Criminal Minds (TV Series)

Fear and Loathing (2007)

Shemar Moore: Derek Morgan

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• Derek Morgan : Good morning, Emily. Had a good weekend?

  Emily Prentiss : Yeah. No. Yes.

  Derek Morgan : [giggles]  Oh, I've been there.

  Emily Prentiss : No, it wasn't... I don't want to get into it.

  Derek Morgan : No problem.

  Emily Prentiss : It... it just feels weird for me to talk about my personal life here, you know? I don't really know all you guys that well yet.

  Derek Morgan : I totally get that.

  [walks away] 

  Emily Prentiss : [loud]  I think I totally screwed up this date.

  Derek Morgan : [returns]  Okay, what happened?

  Emily Prentiss : You have to understand: I am a nerd, like seriously. And I can fool people, days, weeks even but sooner or later, I blow my cover and I say something so geeky and then he doesn't respond and I lose all confidence.

  Derek Morgan : What did you say?

  Emily Prentiss : "Kilgore Trout."

  Derek Morgan : Guy has a problem with Kurt Vonnegut?

  Emily Prentiss : You know Kilgore Trout?

  Derek Morgan : I read "Slaughterhouse Five" when I was 12. It blew my mind. Seriously, I could not get enough, so I just kept going and read them all.

  Emily Prentiss : Yeah, yeah. Me, too. What's your favorite?

  Derek Morgan : Oh, "Modern Knight."

  Emily Prentiss : The one about the American spy.

  Derek Morgan : Who pretends to be a Nazi.

  Emily Prentiss : "You are who you pretend to be."

  Derek Morgan : "So be careful who you pretend to be."

  Emily Prentiss : Oh my God! I can't believe you're a Vonnegut fan. You just made my day!

  Derek Morgan : Anytime.

• Emily Prentiss : [to Morgan]  You're alright?

  Derek Morgan : [Nods yes]  I was just thinking. I know what it's like to grow up without a father.

  Emily Prentiss : Their father died a hero.

  Derek Morgan : So did mine. Doesn't make it any easier.

• Penelope Garcia : I was beginning to think you guys has forgotten all about me.

  Derek Morgan : We need you now more than ever, Hot Stuff.

  Penelope Garcia : Candy to my ear, Sugar. Go.

• Det. Ware : Don't you ever wish it didn't matter?

  Derek Morgan : "It"?

  Det. Ware : Color.

  Derek Morgan : Judge me by the content of my character.

  Det. Ware : I mean, why does it even have to be part of the equation? People are dying. We need to get the bad guy. That should be it. No half-cocked reverends running around, getting people mad about the wrong thing. No mayors so afraid of offending black folks, he doesn't even wanna tell the community what to look out for.

  [sighs] 

  Det. Ware : It's exhausting sometimes.

  Derek Morgan : It's the way it's always been, man. Politicians, community leaders, they do what they do. You and me, we do what we do. We're the foot soldiers in these streets getting the job done.

• Aaron Hotchner : The suspect we're looking for is a black male, statistically between the ages of 20 and 35. We know he's black because of his victims. Sexually motivated killers almost always kill within their own race.

  Derek Morgan : The victims he's chosen are good girls. They're good students. No behavioral problems. They're what we call "low-risk".

  Emily Prentiss : And the lower the risk of the victim, the higher the intelligence of the unsub.

  Jason Gideon : Guy's a smooth talker. Makes people feel at ease. Gains their confidence. You'd be amazed what these guys can talk people into.

  Dr. Spencer Reid : Jeffrey Dahmer was once pulled over by police officers for driving over the center line. He'd a garbage bag full of body parts in the back seat of his car, but he was so calm and so self-assured that he convinced the officers not to look in the bag. He then went on to kill at least fifteen more people.

  Aaron Hotchner : This guy's a hustler. He may not have a lot of education, but he knows how to trick impressionable young girls. Victor Paleologus used to trawl shopping malls pretending to be a movie producer. He told Kristi Johnson he could get her an audition for a James Bond movie. And that was the last time she was ever seen alive. We think because all these girls are singers, that the unsub may be connected in some way to the recording industry.

  Derek Morgan : We know the unsub has a vehicle. Big enough to transport a body. It's clean. It's not too old. Nice enough to make a girl feel comfortable inside, but it's not flashy. This is not a guy who wants to attract attention to himself.

  Aaron Hotchner : Probably a large, dark sedan.

  Jennifer 'JJ' Jareau : We recommend putting this profile on the news, the paper, anywhere it might be seen by the people in this county.

  Derek Morgan : This guy's ruse didn't work on everybody. Somewhere out there is at least one woman who didn't fall for his game, and... that's who we need to find.

  Aaron Hotchner : The key to this unsub's psychology is the souvenir he takes. We don't know what it is yet, but we know that once he has it, his victim then becomes disposable, and that's when he kills her.

  Jason Gideon : The unsub's ritual was interrupted when he killed Sandra Davis. We don't believe he was able to take a souvenir from her. We think he may revisit her house or any place she may have frequented.

  Aaron Hotchner : We recommend surveillance in locations where the unsub might approach young girls. Churches, high schools, libraries, coffee shops.

  Jason Gideon : Stick with the community. The people of this county should be able to offer some good leads.