airdate: October 21, 2009
written by: Breen Frazier
directed by: Rob Spera

• When Garcia talked about that blonde haired, blue eyed bundles of joy gained top dollar on the adoption market. The team realized that the Unsubs are only interested in children with specific characteristics. Furthermore, when Reid looked at the pattern of churches where the children were left, Rossi noticed that all children who ended up in foster care were girls.

• Robert and Linda Reimann. He was abusive to his wife and then she ended up with breast cancer. She delivered a stillborn son, named Michael, 5 years prior. Robert abducted blonde haired, blue eyed women who had some form of addiction. They cleaned up the women, got them healthy and impregnated them. Linda used her cancer medication to help the girls carry the baby to term after several girls miscarried. If the women gave birth to girls, Linda brought them to a Methodist church and left them on the step where they were put into foster care and then adopted. If they were boys, they were kept. They wanted a replacement for their son Michael. Linda ended up with Stage 4 breast cancer because she used her medication on the women rather than herself.
  

• Garcia (when looking at adoption data): "Yeah, according to this, blue-eyed, blonde-haired bundles of joy pay top dollar."

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• Morgan is recommended to become Unit Chief, although he agrees to, temporarily. Hotch is under a lot of pressure and any screwups will force them to terminate him and disband the BAU. Hotch begins to train Morgan for his job in order to preserve the Unit and it's members.
  

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