Criminal Minds (TV Series)

Wheels Up (2017)

Adam Rodriguez: Luke Alvez

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"?

• 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.

• Dr. Spencer Reid : What's wrong with me?

  Luke Alvez : My guess is it's been going on since prison, but you haven't had time to notice. Every time you get stressed you go into tunnel vision and that's why you're rubbing your palm into your eye. What's that sound like, Reid?

  Dr. Spencer Reid : It sounds like PTSD.

  Luke Alvez : PTSS, that's what they're calling it now. Post traumatic stress syndrome, because it's not a disorder. It's an injury.

• Dr. Spencer Reid : Well, what do I do? We're in crisis mode. I don't have time to process my emotional state.

  Luke Alvez : That's exactly when you make time, right? You ask for help. There's no shame in that.

• Penelope Garcia : I think Scratch might be listening in on us with our cell phones, even when they're off.

  Luke Alvez : That explains why Rossi was so cagey in the hospital. All right, uh, let's find these tickets.

  [opening the file cabinet, he sees dozens of folders labeled "Scratch"] 

  Luke Alvez : What is this?

  Matt Simmons : Stephen was brought on board for one reason, and that was to catch Scratch. That is his entire investigation into him. He kept all his records off site, updating Prentiss and Rossi through hard copies.

  Dr. Spencer Reid : If it's off the cloud, Scratch can't hack it. Have you guys read it?

  Matt Simmons : No. Prentiss ordered it compartmentalized, eyes-only clearance, but she also felt there should be at least one failsafe who wasn't part of the BAU who knew about it, just in case of emergency. That's why Garcia called me.

  Luke Alvez : All right. Let's dig in. I mean, this may be our only chance at stopping this bastard.

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

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

• Jennifer Jareau : [Panicking]  What can I do?

  Jennifer Jareau : I can't see

  Penelope Garcia : What can I do? How can I help?

  Jennifer Jareau : I can't see

  Luke Alvez : Wait, ok. I see. You've got some broken glass in your scalp, JJ