Criminal Minds (TV Series)

Submerged (2018)

Kirsten Vangsness: Penelope Garcia

Quotes 

• Penelope Garcia : So, remember that old expression "Dont go swimming while tethered to a cinder block"?

  [no reaction] 

  Penelope Garcia : No? Larry and Wanda Robbins from Ramona, California. Newlyweds. They were found dead last night in their backyard pool. Wanda was shot once in the chest. Larry was gagged and drowned because of that cinder block thing I mentioned earlier.

  Dr. Tara Lewis : Anything stolen from the house?

  Emily Prentiss : Jewelry was missing from Wanda's vanity. This is the latest in a string of backyard pool murders in Ramona over the last two weeks.

  Penelope Garcia : Oh, that's my part. Victim number one, Ben Stiles, 82 year old widower. He was found at the bottom of his pool, tied to a cinder block like Larry Robbins. Six days later, victim number two, Bert Schofield; divorced, lived alone, and as you can see, same kind of awfulness.

  Jennifer Jareau : Were their houses also burglarized?

  Penelope Garcia : Yeah. Well, Ben Stiles' was. His coin collection was missing. I'm not sure about Bert Schofield.

• Jennifer Jareau : Have we found a connection between the victims yet, Garcia?

  Penelope Garcia : None. All of them were long-time area residents, and they all had backyard pools, but that's about it.

  Matt Simmons : It's possible these killings are random.

  Dr. Tara Lewis : Except the items taken were so specific. I mean, the unsub must have had some familiarity with the people he targeted.

  Penelope Garcia : Oh, and it turns out that Bert Schofield was, in fact, burglarized. His bowling trophies were missing from his garage.

  Luke Alvez : [incredulous]  Bowling trophies? Seriously?

  Penelope Garcia : I just report the facts as I find them, sir.

• Jennifer Jareau : Garcia?

  Penelope Garcia : Come get it, Bae.

  Jennifer Jareau : The land that was flooded to form Lake Palmer, did anyone live or work out there?

  Penelope Garcia : It's pretty remote country, but yeah, it looks like there were three homes in the canyon.

  Luke Alvez : I assume they were all subject to eminent domain?

  Penelope Garcia : Correct. The city bought out those three families.

  Dr. Tara Lewis : Do we know what happened to the residents?

  Penelope Garcia : Two of 'em moved to houses by the side of the new lake. The third one is proving to be a little trickier.

  [finding a result] 

  Penelope Garcia : Bob Turner, an off-the-gridish type, but he vanished right before the new reservoir was created. I don't have a trace of him after that, but fret not. There's the grid and then there's the Garcia grid, and that one is not as easy to stay off of. Do you know what I'm saying? Of course you know what I'm saying. Goodbye.

• Emily Prentiss : What is it, Garcia?

  Penelope Garcia : Bob Turner, our missing canyon dweller, has gone from off the grid to gridlocked. Turns out Bob Turner isn't even his real name. It's Casey Peters, and Mr. Peters has what I would diplomatically call a sketchy history.

  Dr. Tara Lewis : Sketchy how?

  Penelope Garcia : Embezzlement, fraud, forgery. I could go on. He's lived mostly in Florida and the Carolinas.

  Emily Prentiss : What brought him to Ramona, California?

  Penelope Garcia : A place to hide out, apparently.

  Dr. Tara Lewis : From what?

  Penelope Garcia : Something to do with money. Months before the canyon was flooded, federal Treasury agents were closing in on him.

  Emily Prentiss : And that's when he pulled up stakes in Ramona and vanished. Do we know where he is now?

  Penelope Garcia : We do not, but I am on the hunt. I am sending you a DMV photo of Casey Peters from his Bob Turner days.

  Emily Prentiss : [looking at the photo on her phone]  I know that guy. From the lake.

  Dr. Tara Lewis : Yeah. That's the guy who found the coins.

• Emily Prentiss : Yeah, Garcia?

  Penelope Garcia : It's "pieces fall into place day" here at Garcia Central. I have been looking at old Ramona public records for all things Bob Turner, and another Turner caught my eye; a Leland Turner. In 1997, he was thirteen years old. He has a long juvie record, no family history. And he listed his address as Palmer Canyon Road.

  Jennifer Jareau : Wait, that's the road that used to lead to the residences in the flooded canyon.

  Luke Alvez : Casey Peters had a son.

• Penelope Garcia : Release the genie.

  Dr. Tara Lewis : Leland Peters, did his juvie trouble ever involve another kid?

  Penelope Garcia : Uh, yeah. A whole group of kids. They ran in a pack.

  Jennifer Jareau : Does one name pop up more than the others?

  Penelope Garcia : Oh. Like B-14 in a Bingo parlor. Jess Carney. He and Leland were thick as thieves. Literally. Stole stuff, truancy. But this is weird. At age fourteen, Jess - poof - like, disappears. His behavior took a violent turn shortly after the canyon flooded. His parents couldn't control him anymore. And as soon as the mystery presents itself, the mystery is solved. Jess was institutionalized out of state, put on antidepressants.

  Luke Alvez : That would explain the arrested development. He was medicated and isolated during some crucial formative years.

  Penelope Garcia : Jess returned to California when he was twenty-four and worked odd jobs in and around San Diego, and then... suddenly left the area about a month ago.

  Jennifer Jareau : That's right around the time the killings started.

  Dr. Tara Lewis : Do we know where Jess is now?

  Penelope Garcia : Oh. Oh, we do not. After he left San Diego, he... he poof, vanished again. It's like a re-poof, I guess you'd call it.

  Luke Alvez : Is there a recent photo of Carney?

  Penelope Garcia : Uh, the best I have is a DMV photo from six years ago. Sending it now.