The team heads to Wesser, Iowa where three unrelated ten year olds from stable middle class families went missing from their homes in the middle of the night, and thus feared abducted. There was no sign of forced entry at any of the homes, there has been no ransom request, and the children went missing wearing only their pajamas. Just before the team boards the plane to head to Wesser, Garcia receives a surveillance video from the authorities in Wesser, it showing the three in a park that night after they went missing, each in a zombie-like state, like they were under some sort of post-hypnotic suggestion, being lured into a white panel van before being whisked away. That zombie-like state leads the team to believe that the unsub knew the children and had somehow planted that post-hypnotic suggestion into their psyches over time. They also begin to believe that the method of delivery of that message was through their electronic devices, and that the children are not the ultimate targets but just a means to hurt his ultimate targets. As the town goes into a lock-down mode of sorts, the case is made all the more difficult by Wesser's mayor, Rob Tremaine, a demanding person who wants the case quickly wrapped up in a proverbial tidy bow, with he blaming the team if they cannot do that for him. He seems more concerned about the public perception of his leadership than he is about the fact that he too has an adolescent son who is a potential target. The one profiler who has remained in Quantico is J.J., who is assigned to remote consulting duties on the case as she has an emergency visit from her mother, Sandy Jareau, with whom she has had a strained relationship ever since the death of J.J.'s older sister, Roz, when J.J. was a child.
—Huggo