The historical society is odd, especially for an engineer to be part of. Garcia can't access it because it's thousands of years old and all the records are in books somewhere, not properly scanned online. She is horrified.
Given that the group is interviewing a bunch of the other professors anyway, they ask a few of the history professors if they know anything about "The Watchers" based in France and why our dead guy would be on their payroll. One of them says, yeah, they're a really peculiar group but have meticulous records going back several thousand years. It's possible to apply to the Watchers for information and they'll send you what they have, but only employees get access to the originals. From what she's seen of the records, the Watchers apparently track particularly dangerous individuals: leaders, warlords, mercenaries, etc. She's not sure how they're identified. But if the engineering professor was on their payroll, she bet that the Watchers had hired him to follow someone. Given that he wound up dead, maybe they should have hired a private detective rather than a professor.
Hotchner says, Hmm. Spencer says, what if she was right, and he was hired to follow someone around. The professor would have gone out of his way to hide the connection he had to his subject, but a particularly dangerous subject would have identified him anyway. The unsub might have felt honored to have been chosen and upset when his, his biographer, basically, was killed.
***
Garcia: I've been bored so I was looking at the emails going through the university server. Nothing particularly suspicious so far, well, nothing out of the ordinary for a college campus. But get this, one of the Teaching Fellows: Adam Pierson is only 32, so we didn't pay that much attention to him.
Yes?
He gets emails from two people off campus, both of whom call him "old man".
Well, that could be just humor based on the British stereotype...
Let's check him out
***
Gideon just interviewed Pierson: He's our unsub.
What? He looked and sounded just like any other academic.
I had put some fairly graphic torture pictures up on the walls. We walked past them. Remember the first time you saw something like that. People are horrified and yet can't look away. He clearly glanced at them, identified what they were, and then carried on the conversation.
That could mean he has sociopathic tendencies. It doesn't mean that he's carried them out.
since this didn't properly purge the idea...
Given that the group is interviewing a bunch of the other professors anyway, they ask a few of the history professors if they know anything about "The Watchers" based in France and why our dead guy would be on their payroll. One of them says, yeah, they're a really peculiar group but have meticulous records going back several thousand years. It's possible to apply to the Watchers for information and they'll send you what they have, but only employees get access to the originals. From what she's seen of the records, the Watchers apparently track particularly dangerous individuals: leaders, warlords, mercenaries, etc. She's not sure how they're identified. But if the engineering professor was on their payroll, she bet that the Watchers had hired him to follow someone. Given that he wound up dead, maybe they should have hired a private detective rather than a professor.
Hotchner says, Hmm. Spencer says, what if she was right, and he was hired to follow someone around. The professor would have gone out of his way to hide the connection he had to his subject, but a particularly dangerous subject would have identified him anyway. The unsub might have felt honored to have been chosen and upset when his, his biographer, basically, was killed.
***
Garcia: I've been bored so I was looking at the emails going through the university server. Nothing particularly suspicious so far, well, nothing out of the ordinary for a college campus. But get this, one of the Teaching Fellows: Adam Pierson is only 32, so we didn't pay that much attention to him.
Yes?
He gets emails from two people off campus, both of whom call him "old man".
Well, that could be just humor based on the British stereotype...
Let's check him out
***
Gideon just interviewed Pierson: He's our unsub.
What? He looked and sounded just like any other academic.
I had put some fairly graphic torture pictures up on the walls. We walked past them. Remember the first time you saw something like that. People are horrified and yet can't look away. He clearly glanced at them, identified what they were, and then carried on the conversation.
That could mean he has sociopathic tendencies. It doesn't mean that he's carried them out.
True. Hmm.