Criminal Minds (TV Series)

Lucky Strikes (2017)

Adam Rodriguez: Luke Alvez

Quotes 

• Dr. Tara Lewis : [Garcia leaves a briefing]  Was it something I said?

  Emily Prentiss : No. That's not you. Um... we were working Ferell's case when she was shot.

  Luke Alvez : Garcia was shot?

  Jennifer Jareau : Ten years ago. Happened right in front of her apartment building.

  Matt Simmons : Was it a random act of violence?

  Jennifer Jareau : No. He lured her into dating him before she IDed him. Turns out he was a dirty cop named Colby Baylor and she was getting close to exposing him.

  Luke Alvez : So he shot her. Where is he now?

  Jennifer Jareau : He's dead.

  Luke Alvez : Good.

  Emily Prentiss : Let's just give her a few minutes.

• Penelope Garcia : We got a call from Bridgewater, Florida PD. The body of Rebecca Strong was found last night in a rest stop women's room with and without things.

  Luke Alvez : Whoa.

  Penelope Garcia : Yeah. And then it gets worse.

  Jennifer Jareau : All the tell-tale signs are here.

  David Rossi : Pentagram, legs and fingers gone.

  Emily Prentiss : There's even one neat aspect. Her earrings and jewelry are laid out equidistant on the floor.

  David Rossi : Sure as hell looks like him.

  Matt Simmons : Looks like who?

  Jennifer Jareau : Floyd Feylinn Ferell.

  Dr. Spencer Reid : A psychotic cannibal who'd been killing under the radar for years.

  Emily Prentiss : He killed ten prostitutes, then moved up to low-risk victims.

  Jennifer Jareau : He kept slipping through the cracks and avoiding justice, so people referred to him as "Lucky".

  David Rossi : The worst of it was he owned a barbecue joint. And he fed one of the victims to the search party.

• Dr. Tara Lewis : Projected cannibalism. The act of inducing others to consume human flesh unknowingly. You do not see that very often.

  Emily Prentiss : Well, projection seems to be a thing for Ferell. He fed the fingers of ten previous victims to a later one.

  David Rossi : His way of telling us he was ten victims deep before we even knew he existed.

  Luke Alvez : You think he's back?

  Emily Prentiss : Not unless he really lives up to his nickname. He's been locked up in the Hazelwood Psychiatric Hospital for the past ten years.

  Matt Simmons : Well, then it's a copycat wanting to ride the wave of horror left in Ferell's wake.

  Dr. Spencer Reid : Statistically, copycat killers tend to be vulnerable narcissists. Though overtly boastful, they harbor deep-seated feelings of inadequacy. Emulating notorious crimes makes them feel powerful.

  David Rossi : Ferell was found to be mentally incapable of assisting in his own defense, so he skated without a trial.

  Emily Prentiss : If this unsub is anything like Ferell, he's got a taste for it. And copycats typically don't stop after one victim. Wheels up in twenty.

• Luke Alvez : What was Rebecca like as a person?

  Dr. Tara Lewis : She's described as strong-willed, determined. Working to support her two kids.

  Matt Simmons : When was Rebecca last seen?

  Penelope Garcia : Uh... well, her boyfriend, and by "boyfriend" I mean "pimp", Jason Carlsbad, reported her missing when she didn't show up and donate to his college fund. I'm sending you deets right now.

  David Rossi : Normally, I would want to look at him. Pimps hurt women they exploit to gain control, but an M.O. this complex doesn't add up.

  Luke Alvez : Yeah, the cannibalism angle wouldn't make sense, either.

  Dr. Spencer Reid : Eroticizing the consumption of human flesh is a pretty specific fetish. Are we sure that he's copying that from Ferell?

  Emily Prentiss : We need to nail that down. Dave, Tara, go to the M.E.'s office. Matt and Spencer, head to Hazelwood State. Notorious criminals have fans who might want to copy their work. Luke, you and I will head to the PD and set up a base of operations with Detective Russ.

• Detective Alex Russ : Thanks for coming, Emily.

  Emily Prentiss : Alex, this is Agent Luke Alvez.

  Luke Alvez : [shaking hands]  Hi. You two guys, you know each other.

  Emily Prentiss : Uh, Alex left the Bureau a few years ago to take this job.

  Detective Alex Russ : Tough call, though. When my dad passed, I wanted the kids to spend some meaningful time with their grandma down here.

  Emily Prentiss : I heard Detective Jordan retired early and you replaced him.

  Detective Alex Russ : Yeah. He couldn't shake the stink of this case. It's taken the community a decade to recover from Ferell. Now we have a damn copycat.

  Luke Alvez : Well, they thrive on media attention. That wouldn't be good for anybody.

  Emily Prentiss : Agreed. We rob him of his fifteen minutes and work under the radar.

  Detective Alex Russ : I'd like to shut him down quietly. Before the town loses all hope.

• David Rossi : All of the fingers found in Rebecca's stomach are from the same person, but they aren't hers. So we have one other unknown victim.

  Dr. Tara Lewis : Well, JJ and Garcia are searching for other missing women who fit his victimology.

  Luke Alvez : You know, the fact that the... the killer forced Rebecca to swallow the fingers of a prior victim means that he must have had inside knowlede of the old cases.

• Luke Alvez : This must be the ankle monitor base station.

  Dr. Spencer Reid : It's an ancient model in a fundamentally flawed system. Not even GPS-enabled. It basically just tracks the person's distance from the base station.

  Luke Alvez : Looks like it has a backup battery in case of a power outage.

  Dr. Spencer Reid : Yeah, Floyd could have literally unplugged it, plugged it into a mobile power source, and taken it with him anywhere. They're so easy to defeat that law enforcement stopped using them years ago.

  Luke Alvez : State hospital may not know that. I mean, he could have snuck away with it last week and then killed Rebecca Strong.

  Dr. Spencer Reid : If he did that, he easily could have done it earlier and killed the first victim, as well.

• Luke Alvez : Why did you pick Sheryl Timmons?

  Floyd Feylinn Ferell : I didn't. My friend did. I just picked her up and took her where he told me to.

  Luke Alvez : Where was that?

  Floyd Feylinn Ferell : To my house, from the warehouse, over on Shelby Lane. I was supposed to rub her legs. That's all I did. I just rubbed 'em. I didn't want to, but I did.

  Luke Alvez : What's your friend's name, Floyd?

  Floyd Feylinn Ferell : He didn't tell me his name. But I knew when I first met him, I needed to do what he wanted me to.

• Penelope Garcia : Okay, I found an isolated warehouse on Shelby Lane midway between the search site where Sheryl was taken and Ferell's house.

  Matt Simmons : Any freight lines nearby?

  Jennifer Jareau : One runs right alongside it.

  Luke Alvez : Sheryl confirmed Ferell's story.

  Emily Prentiss : Is it possible we were actually wrong about him from the start?

• Detective Alex Russ : We identified the body from the warehouse. Yvonne Westfield. She went missing six weeks ago on a weekday when Ferell was still locked up.

  Emily Prentiss : So there's deinitely another killer out there.

  Luke Alvez : I find it hard to believe that there's a master manipulator killer pulling Ferell's strings.

  Matt Simmons : But everything seems to be pointing that way.

  Emily Prentiss : Okay, let's get Yvonne's next of kin in here, find out everything we can about her.

• Marcus Manning : I did it. I killed all those women in 2007.

  Lee Ann Kelton : What?

  Marcus Manning : I tried to be good, but these last few weeks, I couldn't help myself. I had to kill again.

  Luke Alvez : No!

  [letting Lee Ann go, Marcus cuts his own throat] 

  David Rossi : He's gone.

  Luke Alvez : [comforting Lee Ann]  It's okay.

  David Rossi : That confession is all that Ferell needs to get off scot-free.

• Dr. Tara Lewis : We know, behaviorally, that Marcus was lying.

  David Rossi : Regardless, we have to turn over his dying declaration to Ferell's defense counsel.

  Luke Alvez : She'll use it to get him out.

  Matt Simmons : That's what Ferell wanted all along.

  Dr. Spencer Reid : He manipulated the mental health system to get out again by coercing Marcus into taking credit for his crimes.

  Detective Alex Russ : And I'm left with a cannibal about to be released back into my community. How do I protect them?

  Emily Prentiss : None of us wants to risk waiting for Ferell to kill again, and we all know believe he will, but there's simply nothing we can do legally at this time.

  David Rossi : Well, I can't leave here doing nothing. I'll try to get the hospital board to understand Ferell's hand in all this.

  Detective Alex Russ : I appreciate that, and everything you've done for us. Thank you.