Criminal Minds (TV Series)

False Flag (2017)

Darrett Sanders: Sheriff Mike Bowman

Quotes 

• Bob Orci : It's all an act. I'm no hermit. Yeah, I... I tell these truthers that I'm some kind of holy fool and they buy all my stuff.

  Emily Prentiss : By "stuff", you mean your books?

  Bob Orci : No, the books are a loss-leader. But the vitamin supplements, oh, my god, I've made so much money off the vitamin supplements.

  Emily Prentiss : So, "Catcher in the Rye" is just the latest in a long line of crap.

  Bob Orci : Well, the book itself isn't. And J.D. Salinger is a genius. Didn't you read my commentary, read my notes, annotations?

  Emily Prentiss : I tried. You lost me when you tried to connect Holden Caulfield to the Bilderberg Group.

  Bob Orci : There is no connection. All you gotta do to fool these morons is ask a question that starts with "Isn't it interesting?". Like-like... like, isn't it interesting that Holden Caulfield and Bilderberg Group both have fifteen letters. Yeah. And then you tag that with "Wow! Wake up, Sheeple", you just sold a thousand copies.

  Sheriff Mike Bowman : We think the killer might have bought one of your commentaries. Who'd you sell to in Roswell?

  Bob Orci : The book group is... is reading "Catcher in the Rye" next month, so all I was trying to do was capitalize on that. And only one guy seemed to show any interest.

• Jennifer Jareau : Hey, Matt, a question for you. Any evidence of a break-in at your crime scene?

  Matt Simmons : Uh, hang on, JJ. Let me check. Any signs of forced entry?

  Sheriff Mike Bowman : No, sir.

  Matt Simmons : No, none here, either. What I am seeing is an unsub who covers up his tracks. It looks like he shot Carl in the throat, bullet was a through and through, came out the other side of Carl's neck and went into the wall. Dug it out, picked up the casing, took the gun with him.

  Jennifer Jareau : So this guy knows how to clean up after himself and how to get in and out of two houses without detection.

  Matt Simmons : [noticing something]  JJ, let me call you back.

  [hanging up, he picks up a statue and pulls a plastic card out of the base] 

  Sheriff Mike Bowman : Looks like an RFID card.

  Matt Simmons : Mm-hmm. What's it go to? That's the question.

  [after a moment of running it over a side table, he finds a hidden compartment containing a gun and its clip] 

  Matt Simmons : Huh. Well, hello.

• Emily Prentiss : So this is the metal detector you had at the legion hall?

  Sheriff Mike Bowman : Mm-hmm.

  Emily Prentiss : And you made all the truthers walk through it.

  Sheriff Mike Bowman : Yep.

  Emily Prentiss : And then after that, you brought it back here to the police station, you haven't touched it since?

  Sheriff Mike Bowman : Mm-mm.

  Emily Prentiss : Sheriff, why didn't you tell us you were gonna do that?

  Sheriff Mike Bowman : You told us you didn't want to spook the truthers. You also told us the killer might show up, so this was for our protection. Can you tell me I was wrong?

  Dr. Tara Lewis : No, Sheriff, you weren't wrong, but it does beg the bigger question: how the hell did Doug get a gun through that thing?

  Sheriff Mike Bowman : I was hoping you could answer that. You all being the geniuses with this investigation.

• Jennifer Jareau : No, that's not right.

  Luke Alvez : What do you mean it's not right? It's right here.

  [as they pass through the metal detector, Emily and Tara notice it doesn't go off] 

  Jennifer Jareau : No, that's not what I saw.

  Emily Prentiss : Did that just...?

  Dr. Tara Lewis : Yeah. Yeah, it did.

  Sheriff Mike Bowman : What is it?

  [Tara walks through the metal detector, which doesn't beep] 

  Sheriff Mike Bowman : How in the world could that happen?

  Dr. Tara Lewis : I think I might know.

• Melissa Miller : Wow.

  Dr. Tara Lewis : Does that mean something to you?

  Melissa Miller : [scoffs]  Of course that means something to me. "Catcher in the Rye"'s been linked to multiple killers since it was first published. And when Mark David Chapman shot John Lennon, he said "Read 'Catcher in the Rye'. That's my statement." It was found on John Hinckley's bookshelf after he shot Reagan. Oswald, Manson, Robert Bardo, they were all obsessed with it. It was the original brainwashing tool of the United States government.

  Dr. Tara Lewis : I wouldn't call it that.

  Melissa Miller : Of course you wouldn't. Because then you'd have to admit how sophisticated the whole-scale duping of this nation has become.

  Dr. Tara Lewis : I'm not following you.

  Melissa Miller : Aurora, Orlando, Sandy Hook. The United States government shot up a bunch of empty buildings and then gathered everything up and traded it amongst themselves because that's how plausible deniability works.

  Dr. Tara Lewis : Sandy Hook was staged?

  Melissa Miller : Sandy Hook was staged the worst. All those actors they threw in front of cameras to be grieving parents. I was screaming at my television set "You're lying!". And if the would lie about that, then they would absolutely lie about a metal detector. So let me make one thing clear moving forward. When I say "they", I mean you.

  Dr. Tara Lewis : Give me one second.

  [standing to leave, she walks across the bullpen into an empty office and shuts the door] 

  Dr. Tara Lewis : SON OF A...!

  Sheriff Mike Bowman : [watching with Prentiss]  What the hell kind of outfit you running here, Agent?