The team was dealing with a difficult case. There was a serial killer on the run, targeting high-risk victims in high-foot traffic areas. The unsub was tearing through towns faster than the team was used to. They were devolving.

So, in such cases, the team looks at their roots. Their comfort zones. It appears that the unsub is making their way back to their family up north. A woman and her two-year old little girl. According to Penelope, the woman had the baby at eighteen. She was twenty now, with her two-year old daughter.

The problem was, the woman seemed entirely uninterested in being a mother. Further digging shows that CPS had come by the place more than thrice within the two years of the baby being born. It was alarming.

It also didn't help that the woman had a new boyfriend, much like the unsub, the man was aggressive and hostile when drunk -- which was always.

You and Spencer were the ones sent to interview the family. You were frustrated as you wrote up the review and Spencer noticed. Being an orphan, you knew all too well how it felt to be alone. And surely that kid was more than lonely right now.

As the case progressed, you continued to check in on the little girl and her mother. Often times, the kid could be heard crying from outside the house while her mother was either out on a date or getting stoned outside. It filled you with rage.

The team watched the unsub's daughter and his wife from a distance. When the unsub finally returned to the their house to try to take his daughter, the team was able to apprehend him.

CPS came to the house after your report stated that both the mother and the boyfriend were stoned as the unsub snuck into their house to take the kid and now the kid was placed in foster care.

-- time skip--

It had been a few days since the case, you couldn't stop thinking about the kid. You stayed up late at night thinking of it, wrote about it in your journal a dozen times, calculated your finances. You finally decided to talk to the one person you trusted most -- Spencer.