Criminal Minds (TV Series)

Wheels Up (2017)

Joe Mantegna: David Rossi

Quotes 

• David Rossi : You, go through my pants pockets and find my keys. Second, you, you're back on the team.

  Dr. Spencer Reid : Not sure I should be. Has the Director approved that?

  David Rossi : I'm making the calls now. I'll take the heat. You're back on the team.

  Luke Alvez : [fiding the keys]  I got 'em.

  David Rossi : There's a little one there, to a file cabinet in my office. You following me?

  Luke Alvez : Yeah. Following you.

  David Rossi : Inside, there's Chicago Bears season tickets. When you get 'em, you call Matt Simmons. I promised him those tickets.

  Luke Alvez : They must have given him something in the ambulance to make him loopy.

  Dr. Spencer Reid : I'll get the doctor. We'll get him into surgery.

  David Rossi : Just shut up and listen. Now, Emily is missing. Stephen is dead. As for you two ass clowns, you'll do me the courtesy of following my orders.

  Luke Alvez : Your orders aren't making sense.

  David Rossi : Follow my orders, and then I'll go into surgery.

  Luke Alvez : [he and Reid turn to leave]  This has got nothing to do with season tickets.

  Dr. Spencer Reid : "Ass clown"?

• David Rossi : Those spike strips took out our two SUVs. Then the truck blindsided us. We have six agents that are...

  [looking around, he notices something] 

  David Rossi : Where's Emily?

• Emily Prentiss : Scratch got deeper into my head than I care to admit, and the only way I was able to stay sane was by repeating a mantra, two words. You know what those two words were? "Wheels up." It saved my life when I wasn't sure I was gonna make it because it reminded me that you were out there fighting, so take your rest - you've earned it - but when we get back, wheels up, Matt.

  Matt Simmons : Wheels up, Emily.

  Emily Prentiss : Wheels up, Tara.

  Dr. Tara Lewis : Wheels up.

  Jennifer Jareau : Wheels up.

  Penelope Garcia : Wheels up.

  Luke Alvez : Wheels up.

  David Rossi : Damn right, wheels up

  Dr. Spencer Reid : Wheels up.

• Dr. Tara Lewis : Scratch took Emily. I saw him.

  Luke Alvez : Yeah. We know. We're looking for him.

  Dr. Tara Lewis : He dosed her.

  David Rossi : In the SUV while she was knocked out?

  Dr. Tara Lewis : Yeah.

  [flashback, with Tara narrating in voiceover] 

  Dr. Tara Lewis : He brought his gas with him.

  Peter Lewis : Your legs are broken. Your right arm is broken. You're in severe traction, and you're paralyzed. You feel unimaginable agony all over your body unless I give you high doses of painkiller.

  Jennifer Jareau : [the scene returns to the hospital]  She would wake in a delusion he'd have total control over.

  Luke Alvez : He thinks she knows where Hotch is, so he's trying to trick her. She's one of the smartest people we know. She'd see through it.

  Jennifer Jareau : So Scratch would go even farther.

  Luke Alvez : Sometimes interrogators even simulate death. Man, he could make it feel like the real thing.

  Jennifer Jareau : No. That wouldn't work. Remember, Rossi, when Prentiss told us about when she died, for real died, how for her, it was just dark and cold?

  David Rossi : That's right. If he made her experience some out-of-body vision, she'd know it was a lie.

• Emily Prentiss : So, we all need to discuss what Peter Lewis' death means for this team.

  Penelope Garcia : It means that Hotch can come back.

  David Rossi : Yeah. We, uh, spoke to him. He was relieved that he and Jack were out of danger. They're out of witness protection, but, um...

  Jennifer Jareau : He's not coming back, is he?

  Emily Prentiss : He loves being a full-time dad. He never got to do that before, and, let's face it, in this job...

  David Rossi : There's always gonna be another Scratch. And he's lost enough.

• David Rossi : [referring to JJ and Will kissing]  Get a room, you two.

• Dr. Spencer Reid : What's going on?

  David Rossi : Shut up and listen.

• David Rossi : [speaking to Reid and Alvez]  As for you two assclowns, you'll do me the courtesy of following my orders.

• Luke Alvez : Do you want me to find you some crutches or something?

  David Rossi : I don't need them, I've got you.

• David Rossi : Jag-off ambushed us, didn't even see him coming

• David Rossi : Is my leg still attached?