Criminal Minds (TV Series)

The Good Earth (2012)

Matthew Gray Gubler: Dr. Spencer Reid

Quotes 

• Dr. Spencer Reid : [opening, voiceover]  "I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity." - Edgar Allan Poe.

• Jennifer Jareau : Economics, philosophy, political theory. Not exactly breezy, take-to-the-beach reading.

  Dr. Spencer Reid : I would, but I don't really like the beach.

  Jennifer Jareau : Why is that?

  Dr. Spencer Reid : Sandy food, pink skin, limited and unengaging topography, but mostly drug-resistant bacteria spread by seagull feces.

  Jennifer Jareau : Sorry, I asked.

• David Rossi : So, did you learn anything?

  Jennifer Jareau : Yeah. Spence here does not like the beach.

  Dr. Spencer Reid : [matter-of-factly]  I don't.

• David Rossi : [reads a message]  That was Hotch. The doctor told him the placenta was scraped completely out of the victim's uterus. Every bit of it.

  Dr. Spencer Reid : You know, the placenta does carry special significance in many cultures. In ancient Egypt, it had its own hieroglyph. And the Ibo tribe in Nigeria considered it to be the child's dead twin.

  Jennifer Jareau : Well, that would be helpful, if our unsub was an ancient Egyptian or Ibo tribeswoman, but...

• David Rossi : What is it?

  Dr. Spencer Reid : It could be placentophagy.

  Jennifer Jareau : What?

  Dr. Spencer Reid : Consuming it. In the wild, it's common for animals to eat their own afterbirth. It's super rich in nutrients.

  David Rossi : Whoa, whoa, whoa, wait. So the unsub might have harvested this last victim... for food?

• Derek Morgan : He's efficient and well-organized. It's not easy to make four people vanish and then stay vanished.

  Dr. Spencer Reid : It has been done before, though. Uh, political kidnappings frequently require holding multiple adults simultaneously.

  David Rossi : Or they're already dead. Nothing says "can't be found" like a shallow grave in the middle of nowhere.