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Jessie guessed in her heart that she must bear the brunt of it.

"Doctor Jessie." Strauss looked at the little doctor, "The field work ability has not improved, and the hind legs have dragged a lot. You should stay at home and rest for two days."

"She didn't hold back." Elle pushed back dissatisfied.

"Agent Grennaway." The finger suddenly turned to Elle, "In the case in Ohio, you were obviously not suitable for field work, but you still followed other agents into the house and shot and killed the prisoner."

"He deserved to die..." Elle murmured.

"And Derek Morgan in Chicago, Spencer Reid barely passed the shooting test for the second time, and Jason Gideon resigned." Strauss looked at the people standing downstairs.

"As for Agent Jareau..." Before the words finished, Strauss' cell phone rang, she glanced at it, and walked aside to answer the call.

Emily walked out of the office, glanced at the figure of Strauss on the phone, walked down, stood beside JJ, and took her hand.

Strauss hung up the phone and looked at Emily sullenly, "AgentPrentiss..."

"I don't need to compromise with you, I can let her stay here." Emily looked at the annoyed woman in front of her and declared confidently. "I resign."

!!!

"Agent Jareau." Strauss said sarcastically, "Your position remains the same."

"I just want to know why Hotch was suspended." Morgan asked dissatisfied.

"He is too personal and has put the team in crisis many times. I have suspended him for two weeks for self-reflection."

"So you're the boss now?"

"Agent Morgan," Strauss snapped. "Any questions?"

"Don't dare."

"That's all for today, you can go back to rest." Strauss gave the order concisely.

"This woman is so irritating." Elle returned home and complained angrily, "Why did she suspend you, why did she say you were slow, why did she..."

"Okay." Jessie hugged an angry Elle from behind, "It's just a two-day rest, and I'm not fired." She rested her chin on Elle's shoulder, "Anyway, my wife is also found, and it's okay to retire early~ "

"Madam?" Elle turned around and hooked the little doctor's chin, "Who do you say is Madam?"

"You are my wife." The little doctor said stiffly.

"Okay..." Elle bit her lip, and led the little doctor slowly towards the bedroom, "I heard that you asked Morgan to practice martial arts and physical fitness?"

"That's right..." Jessie nodded without knowing it.

"How about I teach you later?" Elle exerted a little force on her hand, pressing Jessie under her body, "Let me decide the location?"

"You decide?" Jessie raised her hand, carefully tracing Elle's face in the darkness, "Is there any other venue besides the training ground?"

"Yes." Elle lowered her head and sucked the little doctor's earlobe, "I'll teach you on the bed."

"what……"

"Lie down, I will teach you slowly."

"No need... I have to go to work tomorrow..."

"Didn't you say you retired early?"

"I'm afraid you won't be able to bear it."

"I have good physical strength, you should worry about yourself first...my little doctor..."

"I don't want to go to work..." Early the next morning, JJ leaned on Emily and acted coquettishly. "Without you by my side, I have no motivation to work..."

"Then where did your work motivation come from before you met me..." Emily asked JJ honestly.

"I don't care..." JJ buried his head in Emily's arms, "I won't go today, it will be okay if we sleep again."

"Then what if Strauss calls and asks?"

"You help me solve it. You were so powerful yesterday that she turned green with anger..." JJ put his arms around Emily's neck and said angrily, "It's all her fault for making you resign..."

Emily smiled, and kissed JJ's forehead, "Okay, then sleep for a while."

Elle got off the plane with a sad face, only seeing Morgan, Reid, and Strauss who was looking at the file with glasses.

"Where's JJ?" Elle winked at Morgan.

"She asked for leave..." Morgan blinked, "It's probably because of Emily's resignation."

Elle sat across from Reid and motioned him to look at Strauss not far away, "From this angle, she looks like a human being."

"Now there are only three of us in the team..." Reid couldn't help but muttered, "What the hell is she..."

"If I have done something wrong, I hope you can correct me in time." Strauss, who noticed the dissatisfaction of several people, got up and walked over, sitting next to Reid. "Several women were kidnapped in a mall and their bodies were found. Can we start talking about this case?"

"Okay, sir." Several people replied in muffled voices.

Hotch packed up his things and closed the office door. When he was about to leave, he was chased by Gracia who was holding the documents. "Sir..." She handed Hotch the document in her hand. "The Milwaukee case, Elle asked me to give it to you."

"I'm not following this case." Hotch hesitated for a moment before refusing.

"I'm just following orders." Gracia put the dossier on the box Hotch was holding, this team needs you. "

Jessie was awakened by the phone ringing with sore body, and answered sleepily, "What's the matter?"

"Hey..." Elle stood at the scene of the crime, looking sadly at Strauss, who had become estranged from the local police after getting off the plane, "I will secretly tell you the general situation, and you can help me analyze it. Four incidents occurred in Milwaukee within three weeks. Homicide, the victims are all women in their 30s, married with children, kidnapped in public..."

"Is there any other news?" Jessie regained consciousness slightly.

"Not yet." Elle sighed, "The boss annoyed the local police as soon as he arrived at the scene..."

"It's her first time on the field, so it's inevitable that she is inexperienced." Jessie smiled. "Abducted a large living person in a public place. He must rely on the help of other people to make the victim less vigilant... and the only thing these victims have in common The point is..."

"Married, with children." Elle nodded. "He used the children to lead the victims to a remote place, and then kidnapped them."

"Yes." Jessie rolled over.

"Hotch, Strauss managed to annoy the detective within 45 seconds of being on the scene," Morgan called Hotch to complain.

"Not surprising." Hotch flipped through the file on the coffee table, "Morgan, I read the file, Milwaukee's school starts at 8:10 and ends at 3:10, and all the kidnappings happened within 15 minutes after school , every time the body is dumped 15 minutes before class, the person we are looking for works in the school."

"Got it." Morgan nodded. "Elle said that the killer might use the child to keep the victim down."

"This direction is right." Hotch nodded, "Abducting crimes is also her specialty, let her play well. I'll go find Emily and we'll get in touch again."

JJ and Emily, who were still falling asleep and returning to their cages, heard a hasty knock on the door. The sound was so hasty that even Serigo and the big white cat, who were sleeping in their arms, lazily opened their eyes.

Emily wanted to get up and take a look, but was hugged by JJ, "It must be a door-to-door salesman, don't bother."

The knocking on the door continued endlessly, JJ finally couldn't take it anymore, threw off the quilt and jumped out of bed, put on Emily's gown casually, and opened the door angrily.

"Aren't you bothered... keep knocking on the door..."

Hotch stood obediently outside the door, and when he saw JJ, he was stunned, and his eyes moved to one side instantly.

……

"Can I come in?" Hotch felt that it was a bit awkward to stand like this, and planned to speak to ease the almost frozen atmosphere.

"Ah..." JJ came back to his senses, "Of course..." Pulling the clothes on his body, he ran back to the bedroom in a hurry, "oh...mygod...Hotch is here, I opened the door when I dressed like this, you go out Deal with it, I don't want to go out now..."

Emily watched as JJ pulled the quilt over herself, pampered her head pamperingly, closed the bedroom door and walked out.

"Can I ask why you're here?" Emily motioned for Hotch to sit down.

"The team needs us," Hotch said straight to the point.

"But……"

"I think Strauss came to you mainly to catch me." Hotch paused, "Jessie and Elle's relationship, Reid's firearms test that he keeps failing...of course these are nothing...if she has evidence, Just a few words to the upper echelons and my career is over." Hotch paused, "But you chose to quit instead of snitching on her."

"I hate politics." Emily leaned back on the sofa, "Now I know what's wrong with you." She looked towards the bedroom, "You also know my weakness."

Hotch looked back and forth, "Call JJ, let's go to Milwaukee together. Just now Elle called, and another woman disappeared in the mall." He stood up, "I'll wait for you outside the door, and call Jessie, she's coming with us."

"Hello, this is Gracia's line for Technician."

"Why this tone?" Elle asked with a smile, "I thought I made a typo..."

"Huh... so it's you." Gracia's tone suddenly softened, "I was always on guard in case the supervisor was next to you and eavesdropped on our conversation."

"She's not far away now..." Elle sighed, "I want the list of students from District [-] and Milwaukee, as well as information about the missing woman."

"Count down to five, and upload it immediately." Gracia tapped the keyboard, "By the way, Hotch took JJ and Emily and your little doctor together by plane, let's not tell Strauss yet, give her a big surprise……"

"Okay." Seeing Jessie again, Elle couldn't help but raise her lips.

"Agent Grennaway. What makes you smile so happily?" Strauss stood aside and asked coldly.

"Ah, uh, Gracia has sent information about all the children in this area. According to the monitoring of the last missing person, there was indeed a little boy who had contact with her." Elle turned to Strauss and reported on her work.

"This boy looks less than 7 years old..." Morgan walked into the police station with a big box, which was full of children's files, "Let's start screening one by one..."

"Look!" There was joy in Reid's voice, "Here they come."

Elle turned her head and saw four people standing at the door, with the little doctor standing at the end, smiling at herself.

Hotch walked in and patted Morgan on the shoulder, "I'll help you."

JJ and Emily find a seat, sit down and start looking through the files.

Strauss came in from the door, looking at the few people who did not speak.

"We're just here to help..." Emily glanced at the livid-faced person in front of her.

"We'll talk about that later."

Reid shrugged at Strauss' leaving back and continued looking at the file.

"Thank you for asking Gracia to give me the materials for this case." Hotch whispered to Elle.

"Huh?" Elle was taken aback, "What material? I didn't have time to see Gracia before I left."

Hotch thought of Gracia handing him the file this morning.Slowly recollecting it, my heart warmed up, and I smiled to myself.

"The boy we're looking for may not be a problem child," Elle said after flipping through a few files.

"Why?" Several people present were puzzled for a while.

"It's not hard to see his obedience from him helping his father abduct women." Elle said her own opinion, "He may bring this kind of obedience to school, maybe not the best, but he must be the most obedient."

"Also, he is a single-parent family with a very unstable father," Jessie added.

"In a single-parent family, when one parent is unstable, you try to be a good kid, get home on time, go to school, never be late..." Reid paused for a moment to think, "But there's no basis for profiling."

"I'm calling Gracia." Hotch took out his phone. "I need a list of children from single-parent families in this area, minus those whose father has a formal job."

"receive."

"Wait, Gracia." Hotch pondered his words for a long time before finally saying, "Thank you."

"I just did what I had to do, sir." Gracia smiled on the other end.

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"You guys are a team of rogues..." Strauss looked at the seven people in front of him and got off the plane angrily.

"Rogue team?" Reid scratched his head.

"Our new name..." Emily, still a little dizzy, leaned on JJ and walked slowly down the gangway. "Like it?"

"I don't like it..." Morgan shook his head, "I guess Strauss likes it."

☆, BAU nine-member group