Criminal Minds (TV Series)

Neon Terror (2017)

Daniel Henney: Matt Simmons

Quotes 

• Emily Prentiss : [watching Rossi on TV]  Oh, good. We didn't miss it.

  Penelope Garcia : Nope, it just started.

  Luke Alvez : [entering with Matt and JJ]  We're up to our eyeballs in cases. The guy never takes a vacation. I want to know when he'd find the time to write another book.

  Jennifer Jareau : Someone must have put his mandatory six weeks off to good use.

  Matt Simmons : Anybody heard from Tara?

  Emily Prentiss : Oh, she's finishing up with Floyd Ferell. She'll be back in D.C. soon.

  Penelope Garcia : I'm DVRing this for her and Reid. They didn't want to miss it, either.

• Matt Simmons : You know what bothers me about this guy?

  Emily Prentiss : Is it the fact that Kal might win a local news Emmy off him?

  Matt Simmons : Close. It's that with each crime scene, the window between the murder and the start of filming, it shrinks. Right? And at some point, that's gonna converge.

  Emily Prentiss : Okay, we profiled he was going for a bigger bang.

  [realizing] 

  Emily Prentiss : He's gonna make a snuff film.

• Matt Simmons : She was parked when the unsub came up and shot her. She might not have even seen him coming.

  Emily Prentiss : Locals just sent over the details. They believe it's a series of robbery/homicides, but he only robbed the first victim.

  Luke Alvez : Robbery could be a forensic countermeasure to try and keep the cops from tying the cases together.

  Matt Simmons : Well, a big city like Miami, how do we even know they're related?

  Emily Prentiss : Ballistics match. He used a .44 caliber.

  Jennifer Jareau : Bold choice. That's a big gun.

• David Rossi : It feels like we've been through every media member in the city and we still got nothing. Even those Channel 3 jagoffs checked out.

  Matt Simmons : Well, maybe he's not a journalist.

  David Rossi : What is he, then?

  Matt Simmons : He could just be a digital loner. You see lots of guys and girls like that these days. They have the impulse to catalog their lives no matter how mundane it is to the rest of the world. He could be cataloging these crime scene photos right now.

  David Rossi : That's an interesting idea, but how does he get in and out of the crime scene unnoticed?

  Matt Simmons : Well, that's kind of why I'm hitting the wall, too. I was hoping you might have a way around it.

• Jennifer Jareau : Hey, guys, look at this. Okay, so this was taken from just inside Lindsey's garage. What's missing?

  Matt Simmons : The cops. They're not there yet.

  David Rossi : But they responded within minutes. So whoever filmed this had to be there when it happened.

  Jennifer Jareau : Well, this was filmed by a Kal Montgomery at Channel 3. I checked their site. He's on their I.T. staff.

  David Rossi : First Channel 3 breaks the story about the hairclips, and now this.

  Matt Simmons : Well, if he's not a cameraman or a reporter, he wouldn't show up on our sweep.

  Jennifer Jareau : Oh, and I double-checked. His name is on every Neon Terror crime scene Channel 3's put on the news.

  Matt Simmons : All right. I got him. Found him on social media. And it looks like he's posted multiple rants about an ex-girlfriend who looks a lot like our victims.

  David Rossi : Sounds like a digital loner to me. Let's go have a chat with Kal.

• Jennifer Jareau : Who is Quasar22?

  Penelope Garcia : That is an excellent question. I can tell you with a hundred percent certainty that it is not Kal Montgomery. His story completely checks out. Aside from being slightly morally repugnant, he's clean as a whistle. If that whistle was slightly morally repugnant.

  Matt Simmons : So that clears him. Why did the unsub target Kal to begin with?

  Emily Prentiss : Kal's ambitious. He must have known it, used it to his benefit.

  Matt Simmons : So he's smart enough not to expose himself, which is probably not easy for someone who's desperate for attention.

  Penelope Garcia : Also, I have to say whoever this is is, like, a tech wizard, because I have used all the tools in my fantastic box, and he's, like, protected from the mother on high of all encryption packages and a secure server, plus an IP scrambler, which is not like the warm, eggy kind but the computery kind.

  Emily Prentiss : So you've got nothing on the unsub's ID and location?

  Penelope Garcia : No. I mean, according to my screens, it's all coming from Jamaica; Kingston, to be exact. It does not take a profiler to know that's completely bogus.