Criminal Minds (TV Series)

Red Light (2017)

A.J. Cook: Jennifer Jareau

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Quotes 

• Dr. Spencer Reid : Dance with me.

  Cat Adams : Why?

  Dr. Spencer Reid : Because I don't want the people watching us to hear what I'm going to say next;

  [as they dance, Cat glances at the security monitor] 

  Jennifer Jareau : [on her phone in the observation room]  You guys got this up?

  Penelope Garcia : [at the BAU]  Streaming now.

  Jennifer Jareau : Okay. Uh, listen, you're... you're gonna hear a lot of weird stuff, like Spence saying he is the father of Cat's baby. Don't let that distract you.

  Penelope Garcia : Uh, I'm sorry. Full stop. Why would Reid say he's the father of...

  Emily Prentiss : Quiet.

• Jennifer Jareau : Richmond County police just reported a gas station explosion. One victim, male. Whatever Lindsey did, we have to assume your mom's still alive.

  [sitting down next to him] 

  Jennifer Jareau : Hey.

  Dr. Spencer Reid : I'm really scared this is who I am now.

  Jennifer Jareau : No. Don't say that.

  Dr. Spencer Reid : Je... Jennifer, you don't know...

  Jennifer Jareau : I do know. I know two inmates, Frazier and Duerson, killed your friend Delgado in front of you. And I know they wanted you to move their heroin, and I also know that if you didn't, you would have been next, right? Spence, anyone in your spot would have done the same thing.

  Dr. Spencer Reid : You wouldn't have.

  Jennifer Jareau : Yeah. Yeah, I would have, Spence. If someone was threatening my life, you bet your ass I would. It doesn't make you a bad person. 'Cause you know does think like that, that... that in doing what you had to do to survive somehow makes you a psychopath? She does.

  [realization dawns on them both] 

  Jennifer Jareau : She does. She does. Because she... she knows.

• Dr. Spencer Reid : Psychopaths get bored easily.

  Cat Adams : You're right. Let's speed this up. Shall we? Why don't you think about all the pain you've suffered in your life. What would I capitalize on, do you think? Is it... the death of your mentor, SSA Jason Gideon?

  Dr. Spencer Reid : No. Because we caught the man who killed him.

  Cat Adams : What about Agent Morgan? And your guilt over not visiting his little boy.

  Dr. Spencer Reid : I was in prison.

  Cat Adams : Yeah, but you had time before that. Why didn't you go?

  Dr. Spencer Reid : Truthfully, I got distracted. I was trying to figure out a way to help my mom. She didn't have time. Morgan, Savannah, and little Bobby did. So there's absolutely no shame in admitting that. Morgan would understand.

  Cat Adams : I agree. That's why that's not the secret.

  Jennifer Jareau : [behind the one-way mirror, she notices Reid's look]  Good job, Spence.

• Emily Prentiss : I know we're all tired, but we might have a new lead on Mr. Scratch.

  Penelope Garcia : Somebody did a bang-up job of cloning my cell phone to send Morgan a fake text luring him to a non-existent safe house. And whoever that somebody is has mad skills.

  Stephen Walker : The kind of skills Scratch has.

  Luke Alvez : Were you able to trace where the hack came from?

  Penelope Garcia : [to Morgan, insulted]  Do... do you see what I have to put up with?

  Derek Morgan : Alvez, you'll always get a location with this one. You guys are all good to go.

  Emily Prentiss : Obviously, Morgan can't come with us. He's a civilian now.

  Jennifer Jareau : Yeah, we'll miss you out there.

  Derek Morgan : I'd be lying if I said I didn't miss it out there in the field with you guys. I think about it every day. But between my old friends and my new friends, you guys are gonna go out there, you're gonna handle your business, you're gonna make people feel safe, and then you're gonna come home. And that's all that matters.

• David Rossi : Go ahead, JJ.

  Jennifer Jareau : So, Cat has deep background on Spence. She knew about Gideon's death and Morgan leaving the team for his family.

  David Rossi : She's throwing him off-balance.

  Jennifer Jareau : Yeah, but Spence also purposely gave the wrong name of Morgan's son and she didn't correct him.

  Emily Prentiss : She must have gotten her hands on Reid's confidential FBI file. It would mention relevant team information, but wouldn't name Morgan's baby because of confidentiality reasons.

  David Rossi : We were thinking she's been getting help from someone inside the prison. This goes deeper than that.

• Dr. Spencer Reid : That's the secret.

  [standing up and pacing as he thinks] 

  Dr. Spencer Reid : What I don't want to admit about myself.

  Jennifer Jareau : Wait, hold up. Let's play this out, because she will not lose to you twice. Now, she already said that this wasn't about the two of you being the same.

  Dr. Spencer Reid : Then she's all about the game. She thinks that I cheated last time because I lied about her dad, so it's integral to her that she beats me by following the rules.

  Jennifer Jareau : Yeah, but Spence, she controls the rules, and she will change them to ensure that she wins.

  Dr. Spencer Reid : Which means that I'm locked in.

  Jennifer Jareau : Like she is.

  Dr. Spencer Reid : And she needs me locked in, playing by her rules, a game I can't win, so she...

  [realization dawns on him] 

  Dr. Spencer Reid : I got it.

• Stephen Walker : Well, this casts a big shadow over Lindsey's next move. By exposing their plan to us, she knows there's no happy ending, no future with Cat.

  Luke Alvez : And she's going to take Reid's mother with her. That's the ultimate act of revenge against the guy who took her lover away.

  Emily Prentiss : JJ, what do you have?

  Jennifer Jareau : Will you take me off speaker?

  [Prentiss turns the speakerphone off and leaves; cut to her office, where she drops her cell phone on her desk] 

  Emily Prentiss : Are you kidding me? Are you kidding?

  Jennifer Jareau : Well, here's where it gets tricky. Do we believe her or not? On the one hand, getting pregnant is a power control move straight out of the female psychopath handbook. On the other hand...

  Emily Prentiss : If her story is true, it meant she sent her lesbian lover down to Mexico to get Reid to... ugh.

  Jennifer Jareau : Yeah. Either way, she is pregnant. I just refuse to believe it belongs to Spence.

  Emily Prentiss : It could be the person inside the prison who's been helping her. Getting pregnant serves two purposes: gaslighting Reid and emotional blackmail against that employee.

  Jennifer Jareau : Yeah, but Emily, we don't know who that guy is yet.

  [as JJ talks, Prentiss' phone beeps and she sees the AMBER alert she sent out] 

  Jennifer Jareau : And Alvez and Rossi aren't going to in the time they have left.

  Emily Prentiss : JJ, I gotta call you back.

• Dr. Spencer Reid : This baby is simply a means to an end, which is to keep me here playing your game, guessing like a fool, assuming something I never should have assumed in the first place.

  Cat Adams : And what would that be?

  Dr. Spencer Reid : My mother's already dead. She was dead before I walked in here.

  Cat Adams : She's not dead.

  Dr. Spencer Reid : [standing to leave]  Yes, she is.

  Cat Adams : No, because that would be cheating and I don't cheat. You cheat.

  Dr. Spencer Reid : I'm done playing.

  Cat Adams : Get back here.

  Dr. Spencer Reid : Goodbye, Cat.

  Cat Adams : I'll let you talk to her!

  [Reid shares a look with JJ; as he returns to the room, she dials her phone] 

  Penelope Garcia : Yes, I'm here.

  Jennifer Jareau : Garcia, get ready to trace a call on Spence's phone.

  Penelope Garcia : Fired up, plugged in. Ready to go.

• David Rossi : You don't call, you don't write.

  Derek Morgan : Rossi.

  [they share a laugh and hug, too] 

  Jennifer Jareau : [entering]  You don't even give us a heads-up and you decide to pop in at three in the morning?

  Derek Morgan : Oh, blondie, come here, come here, come here.

  [hugging JJ] 

  Derek Morgan : Mm. Oh, it is so good to see all of you. Look, I wish I could say I was just here to say hello, but, um, we may have bigger problems.

  [to Prentiss] 

  Derek Morgan : You see what I'm saying about that text? It does not sound like Garcia. You do know what it does sound like.

  Emily Prentiss : A trap.

• Emily Prentiss : Have we dispatched units to the location Scratch tried to lure us to?

  Dr. Tara Lewis : I coordinated it before we left. They're on their way.

  Luke Alvez : SWAT will meet us on site at Scratch's house.

  Emily Prentiss : I know we all want this son of a bitch's head on a platter, but SWAT has to clear every single room before we step foot inside.

  Jennifer Jareau : Well, have they been briefed? This guy's traps have traps.

  David Rossi : The house itself could be a setup.

  Stephen Walker : Or a waste of our time so he can get away.

  Emily Prentiss : Whatever it is, he's gonna try to take us by surprise. We have to be ready for anything.