Rossi's imprisonment in the underground shipping container is being livestreamed to the BAU. Rossi sends all the secret messages he can before cutting the feed and making a gas bomb to blow up the door before his oxygen runs out. Sydney gets increasingly suspicious when she stumbles over her husband's kill kit. The Attorney General sends Bailey to negotiate, which fails. Will gets shot, Sydney lucks out, and Sicarius gets apprehended by Luke. Rossi gets through the door, but finds that he is still buried alive, and is ready to give up.
Tropes
- Call-Back: Rossi addresses himself by his full titles when he wants himself to get real.Okay, Marine Sergeant Major Rossi…
- Character Death: Douglas Bailey.
- Flashback: The first scene is a flashback to Rossi and Krystall's first wedding anniversary.
- I Lied: Prentiss thinks this is the best strategy to get Rossi back alive: tell Sicarius they'll let him go, then don't.
- Implausible Deniability: Sydney lampshades how implausible it's gonna sound that for fifteen years, she knew nothing. Elias brings it up a minute later, telling her it won't matter if they prosecute him as Lee Duval because everyone will know she married him and bore his children.
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In Memoriam: Of Harry Bring. - Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane: Krystall shows up when Rossi is ready to give up. Though he thinks she's a figment of his subconscious, it surprises him a bit that she tells him off for being ready to give up, though that is what the real Krystall would do.
- Sequel Hook: The whole business with Gold Star.
- Shout-Out:
- The opening quote is by Leo Tolstoy.
- The closing quote is by Emily Dickinson.
- Together in Death: Subverted. Just when it looks like Krystall comes back to get him, she just reminds Rossi that he should trust his team and keep living, almost as if she knows he's about to be saved.
- The Unreveal: Who comes to see Sicarius?
