Criminal Minds (TV Series)

The Anti-Terror Squad (2016)

Matthew Gray Gubler: Dr. Spencer Reid

Quotes 

• Dr. Spencer Reid : [closing quotation]  "Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you." - Jean-Paul Sartre.

• Dr. Spencer Reid : [opening quotation]  "The malicious have a dark happiness." - Victor Hugo.

• David Rossi : What's up, Garcia?

  Penelope Garcia : Do you have any idea how many selfies the average teenager posts on social media on any given day?

  [knowing Reid is about to speak] 

  Penelope Garcia : I'm gonna tell you before you say anything. So many. And, like, the guys, too.

  Dr. Spencer Reid : Actually, some studies indicate that men take twice as many selfies as women 'cause it's considered to be an acceptable form of male vanity.

  Penelope Garcia : How many pictures of yourself do you really need? And they're basically making the same expression.

  [realizing what she said] 

  Penelope Garcia : Oh, my god. Am I officially not young?

  David Rossi : You, my dear, are the portrait of everlasting youth.

  Penelope Garcia : I'm timeless, right. Good answer.

• Luke Alvez : M.E.'s preliminary time of death confirms that we couldn't have missed him by more than a few minutes.

  Dr. Spencer Reid : There was extreme overkill here. Victim was shot six times and then bludgeoned. He's decompensating.

  Luke Alvez : Or evolving.

  Jennifer Jareau : Yeah, he doesn't care about the family anymore. He's going straight for the bully.

  Dr. Spencer Reid : [leaving]  Hey, guys? Austin's room.

  Jennifer Jareau : The other murders, the unsub left the homes undisturbed.

  Luke Alvez : [finding the murder weapon]  Well, it certainly looks like this is what he bludgeoned the victim with.

  Dr. Spencer Reid : He could have left it in the living room with the body, but instead he brought it back in here and destroyed Austin's other sports trophies.

  Jennifer Jareau : Yeah, you know, everything about this, the overkill, trashing the room, going after Austin's prizes, it fights against our profile of mission oriented organization and impulse control.

  Dr. Spencer Reid : Well, he's more stressed now. He knows we're closing in.

  Jennifer Jareau : Yeah, it's more than that. His behavior reads juvenile.

  Dr. Spencer Reid : Our unsub isn't an adult. He's a child.

• Penelope Garcia : I have been drilling into the social media footprint of both of our adolescent survivors.

  David Rossi : Any connection between Amanda and Matt?

  Penelope Garcia : Yeah. Stay with me while I go around here for a second. So, basically, both of their Facebook pages are just an outpouring of love and support from their peers. And it's touching, really, and it's very reassuring for the hope of our species.

  Emily Prentiss : What did you mean "basically"?

  Penelope Garcia : In between all the wonderfulness, there's a tiny tributary of nasty comments from some of their peers, saying that Matt and Amanda got what they deserved.

  David Rossi : Well, they're kids. Kids can be cruel and thoughtless.

  Penelope Garcia : Right, but we all know that cruelty is sometimes inspired by previous action, which made me wonder what Matt and Amanda might have done to provoke some of their peers to saying some of these things on their Facebooks. So I looked into their school records, and both Matt and Amanda have complaints against them for "harassing behavior".

  Emily Prentiss : They're bullies.

  David Rossi : Were they disciplined?

  Penelope Garcia : No. To paraphrase the violent Femmes song, nothing went down on their permanent record.

  Dr. Spencer Reid : So the victims were also victimizers.

  Emily Prentiss : If the unsub was bullied himself as a teenager, that could be the original narcissistic wound that's fueling his present-day rage. Turning his surrogate victimizers into victims is the point for our unsub.

  Dr. Spencer Reid : Bullying leaves lasting scars. Our unsub could be a teacher or staff member at the school who sees himself as an avenger of students who are current victims of bullying. Someone who punishes the bullies when no one else does.

  Emily Prentiss : From the unsub's point of view, the bullies themselves are responsible for the violence he's perpetrating against their families.

• Penelope Garcia : The Bergstrom family was killed in their home in Winona, Minnesota last night. Mother, father, and little boy, all shot execution style.

  Jennifer Jareau : Any suspects?

  Penelope Garcia : Therein lies the mystery. The Bergstrom family was as low-risk as they come.

  Dr. Spencer Reid : What about murder-suicide?

  Emily Prentiss : That was ruled out. There was no murder weapon found at the scene, and both Bridget and Scott Bergstrom were shot in their bed.

  David Rossi : But there was a survivor. A teenage daughter.

  Penelope Garcia : Yeah, seventeen year old Amanda. She was out past her curfew at the moment of the murders.

  Jennifer Jareau : And she's the one that found the bodies.

  Dr. Spencer Reid : It almost seems like a hitman scenario.

  Luke Alvez : Maybe a mafia retaliation kill? But that doesn't seem likely in Winona, Minnesota.

  Emily Prentiss : But it does seem like a revenge killing.

  David Rossi : If the unsub expected to wipe out the entire family, he screwed up big time leaving Amanda alive.

  Dr. Spencer Reid : Unless she had something to do with it.

  Penelope Garcia : That's a question mark, but according to the M.E.'s preliminary report, she can't be the shooter based on alibi and time of deaths.

  David Rossi : On the surface, they were a well-liked family living a low-risk lifestyle.

  Dr. Spencer Reid : The daughter, Amanda. Where is she?

  Penelope Garcia : Protective custody, in case the unsub sees her as unfinished business.

  David Rossi : We good?

  Luke Alvez : Mm-hmm.

  David Rossi : We fly.

• David Rossi : Bridget and Scott Bergstrom grew up in Winona and have deep ties to the community.

  Jennifer Jareau : Scott was a local distributor of farm equipment, Bridget cut hair at a salon in the mall.

  Emily Prentiss : And yet they were murdered by a family annihilator.

  Penelope Garcia : Sad, but true. The Bergstrom family had their share of dirty laundry. Though who of us does not?

  Dr. Spencer Reid : Scott developed a Vicodin habit a few years back after a skiing accident.

  Emily Prentiss : So he could have been in over his head with his dealer.

  Jennifer Jareau : So, Bridget was having an affair?

  Penelope Garcia : Yeah. I looked at their financials. She's got a credit card secret just in her name, with charges to a motel just outside of town and nothing else.

  David Rossi : She might have cut things off, causing him to go off the deep end. Can you get us a name?

  Penelope Garcia : Yeah, I'm already into it. You'll have lover boy's name ASAP.

  Dr. Spencer Reid : What about Amanda, the sole survivor? Any motive there?

  Penelope Garcia : Deep sigh. I hate that you're asking that. And deep sigh again, I am bound by duty to report the facts. There's a modest insurance policy; seventeen year old Amanda is the beneficiary.

  Emily Prentiss : $100,000.

  Luke Alvez : That would seem like all the money in the world to a teenager.

  David Rossi : People have been killed for a lot less. That's an unlikely motive for the daughter, but we can't rule her out.

  Dr. Spencer Reid : Whatever set this unsub off, he made the whole family pay for it.

• Emily Prentiss : [at the crime scene]  Unsub entered on the second floor through the cut screen.

  Jennifer Jareau : He had to be physically fit.

  Emily Prentiss : He knew the house well enough to know this was the room to enter.

  Dr. Spencer Reid : He went straight to the parents' room. He wanted to remove the greatest threat first.

  Emily Prentiss : Based on the bullet trajectory, he was standing here at the foot of the bed when he fired. He wanted to stare at them both before firing.

  Jennifer Jareau : And that woke Bridget up. She was attempting to flee when the unsub shot her.

  Dr. Spencer Reid : Did he enjoy watching her terror and panic, or was it inexperience on his part? Bridget's scream is probably what woke Kevin.

  Jennifer Jareau : So the unsub heads down the hallway, where Kevin is coming out of his bedroom.

  Kevin Bergstrom : [flashback]  Mom? Dad?

  Jennifer Jareau : And he runs into the unsub.

• Jennifer Jareau : So it seems this unsub knew who lived here and where each person slept, implying a personal connection with the victims.

  Dr. Spencer Reid : In spite of the home invasion, there's no sign of burglary, so he's mission-oriented.

  Emily Prentiss : He's highly organized and sophisticated.

  Dr. Spencer Reid : The big question is Amanda. Did he think she was home or did he deliberately strike while she was out?

  Jennifer Jareau : We need to talk to her.

• David Rossi : We believe the unsub is a variation of what we know as a family annihilator.

  Emily Prentiss : The garden variety family annihilator is usually a narcissistic male patriarch experiencing psychological stress. This causes him to become homicidal and then suicidal.

  Dr. Spencer Reid : His narcissism often manifests as rage directed at a specific family member, prompting him to murder the entire family as an act of punishment and revenge. He then blames the object of his rage for his violent outburst.

  Luke Alvez : Once the entire family is dead, the patriarch typically commits or attempts to commit suicide.

  Jennifer Jareau : But this unsub is murdering families that are not his own.

  Dr. Spencer Reid : There's a distinct punishment component to the annihilation that's driving this unsub.

  David Rossi : He's more organized than the typical family annihilator, with greater impulse control and a high level of sophistication.

  Emily Prentiss : His sophistication is apparent in the fact that the object of his rage is deliberately spared rather than murdered.

  Jennifer Jareau : This allows the unsub the satisfaction of inflicting ongoing psychological pain on the object of his rage.

  David Rossi : We're looking for a male in his late twenties, early thirties. He's mature and highly intelligent.

  Luke Alvez : Amanda Bergstrom and Matthew Doherty may be surrogates for individuals who wronged the unsub when he himself was an adolescent.

  Emily Prentiss : Amanda and Matt both attend Pillsbury High School, and we have not identified any other connection between them or their families.

  David Rossi : Pay close attention to the faculty and administrators of the high school.

  Sheriff Wilson : A lot of the parents are wondering if we should shut down the high school.

  David Rossi : The school itself has not been a scene of violence. Closing it would not deter this unsub.

  Luke Alvez : We need you to beef up patrols and warn the public of the ongoing danger.

  David Rossi : And we ask you to encourage the entire Pillsbury High School community to report any suspicious individuals they may encounter.