Criminal Minds (TV Series)

Just Getting Started (2022)

Paget Brewster: Emily Prentiss

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• Deputy Director Doug Bailey : Apologies for the delay. Heard you requested a meeting.

  Emily Prentiss : Didn't think I'd see you so late, Deputy Director.

  Deputy Director Doug Bailey : Tell me about it. What are we still doing here?

  Emily Prentiss : Every agent I manage is exhausted, especially the BAU.

  Deputy Director Doug Bailey : I know, but the powers that be crunched the numbers. The agents solve twice as many cases split up.

  Emily Prentiss : The split was only supposed to last for six months, but now it's nearly three years, and without the help of SSAs Reid and Simmons...

  Deputy Director Doug Bailey : Sorry, I'm not at liberty to discuss their assignments. If and when they return is entirely up to them. Sadly, we don't have a say.

• Deputy Director Doug Bailey : When's the last time David Rossi was in the office?

  Emily Prentiss : He's been consulting with the Virginia PD on the Westbrook murders.

  Deputy Director Doug Bailey : He has no leads. It's time to move on. People are saying this past year, Agent Rossi's been obsessed. Like, all those years working in the basement caught up with him.

  Emily Prentiss : Agent Rossi has forgotten more about serial offenders than we will ever know. The Bureau is lucky to have him leading the BAU.

  Deputy Director Doug Bailey : A dramatic way of saying he's the best person for the job.

  Emily Prentiss : I'd bet my career on it.

• Emily Prentiss : Bailey heard that your case is a cartel dump site. He wants DEA on it.

  Dr. Tara Lewis : Oh, come on. We haven't IDed the bodies yet, but there's an elderly couple in there. Unless they broke bad, they wouldn't be on cartel's radar. You seen the photos?

  Emily Prentiss : It looks like some of the vics are preserved.

  Dr. Tara Lewis : That's why he kept them underground. He needed the privacy. I'll bet he's revisiting.

  Emily Prentiss : Shit. Notebooks? Trophies? Anything we can expedite back here?

  Dr. Tara Lewis : Well, the best lead is his photos. He stalked before he struck. He's probably keeping souvenirs, too. We'll know more about the vics when the coroner gets them back to the lab.

  Emily Prentiss : Ugh. You'll need to stay up there, but I really wish I could clone you.

  Dr. Tara Lewis : Well, that's because I'm so delightful.

• Deputy Director Doug Bailey : I heard there's a missing girl. The media will be all over this. You need all BAU agents on it?

  Emily Prentiss : I would love to, but Agent Lewis uncovered a mass grave. She'll be staying in Washington State.

  Deputy Director Doug Bailey : Heard that could be a drug cartel. It's also a cold case versus an active killer who abducted a missing girl.

  Emily Prentiss : I agree a missing girl is time-sensitive, but what Lewis found is huge. BAU needs jurisdiction.

  Deputy Director Doug Bailey : Help me help you. Find the girl alive, then we'll see.

• Deputy Director Doug Bailey : You want to move an entire container that presents as an organized crime dump site? Wish I could help, but you can't just claim serial killer if there's no proof.

  Emily Prentiss : Professional killers don't risk the time it takes to torture unless the act itself has meaning, not to mention the revisiting.

  Deputy Director Doug Bailey : It's just not enough. Sorry.

• Emily Prentiss : Gonna see the family for the holidays? Joy, Portia, grandkids?

  David Rossi : Maybe.

  Emily Prentiss : I think you should. A long time ago, Gideon told me to make sure I didn't go quiet, because it meant I stopped trusting my team.

  David Rossi : He told you that?

  Emily Prentiss : He said in the early days, it was easy to fall into two modes: silence and rage. And you guys had to find a way to fill in the middle, and you found that when you talked things through, it made it easier to remember you weren't alone.

  David Rossi : Well, that was my advice to him.

  Emily Prentiss : Well, then, I'm here to remind you of your advice. This isn't your burden alone to carry.

  David Rossi : That's so like you. You don't even mention how Alvez stayed at HQ for me, yet I still managed to lose my shit this morning. Or how Tara and JJ have answered every call, every consultation without fail, and how you have been covering for me.

  Emily Prentiss : Why do I need to keep score when you've been doing such a good job? Dave. When you lose someone the way you have, I know it might seem easier to ride the waves of grief alone, but you've got to let us help, because this... this isn't working.

  David Rossi : You're a better person than I am, Emily. And I'm okay with that.