hodge thought about it for a long time, and found Rossi to talk about his thoughts.

Then they went to Houston to investigate the case where the victim of the serial rape case was attacked again five years ago. They called the unknown suspect in that case-the piano man.

He kidnapped one of them yesterday.

Vanessa Campbell, whereabouts are now unknown.

Before leaving, Hodge specifically talked to Emily about her psychological evaluation report.

What happened to Emily before had a big impact on her.First, she was attacked by Doyle, suspended animation and wandered around Europe alone. After returning, she showed excessive compensation, which made him very worried. After all, Danni beside him is also in this state now.

"In order to reorganize their life, the patient actively faces the difficulties in life." Hodge calmly read out Dr. Meryl's assessment in the report.In fact, he knew that everyone in his department knew how to face the so-called psychological evaluation. It wasn't that Dr. Meryl was incompetent, but that they already knew too much about human behavior.

Emily began to feel embarrassed.

"She has contacted her mother." Hodge shifted his gaze from the words on the document to Emily.

"I'm going," Emily explained quickly.

In fact, Hodge already knew the answers when asking these questions.His team members are so good that he has to sigh with emotion. "And fell in love with a man, his name is Sergio."

Sergio, Dany mentioned that name on purpose at that party.

"..." Emily was embarrassed and unable to explain.

Hodge didn't mean to press her, "Actually, I don't care if you lied to the therapist, I only care if your behavior affects your performance at work."

"No, I don't think I have affected my work. Everything is still the same as before?" Emily asked suspiciously. In fact, she knew subconsciously that she was abnormal, but she was sure that she would not affect her work.

"You're a little overcompensated." Hodge said with certainty, in fact, Emily's symptoms were the same as those of Dany after he was stabbed by Foye, and overcompensated.

"I didn't..." Emily retorted, she didn't dare to meet Hodge's eyes, her eyes turned unnaturally to the upper left.In front of her boss whom she truly trusted, she couldn't pretend to be herself.

"You are eager to repair the relationship with Morgan." Hodge said Emily's performance that made him worry, "You express empathy with Reed and Rosie."

"Those are just things that should be done between good friends." Emily was still holding on.

"You also gave me parenting advice." Hodge said the item related to himself.

"...Well, maybe I'm trying harder than I was before to regain everyone's trust. Wouldn't that be nice?"

"No, there's nothing wrong with that. Unless you're doing it to escape what happened to you." Just like Dany's return to the Celestial Dynasty, escape.They were both afraid to face what happened to them, and Dani started to keep her mouth shut from Foye until recently.

Emily looked Hodge straight in the eyes sincerely and told him what was on her mind. "But I'm not like that, why would I choose to come back? Is it because I care about my colleagues?"

"Yes, I admit this. But it should be because here is right and wrong. Here I can know who is a good person and who is a bad person. I don't have to harm others in order to close a case." No need to protect anything to hurt someone.Thinking of Doyle and Declan, Emily felt very uncomfortable.

Hodge believed her.

"OK, I believe you. But you have to promise me one thing, you may feel good for a few weeks or months, and then you have a bad day, just tell me when it comes." Don't Hold on alone.It was the only thing Hodge could do for her.

"that's it?"

"that's it."

"I promise you."

The atmosphere between them was a bit too heavy, Hodge raised his eyebrows, "Sergio?"

Dany had never told him what the name meant.

Emily's eyes turned, full of missing her current close roommate. "He is the most perfect person, he can't kick the quilt, he can poop in the box."

Emily finished talking about these advantages of Sergio calmly, and looked up at the smile on Hodge's face. "How are you and Dany doing? When's the wedding?"

Hodge was stopped by this question.

Although he knew that he would be with Dani for the rest of his life, but Dani's current performance made him no suitable opportunity to propose marriage.In a certain way, she was still resisting him, or resisting the harm he might bring to her.I have brought too much alienation to her before, so she is still not used to their current relationship.

And Dani has never gotten out of the shadow left by George Foye in some respects, and now she is overcompensating just like Emily in front of her.

She has been keeping herself busy, even in the leisurely afternoon tea in the store, she has been reading some academic books.She basically didn't allow herself to really let go and take a break.

She wakes up every night to make sure she doesn't have anklets on her feet.

"...We need time," he said vaguely.

"Oh..." Emily looked at Hodge with a helpless expression in surprise, "We thought... thought you had already..."

Hodge lowered his eyes and remained silent.

Hodge's acquiescence made Emily gradually accept this fact, and she stared at the machismo who had always been extremely strong in front of her with a wry smile. "I believe you will be able to impress her."

Hodge nodded slightly, a trace of depression flashed in his eyes.

After the plane arrived, Hodge and his party came to the local police station.

Hodge and Rossi asked the sheriff for details of the case. The pianist basically did not leave any clues of identity before, but only left half a fingerprint on the glasses of the first victim, Regina Lambert.

Emily and JJ are sent together by Hodge to interrogate the victim of the two assaults, and in the process, they discover how the victim was drugged.All the victims have a common feature that they are addicted to smoking. They speculate that the ecstasy is in their cigarettes.

Reed and Morgan head to the home of their latest victim, Vanessa Campbell, where they discover another modus operandi of the pianist - music.

Garcia investigated that the unknown suspect had played a song at Vanessa's home.After being identified by Vanessa's boyfriend, this is the song Vanessa hates to hear the most now, and every time she hears it, it will make her emotionally fluctuate.

Reid speculated that the pianist would keep repeating the same song when they were unconscious, so that when they heard the melody of the song again, they would unconsciously feel that they were still at the time of the crime, full of fear.It was a means by which the pianist controlled and tortured his victims.

"Maybe T'mamazed" "Ladyinred" "Upwherewebelong" "Gloryoflove"

Then word came from the scene that they had found Vanessa Campbell's body.

Hodge and Reed headed to the autopsy, where the medical examiner told them he had found a fragment of a blue surgical glove in Vanessa's trachea, which advanced their investigation considerably.

Garcia began looking for their suspect in the records of surrounding hospitals, and it wasn't long before she found a man named Herman Scobie, who was on rotation at the three hospitals the victim went to and who was also the victim of the first attack. After a few months, check their medical insurance information.

The BAU immediately called in the police, who caught Herman Scobey at his home, along with a torn piece of blue surgical glove.

Local police believe the matter has been settled.

But when Herman Scobee was finally interrogated, they still found some doubts.At Herman Scobie's age, he doesn't fit the profile of a pianist because of the age of those songs.

In scientific research, the age of 14 is the time when all people start to establish their own musical preferences. At that age, children will start to develop self-awareness and start to form their own cultural taste. They no longer listen to the music chosen by their parents, but listen to their friends. Listen.These musical experiences will be inscribed on the person.The hormone surge of the teenage years can make their choices seem individualistic and emotional.In later life, although I will try different kinds of music.But the music we listened to at 14 still affects our lives more than what we hear later.

While Herman Scobee's music taste was formed in the mid-to-late 90s, the music the pianist chose for the victim was in the style of the early 80s.

Real pianists are much older than Scobeby.

Finally, after analysis, everyone confirmed that Scobie was just the double body of the pianist, and he used the pianist to escape his guilt.The pianist Leigh instead used Scobee to take the blame for himself, stuffed the glove fragments into Vanessa Campbell's mouth, and blamed Scobee for everything.

They told Scobie that the pianist set him up.

Scobie confessed everything and told them that there was another victim before the Piano Man, whose name was Regina Lambert, the Piano Man's first victim.

Through the search, Garcia found something suspicious. Regina left the hotel where she worked last night with a man named Hamilton Bartholomew.Through Regina's expression, Hodge suspected that Regina was taking revenge on the pianist. He asked Garcia to use Bartholomew's fingerprints to cross-check the fingerprints left by the pianist on Regina's glasses to confirm whether Bartholomew It's the pianist.

Regina captures Bartholomew and takes revenge on him.

Finally, in front of Regina, Emily told her that Bartholomew was not a pianist, dissuading Regina from trying to kill the monster who hurt her with a gun.

But the truth is, Regina is not wrong, and the anger in her heart is still tormenting her.

Like a powerful monster that never disappears from Emily's nightmares.

Regina's monster still tormented her.

The current legal system in the United States and the shortcomings of those judicial systems will make this nightmare never wake up.