Criminal Minds (TV Series)

The Tall Man (2018)

Adam Rodriguez: Luke Alvez

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• Jennifer Jareau : Last night, three teenage girls went searching for the Tall Man. It's a-a regional ghost story. According to the survivor recovered this morning, they found him.

  Luke Alvez : [seeing pictures of Ally]  She looks like she went through hell. She say what happened?

  Penelope Garcia : Uh, that would be Ally Macready. And according to her, the Tall Man held them and cut them repeatedly.

  Jennifer Jareau : Now, that is consistent with the legend. So, the Tall Man is your classic "don't go into the woods" dare. Survive the night, you survive him. He catches you, he cuts you until you reveal your deepest secrets.

• Matt Simmons : Ally has schizophrenia?

  Dr. Tara Lewis : Early onset. And we confirmed it with her parents. It's rare in teens, but it can happen. The telltale symptom was her face blindness. Schizophrenics have extreme visual processing problems, most obviously in meeting new people or experience new environments.

  Luke Alvez : Her parents were trying to keep her off medication. That's why the cops and Garcia didn't flag it.

  Emily Prentiss : Besides the parents, who else knew?

  Dr. Tara Lewis : Just Bethany and Chelsea. Why?

  Emily Prentiss : Lot of holes in her story.

  Luke Alvez : Well, we noticed that, too. I mean, she wasn't bound, but the other two were. She could have escaped, instead she magically woke up in the forest.

  Matt Simmons : Covered in her friends' blood. And most schizophrenics are not violent, but they can be pushed to violence if they're threatened. Maybe she did this, but in her mind, it was the Tall Man.

  Emily Prentiss : And that brings us back to Bethany and Chelsea's texts about Ally, and if their agenda was upsetting enough to induce a break. JJ's with Chelsea's dad now. Maybe she can find out what they needed to talk about.

• Dr. Tara Lewis : This process is called Eye Movement Desensitization and Reconditioning. And all you have to do is focus on the movement of the metronome and the sound of our voices.

  Luke Alvez : [Tara sets the metronome in motion]  Okay, let's go back to the last thing you remember in his lair.

  Ally Macready : I don't want to.

  Luke Alvez : Nothing bad is gonna happen to you, Ally. You're safe, okay?

• Luke Alvez : [searching the school's trophy case]  This can't be it. There's nowhere for her to hide in here.

  Jennifer Jareau : [noticing a "Staff only" door]  Guys, over here.

  [spotting something as they enter] 

  Jennifer Jareau : What's under here?

  Matt Simmons : That's, uh, an electrical breaker room. The police, they cleared it already.

  Jennifer Jareau : Well, we need to clear it again.

• Emily Prentiss : I'm starting to think Bethany or Chelsea might be pulling the strings here.

  David Rossi : Whoa, slow down. All three girls' phones were drugged, and Ally had the other girls' blood on her.

  Luke Alvez : I'm with Rossi. I mean, if one of the girls was staging this, she would have had to have knocked herself out and let herself get cut. That's one hell of a gaslight.

  Dr. Spencer Reid : But not an impossible one, especially with a partner.

  Matt Simmons : Well, if that's true, I think we're missing the bigger picture here. Chelsea and Bethany are best friends. Why would one recruit a partner to terrorize the other?

  Jennifer Jareau : Okay, it has something to do with this. "Where is it?". That's what Ally heard. So they're looking for something they lost, something they think the other girl can find.

  Emily Prentiss : I think we need to take another look at their high school, see what we can find.

  Jennifer Jareau : I know a guy over there that could help us.

• Luke Alvez : JJ, this is a highwayman's hitch knot. It self-releases. Bethany could have escaped any time she wanted.

• Tom Davis : You think I did this? My daughter is fighting for her life in the hospital.

  Matt Simmons : The guy we're looking for has been doing this for a while.

  Luke Alvez : All the way back to Roslyn.

  Tom Davis : Jareau? We dated in the '90s. I was 18.

• Emily Prentiss : [with JJ, watching Matt and Luke question Tom]  You okay with this?

  Tom Davis : I was at home by myself. You can check my cell phone. It's got GPS on it.

  Luke Alvez : All that means is that your phone stayed home, not that you did.

  Jennifer Jareau : How he responds to my sister's necklace will tell us everything.

  [Prentiss gives her a nod of approval] 

  Tom Davis : [she enters the room]  JJ, thank god. Can you please explain...

  Jennifer Jareau : We pulled this off of Bethany.

  Tom Davis : What is it?

  Jennifer Jareau : [studying his face, then leaving]  It's not him.

  Emily Prentiss : We're holding him anyway.

  Jennifer Jareau : Fine. But it's not him.