Criminal Minds (TV Series)

Cure (2018)

Matthew Gray Gubler: Dr. Spencer Reid

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• Dr. Spencer Reid : [opening quote]  "It is impossible to suffer without making someone pay for it, every complaint already contains revenge" - Fredrich Nietzsche

• Lieutenant Rakesha Wilson : [Looking at a drawing in blood on the wall]  You have any idea what it means?

  Dr. Spencer Reid : It appears to be an attempt to render a serpent entwined staff wielded by the Greek God Asclepius, which historically has been used to symbolize the arts of healing and medicine

  Lieutenant Rakesha Wilson : Medicine? Isn't that supposed to mean the other symbol? The one with the winged staff and the two snakes?

  Dr. Spencer Reid : That's actually Caduceus, the rod of Hermes. Unfortunately the two symbols are often mistaken for each other, because of the US Army medical corps mistakenly adopted the wrong Greek symbol for their branch plague back in 1902

• David Rossi : [Staring at a coded message found in the victim]  This looks an awful lot like the cryptograms the Zodiac killer sent

  Dr. Spencer Reid : The Zodiac's four coded messages surely display the same blocking of text symbols and there are 20 lines with 30 symbols on each line, but with the Zodiac used symbols from 7 different sources, this unsub appears to be using letters from 4 pure alphabets: Latin, Greek, Cyrillic and Korean

  Penelope Garcia : Ok, the first thing I can tell you, is that Kyle Reeves did not write that, because he's recent in detainment juvi last week

  Emily Prentiss : So, Spence, how long will it take to crack?

  Penelope Garcia : [raises her hand]  Ow, ow! With my help, consider I cracked. I'm crazy for cryptology. If I may it's a homophobic cipher, it's a classic Caesar cypher

  Dr. Spencer Reid : Yeah, when one letter, one code text can be transposed in one letter of coded text. Here one letter, one code can be replaced by a coded letter from each four pure alphabets

  Penelope Garcia : Honey, they can hear how confusing that is

  Dr. Spencer Reid : I didn't tell them that key number we're gonna need to get the actual shift value

  Penelope Garcia : [nods]  Yeah

  Emily Prentiss : [Looks complete puzzled to Rossi]  Maybe we'll just leave you two to this

  Penelope Garcia : No, no, no, we got thus! It's all in the frequency analysis

  Dr. Spencer Reid : Exactly! Let's start with the most common letter in the English language: E

  Penelope Garcia : Are you flirting with me? 'cause E happens to be my favorite vowel. Ok, if the hypothesis of that is trivial that could mean that our transcendental shift value equals 3... and... if that's true, then our decryption looks like... this!

• Jennifer Jareau : The last time I got an email like that from a person like Barnes, I was taken off the team

  Dr. Spencer Reid : That's not gonna happen again, I honestly don't think that's even possible

  Jennifer Jareau : Well, I do