12E13 - Spencer

In a high speed chase in the desert, the local police in a town south of the US-Mexico border apprehend the driver they are chasing, the trunk of his vehicle in which $20,000 worth of heroin and cocaine and a large wad of money is discovered, leading the police to believe that the person apprehended is a drug runner. The driver?: Reid. Reid is barely lucid, he under the influence of some drug. All he can remember is that he went to Mexico to meet with someone named Rosa, who has something to do with his mother. News of Reid's incarceration gets back to team who only knew that Reid had taken some time off to head to Houston to speak to his mother's doctor. Their first inclination is that Reid's predicament was orchestrated by Peter Lewis aka Mr. Scratch, whose campaign against the team members has been quiet of late. They learn that Reid broke protocol in traveling into Mexico on his personal as opposed to work passport, as, although not on a work trip, he did not inform the FBI of his international travel, which he is required to do being a potential high target. They also learn that this cross-border trip was not Reid's first in recent months, each time he informing no one. Prentiss, Rossi and Alvez travel to Mexico to deal with the Mexican authorities, while the rest of the team remains at Quantico to work local leads. Prentiss knows that they have no authority in Mexico and that the Mexican police are working toward their own goals. One of those goals ends up being gathering enough evidence to charge Reid with murder when a Mexican citizen is discovered stabbed to death in Reid's motel room. The team hopes that their colleagues in the International Response Team will be able to assist in Reid's plight.