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Jessie followed Rossi to an artificial lake for fishing. As the days gradually entered autumn, there were fewer people fishing.

"Abandoning the corpse in the lake is the preferred method of many murderers." Rossi set the bait on the fishing rod and threw it into the lake. "The scouring of the water will wash away most of the evidence, which brings considerable resistance to the investigation work."

"But dumping the corpse in the lake will also subconsciously leave the murderer's information, right?"

"Yes." Flicking his wrist, he brought up a fish, "Water, submerge the corpse and destroy the evidence. But some criminals will tie stones to the corpse because they don't want the corpse to be discovered so early. But some Criminals, don't mind this." Just as he was speaking, another fish was caught, and Rossi handed the fishing rod to Jessie.

"Try it."

"Could it be that the murderer, by stabbing the flint knife through the ear of the victim, was afflicted by a similar condition, and that he was inflicting that feeling on the victim as well?"

"There is such a reason." Morgan put a stack of documents in front of the table. The victims so far have all been accused before, and it is no surprise that none of them were sent to prison. "

"Anything in common?" Hotch touched his chin.

"Yes. Garisa tracked down lawsuits filed in Manhattan courthouses in every case."

"Do you know how many cases are filed there a year?" Elle was a little crazy...

"122998." Morgan called out a number numbly.

"We have to speed up." JJ walked in after the press conference. "The public has already blindly worshiped unknown people. Some people even made a list for him to assassinate."

"He was a typist in the court." Gidoen said suddenly, "Do you remember the witness testimony when the church priest was killed?"

"His hands were shaking like he was playing the piano." Elle repeated verbatim.

"The court typist understood the whole case while typing and recording the hearing process. He fit the profile. As for the injury to the deceased's ear... that was because the sound of typing kept lingering in his ears." Reid took out his phone, "I Call Grasia."

"Morgan and I rushed to the court, Reid, and after we found the address, we took the rest of the people to search." The scope of suspicion suddenly narrowed, and Hotch simply assigned the task.

"Do you know why I brought you to this lake?" Rossi stopped the pole and looked at Jessie who was standing aside.

"Did your first case happen here?" The stone in his hand got out of control, made a few floats on the surface of the lake, and then sank to the bottom of the lake.

"Don't be so rigid..." Rossi glanced at Jessie who looked suspicious, and there is another very important reason why you didn't say, "The fish in the lake are more than twice as many as other artificial lakes." Rossi laughed, "That's the most important thing, isn't it?"

Facing this black-bellied and humorous old man, Jessie nodded with a vague understanding.

"Marvin Doyle. Court scribe whose parents were killed in an attempted robbery in 04. I'm sending you the address."

"That's what spurred him on." Before Grasia could finish his sentence, Gideon said, "Let's go to his house and stop him when he makes another kill."

"He's not in the court." Hotch and Morgan stood in the huge courtroom, "I guess he's gone to find his next target."

"Grasia said his parents died in an accident in 04, he might pick a case with similar circumstances..." Morgan looked at the message from Reid, closed his phone, "Hotch, they found his next target, Ted Elmore killed his parents in self-defense after years of abuse."

"Have you got the address?"

"They're going there."

"Go, get in the car." Hotch opened the door and sat in.

"Negotiation is better than shooting, right?" Gideon looked at Hotch.

"For Marvin, it may not be the case." Hotch looked at Elle and JJ who were picking out accessories not far away, and his thoughts were a little wandering. "Negotiations will only exacerbate his auditory hallucinations."

"Maybe that shot was a relief for him." Gidoen recalled the failed negotiation at Ted's house. "He was too clear about black and white, but reality is full of gray areas."

"Why isn't that the case?" Hotch looked at the luxurious life outside the window, lost in thought.

"Arron." Gidoen reminded softly, "Shouldn't you buy something for Haley too?"

It was rare for Hotch to show the shyness and bewilderment of a teenager on his face, "But I... don't know what to buy."

Gideon signaled Hotch to look at Elle and JJ, "There are two perfect advisors over there."

Exhaling, Hotch walked towards the counter.

"I like this one." JJ looked at the black cat engraved next to the ring, "This cat looks a lot like... the one we just saw on the street?"

"Did we see a cat just now?" Elle played with the bracelet in her hand, imagined how Jessie would wear it, and smirked.

"Yes..." JJ's voice obviously lacked confidence.

"Hey..." Hotch's slightly hesitant voice sounded behind him, "I want...to buy something for Haley...Can you give me some advice?"

"I still don't understand, what are we doing here?" Reid looked at the three people who were excitedly choosing accessories, very confused.

"The meaning of our being here is to help them carry their shopping bags after they finish their shopping."

"Does Elle like shopping too?" Reid asked suddenly, "I thought she would be different..."

Morgan almost burst into tears with laughter, "Boy, don't let Elle hear this... Otherwise I won't be able to protect you..."

"Did you know?" Reid turned a deaf ear to Morgan's advice, "Jessie said a word when she was teaching us Chinese, and the translation is, women are the ones who please themselves."

"So...?" Morgan looked at the three carefully, "Do you think JJ and Elle..."

"They're all in love..."

Jessie was a little apprehensive when she learned that Hotch and his party were on their way back.After all, I followed Rossi these days... I learned how to fish, trade stocks, play golf, cook Italian food... But I didn't learn much about behavior analysis...

"Don't worry..." Seeing the uneasiness of the little doctor in front of him, Rossi comforted, "Hotch knows my style of teaching students."

"..." Jessie had deep doubts about this sentence.

"David." Hotch walked into the meeting room with a group of people in a hurry, "Don't tell me you didn't teach people."

"Those cases are too far away, we can't blindly rely on precedents. The most important thing for a profiler is to accumulate experience in one case after another."

Hotch wanted to speak, but Rossi said slowly, "I took her to that lake, remember that case? We all started there."

"Dave, the fish in that lake is the least I've ever seen." Seeing the confusion in Jessie's eyes, Gidoen roughly understood, "Don't listen to this guy."

"Jason, you're losing your sense of humor..."

"What's in that lake?" Jessie whispered to Gidoen.

"It's just an old case."

"What have you learned from Rossi these days?" Elle collapsed on Jessie as soon as she got home.

"I have learned a lot...playing ball, cooking, fishing and frying gold..."

"Both he and Gidoen are the founders of BAU, but they are completely different." Elle laughed when she heard these things that had nothing to do with profiling.

"No." Jessie remembered the case that had haunted Rossi for 20 years. "They are all the same and will continue their unfinished tasks."

Before he could finish speaking, he felt the coolness on his wrist. Looking down, Elle put a bracelet on his wrist.He looked at it with satisfaction, and met the eyes of the person in front of him, "Don't take it off."

"Okay, I won't take it off." Jessie looked at the bracelet in front of her eyes, "How do you know my size? Have you seen my file?"

Elle smiled lowly, and wrapped her arms around Jessie's neck, "I don't know how many times I touched it back and forth when I slept at night, and I already memorized the size..."

The little doctor's face turned red in the dark, "...I, I haven't...prepared...a gift for you..."

"It's okay...you are the gift..."

Jessie feels that Elle has really become bad, or she has become weaker... It seems that it is time to find Morgan to train her physical fitness and prepare for a long-term counterattack.

"Gidoen said, we're going to have a week off soon." After some lingering, Elle lay on top of Jessie like a satiated cat.

The eyes that were closed and enjoying immediately opened, "Vacation?" Jessie's heart sank, and the events of the King of Fish in memory came one after another.

"That's right?" Elle found a comfortable place to hug the little doctor, "Is there any place you want to go in particular?"

"No..." Jessie answered honestly. "Where do you want to go, I will accompany you."

"I...haven't thought about it..." Listening to Elle's drowsy voice, Jessie knew that she was sleepy, and let her fall asleep with her arms on her head.Still very uncertain in her heart, she hoped that the Yuwang incident could disappear in this parallel world.But her intuition told her that this was impossible.

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JJ: "I would say that the cat on the ring looks a lot like Serigo."

Emily: "???"

Serigo: "Meow"

Hotch: "Haley thinks the gift I bought is too masculine."

Elle: "..."

Reid (turning to Morgan): "I just said she's not suitable for shopping..."

Rossi: "I'm still funnier."

Gidoen: "You're Merry."

Rossi: "Could you please stop talking..."

Gideon: "No."

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