Criminal Minds (TV Series)

Luke (2018)

Paget Brewster: Emily Prentiss

Quotes 

• Emily Prentiss : I have a strange request. I need you to find Luke's phone.

  Penelope Garcia : Okay.

  [typing] 

  Penelope Garcia : Uh, Luke is at home.

  Emily Prentiss : Ahh, he's smart. He'd leave his phone. Look, I hate to do this, but... Grant isn't the only one with skills. When Luke was a manhunter, he'd go undercover. That means fake identities and multiple phones. I need to see if any of those phones are active now.

  Penelope Garcia : Okay. That-that's gonna take a minute. What do you think he's up to?

  Emily Prentiss : I'm afraid Luke might take matters into his own hands.

• Emily Prentiss : I told you you had to sit this one out.

  Luke Alvez : Yeah. I know.

  Emily Prentiss : You defied a direct order. I can't let it slide. Because a shot was fired, OPR will take your gun. I am not asking for your badge yet, but I am placing field restrictions on you. For the foreseeable future, you will work out of the BAU. You're not allowed to travel with the team. There will also be a formal demotion; you'll be downgraded from Supervisory Special Agent to Special Agent. Neither of those things are necessarily permanent. You can earn back both privileges, but it won't be easy. Is that clear?

  [he doesn't reply] 

  Emily Prentiss : Is that clear?

  Luke Alvez : Yeah.

  Emily Prentiss : Good. You're lucky you didn't kill him, or you'd be gone forever.

• Penelope Garcia : Three victims in three days: Rick Salazar, Michael Williams, and John Reynoso. Each was shot in the back of the head with a .40 caliber pistol.

  Emily Prentiss : They lived in different states running south along the eastern seaboard. John, the most recent, was in nearby Bethesda, Maryland.

  David Rossi : Execution style. Could be professional.

• Dr. Spencer Reid : You know, most assassinations are one and dones. Hit men acquire a target, execute them, and then disappear. Killing multiple victims without changing his M.O. exposes him and makes him trackable.

  Jennifer Jareau : The victims were seemingly-average people with normal, middle-class lives. Nothing here says they would be targeted by a hit man.

  Dr. Tara Lewis : Yeah, killing random people's just not what a hit man does.

  Luke Alvez : If they're moving this fast, they must be working off a list.

  Matt Simmons : What if all three victims are key witnesses to a federal crime? That would put them on a list.

  David Rossi : As would witness protection.

  Emily Prentiss : Garcia, start running through the WITSEC database. I'll reach out to them and the U.S. Attorney's office, see if there's any overlap.

• Dr. Spencer Reid : We should also consider that our unsub might not be a hit man, that he's operating off a list of victims based on their perceived transgressions.

  Jennifer Jareau : A moral enforcer.

  Emily Prentiss : Well, either way, we need to assume there are other targets. We'll run the case out of here until we can predict his next move. But based on his speed, we will have to work fast.

• Penelope Garcia : Guys. Bad news.

  Emily Prentiss : A fourth victim already?

  Penelope Garcia : Paul McEntee. Arlington, Virginia, just south of here. He's an accountant, lived alone. I sent all the files to your tablet and phones.

  Emily Prentiss : Any luck with WITSEC?

  Penelope Garcia : Not yet. And I've been scouring any pertinent FBI databases. Nothing there, either.

  Dr. Spencer Reid : Two kills in less than a day. He's speeding up.

  Emily Prentiss : Well, if our unsub's a hit man, he's moving fast to avoid detection. He might be near the end of his list.

  Dr. Spencer Reid : I'm still not convinced he is a hit man. If he's a vigilante or moral enforcer, the shortening cooling-down period could be a sign he's losing control.

  Emily Prentiss : Spence, you, Dave, and Tara go to Bethesda. Luke and I will head to the M.E.'s office, take a look at the latest victim. I'll have Matt and JJ go to Arlington.

• Dr. Weiss : C.O.D. on Paul McEntee was two successive gunshot wounds to the back of the head at close range with a .40 caliber pistol. Same as the first three.

  Emily Prentiss : So he controlled them with the gun. Did he torture them at all?

  Dr. Weiss : There's no evidence of hematoma anywhere on his body, but there is pre-mortem bruising to his wrists.

  Luke Alvez : If he's a professional, why go through all the trouble of tying him up just to kill him in there?

  Emily Prentiss : Maybe he wanted to muffle the sound? .40 cal's a big gun with a big bang.

  Dr. Weiss : I also found sodium hypochlorite in his mouth, throat, and stomach.

  Luke Alvez : Sodium hypochlorite? That's household bleach, isn't it?

  Dr. Weiss : That's right. He made him drink an entire bottle's worth.

  Emily Prentiss : So he could have let him die from the poisoning, but he chose not to. That's a pretty clear message. "You're a rat, so I'm gonna silence you first by burning your mouth and throat, and then I'll kill you."

  Luke Alvez : He did this to all of them, didn't he?

  Dr. Weiss : He did.

  Emily Prentiss : Have you seen this before?

  Luke Alvez : Yeah, I have. In Mexico.

• Luke Alvez : So, DNA from the latest crime scene confirms that our unsub is Jeremy Grant. He was a DEA sniper Phil and I worked with in Mexico when we were hunting Eduardo Ramos. We weren't tight, but we knew him a bit. He took orders well. He was good at his job. I lost touch with him after Mexico.

  Phil Brooks : Yeah, so did I.

  Matt Simmons : That's not uncommon after a mission. So, what happened?

  Penelope Garcia : [typing]  Jeremy Grant still works for the DEA. He lives in Mexico with his wife and two daughters. Wow, he was practically Ramos' neighbor. Uh, he's lived in Mexico for over ten years. Both of his daughters were born there.

  [seeing a report pop up] 

  Penelope Garcia : He was just put on mandatory bereavement for... oh, my.

  Emily Prentiss : [looking over her shoulder]  His wife and children were all murdered in the family's home. They were all forced to drink bleach before being shot twice in the back of the head with a .40 caliber pistol. It must be Ramos.

  Phil Brooks : Where was Grant when it happened?

  Penelope Garcia : He was out of the country on assignment. He discovered the bodies.

  Luke Alvez : Somehow, Ramos must have gotten a list of everybody involved with his arrest. And he went after the Grants first because they lived the closest. After that, he likely would have gone after Silva and his men, and then crossed stateside and come after us. But Grant got to him first.

• Dr. Spencer Reid : We profiled Grant as either a hit man or a moral enforcer, but he's actually both. He's a moral enforcer posing as a hit man. It's the perfect cover.

  Emily Prentiss : We need to find everyone associated with the cartel in this immediate area. That's where he's heading next.

  Jennifer Jareau : [entering]  The DEA's just given us three more suspected Martinez cartel contacts in the D.C. area. I just sent you all their info, Garcia.

  Penelope Garcia : On it. Ken Ronson, Steve Bagnis, Kathleen Jensen. I've sent you their home and work addresses.

  Emily Prentiss : Phil, do you recognize any of them?

  Phil Brooks : No.

  Emily Prentiss : Okay, then we have to assume all three are still in play. Let's split up and go.

• Emily Prentiss : I know what you're gonna ask me, but I can't let you stay on this case. You're a potential target of a trained assassin. Now, I know you've requested a protective detail at the house for Lisa, but the fact of the matter is you need one, too.

  Luke Alvez : Standard operating procedure. I get it.

  Emily Prentiss : Thank you for understanding. And we won't rest until we catch Jeremy Grant. I promise. Is there anything I can do for you?

  Luke Alvez : Yeah. Yeah, I need to get home and see Lisa. I scared the hell out of her. And I need to start making phone calls and paying visits. Phil's parents... his brother and his sisters, his Army buddies and manhunters, people in C.I.D. Um... I need a little leeway with this detail on me.

  Emily Prentiss : Okay. But then I'll need regular check-ins from you.

  Luke Alvez : Absolutely. We good?

  Emily Prentiss : We're good.

• Emily Prentiss : Jeremy Grant has killed multiple people. Now that he's murdered a federal agent, he knows the full weight of every agency in the U.S. law enforcement machine will be looking for him.

  Dr. Spencer Reid : We know from his profile he's not suicidal.

  Jennifer Jareau : Exactly. So he'll go underground, which means he'll either flee the country or wait for the storm to pass.

  Matt Simmons : He's a sniper with resources on both sides of the border.

  Dr. Tara Lewis : Right. These guys are trained to have safe houses and backstops.

  Emily Prentiss : Okay, that's where we start. I want a full background on Grant's DEA history; missions, known associates, anyone or anything that would help keep him off the radar. JJ's right, he will try and go underground, but before he does, I have a feeling he's gonna wanna get in one final shot.

• Emily Prentiss : Garcia, we're minutes away from the marina.

  Penelope Garcia : Turn around. Turn around right now. Jeremy Grant is in Baltimore at the port.

  Matt Simmons : But we already ruled out that port.

  Penelope Garcia : I know, but Luke.

  Matt Simmons : What about him?

  Emily Prentiss : I had a hunch about Luke, so I had Garcia keep tabs on all the phones he used during his undercover days in the manhunter unit.

  Penelope Garcia : Yeah, and all those phones are dead except for one, and it is pinging right at the port.

  Emily Prentiss : Thanks, Garcia. We're turning around.