[ There's a flash in his mind as Clay presses him down against the mattress, of Diane Turner and Tobias Hankel and every other UnSub that had him feeling like there was no way out. Like nothing he said matter, like there was an impenetrable fortress around their minds and a ticking time bomb strapped to it and sooner or later someone is going to die.
Not tonight. Not tonight. ]
Ticks are small arachnids in the order Parasitiformes. Along with mites, they constitute the subclass Acarina. Ticks are ectoparasites or external parasites, living by hematophagy on the blood of mammals, birds, and sometimes reptiles and amphibians. Ticks are vectors of a number of diseases, including Lyme disease, Q fever — which is rare and more commonly transmitted by infected excreta — Colorado tick fever, Rocky Mountain spotted fever, African tick bite fever, tularemia, tick-borne relapsing fever, babesiosis, ehrlichiosis, Tick paralysis, and tick-borne meningoencephalitis, as well as bovine anaplasmosis and probably the Heartland virus.
[ When all else fails, distract and hope you can find an in to beat them over the head or, in this case, kick them in the balls. ]