Criminal Minds (TV Series)

Neon Terror (2017)

A.J. Cook: Jennifer Jareau

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• Emily Prentiss : [watching Rossi on TV]  Oh, good. We didn't miss it.

  Penelope Garcia : Nope, it just started.

  Luke Alvez : [entering with Matt and JJ]  We're up to our eyeballs in cases. The guy never takes a vacation. I want to know when he'd find the time to write another book.

  Jennifer Jareau : Someone must have put his mandatory six weeks off to good use.

  Matt Simmons : Anybody heard from Tara?

  Emily Prentiss : Oh, she's finishing up with Floyd Ferell. She'll be back in D.C. soon.

  Penelope Garcia : I'm DVRing this for her and Reid. They didn't want to miss it, either.

• Matt Simmons : She was parked when the unsub came up and shot her. She might not have even seen him coming.

  Emily Prentiss : Locals just sent over the details. They believe it's a series of robbery/homicides, but he only robbed the first victim.

  Luke Alvez : Robbery could be a forensic countermeasure to try and keep the cops from tying the cases together.

  Matt Simmons : Well, a big city like Miami, how do we even know they're related?

  Emily Prentiss : Ballistics match. He used a .44 caliber.

  Jennifer Jareau : Bold choice. That's a big gun.

• Luke Alvez : So Steven's standing here, Natalie's inside the car, bang and bang. It feels like they were saying good night, but we know Steven wasn't going home with her.

  Jennifer Jareau : The unsub wouldn't know that. If he's a jilted lover, he'd see Steven as a surrogate, the guy who stole his girl.

  Luke Alvez : If he had his heart broken recently, that could be the reason for the spree. Maybe his ex got engaged. Or pregnant. And that's why he's lashing out.

  Jennifer Jareau : So, time of death was just before they were found. It was like, what, five minutes?

  Luke Alvez : No, two.

  Jennifer Jareau : Jeez. This guy's cutting it close. Well, a .44 Magnum has got a big bang.

  [looking around] 

  Jennifer Jareau : Maybe that's the point.

  Luke Alvez : He wants the attention. Loud gun. Attracts a big crowd. Right? Adds to his thrill.

  Jennifer Jareau : Yeah. So would sticking around to watch his work.

• Jennifer Jareau : Don't think of him as a spree killer, think of him as a fire starter. That's why no one sees him flee the scene.

  Luke Alvez : Could be a first responder. But police, paramedics, witnesses, they'd have to give a statement.

  Jennifer Jareau : Yeah, if he was on more than one police report, he'd be on our radar.

  Luke Alvez : Well, maybe he sticks around to watch and just doesn't draw attention to himself.

  Jennifer Jareau : This guy hides in plain sight.

• Jennifer Jareau : Naming the unsub is a grave mistake. It romanticizes him in the public's mind and in turn gives him a sense of power and control he desperately craves.

• David Rossi : [leaving the Channel 3 station]  Now we have a serial killer and a narcissist. Did you see that wall of fame?

  Jennifer Jareau : Uh, yeah. Every inch was covered with photos of her on camera. And she has covered everything, from hurricanes, the Versace murders, cartel wars, suburban homicides to gang violence.

  David Rossi : Sandra loves being on the front lines. From what I saw, the awards stopped coming.

  Jennifer Jareau : Then becoming a news director would be a demotion for someone like her.

  David Rossi : No doubt. She's probably using this story to goose Channel 3's profile.

  Jennifer Jareau : Well, once that name goes public, he's gonna to get all the attention he wants.

  David Rossi : And that's only going to make the unsub take bigger risks, and bigger risks means more victims.

• Luke Alvez : [at a crime scene]  We've ruled out that he's a first responder, right? What if he's another kind of responder?

  Jennifer Jareau : The media.

  Luke Alvez : Yeah. When we thought the media might be stoking our unsub, we never considered he might be one of them.

  Jennifer Jareau : It checks some of the boxes. Risk-taking, ability to blend in. It explains why no one questions him at the scene. He's supposed to be here.

  Detective Michelle Wallenberg : If he is part of the media, do you think he's also filming it?

  Luke Alvez : I don't know. We'd have to go through all of the footage.

  Jennifer Jareau : Every station is covering this. It's gonna take a lot of time.

  Detective Michelle Wallenberg : We got all hands on deck. Whatever you need, we're here.

• Jennifer Jareau : Hey, guys, look at this. Okay, so this was taken from just inside Lindsey's garage. What's missing?

  Matt Simmons : The cops. They're not there yet.

  David Rossi : But they responded within minutes. So whoever filmed this had to be there when it happened.

  Jennifer Jareau : Well, this was filmed by a Kal Montgomery at Channel 3. I checked their site. He's on their I.T. staff.

  David Rossi : First Channel 3 breaks the story about the hairclips, and now this.

  Matt Simmons : Well, if he's not a cameraman or a reporter, he wouldn't show up on our sweep.

  Jennifer Jareau : Oh, and I double-checked. His name is on every Neon Terror crime scene Channel 3's put on the news.

  Matt Simmons : All right. I got him. Found him on social media. And it looks like he's posted multiple rants about an ex-girlfriend who looks a lot like our victims.

  David Rossi : Sounds like a digital loner to me. Let's go have a chat with Kal.

• Jennifer Jareau : Who is Quasar22?

  Penelope Garcia : That is an excellent question. I can tell you with a hundred percent certainty that it is not Kal Montgomery. His story completely checks out. Aside from being slightly morally repugnant, he's clean as a whistle. If that whistle was slightly morally repugnant.

  Matt Simmons : So that clears him. Why did the unsub target Kal to begin with?

  Emily Prentiss : Kal's ambitious. He must have known it, used it to his benefit.

  Matt Simmons : So he's smart enough not to expose himself, which is probably not easy for someone who's desperate for attention.

  Penelope Garcia : Also, I have to say whoever this is is, like, a tech wizard, because I have used all the tools in my fantastic box, and he's, like, protected from the mother on high of all encryption packages and a secure server, plus an IP scrambler, which is not like the warm, eggy kind but the computery kind.

  Emily Prentiss : So you've got nothing on the unsub's ID and location?

  Penelope Garcia : No. I mean, according to my screens, it's all coming from Jamaica; Kingston, to be exact. It does not take a profiler to know that's completely bogus.

• Luke Alvez : How is she doing?

  Jennifer Jareau : Good, considering.

  Luke Alvez : What's her name?

  Jennifer Jareau : Alex Grayson. The latest victim, Nancy Jones, was her cousin. She was babysitting while Alex's parents were out.

  Luke Alvez : It's a little late to be in a mall parking lot with a kid in the car.

  Jennifer Jareau : Yeah, well, when a kid can't sleep, a car ride's often the best way to get them down.

  Luke Alvez : Yeah, but if Alex was asleep, why not drive back home?

  Jennifer Jareau : She pulled over to answer a text from a guy she was gonna meet.

• Luke Alvez : There's no way Nancy was chosen at random.

  Jennifer Jareau : Yeah, you're right. This guy's a planner. He doesn't do random. He must have stalked her.

  Luke Alvez : And if he did, then he knew there was a kid in the car. The question is - and I hate to ask - why is Alex still alive?

  Jennifer Jareau : I don't know. He's never shown a moral compass, so why now?

  Luke Alvez : Maybe the unsub's a dad. Or maybe something happened to him when he was little.

• Jennifer Jareau : [calls]  Hey, Garcia. I need you to check on an old case in Miami

  Penelope Garcia : Fingers at the ready