| Synopsis: |

When Prentiss and Reid go undercover to investigate possible child abuse at an underground cult, they get trapped inside the compound when a federal raid on the fortress goes bad.
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| Set In: |
| La Plata County, CO |
| Best Moments Between Characters: |
- When Prentiss was being beaten by Cyrus, she kept saying that she could take it so that Hotch and the team would not endanger themselves by coming in too early.
- On the plane ride home, Prentiss explains to Reid that it wasn't his fault, and that she made the decision herself to come forward and admit to being FBI Agent.
- When Morgan and Prentiss are communicating by speech and long-range laser pointer.
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| Best Lines: |
- Garcia: "Ah, we got bupkiss. It's like the guy never cast a shadow on the known universe. However his predecessor, Leo Cane, is doing a 17-year prison sentence. Apparently Libertarians do not like paying taxes."
Morgan: "17 years for tax evasion?" Garcia: "Oh no, that'd be two years for tax evasion and 15 for going after four IRS-agents with a Louisville slugger."
- Hotch (to the attorney general): "I'm Aaron Hotchner, Unit Chief. I'm the guy who's going to tell the attorney general of the United States whether to charge you with obstructing a federal investigation or negligent homicide. Get off my crime scene."
- Reid: "I'm just demonstrating that you can use The Bible to manipulate anything."
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| The Turning Point in the Investigation: |
When Prentiss gets one of the cult's women to confess to making the initial phone call. Then they are able to safely go forward with the raid.
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| Whodunit? |
Benjamin Cyrus (aka Charles McGrew), the leader of the compound.
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| Trivia: |
| The Waco Siege is one of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives, aka ATF, biggest failures. As a result of the ATF's failure to execute a search warrant, the FBI initiated a siege, which would kill seventy-six people. Of these, 24 were British Nationals, at least 20 were children, 2 were pregnant women. This is also one of the worst failures in the history of the FBI. |