Criminal Minds (TV Series)

The Bunker (2017)

Daniel Henney: Matt Simmons

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• Matt Simmons : Kristy and I can't take two steps in our house without tripping over the kids' toys.

  Jennifer Jareau : Yeah, tell me about it.

  Dr. Spencer Reid : Guys, I read about a guy in California who only has 79 items to his name, including his underwear.

  Luke Alvez : Hey, I am all for living with only the things you really need.

  Penelope Garcia : Amen. Me, too, right?

  [off JJ's look, she realizes the insult] 

  Penelope Garcia : What?

  Matt Simmons : How many fuzzy pens, unicorn statues, mermaid paperweights does one need at her desk?

  Penelope Garcia : All of them.

• Matt Simmons : I gotta say, Coleman's bunker was pretty impressive.

  Emily Prentiss : Yeah, but not where I want to spend my last day on Earth.

  Matt Simmons : Yeah? Where would you?

  Emily Prentiss : Never thought about it.

  Penelope Garcia : I... I don't want to think about it.

  Dr. Tara Lewis : I would definitely be on a beach.

  Luke Alvez : I think I'd prefer the mountains.

  Matt Simmons : I'd be with my family.

  Jennifer Jareau : Same. Spence?

  Dr. Spencer Reid : Paris with my mom. She liked Paris.

  Dr. Tara Lewis : You know, something tells me Dave has this all planned out.

  David Rossi : Don't you know it. When the end comes, you'll find me at home enjoying a meal of carbonara a la Rossi, and if there's still time, I will adjourn to my patio to partake in a double Jack and a vintage Don Carlos.

  Luke Alvez : That sounds great.

  Emily Prentiss : You mind if we join you?

• Matt Simmons : None of the missing women look alike. This unsub is not hunting a specific type. He's even crossed racial lines.

  Emily Prentiss : Okay, let's look at what they do have in common. They are all young, single, educated professionals.

  David Rossi : A doctor, a teacher, a dentist, and a chef. Sounds like the start of a bad joke.

• Jennifer Jareau : Ooh, what about this one? Sunny, two-bedroom. It's close to work. And it's in your price range.

  Matt Simmons : Garcia, you're moving? You don't like change.

  Penelope Garcia : That's true. Change is my kryptonite. But the apartment is no longer a sanctuary. I have a new neighbor. Window's right here. He enjoys doing naked kung fu. Some things you cannot unsee.

• Emily Prentiss : Virginia State Police have asked for our help. It seems three young women have gone missing under similar circumstances in the last five years.

  Matt Simmons : And why are we just hearing about this now?

  Emily Prentiss : Well, our field office in Richmond was called in to consult, but they haven't been able to crack it, and last night a fourth woman went missing.

• Emily Prentiss : So four young women go missing, late at night, in the same geographical area.

  Dr. Spencer Reid : There's been no ATM, no cell phone, credit card activity.

  Matt Simmons : And no ransom demands. These weren't kidnappings.

  Luke Alvez : Bodies have never been found. The unsub could be holding them.

  Emily Prentiss : Or he's good at permanent concealment.

• Luke Alvez : Assuming the women are still alive, the unsub would need a place to hold them. A home, warehouse, abandoned building.

  Dr. Spencer Reid : He could be keeping them in multiple locations, in which case he most likely has a large truck or van.

  Jennifer Jareau : He appears to be a night owl. All of the abductions took place around midnight.

  Matt Simmons : Could do shift work. Maybe that's the time he gets off from his job.

  Emily Prentiss : Matt, Dave, go check out the latest crime scene. Tara, Luke, talk to Allie's co-workers at the restaurant. Captain Skinner from the State Police is on his way in. We will work the case from here.

• David Rossi : No luck with the security cameras.

  Matt Simmons : This was found next to Allie's car.

  David Rossi : [reading the flyer]  20K a month. Well, we're in the wrong line of work.

  Matt Simmons : Text code and number's disconnected. So if the unsub put this on her windshield, it could have been a ruse to grab her before she could drive away.

  David Rossi : He might have known her routine. A deserted parking garage at night, it would be easy to take someone without being noticed.

  Matt Simmons : They didn't find any traces of blood. Maybe he wanted her unharmed.

  David Rossi : Let's hope so.

• David Rossi : Five years ago, the unsub takes two pregnant teens. It's obvious why he then takes an obstetrician.

  Matt Simmons : If he's taken other teen girls through the years and keeping them alive, they'd all be mothers with young children now.

  Dr. Tara Lewis : Yeah, mothers and children with needs. Medical, dental, educational, and nutritional.

  Luke Alvez : Yeah, and who would be better caretakers than a doctor, a dentist, a teacher, and a chef?

  David Rossi : With such a large group, he'd need to control them to prevent escapes or rebellions.

  Dr. Tara Lewis : And some could be staying willingly. Others because they're afraid or feel they have no choice.

  Luke Alvez : You know, those are all reasons given by ex-cult members when asked why they didn't leave sooner.

  Matt Simmons : This has the aspects of a cult, but members typically join by their own volition, not abducted.

  David Rossi : There's nothing typical about this case.

• Emily Prentiss : What do we know?

  Matt Simmons : The unsub struck again, this time in the open in a busy parking lot.

  David Rossi : JJ and Tara are still there. They found an eyewitness that caught the whole event on a cell phone.

  Luke Alvez : Well it's obvious he's not abducting and driving at the same time. He's got a partner.

  Matt Simmons : He took a lot of risk abducting in broad daylight like that.

  David Rossi : He looked at something before he took the woman. It made him hesitate. Matt, take it back.

  [Matt rewinds the footage] 

  David Rossi : That building in the background. It's a digital clock. 11:57:30. He waited until that precise moment before he grabbed her.

  Matt Simmons : Yeah, but that was during the day. All the other abductions took place close to 12:00 midnight.

  Luke Alvez : Clocks strike 12:00 twice a day. Maybe it's not AM or PM that matters.

  Emily Prentiss : The numbers 11:57:30 might mean something to him.

  Dr. Spencer Reid : It could be an address, a code. It might even have religious significance.

• Penelope Garcia : Police IDed the latest victim. Paige Burrell.

  Emily Prentiss : Paige is 35, single. Guys, she's a pediatrician.

  David Rossi : The unsub lost a doctor, so he took a doctor. A one-for-one-swap.

  Matt Simmons : But he still needs a doctor's specific skill set.

  Luke Alvez : Which means that our missing women and their children are still alive.

• Dr. Spencer Reid : We said the timing of the unsub's abductions may be important to him.

  Captain Chuck Skinner : Why is that?

  Dr. Spencer Reid : Victim number one: Dr. Roberta Childs. She signed out of the hospital at 11:50 p.m. Now, victim number two, Diane Pearl, her home alarm system was tripped at 11:52 p.m., Victim three, Elise Waterston, she was a no-show for an 11:55 pickup from her dental office. Cell phone records show that Allie Leighton, the fourth victim, ended her phone call at 11:57 p.m., and lastly, Paige Burrell, the digital clock where she was abducted read 11:57:30.

  Dr. Tara Lewis : Okay, so based on your timeline, our unsub's counting up to 12:00.

  Dr. Spencer Reid : No, he's counting down.

  Captain Chuck Skinner : Counting down to what?

  Dr. Spencer Reid : I think the unsub's abducting women based on the doomsday clock.

  Captain Chuck Skinner : And what's that?

  David Rossi : The symbolic clock that warns the world how close we are to total destruction.

  Matt Simmons : Midnight on the clock represents a hypothetical global catatrophe, like a... a nuclear war. Uh, the number of minutes to midnight stand for how soon that could happen.

• Jennifer Jareau : Since 1947 when a group of atomic scientists created the clock, the minute hand's been reset many times.

  Dr. Spencer Reid : For the last five years, it's been consistently ticking down. It was last set at two and a half minutes to midnight.

  Emily Prentiss : And the closest it ever was was two minutes in 1953 when the U.S. and Russia tested the first H-bomb.

  Jennifer Jareau : We could be looking at a doomsday cult.

  Captain Chuck Skinner : So he's like one of these survivalists who lives in the woods and wears tinfoil hats.

  Luke Alvez : Actually, the idea of preparing for the end is moving from the fringes of society into mainstream culture.

  Matt Simmons : Yeah, they call themselves preppers. They're trying to retain a certain standard of living for themselves and others while riding out the Apocalpyse, be it nuclear or civil unrest.

  David Rossi : The wealthy are jumping on board. They're hoarding cryptocurrency and buying custom survival shelters.

  Matt Simmons : And the super rich are taking it to another level. They're buying private islands, land in New Zealand, their private jets are always gassed up ready to whisk them away at a moment's notice.

  Emily Prentiss : So, the victims are part of the unsub's prep to repopulate a new civilization in a post-apocalyptic world.

  Dr. Tara Lewis : And the clock starting to tick steadily down five years ago was the trigger.

  Matt Simmons : And with it being so close to midnight and us breathing down his neck, he may decide that it's time to cut all ties with the outside world.

  Emily Prentiss : We need to find him before that happens.

• Emily Prentiss : Do a search of the metro D.C. area for men who fall into both the survivalist and prepper camps.

  Penelope Garcia : Okay. Preppers love their firewalls, but it's no match for moi. 110 names.

  Luke Alvez : And what about ones that live in Virginia?

  Penelope Garcia : Seventy. Next player.

  Emily Prentiss : Do any of them own a black van?

  Penelope Garcia : Negative.

  Matt Simmons : Well, technical people usually view risk mathematically. Garcia, filter the list for accountants, engineers, math teachers, and... computer techs.

  Penelope Garcia : Okay, I'm filtering this through my digital colander. Nicely done. Twenty names.

• Luke Alvez : Preppers typically plan to shelter in place, bug in. Which means that they want to ride out any bad situation at home.

  David Rossi : What if they can't?

  Luke Alvez : Then they bug out and they go to secret locations in remote areas.

  Matt Simmons : Well, if Coleman is keeping the women and kids all in one place, it would have to be a really big space.

  Penelope Garcia : I got a home and a work address for him, and also he has rented multiple storage locations in the last five years.

  Emily Prentiss : You know what to do.

  Penelope Garcia : Yeah. Sent it to your phones.

• Luke Alvez : Reid and JJ are definitely here somewhere.

  Emily Prentiss : I can't get them on their phones.

  Matt Simmons : They must be sixty feet underground.

  Luke Alvez : Coleman has access to a large weapons cache down there. We don't want another Waco.

  Emily Prentiss : What did Reid and JJ walk into?

• Dr. Tara Lewis : It looks like the next victim after Dr. Childs was abducted during a home invasion

  Penelope Garcia : Yes, Diane Pearl, 26, a school teacher

  Matt Simmons : [reading]  2013, a side door was jammed, setting off an home alarm at 11.52 PM. Nothing was taken

  David Rossi : Nothing, but Diane...