Hotch arrives at his house, enters with his pistol drawn, and discovers bloody footprints leading up the stairs. He finds Haley's lifeless and bloodied corpse lying on the floor of their former bedroom and sees a figure hiding behind the curtains. Hotch empties his handgun into the hidden figure, which turns out to be Foyet, who is wearing a bulletproof Kevlar vest and is uninjured by the gunshots. Foyet falls to the floor and the two men subsequently engage in a brutal hand-to-hand fight which takes them downstairs and eventually ends when an enraged Hotch beats Foyet brutally and violently to death with his bare hands, even after Foyet hypocritically and fearfully surrenders. The rest of the BAU team arrives and Morgan (Shemar Moore), Prentiss (Paget Brewster) and Rossi (Joe Mantegna) check upstairs and find Hotch still beating the now dead Foyet, causing Morgan to have to pull Hotch away from Foyet's lifeless corpse. Hotch goes to check on Jack, who had helped his dad work the case by hiding in a chest – their secret plan designed to protect Jack. At the end of the internal investigation, the panel rules that Agent Hotchner's actions were acceptable and justifiable under the circumstances.