Alicia's heart began to feel uneasy.She really wanted to reject this unfounded conjecture, but she couldn't beat the fluke mentality—what if it was true?

She moved her lips, wanting to ask Reid for advice, but unfortunately, it was his turn that the phone rang.

The little doctor went to the side and finished answering the phone, then ran back in a hurry, with an apologetic expression on his face: "I'm sorry, but there is an urgent case, I have to leave first."

"I understand." Aliya swallowed back what she wanted to say, and smiled at him comfortingly, "Although it looks like glass, it might be a piece of diamond. I'm fine, and I'm stronger than you think."

Yes, she needs him, but that doesn't mean she has to keep him.She had figured this out earlier, from a chat with Haley.

"Call me if you need it." Reid took two steps, stopped abruptly, and looked back at her, "I mean, not only when you need it, but anytime..."

Seeing her nodding with a smile, he quickly left.

Facing Alia, Reid always felt a little sorry.Every time, he always thought he could do something, but in fact he didn't do anything, or he didn't do as much as he originally imagined.

When he returned to the bau, other people had already arrived, and Elle, who was wrapped in a layer of gauze on her shoulders, was also sitting by the side and flipping through the documents. Reid took the case information handed over by JJ, and unloaded the messenger bag from his shoulder with the other hand.

"We received help from the Florida police. One of their prisoners killed his attending doctor Dr. Malick and the policeman in the car on the way to the mental hospital, and escaped." JJ turned on the projector and began to introduce the situation , "This matter should start in 2008."

"On May 2008, 5, a murder occurred in the Lake Worth apartment in the San Pablo area of ​​Florida. Six residents were brutally murdered." Several pictures of the murder scene flashed on the projector, and then, jj Set the picture on a muscular bald man.

"McConn Reeve (lmrivers). A few hours later, the police found him in a bathroom in the apartment. At that time, he was covered in blood, curled up on the ground, in a very unstable state of mind, and the police questioned him completely. No answer."

"The police found sufficient evidence to prosecute him for murder, but Reeve brought in a lawyer, refused to plead guilty, and claimed that he knew nothing about the alleged matter. Then, the lawyer invited a well-known psychiatrist to conduct a mental examination on Reeve .During multiple diagnoses, the doctor found that Reeve had 10 split personalities hidden in his body. However, during the trial, the judge believed that the evidence was not enough to prove that Reeve was mentally abnormal, and sentenced him to death.”

"Hey, is it really possible that 11 personalities exist in the same body?" Man put the information back on the table, spread his hands and leaned on the back of the chair.

"William Milligan." Reid suddenly announced a name.

"What?" Man looked at him in bewilderment.

"Or, Billy Milligan, the name you may be familiar with." Reid quickly began to explain, "In December 1978, he was punished for raping four female students at Ohio State University. Charged, but later found not guilty on the grounds that he suffered from multiple split personality. In addition to the female personality, other personalities began to split out of him. In the end, he had a total of 12 personalities."

"Okay, 24. Compared with him, Reeve can only form a football team." Man shrugged.

"This assumption is not true." I don't know why, today Reid couldn't help but talk*, he corrected Man again, "The scientific name of schizophrenia is 'dissociative identity disorder', referred to as did, which belongs to the dissociative type Disorder. Each sub-personality of the patient exists independently and can have different genders, ages, and even species. They can also have completely different upbringings and behavior patterns, and may or may not know each other's existence Exist. While the sub-personality controls the patient's body, the main personality..."

"Reid." Hotch stopped him.He glanced at him, then turned to jj, "Let's listen to jj first."

Reid pursed his lips and nodded.It seemed that after parting with Aliya, he was in a bad mood.But now, he should try to turn his attention back.

Everyone else glanced at him. jj was a little confused, but she didn't forget what she should do.

"But things turned around and there was evidence that this guy was mentally ill."

"The doctor found Reeve's diary. In the urgent midnight hearing, Reeve attended himself. His behavior proved himself, and the court decided to give him a chance. And Dr. Malik proposed to use drugs to guide Reeve's personality in a Fighting in the environment, so that the personality representing goodness can finally control his body. The demise of the evil personality is equivalent to the execution of the death penalty."

"This is a very interesting attempt. The general treatment method is to induce personality fusion, not to obliterate it." Smiling, he has already read the information, "But to a certain extent, he did succeed."

"According to the records here, if the personality of the prostitute Paris Nevada becomes the final winner, why would Reeve kill the doctor and the police?" Elle raised her own question, who also saw the case Many people will have doubts.

"That's what we're looking at," Hotch said, pointing out another point, "McConn Reeve fled all the way north from Florida, and he kept committing murders along the way."

"There are currently six cases in total. Every time he kills a person, he will mark a number on the scene with the blood of the victim." Jj continued to press the button and showed them the photos taken at the scene. At the time of discovery, we have reason to believe that he had been traveling along the highway and was approaching, or had entered, Virginia territory."

"He cut off the upper and lower eyelids of the victims, and cut the corners of their mouths." Man looked at the pictures carefully, and the bloody scenes did not arouse his discomfort, "This is his 08 What did not have the characteristics of the murder committed in [-]. What led to the escalation of his abuse? Is it because of a mistake in the personality induction, so that Reeve gave birth to a new evil personality, or the original evil personality did not disappear, but mutual Combines?"

"The bright red cracked mouth, is this the shape of a clown?" Elle glanced at it and said disdainfully, "It's hard to imagine that someone would think of so many tricks while fleeing. McCann Reeve managed to escape After receiving the death penalty, he didn't hide well, but continued to kill."

"He's being provocative." He picked up the photo and put it in the middle of the table so that everyone can see where he was pointing." He managed to escape from the cage and stood on the street with people coming and going, mocking Those of us who unlocked him ourselves. He wants us to keep our eyes open for the consequences of letting a beast out."

"He left his numbers, deliberately exposed his whereabouts, and hid again." Hotch stood up and looked at his little friend, "He will continue to kill until we catch him."

Just as he was about to assign tasks, there was a knock on the door of the conference room.

"Another fatality," a detective reported, "occurred on the West Virginia into Virginia Highway. A number '7' was left at the scene."

H took the information from him, glanced at it twice, turned to the others, and said, "The victim this time is female, 20 years old, and her name is..."

***********

After Reid left, Alicia called Sarah countless times, but none of them were connected.

Listening to the same ringtone, her mood gradually accumulated, reaching an unprecedented level of irritability.

At the beginning, she tried to convince herself that she was just thinking too much—before Sarah hung up the phone, she said that she seemed to have hit someone, so she had to get out of the car to confirm.

Maybe she just had to deal with the situation at hand, so she didn't bother to answer her phone.Or, was she too anxious and threw the phone aside, or accidentally broke it?

There can be thousands of reasons, but how many of them can fool themselves?

Aliya looked up all the ways and routes from Volhynia to Quantico.All she knew was that Sarah must have just crossed the state line, speeding down a road with not many cars.However, for a person like her who doesn't go out often and rarely drives, the range drawn out is a bit too big.

Twenty minutes passed, and Aliya felt that it was hard to fool herself.

For Sarah, the social queen, she doesn't let her phone leave her for too long.And her personality has always been straightforward, and she doesn't bother to make such jokes with Aliya-seeing so many missed calls, she will definitely return them, even if it is for ridicule.

Alicia kept staring at her phone.After each call, she will stop for 2 minutes to see if there will be a call back.But not all the time... not even for a laugh.

Wait, wait...Compared to the confusion of the previous period, she felt that her whole body was hollowed out, and she was so restless that she couldn't think of anything, and she didn't want to care about anything anymore.There were warm tears in the eyes, slowly slid down the corners of the eyes, and dripped onto the screen.

Maybe she shouldn't have thought that in the first place, why did she curse Sarah?Are you kidding me?

Arya thought, if Sarah called her the next second, tell her it was just a joke.No matter how angry and sad she is, she will definitely forgive her.

but.

No. 14 and 2 minutes passed, and Alia pressed the dial button again.

But this time, the call... was connected!

"Sarah? Hey, where have you been? Why haven't you answered the phone..." She hurriedly poured out the words she had been nagging in her mind for more than 20 minutes, but...

"This is the 7th."

"What? Who are you?" It wasn't Sarah... There was a hoarse and deep male voice on the other end of the phone, and Alia froze for a moment.

Another worst answer popped up in her heart, and with the last sliver of luck, she tentatively asked: "Is Sarah by your side? Can you let her answer the phone?"

"Remember to read the newspaper tomorrow." Ignoring her question, the voice said by itself, still laughing.

"began."

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