Criminal Minds (TV Series)

Wheels Up (2017)

Matthew Gray Gubler: Dr. Spencer Reid

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. Spencer Reid : I can't arrest him.

  Matt Simmons : What?

  Dr. Spencer Reid : Scratch. The second I see his face, I am going to kill him.

• 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.

• Dr. Spencer Reid : [opening quotation]  "Hold on when there is nothing in you except the will which says 'hold on'." - Rudyard Kipling.

• Penelope Garcia : Prentiss texted Hotch?

  Dr. Spencer Reid : According to Stephen's documentation, yes.

  Matt Simmons : It must have been a coordinated attempt to share intel. Would Hotch have exposed himself like this?

  Dr. Spencer Reid : No! And neither would she. I mean, she wouldn't rely on a hackable app, and she sure wouldnt write "A.H." in a text. That defeats the purpose of compartmentalizing the investigation.

  Penelope Garcia : It was a smokescreen.

  Matt Simmons : Stephen had a background in counterintelligence. He must have designed this. He... he faked the Hotch side of the conversation to entice Scratch to make a move.

  Dr. Spencer Reid : The size and scale of which indicate desperation, a desperation he hasn't shown after a year of hiding, so why now?

  Matt Simmons : "A.H." is a pretty big red flag. Maybe that's what brought him out.

  Penelope Garcia : Well, they used Hotch's initials in other texts before.

  Dr. Spencer Reid : Then they found something else. Something they knew would rattle him.

• Penelope Garcia : You threw a book at a window. It was jarring.

  Dr. Spencer Reid : Took me sixty minutes to deduce what should have taken me sixty seconds, and if Emily dies because I was too slow, I'll be throwing a lot more than books.

• Dr. Spencer Reid : Where's Scratch?

  Emily Prentiss : He's upstairs. Tag in here. Simmons and Alvez can box him in.

  Dr. Spencer Reid : No, I need to go find him.

  Emily Prentiss : No, no, no, Spence. Please. I need someone I know is real right now, all right?

• Dr. Spencer Reid : What's going on?

  David Rossi : Shut up and listen.

• Dr. Spencer Reid : B-CAP is short for Banisteriopsis caapi. It's a plant, specifically a hallucinogen that's found in a tea called ayahuasca.

  Matt Simmons : We worked a couple of those cases, I think. If I remember, it's, uh... it's like peyote.

  Dr. Spencer Reid : Yeah, in multiple ways. They're similar legally in that taking them is considered a religious practice, and pharmacologically, they're similar in that both drugs cause you to hallucinate intense, geometric patterns and vomit a lot.

  Penelope Garcia : Okay, what... what does this have to do with Scratch?

  Dr. Spencer Reid : Well, Scratch has a cocktail of disassociative drugs to induce delusions, but a mathematical mind like his would always be looking for ways to tweak and improve the formula.

  Matt Simmons : So he went to Honduras to look for it. He then brought it back to D.C. to experiment with it. Stephen and Emily came to the same conclusion and tried to pretend like they were hot on his trail.

  Dr. Spencer Reid : We need to track down all practitioners of the ceremony in the district; shamans, gurus, overnight religions that just hung their first shingle. He could be using one of their volunteers as a partner, either witting or unwitting.

• 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.

• Dr. Spencer Reid : [Looking at Emily's text message]  B-CAP! What is B-CAP?

  Matt Simmons : Geography maybe? I mean it is mentioned in relevance to DC

  Penelope Garcia : Maybe it's a code name for a partner

  Dr. Spencer Reid : [Rubs his eye]  I can't see it