Criminal Minds (TV Series)

Submerged (2018)

Joe Mantegna: David Rossi

Quotes 

• Jennifer Jareau : [Rossi is catching the last dregs of an empty coffee pot]  Well, I say just open your mouth and get on in there.

  David Rossi : Don't think I haven't considered it.

  Matt Simmons : A late night?

  David Rossi : Poker. My friends were losing, so I let the game go on, give them a chance to win their money back.

  Matt Simmons : Mm-hmm. Or ride your hot streak a little longer.

  Jennifer Jareau : So, uh, who was there last night? Ooh, can I guess? Um... Ringo, of course. One of your three-star general buddies, and... I saw Judge Judy was in town.

  David Rossi : So close, and yet... so far.

  Emily Prentiss : [passing by]  I hate to break this up, but we have a case.

• David Rossi : [closing quotation]  "Where there is ruin, there is hope for a treasure." - Jalaluddin Rumi.

• Emily Prentiss : Local law enforcement has been treating these as burglaries gone wrong, but...

  David Rossi : The "gone wrong" part could have been easily avoided.

  Emily Prentiss : Exactly. Straight-up burglary, the unsub would have made sure the homes were unoccupied first.

  Dr. Tara Lewis : And he wouldn't have wasted time with drownings and cinder blocks. He would have been in and out.

  Matt Simmons : Yeah, it's pretty obvious the unsub wanted these occupants dead.

  Emily Prentiss : We've got a long flight ahead of us. Wheels up in thirty.

• David Rossi : Curious how only the female was shot.

  Matt Simmons : Well, that means the men are most likely the true targets. He puts them through these prolonged, agonizing deaths when the gun would have done the job quickly.

  Luke Alvez : Either that or he forgot an extra cinder block when he went to the Robbins' house.

  Dr. Tara Lewis : You know, this unsub doesn't strike me as the forgetful type.

• David Rossi : No forced entry up front. Good bet the unsub came right through the gate, killed the victims out here and probably accessed the home from the porch.

  Jennifer Jareau : Yeah, it looks like there was a struggle, but the M.E. said there were no defensive wounds on either of the victims.

  David Rossi : Well, the unsub could have trashed the place after the fact. Mayhem for the hell of it.

  Jennifer Jareau : Means our guy's got a lot of rage. Okay, so Wanda Robbins was partially nude, but there were no signs of sexual assault.

  David Rossi : But Garcia did say they were newlyweds. Warm night, champagne. I'm guessing her top was already off when the unsub crashed the party.

• David Rossi : What's that?

  Jennifer Jareau : The insurance company's list of the missing jewelry. Hmm, that's odd. The unsub only took Wanda's costume jewelry. The valuable stuff he left behind.

  David Rossi : Our unsub had too much planning on this to drop the ball like that.

  Jennifer Jareau : Maybe the theft is a smokescreen. These were murders from "jump", and the unsub grabbed the first thing he saw afterwards so we would think burglary.

• Jennifer Jareau : Lake Palmer's a good ten miles from our crime scene, and that's a long way to go just to dump some coins.

  David Rossi : The killer might work or live there. What's the population of Lake Palmer, Sheriff?

  Sheriff Clifford Mason : It depends on the season. Year-round, a couple of thousand, I'd say. Less, maybe.

  Emily Prentiss : There's a disconnect with this unsub. I mean, on the one hand, the crime scenes are extremely organized. That would suggest a killer with maturity and skill. But then he grabs these bright, shiny items of little monetary value; the silver dollars, costume jewelry, bowling trophies.

  Jennifer Jareau : Yeah, it's like he suddenly reverts to immature and impulsive behavior.

• David Rossi : The thefts could be purely symbolic, but of what?

  Jennifer Jareau : It might be about the lake, I mean, with everything going on there.

  David Rossi : Human remains fished from tree limbs? As unsub triggers go, that's hall of fame material.

  Emily Prentiss : How many have drowned there in the last years?

  Sheriff Clifford Mason : Nine, that we know of.

  Emily Prentiss : Sheriff, when they were pulling the body in, you said "another one."

  Sheriff Clifford Mason : Yes, ma'am. They've pulled five out of there so far.

  Emily Prentiss : When was the first body retrieved?

  Sheriff Clifford Mason : [as he talks, Prentiss writes on the murder board]  November 22nd. I remember because I was getting my Thanksgiving turkey when I got the call.

  Emily Prentiss : Any other retreivals?

  Sheriff Clifford Mason : [checking his phone]  Well... the next was pulled out of the lake on November 28th. The other two bodies were recovered on December 3rd.

  [seeing the retrieval dates line up with the day before each murder] 

  Sheriff Clifford Mason : I'll be damned.

  David Rossi : And that is what we in the serial killer business refer to as a pattern.

  Emily Prentiss : We need to notify every homeowner within a twenty-mile radius who has a backyard pool. This unsub will strike again within the next twenty-four hours.

• David Rossi : I just got off the phone with Reid. That stitch through the nose, it's an ocean-burying tradition from centuries ago. It was especially common among pirates.

  [something clicks in Prentiss' mind, and she turns to look at the crime scene photos on the murder board] 

  Jennifer Jareau : Lovely. And the reason being?

  David Rossi : To make sure that the body they were about to throw overboard was really dead.

  Emily Prentiss : So, death by drowning, pillage and plunder, now this pirate burial tradition. I think I know why the unsub is choosing these pools over others.

  Sheriff Clifford Mason : [she points to the photos]  Diving boards.

  Luke Alvez : They all have a plank to walk.

• David Rossi : Everything all right?

  Sheriff Clifford Mason : They just identified the most recent set of remains. Tyler Hart, college kid who got killed in a jet ski accident back in 2003.

  David Rossi : Did you know him?

  Sheriff Clifford Mason : No. But every time they bring in someone new, it's like playing Russian roulette.

  David Rossi : Well, it can't be Russian roulette unless there's a bullet in one of the chambers.

• Sheriff Clifford Mason : Her name was Holly Freeman. She was my high school sweetheart. She drowned out on the lake a couple years ago while boating with her family.

  David Rossi : I'm sorry.

  Sheriff Clifford Mason : Me and Holly ended up marrying different people. Didn't work out so well for me, but hers did. Nice husband. Had three beautiful daughters. Wasn't in the cards, Agent Rossi, but... I always felt like she was the one who got away. Crazy, right? The girl you took to the prom.

  David Rossi : No. Not so crazy.

  Sheriff Clifford Mason : I hold my damn breath every time they bring in someone new, afraid it might be her.

  David Rossi : The chance for a proper burial might not be the worst thing. It gives her loved ones some closure.

  Sheriff Clifford Mason : Closure. You wanna hear my idea about closure? Let the dead rest in peace. I want to remember Holly like she was.

  [showing Rossi a picture of skeletal remains] 

  Sheriff Clifford Mason : Not like this.

• David Rossi : So, which one of us tells them Peters is not our unsub? He doesn't remotely fit the profile.

  Emily Prentiss : I know. It doesn't mean he's guilt-free, though. Peters is tied into this somehow.

  Sheriff Clifford Mason : [approaching]  Escondido P.D. just called. Casey Peters was locked up over there November 20th through the 24th on a drunk and disorderly.

  Emily Prentiss : Means he was in custody when Ben Stiles was murdered.

  David Rossi : Convenient. Happy accident or part of his plan to build an alibi?

  Emily Prentiss : Why don't we ask him?

  Sheriff Clifford Mason : I gotta warn you, he's not in a very talkative mood.

  David Rossi : Ah, that's okay. We specialize in mood adjustment.

• Emily Prentiss : Good evening, Mr. Peters. I'm SSA Prentiss. This is SSA Rossi. We're with the FBI. We have some questions to ask.

  David Rossi : [silence]  So, what brings you to Lake Palmer?

  Emily Prentiss : [another silence]  Do you live in the area?

  David Rossi : [more silence]  Well, how about this? We'll talk and you sit there praciticing your stonewalling, because we already know a lot.

• Emily Prentiss : Back in the '90s, you got into trouble with the law down in Florida; embezzling, writing bad checks. Then you moved to Ramona, you changed your identity, and you hid out in the canyon.

  David Rossi : And then right before they flooded the canyon, you packed up again and took off.

  Emily Prentiss : Now, lo and behold, you are back at the exact same time these murders started up.

  Casey Peters : News flash: I was in jail when the first guy got killed.

  David Rossi : Well, that guy you were hassling out on the dock, what was that all about?

  Casey Peters : You can ask all the questions you want. I'm done talking.

• Emily Prentiss : Officers canvassed the crime scene neighborhoods, nobody's recognized the photo.

  David Rossi : It's six years old. Jess Carney could look a lot different now.

  Sheriff Clifford Mason : [approaching]  It might not have anything to do with this, but a twelve year old kid's just gone missing. His name's Timmy Kane.

  David Rossi : When was he last seen?

  Sheriff Clifford Mason : Yesterday afternoon. What's got me worried is parents say the boy spends a lot of time up at Lake Palmer.

• David Rossi : [watching Timmy reunited with his parents]  This kind of thing we don't see enough of. Drink it in.

• Sheriff Clifford Mason : Chopper found Jess' boat drifting in the middle of the lake, empty.

  Matt Simmons : Was there a cinder block on board?

  Sheriff Clifford Mason : No, sir. Nothing. We're searching the perimeter of the lake now just in case he swam to the shore and made a run for it.

  David Rossi : He didn't. Jess went back to a place where you'll never find him. It's over.

• Sheriff Clifford Mason : Appreciate everything you've done for us, Agent Rossi.

  David Rossi : I'm just glad the boy's safe. It's a beautiful lake.

  Sheriff Clifford Mason : Yes, it is. I have to remind myself of that now and then.

  David Rossi : [shaking hands]  Take care.

  Sheriff Clifford Mason : You, too, sir.

• Dr. Tara Lewis : [getting ready to head home]  Ready?

  David Rossi : Avanti.

  Jennifer Jareau : You hear that?

  Dr. Tara Lewis : Hear what?

  David Rossi : Cut the engine.

  [she does so; they hear a rumble of thunder; raindrops start to patter the windshield, which then turns into a torrential downpour] 

  Dr. Tara Lewis : Hmm. Well, I'll be damned.