Plot-bunny: Highlander/Criminal Minds
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marblegloveYet another Highlander / Criminal Minds plot bunny largely because my need for such a story has been completely unfulfilled. How is it that I haven't found any yet? Aargh.
Anyway, in this particular plot, there was a poisoner. I'm not sure what his motivations were but probably something that Duncan MacLeod of the Clan MacLeod can discuss seriously. Maybe it will give him a flash back or two of the time he had to deal with a previous poisoner. Might be fun to make it a flash-back to the puritan witch trials. Actually, let's do that:
Some poor widow woman was killed as a witch. Her best friend or some such decided to poison the town in revenge. Everyone started to get sick. The town decided it was the curse of the dead old woman. Mac discovers the real culprit, he stops her from continuing the poisoning. Then it's discovered that the reason for the original accusation was the quickening that Mac took. And then the second woman is discovered by the towns folk to have been poisoning them and she too is killed as a witch. Mac drowns in his own guilt. It's all tragic.
The modern day poisoning is probably motivated in some similar fashion.
Then BAU gets involved and they decide that Mac himself is a likely suspect:
"They think I"m a serial killer!" Mac sounded upset.
Methos looked at him blankly. "Um, Mac. You are a serial killer."
"I am--," faced with Methos' patent look of disbelief, Mac only got two words into his denial before breaking off. "Okay, I do kill people periodically. But I'm not the serial killer they're looking for!"
That cracked Methos up. At Mac's put-upon look, Methos waved one hand in vague apology even as he continued to wheeze with laughter. "Why do they think you're a serial killer? I take it, it's not because of the number of headless bodies you leave behind you?"
"No." Mac glared. "It's because apparently everyone else who got coffee from a particular machine has showed signs of poisoning and I haven't."
"And you didn't notice anything odd about the coffee?"
"No. Actually, it was particularly good coffee. The taste was a bit odd but it carried a serious hit. Always woke me right up."
The look of disbelief had returned to Methos' face. "The taste was off, but it woke you right up," he repeated.
"What?"
"It woke you right up, like, say, having your quickening jar you awake with a healing? That sort of wake-you-right-up, maybe?"
"I, uh, poisons do that?" Mac wasn't used to feeling inexperienced, but apparently he didn't have enough experience with poisons. It shouldn't surprise him that apparently Methos had all sorts of experience with being slipped poison.
"Yes, Mac. That's what poisons do." Methos spoke in the tone of voice one used on a particularly slow five-year-old.
Really, it was only natural that people would want to kill Methos, Mac thought. In fact, he was thinking of it right now.
Skip to the end:
Mac will have talked down the poisoner who will now feel bad and guilty and whatnot and want to go off to seek redemption. But there's the BAU agents hot on the case. What's a girl to do. Mac wants to confess to the crime in order to get her off.
In fact, he does so. Then the BAU has a serial killer who has confessed to serial poisoning and are trying to figure out how this particular profile works or doesn't work. In the end, they do find the correct poisoner and arrest her.
Hotcher and Gideon watch as Mac walks away.
"We know he's a serial killer."
"Yes. And a hell of a lot more dangerous than the woman we did just arrest."
"But he didn't commit these particular crimes."
"And if we arrested him for them, it would mess up profiles for years to come."
"Are we going to be able to arrest him for the crimes he did commit?"
"I doubt it. But I have Reid looking through the records just in case."
Anyway, in this particular plot, there was a poisoner. I'm not sure what his motivations were but probably something that Duncan MacLeod of the Clan MacLeod can discuss seriously. Maybe it will give him a flash back or two of the time he had to deal with a previous poisoner. Might be fun to make it a flash-back to the puritan witch trials. Actually, let's do that:
Some poor widow woman was killed as a witch. Her best friend or some such decided to poison the town in revenge. Everyone started to get sick. The town decided it was the curse of the dead old woman. Mac discovers the real culprit, he stops her from continuing the poisoning. Then it's discovered that the reason for the original accusation was the quickening that Mac took. And then the second woman is discovered by the towns folk to have been poisoning them and she too is killed as a witch. Mac drowns in his own guilt. It's all tragic.
The modern day poisoning is probably motivated in some similar fashion.
Then BAU gets involved and they decide that Mac himself is a likely suspect:
"They think I"m a serial killer!" Mac sounded upset.
Methos looked at him blankly. "Um, Mac. You are a serial killer."
"I am--," faced with Methos' patent look of disbelief, Mac only got two words into his denial before breaking off. "Okay, I do kill people periodically. But I'm not the serial killer they're looking for!"
That cracked Methos up. At Mac's put-upon look, Methos waved one hand in vague apology even as he continued to wheeze with laughter. "Why do they think you're a serial killer? I take it, it's not because of the number of headless bodies you leave behind you?"
"No." Mac glared. "It's because apparently everyone else who got coffee from a particular machine has showed signs of poisoning and I haven't."
"And you didn't notice anything odd about the coffee?"
"No. Actually, it was particularly good coffee. The taste was a bit odd but it carried a serious hit. Always woke me right up."
The look of disbelief had returned to Methos' face. "The taste was off, but it woke you right up," he repeated.
"What?"
"It woke you right up, like, say, having your quickening jar you awake with a healing? That sort of wake-you-right-up, maybe?"
"I, uh, poisons do that?" Mac wasn't used to feeling inexperienced, but apparently he didn't have enough experience with poisons. It shouldn't surprise him that apparently Methos had all sorts of experience with being slipped poison.
"Yes, Mac. That's what poisons do." Methos spoke in the tone of voice one used on a particularly slow five-year-old.
Really, it was only natural that people would want to kill Methos, Mac thought. In fact, he was thinking of it right now.
Skip to the end:
Mac will have talked down the poisoner who will now feel bad and guilty and whatnot and want to go off to seek redemption. But there's the BAU agents hot on the case. What's a girl to do. Mac wants to confess to the crime in order to get her off.
In fact, he does so. Then the BAU has a serial killer who has confessed to serial poisoning and are trying to figure out how this particular profile works or doesn't work. In the end, they do find the correct poisoner and arrest her.
Hotcher and Gideon watch as Mac walks away.
"We know he's a serial killer."
"Yes. And a hell of a lot more dangerous than the woman we did just arrest."
"But he didn't commit these particular crimes."
"And if we arrested him for them, it would mess up profiles for years to come."
"Are we going to be able to arrest him for the crimes he did commit?"
"I doubt it. But I have Reid looking through the records just in case."
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another bit
Date: 2009-12-13 11:39 pm (UTC)Gidean shrugged. "It doesn't act like any other cult that's been profiled."
Hotchner plays devil's advocate: "They almost always kill themselves rather than tell us anything about it. And when they do talk, they lie."
"Historical documents of strange murders say it's more like the proverbial Illuminati. The people who have been identified as decapitators have all been too individualistic to be following some other cult leader. MacLeod fits right in to that profile, such as it is, a lot better than he does into any other type of cult profile."