Criminal Minds (TV Series)

Submerged (2018)

Adam Rodriguez: Luke Alvez

Quotes 

• 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 : 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.

• Dr. Tara Lewis : I just don't get it. I mean, the unsub goes through all the trouble to steal these only to turn around and throw them in the lake?

  Luke Alvez : The guy didn't put a whole lot of heave-ho into it. You know, we found the right here at the water's edge.

  [Prentiss approaches] 

  Luke Alvez : Problem?

  Emily Prentiss : Gentlemen said he found the silver dollars an hour ago walking the shore. He's not too happy I told him he can't keep them.

  Luke Alvez : Why'd he call the police, then?

  Emily Prentiss : He didn't. A woman nearby remembered that silver dollars were stolen from Ben Stiles. She's the one who called.

  Dr. Tara Lewis : Practically in plain sight. I mean, it's like the unsub wanted these coins to be discovered.

  Luke Alvez : It could have been a forensic countermeasure. "Look at these shiny things over here while I go over there."

  Emily Prentiss : That would bolster our theory that the burglaries were just for show.

  Dr. Tara Lewis : Yeah, but if the unsub wanted to sell these home invasions as legit robberies, he wouldn't have taken junk. He would have stolen something valuable.

• Luke Alvez : Is that a body bag?

  Sheriff Clifford Mason : Damn. Another one.

  Dr. Tara Lewis : What's going on?

  Sheriff Clifford Mason : Remember I said this town is on pins and needles? This is what kicked it off.

  Emily Prentiss : There are bodies in the lake?

  Sheriff Clifford Mason : Old bodies. Skeletons, more like. Lake Palmer is a man-made reservoir. Before it got flooded, all of this out here was just rugged canyon. So if someone drowns, they tend to get tangled in the submerged trees. Hardly ever make it back up to the surface. But with this drought...

  Emily Prentiss : The surface is coming down to them.

• 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.