Criminal Minds (TV Series)

Red Light (2017)

Joe Mantegna: David Rossi

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• Dr. Spencer Reid : You had eyes on me while I was in prison, didn't you?

  Cat Adams : Spencie, don't ruin the moment.

  Dr. Spencer Reid : I don't want to, but I'm on the clock. Answer my question. Am I right?

  Cat Adams : Yes, you're right. I wanted to make sure things were just as uncomfortable for you as they were for me.

  Luke Alvez : That's what we missed. The inside man that's been helping them.

  David Rossi : He didn't just work at Cat's prison, he worked at hers and Reid's.

  Emily Prentiss : Garcia, look for any overlap.

  Penelope Garcia : Compiling now. Here's something. Lionel Wilkins. He worked at both Mount Pleasant and and the Millburn Correctional Facility.

  Dr. Tara Lewis : Okay, look, this guy could have gotten her pregnant. But there's no way he could have gotten his hand on Reid's file.

  Stephen Walker : Well, not directly. He could have called in a favor from a friend at the Bureau.

  Luke Alvez : So someone must have wanted to screw us this whole time.

  Emily Prentiss : Someone who's not gonna work for the Bureau much longer.

• Emily Prentiss : Up 'till now, Cat Adams has only worked solo. But this is a partnership. So we need to figure out how these two hit women were able to work together, especially when one of them was in solitary.

  Luke Alvez : And hitmen are driven by profit and self-preservation .They don't take a job unless they know all the angles.

  Dr. Tara Lewis : So, to predict their behavior, we need to ask ourselves a simple question. We know why Cat wanted revenge on Reid. Why does Lindsey?

  David Rossi : Ten years ago, Reid tried to talk Lindsey's father out of one last murder. Cut to last year and she finds out her BFF Cat has been arrested by the federal agent who tried to stop her daddy.

  Luke Alvez : So Lindsey's emotions trumped her professionalism. She could grab and kill Reid's mother without a trace, but instead, she waltzed Diana into his prison because she wanted him and us to know that she was involved.

  Emily Prentiss : But there's risky and there's reckless. It's kind of hard to buy that Lindsey would commit to doing all of this just because Reid kind of sort of got in her way ten years ago. We're missing something.

• David Rossi : Go ahead, JJ.

  Jennifer Jareau : So, Cat has deep background on Spence. She knew about Gideon's death and Morgan leaving the team for his family.

  David Rossi : She's throwing him off-balance.

  Jennifer Jareau : Yeah, but Spence also purposely gave the wrong name of Morgan's son and she didn't correct him.

  Emily Prentiss : She must have gotten her hands on Reid's confidential FBI file. It would mention relevant team information, but wouldn't name Morgan's baby because of confidentiality reasons.

  David Rossi : We were thinking she's been getting help from someone inside the prison. This goes deeper than that.

• Stephen Walker : We have something, but, uh... it's out there.

  Emily Prentiss : I'll take "out there".

  Stephen Walker : The gun store owner was more of a libertarian than you would think. He talked about how he never judged his customers or who they love.

  David Rossi : That's... weird.

  Stephen Walker : Yeah, not as weird as when he mentioned Obergefell.

  Emily Prentiss : The Supreme Court decision that legalized gay marriage.

  Stephen Walker : You said we were missing something in the relationship between these two women. What if it's this?

  Dr. Tara Lewis : The risks that Lindsey's taking, the bond she has with Cat, it's not professional. It's romantic.

• David Rossi : You don't call, you don't write.

  Derek Morgan : Rossi.

  [they share a laugh and hug, too] 

  Jennifer Jareau : [entering]  You don't even give us a heads-up and you decide to pop in at three in the morning?

  Derek Morgan : Oh, blondie, come here, come here, come here.

  [hugging JJ] 

  Derek Morgan : Mm. Oh, it is so good to see all of you. Look, I wish I could say I was just here to say hello, but, um, we may have bigger problems.

  [to Prentiss] 

  Derek Morgan : You see what I'm saying about that text? It does not sound like Garcia. You do know what it does sound like.

  Emily Prentiss : A trap.

• Emily Prentiss : Have we dispatched units to the location Scratch tried to lure us to?

  Dr. Tara Lewis : I coordinated it before we left. They're on their way.

  Luke Alvez : SWAT will meet us on site at Scratch's house.

  Emily Prentiss : I know we all want this son of a bitch's head on a platter, but SWAT has to clear every single room before we step foot inside.

  Jennifer Jareau : Well, have they been briefed? This guy's traps have traps.

  David Rossi : The house itself could be a setup.

  Stephen Walker : Or a waste of our time so he can get away.

  Emily Prentiss : Whatever it is, he's gonna try to take us by surprise. We have to be ready for anything.

• Luke Alvez : All right. We got thirty employees that worked on Cat's wing. And these four, they don't have any disciplinary problems.

  David Rossi : So Cat used one, or more likely more than one to coordinate with Lindsey on the outside.

  Luke Alvez : That's the good news.

  David Rossi : Oh, lovely. We need more bad news.

  Luke Alvez : The guard union got wind that I was sniffing around. These twenty-six potential accomplices, they can't be interviewed without submitting all questions through the local 292 and their accompanying attorneys first.

  David Rossi : Okay. Let's do some digging. A couple of these folks are gonna look more guilty than the rest. We'll winnow it down and then deal with the local.