Criminal Minds (TV Series)

The Anti-Terror Squad (2016)

Kirsten Vangsness: Penelope Garcia

Quotes 

• 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.

• Penelope Garcia : [arriving at Alvez's desk laden with shopping bags]  It's just a little something.

  Luke Alvez : For me?

  Penelope Garcia : No, not for you. It's for Roxy. But you have opposable thumbs, so you can open it for her.

  Luke Alvez : [snickering, he opens a small box]  Wow. Biscuits.

  Penelope Garcia : Yeah. They're all organic, human grade. Quite delicious, if I do say so myself. Uh, plus...

  [indicating a larger bag] 

  Luke Alvez : It's a sweater.

  Penelope Garcia : Oh! Isn't it amazing?

  Luke Alvez : [halfheartedly]  It is... amazing.

  Penelope Garcia : What was that?

  Luke Alvez : What was what?

  Penelope Garcia : You paused.

  Luke Alvez : No, I didn't.

  Penelope Garcia : You don't like it.

  Luke Alvez : No, I didn't... I didn't say that.

  Penelope Garcia : Oh, you might be a profiler in training, but I am a profiler by association, and I can tell a lie when I hear one, and liar.

• 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.

• David Rossi : Garcia, we need the records of every student at Pillsbury who filed a bullying complaint against Amanda Bergstrom, Matt Doherty, and Austin Settergren.

  Emily Prentiss : Also, anyone who received counseling for being bullied by those students.

  Penelope Garcia : [typing]  Wow. This is a really big pool. I've got twenty-seven names.

  Emily Prentiss : Any of those students bullied by all three?

  Penelope Garcia : No.

  David Rossi : Like Bakken said, most victims never come forward.

  Penelope Garcia : So I'm seeing the tip of a really big iceberg.

  Luke Alvez : Nobody wants to be a snitch.

  Emily Prentiss : Also, bullying is often so widespread, it's normalized.

  Jennifer Jareau : It would only amplify the unsub's feeling of powerlessness.

• David Rossi : The pool of suspects is still too big.

  Luke Alvez : Garcia, can you crosscheck the names you pulled with any mentions on social media of bullying?

  Penelope Garcia : Oh, that is a boss idea. I'm gonna do that right now, and...

  [typing] 

  Penelope Garcia : ...oh, this is interesting. I pulled up six names from my list, and they all belong to a private chat group.

  Jennifer Jareau : Some kind of bullying support group?

  Penelope Garcia : It's called the Anti-Terror Squad, but yeah, that's exactly what it is.

  Emily Prentiss : It's an apt analogy. Ongoing bullying would feel like terrorism to those experiencing it.

  Penelope Garcia : They warn each other about which stairwells and bathrooms to avoid on any given day. They walk each other to and from school. That kind of thing.

  Jennifer Jareau : I tell Henry school's a safe place, but for these kids, it's anything but.

  Emily Prentiss : Are there any mentions of retribution or payback, uh, planning?

  Penelope Garcia : No. But there's a lot of content here. I'll do a keyword search. It'll take a while.

  Emily Prentiss : Okay, so these kids took back some of their power by banding together. They call themselves the Anti-Terror Squad, so they see themselves as righteous.

  David Rossi : The unsub may be one or all six of these kids. Garcia, I need you to locate their cell phones.

  Penelope Garcia : Sure. Um...

  [typing] 

  Penelope Garcia : They're all in the exact same place. All six of them are in a classroom at Pillsbury High.

• Penelope Garcia : Kyle Ecklund has been bullied for a lot of years by a lot of kids. I mean a lot of kids.

  Emily Prentiss : He unleashed on Austin Settergren. What did Austin do to him?

  Penelope Garcia : Let's see... Oh, yes, yes, yes. Okay, so Austin was the ringleader of a particularly horrifying incident that happened a few years back.

  Luke Alvez : We need to know where it happened.

  Penelope Garcia : It happened right there at the basketball courts at school.

  Luke Alvez : This place is a maze.

  David Rossi : Garcia, can you guide us?

  Penelope Garcia : Absolutely.

• 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.

• Luke Alvez : [Rossi invented them for a drink at O'Keefe's]  Hey, I just wanted a beer

  Penelope Garcia : Well, there may be a glimmer of hope for you yet. But just so you know, the new guy pays!

• Penelope Garcia : [Rossi just made a search request]  Oh yeah, digital shovels already throwing up dirt