Criminal Minds (TV Series)

Lucky Strikes (2017)

Aisha Tyler: Dr. Tara Lewis

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.

• 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.

• Dr. Warren Spitz : I was deputy coroner in 2007. Didn't think I'd ever see this again. Legs and fingers removed antemortem. Inverted pentagram postmortem.

  David Rossi : Cause of death exsanguination?

  Dr. Warren Spitz : Mm-hmm. Due to bisection of the carotid when her throat was slashed. Just like before.

  Dr. Tara Lewis : Looks like blunt force trauma to the head, as well.

  Dr. Warren Spitz : Again, just like the historic cases. Whoever is doing this has Ferell down to a "T".

  David Rossi : That doesn't make sense. Ferell's been locked up for years. Why would someone be copying him now?

  Dr. Warren Spitz : Can't tell you, but this copycat seems to be an exact copy.

  Dr. Tara Lewis : How so?

  Dr. Warren Spitz : I x-rayed the stomach contents before I removed them. Five fingers in the stomach, fed to the victim just prior to her death, none of them hers.

  David Rossi : Only Ferell knew that signature aspect. We never released it to the public.

• 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.

• David Rossi : We appreciate you coming in, Sheryl.

  Sheryl Timmons : I don't like being back here. I moved away ten years ago, took my name off of everything, just to avoid having to deal with this again.

  Dr. Tara Lewis : Because there was no trial, you were never fully debriefed. We need to go over the details of your interactions with Ferell.

  Sheryl Timmons : I've been doing everything I can to try to forget. It's been a living hell. I'm not sure I can be of much help.

  [behind her, out in the bullpen, Luke and Matt lead Ferell in] 

  Sheryl Timmons : All of a sudden, I got the chills.

• Sheryl Timmons : He did say "we" a lot, and talked about a special friend, but I never saw anyone else.

  Dr. Tara Lewis : Did you ever hear anything that might have indicated someone else was actually involved?

  Sheryl Timmons : I remember once I heard footsteps upstairs. He dropped everything and left in a hurry.

  David Rossi : Can you think back to when you were taken in the woods? Did you get a chance to see who grabbed you?

  Sheryl Timmons : No. I'm sorry. I was blindsided. All I remember is waking up in the trunk of a car. There was a police siren and the car pulled over. I was banging on the inside of the trunk.

  David Rossi : You were abducted in the afternoon, but that cop pulled you over at night. Where were you in between?

  Sheryl Timmons : When I first woke up in the trunk, we weren't moving. We were inside a building. I was unconscious when we got there. But I remember a train passing by woke me up. It seems like it took forever for that train to go by.

• Dr. Warren Spitz : This woman has been dead over a month, but same C.O.D. Exsanguination due to a severed carotid, inverted pentagram carved postmortem, and all ten fingers removed.

  Dr. Tara Lewis : Now, there are hestitation marks on that neck wound.

  David Rossi : And he didn't remove her legs.

  Dr. Warren Spitz : No. Curiously, though, there are postmortem human bite marks on the right leg.

  David Rossi : Yeah, looks like he actually took a bite out of her calf.

  Dr. Warren Spitz : I acquired Ferell's bite impressions from the old case. These bite marks don't match his.

  Dr. Tara Lewis : Well, that's definitive proof there's another killer.

  David Rossi : But you can't teach someone to be turned on by cannibalism. So whoever this unsub is, he must have had that desire all along.

  Dr. Tara Lewis : What about her stomach contents?

  Dr. Warren Spitz : Nothing in her stomach at all.

  David Rossi : So she's probably his first victim.

• Emily Prentiss : Go ahead, Dave.

  David Rossi : Well, it looks like Yvonne Westfield is this unsub's first kill. He's new at it, experimenting with the taste of human flesh. And behaviorally, we know that it's not Ferell.

  Emily Prentiss : Okay, let's play this out. If this killer's responsible for all the kills attributed to Ferell, he'd be experienced. He wouldn't be starting from scratch.

  Dr. Tara Lewis : Yeah, and there'd be no reason for tentative bite or hestiation marks.

  Emily Prentiss : He also wouldn't have done such a poor job hiding Yvonne's body. I mean, that feels like a newbie mistake.

  David Rossi : You know, I agree. All of that rules out the theory that the current unsub was operating ten years ago.

  Emily Prentiss : Let's look at this from the other way around. What if Ferell isn't the patsy? What if Ferell has a patsy? Meaning he's had a plan all along to get out of Hazelwood State.

  David Rossi : So he trains a new unsub to kill using his exact same signature so we think that this new guy was killing ten years ago.

  Dr. Tara Lewis : Then it stands to reason this new unsub is gonna make more boneheaded mistakes.

  Emily Prentiss : First-timers hunt where they live, work, and play. He probably knew the first victim. I'll have Detective Russ bring in her family.

• 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.