Criminal Minds (TV Series)

Rite of Passage (2010)

Marlene Forte: Sheriff Ruiz

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• Sheriff Ruiz : [after seeing how quickly Garcia completes a search]  If you're looking for a gift to get me, one of her would be greatly appreciated.

  David Rossi : We're pretty sure they broke the mold.

• Sheriff Ruiz : [Entering interrogation room]  This is agent Hotchner, from the FBI

  Omar : Nice suit

• Sheriff Ruiz : Every job has a patron saint. Cops have Saint Jude, doctors have Raphael the Archangel. But if you're a drug dealer or a killer, who do you pray to?

  Jennifer Jareau : The saint of death.

  Sheriff Ruiz : I've learned that crossing the desert to get here, you lose track of the ways you can die. So if someone close doesn't make it, sometimes it's easier to blame a superstitious figure.

  Aaron 'Hotch' Hotchner : Well, Omar doesn't seem like he believes what he's saying.

  Sheriff Ruiz : I didn't say he believes it. I said it's who people are blaming.

  Aaron 'Hotch' Hotchner : What people?

  Sheriff Ruiz : Look, Santa Muerte has been coming up more and more. The illegals I send back, the coyotes I arrest. Some of the drug traffickers, they're afraid.

  Jennifer Jareau : Afraid of a saint?

  Sheriff Ruiz : I handled a homicide once where my only witness was this four year old girl. And she told me her mom and dad got killed by a dragon. Turns out the bad guy wore a green rain suit with a pointy hood. To the kid, it looked like a dragon. So when hundreds of people are talking about the same monster, it's a sure bet something's going on. They just don't know what to call it.

• Sheriff Ruiz : No one will make an official report, but I believe somebody around here has been killing for a long time. Want a laugh? I left Brooklyn North homicide to slow down, I picked the wrong part of the country to semi-retire!