Criminal Minds (TV Series)

Flesh and Blood (2018)

Daniel Henney: Matt Simmons

Quotes 

• Matt Simmons : Now, Anthony Nakamura's autopsy is still pending, but Shaun Tate's autopsy didn't indicate that our unsub has any surgical expertise. Uh... just tore a guy's heart out.

  Luke Alvez : Yeah, our unsub is acting on some pretty sadistic impulses right now.

  Dr. Tara Lewis : Yeah, impulses likely driven by a need to punish or to seek retribution for some profound personal grievance.

  Emily Prentiss : If this is our unsub's twisted payback, where are the hearts? Wouldn't he just get rid of them nearby, throw them away like trash?

  Matt Simmons : You'd assume that if he's keeping them as souvenirs or trophies that they must mean something to him.

  David Rossi : Oh, I think we need to be careful not to walk into the weeds with the, um, obvious symbolism going on here.

  Emily Prentiss : Right. Unfortunately, we're still down a man with Reid finishing up his classes, so, JJ, you and I will help Garcia with the victimologies here. Dave, Tara, check out Anthony Nakamura's autopsy. Luke, Matt, you're gonna need to inspect the dump sites in Baltimore and Rockville. Something tells me this is unsub is far from gratifying his sadistic urges.

• Luke Alvez : So, this disposal site for Anthony Nakamura's body basically mirrors the one for Shaun Tate that we walked back in Baltimore. The bodies are wrapped in the same loose manner, and they're even oriented next to these dumpsters in nearly the same way.

  Matt Simmons : Everything's neatly arranged for temporary concealment. Just good enough for a dump and dash. 'Cause it seems as if our unsubs expected someone to find these victims. Take a look at this.

  [showing Luke his tablet] 

  Matt Simmons : See, notice their OCD signatures here? These dump sites are equidistant from the suspected abduction sites. Three miles as the crow flies. They're also the exact same direction diagonally, south by southwest.

  Luke Alvez : What do you think that's all about?

  Matt Simmons : I don't know. But you can file that under "why hold on to your victims for exactly 48 hours?". It's not about needing all that time just to torture and kill them.

  Luke Alvez : No, it isn't. It makes our unsubs seem fairly well-practiced, almost as if Nakamura and Tate aren't really their first victims.

• Emily Prentiss : Matt, what do we got?

  Matt Simmons : City disposal crews discovered the body about 90 minutes ago, called it in. Alexandria police, they notified us, and they held the scene. The victim's been identified as Dennis Kirkwood, 47 years old. He ran a financial management company called Turnblade Capital.

  Emily Prentiss : [seeing JJ look around]  JJ, you okay?

  Jennifer Jareau : Yeah. Yeah, it's just odd. I have this overwhelming sense of deja vu.

  Matt Simmons : What, the scene look familiar to you?

  Jennifer Jareau : Look, I have been to way too many scenes like this before, right, so I don't know what it is exactly.

• Emily Prentiss : Who reported Kirkwood missing?

  Matt Simmons : Uh, his wife. 48 hours ago, after he didn't come home from a run.

  Emily Prentiss : He must be holding his victims somewhere he feels protected. So maybe a good part of that 48 hours is the travel time to and from his secure location.

  Matt Simmons : You are probably right, but as far as a geoprofile goes, it's gonna be hard to reconcile the two axioms of serial killer behavior.

  Jennifer Jareau : Never commit a crime close to home and never travel farther than necessary to dispose of your victims.

  Matt Simmons : Exactly. And this guy's crossed state lines, which means he's willing to go the extra mile, which complicates the math.

• Matt Simmons : There's no doubt that Dr. Rhodes' grief is real, so she may want or even encourage someone to exact revenge for her.

  Jennifer Jareau : Yeah, but wanting to do it and actually taking the steps to do it are very different propositions.

  Luke Alvez : Yes, they are. Garcia managed to get ahold of her client list. It's all here in these reports.

  Jennifer Jareau : [recognizing a name]  Addison. Edward Addison.

  Luke Alvez : What about him?

  Jennifer Jareau : I'm... I'm not sure. Give me a second.

• Emily Prentiss : When David Smith was eight years old, his serial killer father used him as bait to lure his victims. David became so inured to this behavior that he actually lured his father's last victim without even being prompted.

  Dr. Tara Lewis : What happened to David after his father was arrested? Was CPS able to reunite him with his mother?

  Emily Prentiss : They were. She didn't want him. So I kept tabs on his foster care and his therapy. Fortunately, about a year later, Kate and Alan Addison adopted David. They decided to change his name to Edward, and they moved to Baltimore in 2011.

  Matt Simmons : Did you continue to keep in touch with him?

  Emily Prentiss : I wish I could have, but... anyway, the last time I checked on David, he was doing about as well as one could expect.

• Matt Simmons : So, based on what we know about Robin Rhodes, there was neither a David Smith nor an Edward Addison that was ever part of her life. The only connection they have is through her mother, Dr. Rhodes, who took him in as a client last year.

  David Rossi : Well, she couldn't be paying him to kill off Kirkwood and all his friends.

  Jennifer Jareau : No, David's inherited impulses wouldn't allow him to commit such a purely mercenary act of violence.

  Dr. Tara Lewis : And we know vengeance isn't emotionally transferrable, so why would David be killing these men to satisfy Dr. Rhodes' need for revenge?

  Emily Prentiss : Dr. Rhodes was able to take advantage of the fact that David's internalized love map is in a state of arrested development. Even when I first encountered him, he was susceptible to extreme maternal transference.

  Jennifer Jareau : It's also why he's not inclined to harm his female accomplices.

  Luke Alvez : So David was worried that he shared his dad's violent urges, and he went to Dr. Rhodes for help, but instead of helping him, she manipulated his trust in order to do her own bidding.

  David Rossi : I bet she's telling him that these guys are just like dear old dad, and if he has this urge to kill, the best way of working through it all is to kill them.

• Matt Simmons : So, with that last crime scene and plus a list of addresses for our victims and potential victims...

  Penelope Garcia : We finally have enough data to calculate the probable comfort zone of David's horrible home away from home.

  Jennifer Jareau : Looks like somewhere in Briar Point, Maryland. Probably someplace tied to the Rhodes family.

  Penelope Garcia : Say, something like the old defunct Friedman Medical Depot that's owned by Dr. Rhodes' uncle?

  Emily Prentiss : JJ, let's go.