FBI: Most Wanted – Prophet

By: Mary Watkins

The episode begins with us seeing a little more into the life of Jess LaCoix (Julian McMahon) and his daughter Tali (YaYa Gosselin). There is a nature search competition coming up that Tali used to do with her mother every year before she passed away and Jess mentions to Tali he has signed them up to do it together. Tali clearly doesn’t want to do it as she even mentions to Jess that it was something she did with her mother. Here we can see Jess is trying to be there for his daughter and keep things as normal as possible. While Jess is trying to do his best, we see in another area of town a man named Quentin Garvey (Jonathan Scarfe) has his own little piece of creepy paradise happening.

Quentin has created a Manson type lifestyle. He has managed to get men and women to believe in the whole anti-technology life and to join him as they all live on secluded land called The Meadow and he is their leader. He has taken on two young wives and runs a tight ship. He doesn’t let anyone go or do anything without his permission. All seems to be going just the way he wants until we find out his first wife Rose (Charlotte Schweiger) no longer wants to live that kind of life. We first see Rose when she is at a local grocery store buying supplies. She is there with her three children, her sister Leanne (Mallory Bechtel) and Billy (Leonidas Ocampo). Rose is clearly frazzled and something seems off. She asks the clerk to borrow the phone. She steps away from Leanne and Billy while she makes a call. She never makes contact with whoever she is calling and this seems to make her more nervous. She is holding her baby and not only can you see the fear in her face but you can feel it in her body.

While they are shopping we flash to Quentin as he is talking to two of his disciples. He is telling them he had a dream the night before and he now knows there is a traitor amongst them and he knows what needs to be done. Back at the grocery store Rose and everyone are preparing to load up in a van and leave when those same two disciples show up. John (Luke Slattery) and Ray (Christopher Ryan Grant) tell Rose that Quentin wants to talk with her. They tell Leanne and Billy to take their car and they will ride with Rose and the children. As John, Ray and Rose drive off the look Leanne and Rose exchange lets you know something is wrong. We next see is Rose coming out of the woods covered in blood holding her baby. The same clerk from the store is driving down the road when he spots her and stops. He goes running over to Rose as she starts screaming, “They killed my kids!”

Now enters Jess and his team to find Quentin and stop the crazy before anyone else is killed. Jess goes to the hospital to talk to Rose and find out what happened. Here we learn that she was planning on taking the kids and Leanne and running away. Quentin was going to take Leanne to bond with, or in other words marry. He was planning on making Leanne his third wife and she is only seventeen years old. Leanne didn’t want to be with Quentin because she was in love with Billy. After Jess is done talking to Rose, he leaves the room and asks the doctor about her wounds. Here we find out that Rose was first struck in the back of the head with an object and then grazed by a bullet in the forehead to make it look like someone had killed her. So, someone was trying to protect Rose and apparently is not on Quentin’s side.

As the hunt for Quentin begins the team goes to The Meadows and start looking and asking questions. They barge into Rose and Quentin’s home that they shared with the second wife. The team starts searching the house for clues and come upon a painting of a sail boat with a saying about free love written with initials M.W. Jess needs to find out who M.W. is in hopes whoever it is might know where to find Quentin.  We then see Quentin, Jay, Ray, Leanne and another woman Daisy (Elizabeth Scopel) all in a wooded area. Everyone except Leanne is talking about their next move. Quentin tells them they are going to paradise and will send for everyone else later. He tells Daisy to keep an eye on Leanne and make sure she isn’t a traitor like her sister.

Back at the FBI Jess and his team have uncovered Quentin’s assorted past. Quentin served time in prison for raping young teenage girls. While in prison he had a cell mate that was serving time for the same reason. The cell mates name was Marcus Wilson (Andrew Elvis Miller) and Jess puts two and two to figure out that Marcus is the M.W. they were looking for. So, Jess and Sheryll (Roxy Sternberg) go to visit Marcus and see if they can find out anything. While they are there, they learn that Marcus likes to paint. After the warden took away inappropriate paintings he had done, he started to paint sail boats. Jess learns that Quentin had been sending Marcus a thousand dollars a month and Marcus had painted that picture for him. Jess and Sheryll try to get Marcus to tell them where Quentin might go, but he just denies any knowledge and refuses to help. Soon with the help of Hana (Keisha Castle-Hughes), the tech master of the team, she is able to uncover and encrypted message on a message board between Marcus and Quentin. The message is simple. Marcus will be out in two days and he plans on meeting Quentin and he wants Quentin to bring treats – a/k/a the young girls.

In order to do this Quentin needs money to get where he needs to be. After an unsuccessful attempt to rob Daisy’s parents of money in their home safe, Quentin gets Daisy to drug a rich teenage girl and takes her hostage as well. After draining the teenage girl’s bank accounts, he decides to keep her, probably as the treat for Marcus. At a stop at the gas station Leanne and the girl are in the bathroom. Leanne asks the girl to tell Quentin something is wrong with her. Leanne tells the girl that when Quentin and Daisy come to check on her that she is to run for help. The girl does exactly as she is told and she is able to escape. The girl shares with Jess and team what direction Quentin and the rest were headed and says that he said they were going to paradise.

Jess learns that Quentin had some land that he had stolen from a man and that is where is may be headed. This land may be the paradise he has been talking about. So, Jess and the team suit up and set up a stake out around the house on the property. It’s not very long after nightfall that a car shows up to the house. As two people are exiting the vehicle, Jess and his team move in. Two men are jumping out of the vehicle and we see that is it is Ray and John. Ray pulls out a gun and is shot down. John gives up. John tells Jess he was the one that shot Rose. He purposefully made it look like she was dead so Ray wouldn’t actually kill her. He said Ray is the one who killed the kids and after Ray had done that John had woke up and realized what Quentin was doing was wrong. John wanted to help Leanne escape. John tells Jess where Quentin is headed with Daisy and Leanne.

We see Jess and his team surrounding a cabin in the middle of nowhere and Jess calls Quentin on a burner cell. Jess tells Quentin he is surrounded and he needs to give himself up. Quentin replies that if anyone attempts to take him out that his whole cult at The Meadow is prepared to commit a mass suicide. So, instead Jess convinces Quentin to let him into the cabin just to check on the girls and make sure they are okay. Jess enters the cabin unarmed with an envelope. Jess sees Leanne has a gun to her head by Quentin and Daisy has another gun pointed at him. Now, while Jess was at the home of Daisy’s parents earlier he had discovered that Daisy was a troubled young woman because she was molested as a little girl. This becomes useful information to Jess in this situation.

Quentin tells Jess he saw the girls and he needs to leave; however, Jess as usual has a plan. He pulls out a piece of paper from the envelope. He turns it around to reveal the painting of the sail boat. Quentin tells Jess to leave the painting and get out. Jess starts talking to Daisy directly, disregarding Quentin’s order to leave. Jess says to Daisy the painting was done by an old cellmate of Quentin’s and the man was in prison for molesting innocent girls like she was. Jess tells Daisy that Quentin plans on meeting up with this man and giving her and Leanne over to him. Jess is telling Daisy about all the horrible thing Quentin has done, all the time while Quentin is denying it and telling her not to listen. Finally, Daisy realizes the truth and points the gun at Quentin.

Jess tells Daisy not to shoot Quentin, not to screw her life up. Jess asks Daisy to give the gun to him and leave. Daisy hands over the gun and escapes to the SWAT team waiting outside. Jess then turns his attention to Leanne. He tells her he wants her to fight like hell and escape from Quentin’s grasps. Leanne is afraid if she tries Quentin will shoot her. Jess reassures her that Quentin has never killed anyone himself and he doesn’t even have enough guts to try. Jess tells Leanne that Quentin doesn’t even have the safety off of his gun. With this information and confidence, Leanne is able to escape Quentin and run to Jess. Just as Quentin lifts the gun, Jess shoots him square in the head and Quentin goes down. Jess and Leanne leave the cabin where she is able to talk to her sister Rose on the phone. Sheryl goes up to Jess and asks if the safety was really off and he says he doesn’t know as he didn’t look. He walks away.

The final scene of this action-packed episode is Jess and Tali doing the nature hunt that he had signed them up for. Jess tells Tali he is happy she decided to do it with him and she tells him that her mom would have wanted this.