Criminal Minds (TV Series)

Painless (2011)

Shemar Moore: Derek Morgan

Quotes 

• Dr. Spencer Reid : [the music on Morgan's iPod suddenly stops, and is replaced by Reid's voice]  We interrupt your regularly scheduled musical selection with an important announcement: never wage a practical joke war against an MIT graduate, because we have a history of going nuclear. Now sit back, relax, and enjoy the dulcet sounds of me screaming in your ear. AAAAAAAAHHHHH!

  Derek Morgan : [Morgan takes off his headphones]  Okay, kid, that was cute. But that's all you got?

  [Reid snores, feigning sleep] 

  Derek Morgan : [his phone rings]  Hey, baby gi...

  Dr. Spencer Reid : [Reid's recording cuts in]  AHHHHHHH!

  [still feigning sleep, Reid smirks; to diffuse the situation, Rossi waves a white flag of surrender] 

  Derek Morgan : Uh-uh. All right, Reid, it's on. Just know that paybacks are a bitch.

• Dr. Spencer Reid : [muttering]  I will crush you.

  Derek Morgan : What?

  Dr. Spencer Reid : [innocently]  What?

• Emily Prentiss : What else do we have to go on?

  Jennifer Jareau : Spence said the UnSub would have broken his hand beating Chelsea to death. Did you notice anyone with a cast on their hand, someone who seemed hurt?

  Emily Prentiss : No.

  Dr. Spencer Reid : I might know why. This UnSub doesn't feel pain. There's a medical condition called pain asymbolia, where patients register harmful stimuli without being bothered by it. They've been documented holding their hand over an open flame because their brain doesn't send pain signals to the central nervous system.

  David Rossi : Sounds pretty rare. You sure the UnSub has it?

  Dr. Spencer Reid : The crime scenes prove it. This UnSub displayed an unusual level of savagery towards his victims. And consider this, he smashed through a glass display case, but there were not cuts on Jerry. That means he most likely punched through it as a show of force. Now, the only way the human body could withstand that level of pain is if he couldn't feel it at all.

  David Rossi : It must take a major toll on someone's emotional development.

  Derek Morgan : A significant contributor to our sense of empathy is the way we personally experience pain.

  Aaron Hotchner : And the UnSub didn't develop his sense of empathy because it was cut off. Does every person with asymbolia have this?

  Dr. Spencer Reid : Actually, most feel empathy just fine, which makes me think the rest of our profile is still accurate. Loner, invisible, outcast, boiling rage...

• Derek Morgan : Then why come back? What does a loser like you have to gain by seeing all the kids by seeing all the kids that he hated so much ?

  Lewis Ramsey : [showing a medal]  I came this close to flushing two years of sobriety down the toilet tonight. Not just because Chelsea died, but because I knew that they were gonna cancel that ceremony. See, tomorrow night I was gonna tell people what I did. And I knew that I would be arrested as an accomplice. I knew it, but I had to. This is my final amends.