Overview of Season 4 Episode 16 "Pleasure Is My Business"

In Criminal Minds season 4 episode 16 titled “Pleasure Is My Business,” the BAU flies to Dallas, Texas, to investigate a series of murders where corporate businessmen were poisoned in reserved hotel rooms. The unsub’s profile describes a high-end call girl who is most likely white. The case’s secretive and hush-hush nature was apparent from the very beginning when the detective in charge called Agent Hotchner in person and asked that he come and be briefed alone as the details of the case are “highly confidential.” The rest of the team joins Agent Hotchner later as they follow leads from former prostitutes. The team eventually discover that the unsub is Megan Kane, Hotcher realizes that he has run into her before during his first visit to the crime scene. Megan Kane is a prostitute of high price and is proficient in getting into the minds of her clients and gaining their trust before she kills them with poison. Megan grew up in a wealthy household. Her motive to kill stems from a long-term hatred for her father, a white collar worker who left Megan and her mother after being infatuated with a prostitute. The trauma left Megan with a deep hatred and contempt for all men. Her father betrays her one last time at the end of the episode when he asks to have her client list in order to save the identity of the men on there. The BAU were able to find Megan through her father, however, she was already dying from self-poisoning when the team arrived. She dies on a chair in the balcony while holding Agent’s Hotchner’s hand. Her last words to Hotchner were “You’re the first man I’ve ever met that didn’t let me down.” Her father and the name of all the businessmen on the client list were eventually exposed to the media.