[Criminal Minds] years before love

When Hotch arrived at the office, Gideon was scribbling on the blackboard full of scene diagrams and the table full of case reports.

"Agent Rossi asked me to get relevant information about the Alaska case." Hotch waited for a while, seeing that he had probably come to an end before speaking.This case was taken by Gideon last night, and he was pulled out so he didn't participate. Hotch is also very clear that Gideon is a pretty good leader and mentor compared to Rossi, who probably never intends to pull people to act together, and is willing to share his insights and experiences with everyone.It's pretty good for him, even if he knew there was a problem between himself and David Rossi, he didn't seem to plan to get into it.Probably there just happened to be a new case, so Gideon didn't reassign the task, and let him follow Rossi directly.

Gideon turned around, hesitated for a moment, and pushed the folder and envelope to him, "Documents and air tickets."

Hotch took it silently, watched him hesitate to speak and did not leave immediately, but did not say anything, just waited for him.

Gideon struggled with how to say it politely, and finally just sighed, "Aaron, be careful."

"What?" Hotch was stunned for a moment, he had an intuition that there was something wrong, since Gideon had already made up his mind, it shouldn't be so unreasonable.

"David Rossi is a very good profiling expert, but in terms of personal feelings... Although the rumors in the bureau are too exaggerated, I still hope you don't get too deep." Gideon looked at him worriedly, neither wanting to explain what he was worried about , and couldn't help but want to ask, "I believe you can handle it well, but you think about it. If you want, you can take it as a friend's suggestion."

"I understand." Hotch nodded, hesitated or gave up explaining, "Actually, I didn't have anything with him—Gideon, you don't have to worry."

Gideon shook his head and said nothing more.

Hotch actually didn't want to discuss this issue with him, he felt that Gideon didn't know that he knew those things, and it was obviously impossible for Rossi to confess to Gideon about his relationship with him back then.

Judging from the situation at that time, Rossi probably didn't think it was too much of a problem to occasionally complain about some half-true lovers' quarrels to her own kid.After all, no one expected to have what it is now.

Rossi didn't say anything, so Hotch just pretended not to know.

A few 10 minutes later, Hotch followed Rossi onto the plane.

The population is sparsely populated to the extent of Alaska, and wild animals are almost everywhere. A few people missing in the wild will probably not attract the attention of the police at all. Human head with bullet holes.

"Judging from the temperature in Alaska, the time between the deaths of these victims may not be very short." Hotch looked at the photos of the victims, "and there are likely to be more victims."

Rossi nodded, "That's right. We're going to take a look at the scene. Although the police didn't find any other parts of the body, and it can't be ruled out that it was destroyed by animals, I still think these heads were kept in safekeeping for a while. Now they are Alaska. During the tourist season, the local government is afraid that news leaks will affect the tourism industry, and hopes that the police can solve the case as soon as possible.”

"Obviously they were in a hurry, but at least the police understood that no animal could cause such a wound." Hotch pointed to the obvious bullet marks. "No bullets were found."

"Judging from the only remaining facial features, the victims were a man and two women. Their identities have not been confirmed yet, and no one is missing from the nearby town." Rossi continued to flip through the case records, "The local police invited someone to investigate Facial restoration, probably by the time we get there."

Hotch opened the map of Alaska that he bought at the airport, and marked the scene of the crime, "As the place of dumping the body, it is a bit too far away from the inhabited town in terms of local conditions."

"Disposing of corpses requires space, and he also needs time to be with them." Rossi compared the distance from the crime scene to several small towns, "The cabins used to process prey will not attract local attention , the murderer still has a foothold."

"Dave, how many cases have you met where the murderer has no special preference for gender?" Hotch was a little puzzled. "If the male victim was an accident, he could have been discarded at will. I believe there are more suitable places in the local area."

"It's still not certain that it has something to do with sex. But obviously he discarded the human head very recently, and the traces of animal damage are still very limited. He probably has a new substitute in his hand."

Hotch pursed his lips, "How likely is it to be alive?"

"It's too early to tell, Aaron, we need to identify the victims first, and figure out how long they've been missing." Rossi patted him. "Don't think too much, we can't save everyone."