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"Hey, Dave." Hotch saw Rossi coming in, stood up and gave him a big hug, "Long time no see."

"You saw me on TV the other day." Rossi patted Hotch on the shoulder, "The last time I saw you you were sitting downstairs, in that little box, sharing a desk with someone else , and now have their own offices."

"Yeah." Hotch was filled with emotion, "I'm glad you joined."

The two chatted about the past, leaving Strauss aside.

"Talk slowly, and come to the office to find me if you need it." Strauss made fun of himself, and exited the door awkwardly, and met JJ who came in to report at the door.

"Sir." JJ blinked. "Ready for briefing."

Hotch nodded, "Let me introduce you, David Rossi."

"Jennifer Jareau, I'm the PR coordinator, sort of an intermediary between the team and the outside world." JJ introduced himself to Rossi, "I've heard you for a long time, sir."

Rossi smiled and watched JJ go away, "It's been more than a year since you asked me to give Jessie a class on profiling."

"Yeah..." Hotch smiled, "I remember you taught people everything except profiling, let's go." He patted Rossi on the shoulder, "I'll take you to meet our other team members .”

"How many people do we have now?" Rossi asked.

"nine."

"Wow, that's really a thriving population."

Everyone briefly met Rossi in the conference room, and JJ started the case introduction, "Michelle Colucci, a suburb outside Dallas, Carrollton, found this flyer pasted on her door 4 days ago. Before she disappeared, she found the local police. , her sheriff friend thought it was a prank and sent her home..."

"Halloween makes everyone goofy." Morgan glanced at Reid. "It's no wonder he thinks it's a prank."

"Yes." JJ motioned everyone to look at the big screen, "But he still went to Michelle's house to check that night. She had disappeared, and the room was full of leaflets with her face printed on the walls." She paused , "The police found her body in a creek yesterday. She was sexually assaulted and her face was peeled off..."

"A criminal who combines violence and playfulness." Elle looked at the tragic picture on the big screen, "cut off the victim's face, and left a mask at the crime scene. He wants to prove his ability, a kind of crime in real life." in the ability he seeks."

"Oh... what's that..." Gracia covered her face with a document and called out from the door of the meeting room.

"Penelope Garcia." Hotch turned aside. "This is Special Agent David Rossi."

"It's gone...JJ." Gracia was quite frightened.

"It's gone." JJ turned off the screen. "You are safe."

"Phew..." Gracia put the file on the table, turned and smiled at Rossi, "It's an honor to meet you, sir."

"She's different." Rossi watched Gracia go out.

"You can't imagine..." Emily held her forehead and smiled to herself.

"Notify the local police that we will leave for Texas early tomorrow morning." Hotch said to JJ, "The local media has reported it, and you have to make sure the public doesn't panic."

"Ok."

"Gracia is not right today." Morgan walked out of the conference room and said seriously, "Every morning when I say good morning to her, she stops and responds to me, every year, every day...except today..."

Jessie and Elle walked ahead, not hearing Morgan's complaints behind.

"Erin White..." As soon as everyone got off the plane and arrived at the police station, they got news of another missing person. "Her flatmate called the police and she never came back after going out for a walk with the dog last night."

"Jessie, Dave, and Reid went to see where Michelle's body was found; Elle, Morgan went to Michelle's house to investigate, JJ, Emily went to Erin's roommate to ask about the situation." Hotch assigned everyone a task, "I went to Erin with the sheriff Check the missing location to see if you can find any new clues.

"The police didn't disclose information about the mask." Rossi pushed aside the branches in front of him, "Why?"

"The criminal wants the police to pay attention to the mask. This is a manifestation of his behavioral ability. We will not move and let him contact the police."

Jessie walked behind, watching Rossi frown after listening to Reid's analysis.

"That won't work." Rossi whispered, "The only way he can contact is to kill people." He stepped on a piece of dead wood, "Water, drown the body, eliminate the evidence, the Green River killer threw the body into the water, he didn't mind the body Was it discovered..."

"But this one is different." Jessie opened the autopsy report, "There are stones tied to the body, obviously he didn't want the body to be found so soon."

Rossi stared at the water: "Obviously, the discovery of this body disrupted his plans."

"Guys." Reid waved the phone, "The missing Erin contacted the police, and she gave us the address. Hotch and they've already left." Within 3 minutes, he frowned and looked at the phone. "We were still a step too late... When Hotch arrived, all she found was her dog and a mess of leaflets with her face on it."

"Do we need to be there?" Rossi asked.

Reid shook his head, "Hotch told us to go straight back to the office to prepare the profile, we can continue the discussion on the way."

"Flyers scattered all over the place?" Rossi was stunned for a moment, then walked forward quickly alone.

"What is he going to do?" Reid asked Jessie puzzled.

"Maybe it's time to call." Jessie understood, knowing that Rossi already had a countermeasure.

"Call?" Reid rubbed his head, very puzzled, "By the way, didn't you take lessons with him before? What did he teach you?"

"Cooking, playing basketball, riding horses and frying gold..." Jessie smiled as she remembered what happened back then, "He taught very well, and you will learn a lot by solving cases with him."

"I found something." Gracia called Emily on the phone and said, "Michelle Colucci drafted a proposal to do decoration for a technology company, and Erin White, resigned 2 months ago... so far I only found these..."

"Wait, Gracia." Emily glanced at Morgan who was not far away, and asked in a low voice, "In the past, you always went to Morgan for this kind of thing, what happened today?"

"Well...the thing is like this." Gracia said angrily, "I met a handsome guy in the coffee shop this morning. I helped him solve the problem on the computer. He left his contact information and said he would invite me Eat. Then this handsome chocolate guy got angry, saying that the man had no good intentions..."

"I see." Emily nodded, hung up the phone, and turned to teach Morgan, "When a woman tells a man how they feel, she doesn't want a critic, she needs to listen."

Morgan was taken aback by the training, and looked at Elle who was standing aside, "Do you think so too?" He suspected that his deduction was wrong.

"Jessie said, 'There's nothing to be courteous about, rape or steal.'"

"What do you mean?" Morgan didn't understand.

"It means that the guy in the coffee shop is not a good guy." Jessie and Reid walked in from the outside, and after hearing the general idea, "Hurry up and finish this case and go back to coax Gracia."

"You also think there's something wrong with that guy?" Seeing Jessie's serious face, Elle couldn't help asking.

"It's okay if we just met by chance, but Gracia met him only after using her professional skills to help him solve problems."

"If it's not a chance encounter, it proves that the person has observed Gracia for a long time, and he knows that she is a computer expert..." Morgan followed Jessie's train of thought and became more and more afraid.

"Don't worry..." Jessie herself was not sure about the direction of this matter, "Maybe I was thinking too much."

"JJ, why did the media report about the mask?" Hotch's words pulled the thinking of several people back.

"It was the media I notified," Rossi said suddenly. "I also said that the FBI believed the masks indicated his sexual incompetence."

"Dave." Hotch said, "We are not ready to deal with it. It's not that you know how to deal with criminals and everything will be fine. It's a sense of teamwork..." Before Hotch could finish his words, the phone in the police station rang .

The inspector picked up the phone, "He's on line 2, indicating that he wants to talk to the FBI."

"I'll call Gracia and ask her to track it down." JJ pulled out his phone.

Hotch was a little surprised, glanced at Rossi, and motioned for everyone to sit at the table.

The voice from the loudspeaker was very low, "You're lying... I'm not-sexual-impo-capable..."

Rossi chuckled, "Should I let you make the headlines and correct yourself? By the way, why is your voice so low? Are you working? Or is there someone next to you? By the way, I watched the police surveillance, and you are in it. When I find you, I will definitely post your photos all over the streets and alleys, and I will fight an eye for an eye."

Before Hotch could stop it, he heard the exasperation coming from the speaker: "You just signed Erin White's death sentence."

While hanging up the phone, Gracia tracked down the location, "Communications Building."

"Let's go." Rossi stood up and straightened his clothes. "He must still be there. He thinks he has plenty of time."

"How did you see him from the surveillance video?" Elle couldn't help admiring Rossi's observation ability, as expected of an old profiler.

"I lied to him."

"..." Elle secretly killed her admiration for Rossi, who was still in its infancy, and looked sideways at the other people at the conference table. Except for the little doctor who had dealt with Rossi before, the expressions of the rest of them were similar to hers...

Especially Hotch.

"You lied to him?" Hotch couldn't believe it. "It's too risky..."

"A murderer like this, we have to fight for the initiative and force him."

"But we are also forced at the same time..." Hotch started the car and sighed, "Let's get in the car first."

"Do you think he can do it?" JJ, who stayed at the police station as a backup with Jessie, turned his head to look at Jessie who started to pack his luggage, "You're starting to prepare for the return journey?"

"I believe in Rossi." Jessie put away her things and put them aside, "Don't look at him occasionally swaying his sword and playing cards out of common sense, but this is often very effective for certain criminals." She looked at her watch, " I'm more worried about Gracia's affair, and that package that Elle received out of nowhere..."

"Don't you know what's going to happen?" JJ asked, "That package came so strangely..."

"Take one step at a time." Jessie sighed, "The order of many things has been disrupted."

The phone rang suddenly, JJ took it, said a few words and hung up the phone. "The capture was successful. As Rossi expected, he was still waiting there. Erin was also rescued." She stood up and packed her belongings. "Let's meet them at the airport."

"You tell me. Focus on the team, eh?" Back at Quantico's headquarters, Rossi walked into the office and sat across from Hotch. "The team members share everything, there is no 'I'."

Looking out the window in a daze, Hotch came back to his senses and nodded.

"But you seem to be hiding a big secret. You used to call Haley at least 10 times, but now..." Rossi paused, "We've been out for so long, and you haven't called her a single time, and, you There is no rush to go home."

"Haley... is gone..." Hotch looked down, like a child who has done something wrong, "I don't know how to get her back."

"Sharing is a skill that can be learned." Rossi dropped the words and walked out the door, only to be stopped by Hotch, "Why did you come back?"

"Maybe I still have unfulfilled wishes." Rossi said in a low voice, walked to the door of the office next door, put down his luggage, leaned against the door frame and looked at the dark office, remained silent for a long time, and reached out to remove the nameplate with "Jason Gideon" printed on the door.

"Why hasn't she come back..." Not far from Gracia's house, Morgan was driving an SUV, lying on the steering wheel, bored.

"No, you said you can just apologize...why did you call us here?" Elle was very dissatisfied with Morgan's behavior of disturbing herself and the little doctor at night. "take me Out to eat……"

"Okay, okay..." Morgan looked at the four people behind him, "You can coax Gracia for me today, as many meals as you want."

"You said it yourself." JJ looked at Emily with a smile, "Quickly record it for him..."

Jessie kept her hand on the holster, not terrified.

"They're back." Jessie stared out the car window. "Let's get out of the car."

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