Criminal Minds (TV Series)

The Bunker (2017)

Matthew Gray Gubler: Dr. Spencer Reid

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• Matt Simmons : Kristy and I can't take two steps in our house without tripping over the kids' toys.

  Jennifer Jareau : Yeah, tell me about it.

  Dr. Spencer Reid : Guys, I read about a guy in California who only has 79 items to his name, including his underwear.

  Luke Alvez : Hey, I am all for living with only the things you really need.

  Penelope Garcia : Amen. Me, too, right?

  [off JJ's look, she realizes the insult] 

  Penelope Garcia : What?

  Matt Simmons : How many fuzzy pens, unicorn statues, mermaid paperweights does one need at her desk?

  Penelope Garcia : All of them.

• Matt Simmons : I gotta say, Coleman's bunker was pretty impressive.

  Emily Prentiss : Yeah, but not where I want to spend my last day on Earth.

  Matt Simmons : Yeah? Where would you?

  Emily Prentiss : Never thought about it.

  Penelope Garcia : I... I don't want to think about it.

  Dr. Tara Lewis : I would definitely be on a beach.

  Luke Alvez : I think I'd prefer the mountains.

  Matt Simmons : I'd be with my family.

  Jennifer Jareau : Same. Spence?

  Dr. Spencer Reid : Paris with my mom. She liked Paris.

  Dr. Tara Lewis : You know, something tells me Dave has this all planned out.

  David Rossi : Don't you know it. When the end comes, you'll find me at home enjoying a meal of carbonara a la Rossi, and if there's still time, I will adjourn to my patio to partake in a double Jack and a vintage Don Carlos.

  Luke Alvez : That sounds great.

  Emily Prentiss : You mind if we join you?

• Dr. Spencer Reid : [opening quotation]  T.S. Eliot wrote "This is the way the world ends. Not with a bang, but with a whimper."

• Emily Prentiss : So four young women go missing, late at night, in the same geographical area.

  Dr. Spencer Reid : There's been no ATM, no cell phone, credit card activity.

  Matt Simmons : And no ransom demands. These weren't kidnappings.

  Luke Alvez : Bodies have never been found. The unsub could be holding them.

  Emily Prentiss : Or he's good at permanent concealment.

• Jennifer Jareau : The unsub could hold a grudge against accomplished women, especially if he feels inferior.

  Dr. Spencer Reid : You know, the unemployment rate in Virginia is only 3.7%. But if he's out of work, he might resent them for being better educated or making more money.

  Dr. Tara Lewis : And you also need to throw rejection into the mix. I mean, this guy could be a jilted lover or feel frustrated by the type of woman he thinks he can't get.

  Emily Prentiss : Garcia, any luck finding a connection between these women?

  Penelope Garcia : Nothing on social media.

  David Rossi : Were any of the dating or in a relationship?

  Penelope Garcia : Not that I can see. They haven't posted, you know, any typical romantic pics with a boyfriend or girlfriend.

• Luke Alvez : Assuming the women are still alive, the unsub would need a place to hold them. A home, warehouse, abandoned building.

  Dr. Spencer Reid : He could be keeping them in multiple locations, in which case he most likely has a large truck or van.

  Jennifer Jareau : He appears to be a night owl. All of the abductions took place around midnight.

  Matt Simmons : Could do shift work. Maybe that's the time he gets off from his job.

  Emily Prentiss : Matt, Dave, go check out the latest crime scene. Tara, Luke, talk to Allie's co-workers at the restaurant. Captain Skinner from the State Police is on his way in. We will work the case from here.

• Emily Prentiss : What do we know?

  Matt Simmons : The unsub struck again, this time in the open in a busy parking lot.

  David Rossi : JJ and Tara are still there. They found an eyewitness that caught the whole event on a cell phone.

  Luke Alvez : Well it's obvious he's not abducting and driving at the same time. He's got a partner.

  Matt Simmons : He took a lot of risk abducting in broad daylight like that.

  David Rossi : He looked at something before he took the woman. It made him hesitate. Matt, take it back.

  [Matt rewinds the footage] 

  David Rossi : That building in the background. It's a digital clock. 11:57:30. He waited until that precise moment before he grabbed her.

  Matt Simmons : Yeah, but that was during the day. All the other abductions took place close to 12:00 midnight.

  Luke Alvez : Clocks strike 12:00 twice a day. Maybe it's not AM or PM that matters.

  Emily Prentiss : The numbers 11:57:30 might mean something to him.

  Dr. Spencer Reid : It could be an address, a code. It might even have religious significance.

• Dr. Spencer Reid : JJ. We need to gather everyone. I know why he's doing this.

• Dr. Spencer Reid : We said the timing of the unsub's abductions may be important to him.

  Captain Chuck Skinner : Why is that?

  Dr. Spencer Reid : Victim number one: Dr. Roberta Childs. She signed out of the hospital at 11:50 p.m. Now, victim number two, Diane Pearl, her home alarm system was tripped at 11:52 p.m., Victim three, Elise Waterston, she was a no-show for an 11:55 pickup from her dental office. Cell phone records show that Allie Leighton, the fourth victim, ended her phone call at 11:57 p.m., and lastly, Paige Burrell, the digital clock where she was abducted read 11:57:30.

  Dr. Tara Lewis : Okay, so based on your timeline, our unsub's counting up to 12:00.

  Dr. Spencer Reid : No, he's counting down.

  Captain Chuck Skinner : Counting down to what?

  Dr. Spencer Reid : I think the unsub's abducting women based on the doomsday clock.

  Captain Chuck Skinner : And what's that?

  David Rossi : The symbolic clock that warns the world how close we are to total destruction.

  Matt Simmons : Midnight on the clock represents a hypothetical global catatrophe, like a... a nuclear war. Uh, the number of minutes to midnight stand for how soon that could happen.

• Jennifer Jareau : Since 1947 when a group of atomic scientists created the clock, the minute hand's been reset many times.

  Dr. Spencer Reid : For the last five years, it's been consistently ticking down. It was last set at two and a half minutes to midnight.

  Emily Prentiss : And the closest it ever was was two minutes in 1953 when the U.S. and Russia tested the first H-bomb.

  Jennifer Jareau : We could be looking at a doomsday cult.

  Captain Chuck Skinner : So he's like one of these survivalists who lives in the woods and wears tinfoil hats.

  Luke Alvez : Actually, the idea of preparing for the end is moving from the fringes of society into mainstream culture.

  Matt Simmons : Yeah, they call themselves preppers. They're trying to retain a certain standard of living for themselves and others while riding out the Apocalpyse, be it nuclear or civil unrest.

  David Rossi : The wealthy are jumping on board. They're hoarding cryptocurrency and buying custom survival shelters.

  Matt Simmons : And the super rich are taking it to another level. They're buying private islands, land in New Zealand, their private jets are always gassed up ready to whisk them away at a moment's notice.

  Emily Prentiss : So, the victims are part of the unsub's prep to repopulate a new civilization in a post-apocalyptic world.

  Dr. Tara Lewis : And the clock starting to tick steadily down five years ago was the trigger.

  Matt Simmons : And with it being so close to midnight and us breathing down his neck, he may decide that it's time to cut all ties with the outside world.

  Emily Prentiss : We need to find him before that happens.

• Jennifer Jareau : There's nothing here.

  Dr. Spencer Reid : There's gotta be.

  Jennifer Jareau : Where, Spence? We drove around the entire property. There's nothing here except the ground we're standing on.

  Dr. Spencer Reid : [a thought strikes him]  The ground we're standing on.

  Jennifer Jareau : What?

  Dr. Spencer Reid : In the 1990s, the government closed and abandoned military installations across America, including Virginia. Some of them included underground strategic command centers.

  Jennifer Jareau : A bunker built to withstand a nuclear blast. What if this land Irene Jacobs owns is over one of them?

  Dr. Spencer Reid : Well, the main entrance would most likely be booby-trapped. So we need to try to find the escape hatch.

• Jennifer Jareau : I can't get through.

  Dr. Spencer Reid : The doors are airtight and the glass is bomb-blast resistant. Our bullets would just bounce off.

  Jennifer Jareau : Okay, uh, Garcia told everyone we were heading down here, so... wait, did you say airtight? Are we gonna run out of air?

  Dr. Spencer Reid : No. High carbon dioxide levels are gonna kill us before low oxygen levels do.

  Jennifer Jareau : What about the keypad?

  Dr. Spencer Reid : On a 0 to 9 keypad, assuming a four digit code, there are 10,000 possible combinations. If you figure five seconds to input each combination, that'll take 13.89 hours, and that's not even accounting the finger fatigue.

  Jennifer Jareau : Right. So even if we did try, after too many failed attempts, we would probably be locked in here anyway.

• Dr. Spencer Reid : But I promise, the world is still there!