 In Baltimore, Maryland, a torturer executes his victim John Summers after having found the Saudi women and two children he protected. When Gideon reads about Summers  suicide according to the press, he learns from his CIA-contact another counter-terrorism agent must have staged this top Middle East informant s death, and puts his profiling team on this strictly unofficial investigation for the murderous mole. The wounds show more then one torturer. Summers was working with Aaliyah Nadir, who turned informant after physical abuse by her husband Hassan, a Saudi diplomat who secretly finances terrorist organizations, and after a staged  fatal  car accident lived with young son Faris and daughter Dalia in the US. Now Hassan is looking for them. CIA executive Bruno Hawks welcomes the BAU team at Langley, promising full cooperation, but the traitor probably works there too. The team has sixteen CIA suspects to examine while counseling the high-tech search for the now missing family. Then CIA agent Olivia Hopkins  neck is broken in the office...