Criminal Minds (TV Series)

Submerged (2018)

A.J. Cook: Jennifer Jareau

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.

• Penelope Garcia : So, remember that old expression "Dont go swimming while tethered to a cinder block"?

  [no reaction] 

  Penelope Garcia : No? Larry and Wanda Robbins from Ramona, California. Newlyweds. They were found dead last night in their backyard pool. Wanda was shot once in the chest. Larry was gagged and drowned because of that cinder block thing I mentioned earlier.

  Dr. Tara Lewis : Anything stolen from the house?

  Emily Prentiss : Jewelry was missing from Wanda's vanity. This is the latest in a string of backyard pool murders in Ramona over the last two weeks.

  Penelope Garcia : Oh, that's my part. Victim number one, Ben Stiles, 82 year old widower. He was found at the bottom of his pool, tied to a cinder block like Larry Robbins. Six days later, victim number two, Bert Schofield; divorced, lived alone, and as you can see, same kind of awfulness.

  Jennifer Jareau : Were their houses also burglarized?

  Penelope Garcia : Yeah. Well, Ben Stiles' was. His coin collection was missing. I'm not sure about Bert Schofield.

• Jennifer Jareau : Have we found a connection between the victims yet, Garcia?

  Penelope Garcia : None. All of them were long-time area residents, and they all had backyard pools, but that's about it.

  Matt Simmons : It's possible these killings are random.

  Dr. Tara Lewis : Except the items taken were so specific. I mean, the unsub must have had some familiarity with the people he targeted.

  Penelope Garcia : Oh, and it turns out that Bert Schofield was, in fact, burglarized. His bowling trophies were missing from his garage.

  Luke Alvez : [incredulous]  Bowling trophies? Seriously?

  Penelope Garcia : I just report the facts as I find them, sir.

• 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.

• Emily Prentiss : The unsub appears to be killing as a direct response to the old accident victims being pulled from the lake. So why is he dumping the stolen property into the lake instead of the victims themselves?

  Luke Alvez : Maybe the coins are an offering. Some kind of superstition.

  Emily Prentiss : What if we've had this all backwards until now?

  Jennifer Jareau : In what way?

  Emily Prentiss : We were thinking that the items he stole were unimportant, afterthoughts. But what if just the opposite is true, that it's 100% about the stolen items?

• 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.

• Dr. Tara Lewis : Rossi just called. They just recovered another body from the lake. Now, it was all done covertly, so hopefully the unsub is unaware.

  Jennifer Jareau : Okay, well, we profiled the unsub was stuck in early adolescence. Something had to have happened to him, what, twenty years ago, to cause the shock to his system.

  Dr. Tara Lewis : You're right. I mean, if this is arrested development, something arrested it.

  Luke Alvez : The reservoir was created around that time.

  Jennifer Jareau : Yeah. What if the killer's trauma occurred out there before the reservoir was formed?

  Luke Alvez : Or during.

• Jennifer Jareau : Garcia?

  Penelope Garcia : Come get it, Bae.

  Jennifer Jareau : The land that was flooded to form Lake Palmer, did anyone live or work out there?

  Penelope Garcia : It's pretty remote country, but yeah, it looks like there were three homes in the canyon.

  Luke Alvez : I assume they were all subject to eminent domain?

  Penelope Garcia : Correct. The city bought out those three families.

  Dr. Tara Lewis : Do we know what happened to the residents?

  Penelope Garcia : Two of 'em moved to houses by the side of the new lake. The third one is proving to be a little trickier.

  [finding a result] 

  Penelope Garcia : Bob Turner, an off-the-gridish type, but he vanished right before the new reservoir was created. I don't have a trace of him after that, but fret not. There's the grid and then there's the Garcia grid, and that one is not as easy to stay off of. Do you know what I'm saying? Of course you know what I'm saying. Goodbye.

• Emily Prentiss : Yeah, Garcia?

  Penelope Garcia : It's "pieces fall into place day" here at Garcia Central. I have been looking at old Ramona public records for all things Bob Turner, and another Turner caught my eye; a Leland Turner. In 1997, he was thirteen years old. He has a long juvie record, no family history. And he listed his address as Palmer Canyon Road.

  Jennifer Jareau : Wait, that's the road that used to lead to the residences in the flooded canyon.

  Luke Alvez : Casey Peters had a son.

• Jennifer Jareau : Well, Leland's juvie history was pretty innocuous. Vandalism, shoplifting. Hardly gateway crimes to the life of a serial killer.

  Dr. Tara Lewis : Well, every grown-up monster was once a cute little baby monster.

  Luke Alvez : The bigger issue for me is how does a thirteen year old boy stay off the radar for twenty years?

  Jennifer Jareau : When Garcia can't find a breadcrumb, it's usually because the bread was never baked.

  Luke Alvez : Yeah, at some point, it's time to stop thinking about what's possible and start thinking about what's likely. Which for me is that Leland is dead, and has been dead for a long, long time.

  Jennifer Jareau : Which would leave us where?

• Penelope Garcia : Release the genie.

  Dr. Tara Lewis : Leland Peters, did his juvie trouble ever involve another kid?

  Penelope Garcia : Uh, yeah. A whole group of kids. They ran in a pack.

  Jennifer Jareau : Does one name pop up more than the others?

  Penelope Garcia : Oh. Like B-14 in a Bingo parlor. Jess Carney. He and Leland were thick as thieves. Literally. Stole stuff, truancy. But this is weird. At age fourteen, Jess - poof - like, disappears. His behavior took a violent turn shortly after the canyon flooded. His parents couldn't control him anymore. And as soon as the mystery presents itself, the mystery is solved. Jess was institutionalized out of state, put on antidepressants.

  Luke Alvez : That would explain the arrested development. He was medicated and isolated during some crucial formative years.

  Penelope Garcia : Jess returned to California when he was twenty-four and worked odd jobs in and around San Diego, and then... suddenly left the area about a month ago.

  Jennifer Jareau : That's right around the time the killings started.

  Dr. Tara Lewis : Do we know where Jess is now?

  Penelope Garcia : Oh. Oh, we do not. After he left San Diego, he... he poof, vanished again. It's like a re-poof, I guess you'd call it.

  Luke Alvez : Is there a recent photo of Carney?

  Penelope Garcia : Uh, the best I have is a DMV photo from six years ago. Sending it now.

• 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.