Criminal Minds (TV Series)

Luke (2018)

Adam Rodriguez: Luke Alvez

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• 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.

• Luke Alvez : [opening quotation]  "I'm a fighter. I believe in the eye-for-an-eye business." - Muhammad Ali.

• Luke Alvez : I'm glad you came over, man. It's been a while.

  Phil Brooks : Well, you should have called earlier. I would have helped you out with the move.

  Luke Alvez : Oh, most of Lisa's stuff was here already. It was just a last couple things.

  Phil Brooks : Hmm. Classic Luke Alvez. Willing to go at it alone.

  Lisa Douglas : Oh, you should have seen him wrestle the bed frame at my apartment. He kept saying "Don't worry, Lisa. Just stand back."

  Phil Brooks , Lisa Douglas : "I got this."

  Luke Alvez : You two are the worst. Okay, that's exactly why I didn't invite you to help.

• Lisa Douglas : How's the new job?

  Phil Brooks : I'm still thankful to be back at the FBI. I mean, even if it is behind a desk. What about you? I haven't seen you since you moved over to the E.R. How's it going?

  Lisa Douglas : Hmm, leaving the rehab wing was tough, but I love the new challenge.

  Phil Brooks : That's great. And now we turn to the great communicator, Luke Alvez. What's up with the BAU, Luke?

  Luke Alvez : Everything's good.

  Phil Brooks : Well, that's actually more than I expected.

• Phil Brooks : What's new with Penelope? Is she seeing anybody? What's up?

  Luke Alvez : Come on, bro. How many times do I have to tell you, you are no match for Penelope Garcia.

  Phil Brooks : I'm smart. I'm considerate, and stable.

  Lisa Douglas : Mm-hmm. Don't forget employed.

  Phil Brooks : Ah, employed. Man, I'm like the total package, man. Come on.

  Luke Alvez : I don't know, okay? I'm not even sure she's looking. I've been busy at work.

  Phil Brooks : Oh. Anything interesting?

  [Luke avoids answering] 

  Phil Brooks : Come on, man. I'm getting frostbite out here.

  Lisa Douglas : He does the same thing to me when I ask about the cases. I can't even get a middle of the day "how's it going?" text from the guy.

  Luke Alvez : [amused]  The two of you.

• Luke Alvez : Morning, Garcia.

  Penelope Garcia : Mmm! How dare you bury the lede? How did the big move-in go?

  Luke Alvez : It was great.

  Penelope Garcia : So Lisa's all moved in?

  Luke Alvez : She is.

  Penelope Garcia : Details. Luke, give me details, or I'm gonna get grumpy with you like I used to.

  Luke Alvez : We packed up the last few things in Lisa's old apartment, she handed in the keys, came home, unpacked a few more boxes. Oh, and then Lou and Phil came over.

  Penelope Garcia : Lou! How is my sweet, sweet Lou?

  Luke Alvez : High energy. Yeah, I mean, he really wears Roxy out. She sleeps for, like, two days straight after he visits.

• Luke Alvez : Lisa says thanks for the wall hanging that you made us.

  Penelope Garcia : She likes it?

  Luke Alvez : She loves it.

  Penelope Garcia : Fantastic. I really think it's gonna bring the whole living room together because it's, like, powerful without being overpowering, you know?

• Luke Alvez : You ready to fight crime?

  Penelope Garcia : Oh, born ready. Bring it.

• 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. 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 : This is Eduardo Ramos. He's the most feared sicario in Mexico.

  Penelope Garcia : A sicario's a hit man, yeah?

  Dr. Tara Lewis : Specifically, hit men that work for Mexican drug cartels.

  Luke Alvez : Now, he's with the Martinez cartel. They're one of the most dangerous around.

  Dr. Tara Lewis : Well, look, the M.O. of these guys is typically brutal. What makes Ramos most feared?

  Luke Alvez : His unrelenting focus and a complete lack of boundaries. He's got no moral code. I mean, if you're his target, he doesn't stop until you're dead. If that means going through every man, woman, and child, he does. No hesitation. Someone else, you might be able to buy your way out of it. Not Ramos. There's no bribing him, there's no appealing to his senses. Eduardo Ramos is a killing machine that never fails.

• Luke Alvez : Five years ago, I was working a case with the DEA and Mexican police force. Our goal was to arrest Ramos.

  Dr. Tara Lewis : And did you?

  Luke Alvez : It got complicated.

• Inspector Manny Silva : You don't get that many shots to a guy like Ramos.

  Luke Alvez : Hey, Manny, our job is arrest him.

  Inspector Manny Silva : The cartel owns most of the justice system. He'll be out in three days. This is our chance.

  Phil Brooks : Come on, we aren't mercenaries.

  Inspector Manny Silva : And he's not human. He murdered over fifty people, and that's the ones that we know about. Men, women, children, innocent. Eduardo Ramos deserves to die.

  Luke Alvez : [firmly]  No. His victims deserve justice. That's what they're gonna get.

• Luke Alvez : Inspector Silva was wrong. Ramos stayed in prison for three years, and then he broke out and vanished. Now, both the DEA and the FBI believed he'd come back to get his revenge on the Martinez cartel because someone inside the cartel, and we never found out who, gave us the initial tip that led to his arrest.

  Dr. Tara Lewis : So, the trail that led to Paul McEntee's panic room may have started with the Martinez cartel, and if that's true, it likely involved drugs.

  Luke Alvez : Yeah. Garcia, we need you to go through the DEA database and find out if any of our victims are connected to the cartel.

  Penelope Garcia : Copy that.

  Luke Alvez : I also got the green light from Prentiss to bring in my buddy Phil. He's got a lot of contacts in the DEA. Maybe he can help.

• Phil Brooks : I don't know the others, but this guy, Paul McEntee, I recognize him. He was a middleman for the Martinez cartel. He greased the wheels that brought the product into the country.

  Jennifer Jareau : You think he's the CI who gave up Ramos?

  Phil Brooks : We never knew the identity of the CI, but it's possible.

  Luke Alvez : If this is an act of revenge for Ramos, I don't think it matters. Anybody associated with the cartel's guilty in his eyes. All right, not only because they ratted him out, they also abandoned him in prison. So he's gonna kill everyone involved, no matter how far removed from his arrest in Mexico.

• Inspector Manny Silva : Phil Brooks.

  [switching to Spanish] 

  Inspector Manny Silva : How's your better half?

  Phil Brooks : [in Spanish, too]  He's right here next to me.

  Inspector Manny Silva : What can I do for you guys?

  Luke Alvez : We think Eduardo Ramos is back, but he's in the States.

  Inspector Manny Silva : [switching back to English]  No, that's impossible.

  Phil Brooks : It might sound impossible, but we've got four bodies that say so.

  Inspector Manny Silva : No, I mean that's impossible because Eduardo Ramos is dead.

  Luke Alvez : Dead?

  Inspector Manny Silva : Yeah. He stayed off the radar after he got out of prison. We figured he was laying low. Then I got a call that Eduardo Ramos was gunned down in Sinaloa. Two shots behind the head. And listen to this, he had bleach in his stomach.

  Luke Alvez : When did you find out about this?

  Inspector Manny Silva : A few weeks ago. It was impossible to pin down. The very reputation of the sicarios are that they're ghosts. But a friend of mine confirmed it in Sinaloa, and I saw the body myself two days ago.

• Luke Alvez : Sinaloa isn't even part of Martinez cartel territory. Why was Ramos there?

  Inspector Manny Silva : Hard to say. He could have been hiding out or working.

  Phil Brooks : Who do you think did this?

  Inspector Manny Silva : Plenty of people have motive. A rival cartel, his own cartel; hell, victim's families.

• Luke Alvez : Someone's posing as Eduardo Ramos.

  Phil Brooks : Yeah, but who would do that?

  Luke Alvez : Whoever it is killed the most feared sicario in Mexico using his own M.O. against him, then did it four more times without us knowing the difference. This guy's more dangerous than we thought.

• Luke Alvez : Hey, it's me.

  Lisa Douglas : Is everything okay?

  Luke Alvez : Yeah. What, a guy can't call his woman in the middle of the day just to say "how's it going"?

  Lisa Douglas : Aw. Luke Alvez, you listened.

  Luke Alvez : Technically, no. I-I called. I didn't text.

  Lisa Douglas : And your one-upsmanship will be justly rewarded upon your triumphant return home, which hopefully is soon.

  Luke Alvez : I hope so. How about I pick up a bottle of your favorite wine on the way back and you order Thai from that late-night place down the street and we get under the covers and watch the new season of our favorite show 'till sunrise?

  Lisa Douglas : How about we do something else until sunrise?

  Luke Alvez : Yeah, I got to call to check in more often.

  Lisa Douglas : Unfortunately, it can't always be Thai food and sex.

• Lisa Douglas : So, Garcia's wall hanging...

  Luke Alvez : Yeah, I, um... I know.

  Lisa Douglas : Where do you want to hang it? There's a nice big space over the record player. It should go there.

  Luke Alvez : Wait, you like it?

  Lisa Douglas : I love it.

• Matt Simmons : What did you find, Spence?

  Dr. Spencer Reid : Victim's name is Mike Everson. He owns an auto shop and lived alone. Now, the DEA says he's a known drug trafficker for the Martinez cartel, so even though Ramos isn't our guy, it appears as though the unsub is still punishing his victims for their cartel ties.

  Luke Alvez : Any signs of a struggle? Did Mike fight back?

  Dr. Spencer Reid : He did, and during the fight, this happened.

  [showing them blood spatter on the wall] 

  Dr. Spencer Reid : This part right here isn't blood. It's a mixture of chewing tobacco and saliva. What's weird is the unsub used bleach to try to clean it up, but he left behind some residue. I'm having it run through all the appropriate criminal databases. I mean, hopefully there's a hit.

  Luke Alvez : [realizing]  Son of a...

  Dr. Spencer Reid : What?

  Luke Alvez : We need the whole team. I know who did this.

• 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.

• Luke Alvez : Manny, it's Grant. This whole time, it's been Jeremy Grant.

  Jeremy Grant : I know.

  Luke Alvez : What are you doing, Grant? What did you do with Manny?

  Jeremy Grant : Nothing. Yet. I only cloned his number so you couldn't trace it.

• Jeremy Grant : Open your eyes, Luke. If I wouldn't have started and killed Ramos, you'd already be dead. So you're welcome for that.

  Luke Alvez : This is not how we do things. You know that.

  Jeremy Grant : What I know is that Manny was right. You get a chance to put a bullet in a son of a bitch like Ramos, you take it.

  Luke Alvez : Arrest him. That was the order.

  Jeremy Grant : And that order got my family killed.

  Luke Alvez : I'm sorry about your family. You got your revenge on Ramos. All right, so what's your plan now, kill everyone in the whole cartel?

  Jeremy Grant : No. Just everyone who ratted out Ramos, everyone involved in the takedown.

  Luke Alvez : That includes me, doesn't it?

  Jeremy Grant : No. You get to live. Same way I do, tortured by the knowledge that your decisions got that one person you love most killed.

  Luke Alvez : Jeremy, no.

  Jeremy Grant : Should have let me take the shot, Alvez.

• 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.

• Lisa Douglas : Matt told me what happened before he left. I'm so sorry, Luke.

  Luke Alvez : Go pack a bag.

  Lisa Douglas : Pack a bag? Wait. You need to tell me what's going on here.

  Luke Alvez : The guy that killed Phil, I knew him. I worked with him. And the two cops outside the door aren't gonna be able to stop him.

• Luke Alvez : I got an Army Ranger buddy of mine coming to pick up you and Roxy. Okay? John and his wife Carla. They live off the grid. You'll be secure with them. I'll call you when it's safe.

  Lisa Douglas : You'll call? You're not coming with us?

  Luke Alvez : No.

  Lisa Douglas : [realizing]  Because you're going after him.

  [stopping him as he moves to leave] 

  Lisa Douglas : Look at me, okay? Just look at me. Your best friend was murdered, and I know you're hurting, but don't do this. Please, don't do this.

  Luke Alvez : I have to.

• [last lines] 

  Lisa Douglas : [returning Luke's key to him]  Give me a reason not to leave.

  Luke Alvez : The threat's over. It's safe.

  Lisa Douglas : That's not what I mean.

  Luke Alvez : [intending to leave, she picks up her purse]  I met Phil Brooks on August 10, 2007, after an attack on Mosul. Body count was high. The highest that I'd ever seen. And this little girl... this little girl died in my arms. Phil was there. It sounds stupid, but, uh... he was the first guy that I ever cried in front of. And we both got into the FBI, and, uh... when we thought he lost his legs, we... we cried again.

  [breaking down] 

  Luke Alvez : Sometimes it's hard, you know, this job. It's hard to find someone that you feel safe with.

  Lisa Douglas : [holding him as he cries]  You're safe with me.