Criminal Minds (TV Series)

Submerged (2018)

Brad Hunt: Casey Peters

Quotes 

• 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 : Well, I gotta give you a tip of the hat, Casey. It is not easy to evade law enforcement for twenty years. And if you hadn't come back to Lake Palmer, you'd still be out there free as a bird. But you're here. Why? That boat owner down at the dock. I think you were trying to see if maybe that was your son Leland behind those sunglasses.

  Casey Peters : How do you know about Leland?

  Emily Prentiss : Casey, people are dying, and we're on a clock. So if you know where Leland is, you need to tell us.

  Casey Peters : I don't. I haven't seen my boy in twenty years.

  Emily Prentiss : But when you heard about these murders, you thought he might be involved. That's why you came back.

  Casey Peters : Leland didn't want to leave Ramona. They were supposed to go. We got into this fight. Boy runs away. That's the last I ever saw of him.

  Emily Prentiss : He was thirteen years old. Did you look for him?

  Casey Peters : Called around, asked some people. It's not like I could walk into a police station and file a report. I had my own problems.

  Emily Prentiss : Casey, did your son like to play at being a pirate?

  Casey Peters : Yeah. He did. Why?

  Emily Prentiss : Whoever's committing these murders in Ramona, it's tied into a pirate fantasy.

  [seeing Peters grin] 

  Emily Prentiss : Are you smiling, Mr. Peters?

  Casey Peters : He's alive. My boy is out there.

• Emily Prentiss : We found the killer. It wasn't your son. It was a friend of his, a kid he used to play pirates with, Jess Carney. Do you remember him?

  Casey Peters : [he shakes his head 'no']  It wasn't Leland?

  Emily Prentiss : No.

  Casey Peters : He died that day, didn't he? When they flooded the lake.

  Emily Prentiss : We may never know exactly what happened, but yes, it points that way.

• Casey Peters : I wanted it to be him.

  Emily Prentiss : Excuse me?

  Casey Peters : The killer. I wanted it to be Leland. Because if it was, it meant he was alive, he's always been alive, breathing the same air I've been breathing. Is that wrong?

  Emily Prentiss : You loved your son. Let's leave it at that.