Criminal Minds: Suspect Behavior Episode 1.10 The Time Is Now

Cooper and Fickler fly to Los Angeles when a past case of Fickler's comes into question. Veronica Day, on death row for killing her mother and then influencing three teenage boys to kill their parents, is petitioning for a mistrial based on Fickler's testimony of Veronica's kills as being unique. Apparently, Veronica has quite a following and copy cat kills occur as a result of her growing popularity. Her council suggests that her kills were anything but unique especially since a similar crime was committed while she was in prison. Cooper calls in the rest of his team when the prosecuting attorney, Andy Armus, receives a threatening note in the smashed out window of his car. Someone clearly wants to scare him off the case. Maybe it was one of Veronica's many fans. Things worsen when someone breaks into Armus' house in the middle of the night and leaves a trail of blood on his bed and writes Veronica's signature line "the time is now" on the wall. Cooper spends some time with Veronica hoping to get a better profile of her and he discovers that Veronica is still very much affected by her mother's death. The judge is forced to grant a mistrial when new evidence is submitted revealing that the original prosecutor, Gordon Ramirez, withheld substantial evidence regarding the murder of Veronica's mother. A state trooper recalled seeing a man fleeing the crime scene and Ramirez failed to enter it into evidence. Veronica Day is released from prison and granted a mistrial. Our team must catch up to her before she does any more harm. We find her at the home of Rachel Lidge's, whose brother fell victim to Veronica and ended up killing his parents. We think Veronica is there to hurt Rachel when in actuality she's there to apologize and turn herself in. Armus' son confesses to the two pranks that he played on his father hoping to gain his attention.