Criminal Minds (TV Series)

Killer App (2017)

Adam Rodriguez: Luke Alvez

Quotes 

• Luke Alvez : [opening quotation]  "It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom." - Mahatma Gandhi.

• Luke Alvez : A lot of people think they saw a lot of things, not all of it accurate.

  Emily Prentiss : Eyewitnesses are notoriously unreliable, especially in a situation like this.

  Luke Alvez : Yeah, a very violent, chaotic scene.

  Emily Prentiss : Anxiety spikes, makes it difficult for people to observe and recreate events.

  Luke Alvez : Well, one thing everybody seems to agree on is that Abdella was killed first, and then there was a pause, followed by two bursts of gunfire that lasted a few seconds each. You know, the unsub must have used an automatic weapon. There's no need to reload.

  Emily Prentiss : Okay, so Devlin and the security guard, Bell, must have been killed in rapid succession. The bodies are several yards away from one another. Now, Devlin was hit with fourteen rounds, Bell with seventeen. The overkill could mean that the motive was personal.

  Luke Alvez : Well, even with that many rounds fired, there were only a handful of strays.

  Emily Prentiss : Right. And given the distance between the victims, either our unsub is one hell of a marksman or there were two shooters. Multiple shooters are rare, I know.

  Luke Alvez : But it does fit our crime scene. We can't rule it out.

  Emily Prentiss : Two gunmen would increase the level of planning and premeditation.

• David Rossi : What are we getting from the scene, other than a bunch of unreliable witness statements?

  Emily Prentiss : The physical evidence is pretty straightforward. Multiple rounds went into each of the three victims, with very little indiscriminate spray of gunfire.

  Matt Simmons : If the unsub wanted to go out in a blaze of glory, he would have stayed on the scene and taken out as many people as possible in that building.

  Luke Alvez : One shooter or two shooters, it's looking more and more like at least two of the victims were targeted.

  Emily Prentiss : It could be personal. We're gonna have to deep-dive into the victimology to see how these three people overlap.

  Matt Simmons : And who they might have pissed off.

  Jennifer Jareau : Regardless of whether there's one or two unsubs, if there's a kill list, could be more names on it.

• Luke Alvez : I heard you were looking for me.

  Emily Prentiss : Yeah. Come on in, have a seat.

  Luke Alvez : Uh-oh. Am, uh... am I in trouble?

  Emily Prentiss : Well, we do have to talk about one of your FD-302s, your report about what happened on the roof with Scratch.

  Luke Alvez : Yeah, I was a... a little light on the details.

  Emily Prentiss : Here's the thing. The brass is gonna want a blow-by-blow. Scratch was a notorious enemy of the BAU. I just want to dot our I's and cross our T's.

• Luke Alvez : Looks like your contact at Peakstone's being charged with conspiracy and murder. And Tori flipped. She cut a deal.

  Emily Prentiss : Surprise, surprise.

  Luke Alvez : Yeah. She got five years on a plea in exchange for her testimony. And, uh... and the government cut all contracts with Peakstone.

  Emily Prentiss : All in a day's work. Feels good.

• Emily Prentiss : Just got a call from Homeland Security.

  Jennifer Jareau : Hey, what's going on?

  Penelope Garcia : Mayhem. There's an ongoing situation in Silicon Valley.

  Emily Prentiss : What we know for sure is there's a workplace shooting in the office compound of a video gaming company called Ori-Gamey.

  Luke Alvez : Yeah, they're... they're cutting-edge. They do a lot of virtual reality. I have a few of their flight simulator games.

  Jennifer Jareau : We're on the case?

  Emily Prentiss : Homeland Security asked for our help on the ground.

  Dr. Tara Lewis : What have we got?

  Penelope Garcia : That.

  Dr. Spencer Reid : Office shooting in California.

  Matt Simmons : Are they thinking terrorism?

  Penelope Garcia : They're thinking they don't know.

  Dr. Tara Lewis : Well, that's a high-profile tech target. We can't rule out a coordinated attack or a lone wolf.

  Emily Prentiss : The situation's still unfolding, so everything's still on the table.

  David Rossi : Do they know how many shooters they're dealing with?

  Emily Prentiss : Eyewitness accounts indicate a suspect was seen fleeing the building.

  Jennifer Jareau : Do we have a description?

  Emily Prentiss : No, not yet. No ID and no one in custody.

  David Rossi : Well, the sooner we get out there, the better.

  Emily Prentiss : We'll brief more on the jet. Wheels up in ten.

• Emily Prentiss : The scene has been secured and there's no active shooter on site.

  Luke Alvez : Is there any security camera footage?

  Penelope Garcia : That was jammed. No footage. Initial reports say that there are three people dead. A security guard, Douglas Bell, and two other employees, Zach Devlin and Rafi Abdella.

  Dr. Tara Lewis : If this is terrorism, someone should be claiming responsibility.

  Penelope Garcia : So far there's radio silence on that, but it could take a while, especially if it's the work of a lone wolf, right?

  David Rossi : Three victims, three different races.

  Matt Simmons : Rafi Abdella was an Indian national, Muslim. He was working in the U.S. on an H1B visa.

  Dr. Tara Lewis : He also had a green card and was considering applying for citizenship.

  Dr. Spencer Reid : Well, that could have fueled xenohobic resentment on the part of the unsub. If Abdella was targeted, we could be looking at a hate crime.

  Jennifer Jareau : What are we hearing from the scene? Is the body count holding steady?

  Penelope Garcia : That is a bit of good news. There were eighty people in the building. There's no other reports of casualties. There were a few minor injuries when they were getting evacuated, but that's it.

  Luke Alvez : Sounds like an unsub with an agenda other than a high body count.

• Emily Prentiss : We believe we're dealing with a lone unsub who's using a drone to kill multiple targets in each location.

  Jennifer Jareau : We're looking for a white male, probably mid to late twenties an extremely tech-astute.

  David Rossi : This unsub does not appear to be motivated by religious extremism or racial hatred. It's likely he's motivated by a personal vendetta.

  Dr. Tara Lewis : And the drone being used is not your run-of-the-mill hobbyist drone. It's custom-built to be a fully automatic remote weapon.

  Luke Alvez : We've obtained security camera footage of the device, and it shares features with certain military drones, although this one is much smaller.

  Emily Prentiss : As a result, we believe this unsub may be ex-military or military trained.

  Dr. Tara Lewis : Most importantly, this unsub seems to have a kill list.

  Dr. Spencer Reid : Rather than indiscriminately shooting as many people as possible at the first location, he specifically targeted his victims.

  Matt Simmons : At this point, he's murdered seven individuals, all of them employed in the tech industry.

  Jennifer Jareau : Aside from the shared industry of employment, we have not yet identified the specific connection between these seven victims.

  David Rossi : The connection between them will be the key to identifying the unsub.

  Dr. Spencer Reid : And until we make that connection, the unsub will continue to work his way down that list, perhaps targeting more tech companies.

• Jennifer Jareau : Emily got shut down by Peakstone.

  Dr. Tara Lewis : She didn't get the unsub's name?

  Jennifer Jareau : Nope. They wouldn't give it to her.

  Dr. Tara Lewis : Is that even legal?

  Jennifer Jareau : Unfortunately, it is. But she did get some information about how they work with contractors. She said that each departing drone pilot received a letter detailing the number of casualties from each of their missions.

  Dr. Tara Lewis : Wow. Talk about a trigger.

  Luke Alvez : Yeah. Especially for someone engaged in remote combat.

  Dr. Tara Lewis : What seems like a video game one day could feel very different when presented as a body count.

  Luke Alvez : And these contractors aren't even veterans. They don't have the post-discharge resources or even the support community that returning vets have.