Tabula Rase

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Roanoke, Virginia (2004)

Watson, Morgan, Hotch, and a SWAT team are going up the stairs of an apartment building. Upon walking down a hall a man comes out in running gear and freezes when he sees the team of police. Morgan quietly tells him to be quiet as they continue on towards an apartment door

Hotch: "Brian Matloff, this is the FBI! We have a warrant for your arrest!" he calls out as they hear nothing and then gives the ok for one of the SWAT members to break open the door

Man: "Clear! Clear! Clear!"

Morgan: "He's going to the roof!" he calls out seeing the man climbing up the fire escape "You got nowhere to go, man. Matloff!" when he reaches the ledge of the roof he watches as Brian runs and jumps to get to the either side only for him to miss it and end up hanging onto the ledge "Hang on, man! I'm coming over there."

Hotch: "Morgan, don't do it!" he says when he sees the agent get a running start before jumping onto the other roof
Morgan: "No!" he yells out when right as he's about to reach for Brian he slips and falls to the ground below him

SWAT: "He's still alive."

Man: "Not for long. Not after that."

Man 2: "We need E.M.S. southside alleyway. Send them now." he says as Morgan, Hotch, and Watson share a look before looking down at the men on the ground

Present Day

Reid: "It's remarkable

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Reid: "It's remarkable. Something like this makes you question everything you thought you knew."

Garcia: "Yeah. It's like the Monolith in 2001."

Reid: "So there was actually a time when something like this was socially acceptable?"

Garcia: "Oh...you're young. The eighties left a lot of people confused."

Watson: "This is, uh, especially sad, though." she says as they look at an old photo of Emily making her give them an annoyed look

Emily: "All right, very funny, you guys. Very funny. What did you do to it?"

Garcia: "Do?"

Emily: "Well, you obviously altered it in photoshop or something. That hair?"

Garcia: "Oh, no, pussycat. That's all you. Garfield High, class of '89."

Emily: "You really didn't change anything?"

Garcia: "I hacked it, as is. You're seriously trying to tell me you don't remember rocking that look?"

Reid: "Perhaps your lack of recognition stems from a dissociative fugue suffered in adolescence. Say, at a Siouxsie and the Banshees concert." he says making Watson chuckles

Emily: "It's so weird. It's like some other life." she mutters as she looks at the photo and Hotch comes over with a distraught look on his face 

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