[Criminal Minds] Wooden Legs of Justice

Tim stood in front of Strong's house for a while, not rushing in. Looking at the messy garden, Hotch also frowned, but he had an iceberg face, so this movement didn't seem to be significantly different from his usual expression.

Originally, this should be a beautiful garden, and it can be seen that the owner has taken care of them carefully.The lawn is tidy and the shrubs are neatly arranged.But now, the flowers that should be in full bloom in spring are pulled out and thrown aside casually.The beautiful lawn was trampled into a mess.

Colleagues from the Forensic Section saw two BAU agents and went up to greet Tim and the others.

"What's going on?" Hotch asked the others, is this a threat?

"Can you find any clues?" Tim also didn't take this threat seriously, maybe this strong judge is already in trouble.

Wen Yan, a police officer in the Forensic Section, shrugged, "There are messy footprints everywhere, and I can't find any clues at all."

"It's like a group of people came in and stomped around." Tim also nodded in agreement, glanced around the yard, and then noticed the cameras installed under the eaves.

These cameras were installed by Leo before, but unfortunately the power is only enough to last for 18 hours, and the object is the road where he is standing in front of him. The monitoring range obviously cannot reach the garden of this house. Tim regretted not letting Leo adjust the camera before, after all, Leo still thought it was a murder or kidnapping case at that time, and the focus of surveillance was on the street.

Tim and Hotch looked at each other, and both felt that Judge Strong's so-called threat was just like a prank!It's like a naughty neighbor kid ran in, or a naughty puppy once broke in and wreaked havoc.

For a moment, Tim's suspicion of Judge Strong rose to the highest point - as if he wanted to divert the attention of the police.

But the policeman from the forensics department said: "You can see the inside of the room." The policeman said to the two that he could clearly see the impatience of Tim and Hotch.

"Is Judge Strong in the room now?" Tim found that Judge Strong was not outside the door, and he didn't seem to care about the investigation at all.That's not like the reaction of someone who would take the threat seriously and call the police.

A person from the forensics department said, "He locked himself in the bedroom, and his mood was not very stable." The police officer showed a strange expression: "You can see why if you look inside the room."

When Tim walked into the room, he finally understood why Judge Strong's mood was unstable.

The inside of the room was painted in a mess, with bright red writing almost all over the living room, "youknowwhoIam" was written all over the wall, floor and door. But it seems to be arranged according to certain rules, like an ancient totem.

"It's just red paint." Tim ran his hands over the dry writing on the wall.Indeed, if it was blood, it would not be so bright red. After such a long time, it would be a dark red color, and it might turn into a rust color.

"The depressive feeling that bright red brings to people is stronger than any other color. This kind of mental pressure will make people collapse." Hotch finally knew why Judge Strong was willing to hide in the bedroom.

The focus of Tim's attention is not on the topic of "reasonable use of color". He looked at the words on the wall and instantly felt that the matter was too big - the rhetorical method of youknowwhoiam was too similar to the message Leo and the little doctor received. Like, that elusive whoyouare...

"Garcia said he didn't see anyone, and the cameras we set up didn't record anyone coming in or out." Leo's voice rang through the phone: "But Judge Strong's bedroom is indeed a dead corner. It's easy to get in from the nearby woods." Drilling into the garden and then climbing up the tree gives direct access to the bedroom.

The voice of the big lion came from the mobile phone, Director Bingshan's hawk-like eyes scanned around, and finally fixed on the small forest outside the window on the second floor.There are so many trees that even if there is a camera, it may not be able to take a clear picture.

"We saw it. I'll send you back the photos of the scene here in a while." Tim hung up the phone again.

The blond monster's expression was not very happy, and he was no longer as carefree as he often showed.He always felt that the red font on the wall was similar to the messages Leo and the others received, and this weird feeling lingered. Hotch looked at Tim blankly, then reached out and squeezed Tim's wrist.The blond monster came back to his senses, showing a wry smile.

Maybe it was because of the sound in the living room, the door of the bedroom was "slammed" open, as if a little sound could make Judge Strong feel more emboldened.

Judge Strong came down from the second floor. He seemed to have aged a lot overnight, and his eyes were bloodshot.

He twitched his lips tremblingly and hesitantly, and just stood at the bottom of the stairs, looking like he had no intention of going to the living room, maybe because the terrible situation in the living room made him nervous.

"Do you know what this sentence means?" Director Bingshan Hotch softened his tone, not wanting to scare the old man who was already frightened.

Judge Strong hesitated for a long time. Just when the two BIUs thought he was unwilling to answer, Judge Strong spoke up: "I don't know what he wants to say..." He said tremblingly.

Tim narrowed his eyes: "Him? So you saw him—the man who made your living room and garden like this.?" Tim keenly caught the loophole in the judge's words.The average person uses a figure of speech like "I don't know what that means" rather than a specific pronoun like "he" when they don't know.

"I saw this man in the garden last night." Judge Strong swallowed hard and said.

"Can you describe his appearance?" Tim felt dizzy for a while - he speculated based on "criminal mood", he had clearly put the judge inside the suspect before, but suddenly this obvious and staring expression appeared again. Leo's people have associated threats, and don't know what that means.After all, judging by the expression on Judge Strong's face, he is like an unknowing victim, just like the little doctor and the big lion said, terrified, anxious and sad about his wife's disappearance.

"It was too dark for me to see clearly, he was wearing a hat, he said he was from Mississippi, and then insisted that I should know who he was... Does this have anything to do with my wife?" Hesitant, he seemed to be very afraid of the unknown threat, and at the same time worried about his wife's situation.

"We don't know yet." Hotch reassured him, "We're trying to figure it out. Besides he's from Mississippi, do you have any other information you can give us?"

"I don't know, probably not." The judge shook his head dejectedly. He originally hoped that the two BAU agents would help him catch that inexplicable threat.But as things stand, it seems hopeless.

"He insisted that I should know who he was. He said he was from Mississippi. Let me think about it. But I thought about it all night, and I didn't think that one of the criminals I tried was from Mississippi. It must be a criminal who got away with it!" Judge Strong was a little emotional, his bloodshot eyes protruded a little, which made him look a little crazy, "You must catch him, he must have kidnapped my wife!"

Tim and Hotch didn't talk, let alone whether the two cases were related, the fact that one case fell into another case was enough to give them a headache!It seems that the target of these two cases is Judge Strong, but who will offend an old judge who enforces the law impartially?Kidnapping his wife but not showing up, threatening him but seemingly aimless criminal activity.

"Terrible scene." The little doctor quickly clicked the mouse to browse through the photos taken by the subject. Tim just emailed him with the judge's conversation. Leo looked at the little doctor helplessly, is this the characteristic of animals with three claws?Replace one paw that cannot move with the other paw that moves quickly? Leo said that he couldn't keep up with this browsing speed.

"From Mississippi? What does this mean? Let me say that you know who I am. This threat seems to be full of confidence, and the criminal thinks that the other party should know him." The little doctor finished reading and turned to look at Leo who was stiff beside him.The big lion had a blank face, without any expression.

"An arrogant person who thinks everyone should know him. Such a person has a certain social status, but this social status is not enough for everyone to know him." The big lion's slow analysis seems to have become their I am used to it at work, guessing a person from a few words, making a test, and finding the most qualified person in the crowd.

"A person with a high exposure rate will be relatively high, but he is not a star." The little doctor went on to analyze, "Such people are typical delusional, self-inflated, think that they are very great, or think that they have made enough contributions to society , then, this is still a public official.”

"But he thinks that all his efforts have not been rewarded accordingly... It feels like a judge is familiar with it, or they have contacted it in their work." The big lion leaned back on the chair completely.

"And being from Mississippi, we can ask Garcia to do a search for someone like that in the judge's circle of friends."