Tonight on CBS Criminal Minds: Beyond Borders continues with an all new Wednesday, March 15, season 2 episode 2 called “Il Mostro,” and we have your weekly Criminal Minds: Beyond Borders recap below. On tonight’s Criminal Minds: Beyond Borders season 2 premiere as per the NBC synopsis, “When two American casualties resemble the M.O. of the most notorious killer in Italian history, the International Response Team is called to Italy to investigate.”
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The IRT had been informed that two Americans were killed in Italy. They had apparently been in the country because of a year abroad program however they had driven to the outskirts of the city to have some alone time when they were interrupted by the most prolific killer in history. The killer was known as the Monster of Florence or Il Mostro in the Italian language and he had a certain MO. He would find a couple that were usually in the throes of passion and he would shoot both victims. But the Unsub would also go to mutilate the female victims postmortem. So he had done so with Gina Prince and had even arranged her body to fit a certain pose while he more or less left Peyton Moss alone.
However, the team knew right away that Il Mostro wasn’t going to be easy to catch. He had been around for a few years and he had so far managed to stay one step ahead of the Italian Special Task Force as well one step ahead of the latest technology. So the first thing the team did when they landed was split up. Jack and Matt went to the crime scene to determine how the two Americans died meanwhile Mae performed her own autopsy and Clara worked with Commissario Galterio Conde going through all the records. There were files on what one officer believed was evidence and another file that was basically a wild hunch.
So Clara had had a lot to go through and it had come as a surprise to her when she was looking through the files that the BAU had already investigated the case back in 1993. Yet, Monty had said that he hadn’t known about it because some of the 1990s files still hadn’t been digitized and so he had gone looking for the file itself. And what he found had been a profile. Agent Rossi of the BAU had profiled Il Monstro twenty-four years ago and he still remembered the case so he was brought in on what was happening though he didn’t understand why the file was missing in Italy. Rossi had said that he had handed the profile to Carmela Tarfani and so Jack had wanted to speak to her.
Jack had wanted to know why Carmela would lose a file with so much evidence that could have helped them find Il Mostro years ago. Though, as it turns out, it hadn’t been Carmela that supposedly lost the file. She said she had tried to get her bosses to understand what the profile and that they had ignored her because she was a woman. So Carmela admitted that she had carried on with the investigation and that she had found the man she believed was Il Mostro. She said his name was Dr. Scarpa and that he matched the profile to a tee. He was a doctor who had some expertise with cutting up a human being and the locations of where he killed his victims had all held some significance for him.
Only Carmela admitted that she hadn’t been able to arrest him for the Il Mostro killings at the time. She said she couldn’t find anything concrete enough to arrest him for those crimes however she later arrested him for raping his own sister. Carmela had said that the young woman had been found nearby and bleeding form her injuries. So they took evidence and Carmela arrested Scarpa for what he had done to his sister. But the case had somehow gotten dismissed twenty years ago and Carmela was then fired from the police department because Scarpa had wanted her gone. And so everything Carmela had stood for had gotten dismissed.
Not even Conde had wanted to listen to what she had to say because he refused to believe she wouldn’t have gotten dismissed just out of hand. However, Clara and Jack had at best wanted to question Scarpa and he had been a little too smug for their liking. Scarpa had said that Carmela had tried to frame him years ago and that he was an innocent man. So Monty had looked into Scarpa and he had found out he was dying yet, on the night of the recent murders, they had found video of Scarpa eating at the same restaurant and he had been taunting them. the doctor had always raised his wine glass in a mocking toast to the people he knew were watching.
So that led to everyone taking Carmela’s theories a little more seriously. They knew that Scarpa had carefully chosen an airtight alibi and that he didn’t have the strength to kill anyone alone though the fact that Scarpa had toasted them had made them aware that Scarpa had a secret. Like possibly a protégé. Yet, they couldn’t figure out who that protégé was. Scarpa was a careful man so he would choose someone to carry out his legacy because he believed that nothing would sway them from stopping, but the team had wondered if maybe he chose a fan of his work and so they had looked into everyone that had written a book about Il Mostro over the years.
But nothing had stood out and so the team had wanted to know what happened to Renata. Renata had been abused by her brother however she was Scarpa’s last living relative and so they questioned if her brother had ever reached out to her. So they looked into Renata’s whereabouts and they had found out she died after she trying to give herself a late term abortion. And unfortunately, it get worse from. The baby had survived only his mother was gone and so he had been passed on to Renata’s mother who blamed the child for what happened to her daughter as well as for being Scarpa’s son.
The boy therefore grew up with a tendency towards violence and he was also suffering mental problems stemming from the incest. So he later went on to kill a girl when he was fifteen and he had been released when he turned twenty-one which was about the time the team believed his grandmother explained who his father was. However, Onario had been so starving for attention and to be accepted that he broke into his father’s house to steal Il Mostro’s murder weapons and he had began to kill pretending to be the monster because he wanted his father to finally acknowledge him. And that didn’t happen until Onario took Carmela prisoner and told his father he could finally get revenge.
And so Onario never really became his father’s protégé though Scarpa did track his progress and took his son up on the offer to kill Carmella. Yet, Clara had wanted to see Carmela so she had walked in on the scene and had been taken capture. So the only way out was to turn father against son. Clara began talking to Onario and telling him his father doesn’t care about him, but the second Onario pulled the gun on his father, she was able to reach her gun and shoot him.
So Scarpa who had nowhere to go hadn’t fought the police when the others showed up and in the end he was finally arrested for being the Monster of Florence!
THE END!