- Male college students on spring break are being raped and murdered, presumably by a man and a woman working together. The BAU are called in and suspect a shy hotel cleaner and a receptionist.
- Young male college students - the type the BAU classify as the alpha male - are on spring break vacation in South Padre Island. They are being raped by another man and suffocated to death specifically at the Hudson Street Hotel. The men are found naked in a fetal position in a place where they are sure to be found quickly the in their hotel room. They are also positioned in such a way that housecleaning would have cleaned up any evidence before finding the bodies first. The victims thus far are not gay indicating that any physical act was not consensual. When the next victim is found at another hotel, the BAU believe that this is a red herring, and that the unsub may be a guest or probably an employee at the Hudson Street Hotel. They also believe, based on sexual orientation of the victims, that there are two unsubs: a submissive female who lures the victims, and a dominant male who does the raping and killing. When the BAU have the two people they believe are the perpetrators of the murders, the two do not quite match the profile they had envisioned. Reid digs a little deeper to find the true motive.—Huggo
- A mysterious woman sits in the shadows at a mental hospital. "I'd like to talk about Adam," the doctor says. "He's still missing?" Says the woman: "So I've heard." Reid enters. "Just because you caught me doesn't mean you'll find him," the woman continues, taunting our boy wonder. "You're not that smart." Of course, Reid IS that smart. Just you watch.
Cut to a sign reading, "Spring Break Madness 2009." A title card tells us that it is SEVEN DAYS EARLIER. Bikini-clad girls dance with glow sticks and swill drinks. Young men, meanwhile, prowl about. One young man, Dan, takes a mysterious woman up to his room. But instead of making love, But instead of making love, the man is attacked. Dan ends up dead -- suffocated with a plastic bag. Cut to BAU headquarters. "He was the second victim to be murdered there in the last three days," Jennifer explains. And both victims were killed at the Hudson Street Hotel. Quips Emily: "Men being raped and murdered on spring break, that's a twist." Enough of a twist to warrant a trip to South Padre Island, as it turns out. It's spring break, BAU style!
The team arrives on the scene. Rossi, Derek and Reid question hotel manager Julie, who hasn't noticed anything "out of the ordinary." Of course, ordinary during spring break is a relative term. The trio of investigators head upstairs and Reid immediately finds scratches on the bed post. "The victims were bound before the struggle began," Reid says. Asks Rossi: "Was it consensual, or was it coerced?" Hotch and Emily, in the meantime, meet Detective Reese Evans at local police headquarters. She explains that the first victim's father, Michael Browder, has just arrived to claim his son's body. "Was your son gay?" Hotch asks. "He had had sex with a man before he died. Knowing whether or not it was consensual will let us know how he was targeted." All tact, that Hotch. Dad answers no.
Rossi, Derek and Reid have moved on from the hotel room to the hotel roof, where they interrogate Adam Jackson, a 20-something employee who found the second body. Adam claims to have never seen either victim before. But he does comment that he" knows the type." "They walk around like they own the place," Adam sniffs. Back at police headquarters, Rossi theorizes that the unsub might be a female with a partner. She does the luring while the partner does the raping and killing. Interesting.
The next morning, the team gets news: another body has been found. Cut to a trashed hotel room, where Rossi, Derek and Reid have gathered. "Your unsubs have changed hotels," Evans says. "His friend saw him leaving with a brunette in a green dress." Naturally, that friend has been drinking all day, so the eye witness account is less than reliable. The more important consideration is why the unsubs switched hotels. Rossi believes he has the answer: because she and he saw the FBI questioning staff members at the Hudson.
Cut to Hotch, who briefs the local police. "We believe at least one of our unsubs is either a guest at the Hudson Street Hotel or possibly an employee there," he explains. "We believe we are looking for a dominant-submissive team, a man and a woman probably in their 20s." Continues Emily: "This team targets alpha-personality males who believe that women are their right." The police disperse -- and Garcia calls in with news. She has found surveillance video of the first victim hitting on a hotel employee, Madison Cook -- until none other than Adam steps in to defend her by pushing the dude in the pool. So why did Adam claim to have never seen or met either victim? Turns out Adam has had a tough life. He was beaten by his stepfather, Mark Harrison, who Garcia suspects of killing Adam's mother. "I would bet you that if we could see Mark Harrison back then, he would bear a striking resemblance to our unsubs' victims," Emily notes.
Rossi, in the meantime, storms into Madison's office, demanding to know why she failed to mention Adam's altercation with the first victim. "Julie told us not to," Madison claims. "She was just trying to protect us both!" Derek and Reid head to the roof, where they find Adam. They take the young man into custody. Cut to the police interrogation room. He claims not to remember the pool-side altercation. "Please!" he screams. "I need to talk to Julie!"
Jennifer arrives with news: Adam not only lives at the hotel, but manager Julie pays all his bills. Julie has also bailed him out of jail multiple times in the last few years. Turns out Julie has also had a rough past. She reported a sexual assault in 2003 and the police didn't do a great job of looking into it. Both hotel employees, it seems, might have motives for killing. Julie, however, denies that she or Adam have murdered anyone. Both suspects undergo intense lie-detector questioning -- and both pass with "flying colors."
Spencer isn't so sure. "What if our unsub couple isn't a couple at all?" he asks. Asks Rossi: "You think Adam is a multiple personality?" Emily likes the theory as it would also explain why Adam doesn't remember attacking the first victim. "You could argue that Adam didn't kill those people," Reid says. "A separate person inside him did." The team heads out.
Adam, meanwhile, is suffering from another migraine. Julie heads to the roof to ask why the young man has rope hidden in his closet. "I think that we should go to the police together," Julie says. "Or I'll go by myself." Adam suddenly stands up straight. His voice changes. He is clearly no longer Adam. "My name is Amanda!" he/she says. "Adam doesn't need you anymore!" Amanda/ Adam shoves Julie toward the roof's edge.
The team arrives at the Hudson Street Hotel to find a bloodied Julie lying in the grass. She confirms the personality split, but doesn't know where Adam/ Amanda has gone. "She's going to go after the man her victims represent," Reid says. In other words: Mark Harrison. The wife-and-stepson-beating abuser happens to live nearby. The team rushes to Harrison's home. They burst through the front door with guns drawn to find Amanda/ Adam holding a knife to Harrison's throat. "He put Adam in dresses," Amanda screams. "He beat him!" Says Reid: "I swear to God if you come with me, I will get you and Amanda the help you guys need!" Amanda, steely eyed, claims only "she" can help Adam. With that, Amanda drops the knife. Reid calls for Adam, but he is nowhere to be found. Amanda has apparently decided to keep the boy safe by not letting him back "out" again.
Cut to the doctor's office where we opened the episode. "Tell me, Dr. Reid, how long will you continue visiting me here?" Amanda asks. Says Reid: "Until I find Adam. Until you decide to do the right thing."
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