Criminal Minds (TV Series)

#6 (2013)

Jeanne Tripplehorn: Alex Blake

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• Alex Blake : [opening, voiceover]  "We are not the same persons this year as last, nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person." - W. Somerset Maugham

• Dr. Spencer Reid : [Blake's phone beeps]  You want me to...

  Alex Blake : No.

  Dr. Spencer Reid : You want to talk about what's bothering you?

  Alex Blake : No. Nothing's bothering me.

  Dr. Spencer Reid : Something's bothering you. I can always tell when you're bothered because you whisper lyrics to yourself. Hip-hop specifically. I thought it was odd at first, but then I remembered your dissertation was on the fluidity of metaphor. You seem to have a particular fondness for Nas.

  Alex Blake : Wow. How did you know?

  Dr. Spencer Reid : Morgan made me listen to him when we started working together. He said anybody that can't quote Illmatic is ignorant. So, do you want to talk about it?

  Alex Blake : Uh, the text, it's from my husband.

  Dr. Spencer Reid : Is that a bad thing?

  Alex Blake : He just wants to know if I've thought about his offer.

  Dr. Spencer Reid : What offer?

  Alex Blake : To teach with him at Harvard.

  Dr. Spencer Reid : How would you... Ah.

  Alex Blake : Yeah.

  Dr. Spencer Reid : Tough call. What do you think you're gonna do?

  Alex Blake : When we got married, part of the attraction was that we were both obsessed with our work, and for a while that was okay.

  Dr. Spencer Reid : Yeah, the last time we talked about it, you seemed to prefer it.

  Alex Blake : Oh, not anymore. I don't like going home to an empty house.

  Dr. Spencer Reid : May I offer some advice?

  Alex Blake : Sure.

  Dr. Spencer Reid : We need to turn around. You just passed the house.

  Alex Blake : Oh.

  Dr. Spencer Reid : [car arrives at the house]  That's not the advice, though. Blake, for the last ten years, this job has been my life. And then, for a few months, I had a taste of what you have. So, work. There's always work, and there'll always be work. What's rare is finding someone who makes us happy.

• David Rossi : Garcia? I don't get it. Didn't the car companies give you the same GPS data?

  Penelope Garcia : [Agitated]  Yes, they did. But the meta-data has to be translated into latitude and longitude, which is like looking for a needle in a needle stack in a field of needles!

  Alex Blake : Can't you match the dates? We know he breaks into the cars three days beforehand

  Penelope Garcia : But that would imply there's a timestamp on each of the numbers, which there's not, thank you very much. And forgive my tone, but I'm frustrated

  [computer starts finding matches] 

  Penelope Garcia : Wait! My mood is changing. We may have a lotto here!

• Alex Blake : Come on, you're killing me here. The worst thing you can do to a linguist is not communicate.

• Dr. Spencer Reid : Up until now, he's been an equal opportunity, anger retaliatory sadist.

  David Rossi : Which is fancy talk for he hates the husbands as much as the wives.

  Dr. Spencer Reid : Most likely because his own marriage failed in a humiliating way, and his wife left him for a man she may be engaged or even already married to.

  Derek Morgan : But a major shift happened with Mary Hammond. He wasn't able to kidnap the husband, but he needed someone to cut her.

  Jennifer Jareau : So his MO was forced to evolve. We believe he's abducted the sixth victim, a man, probably someone who reminds him of his own failed marriage.

  Alex Blake : And he's keeping number six alive so he can repeat the process with Emma Churchill.

  David Rossi : Number six could be a surrogate for the ex-wife's new husband or actually be the new husband.

  Dr. Spencer Reid : Which is why the fastest way to find this UnSub is through this most recent unknown victim.

• Dr. James Blake : Well?

  Alex Blake : Let's go visit Harvard.

  Dr. James Blake : Really? You're gonna come?

  Alex Blake : On holidays and weekends.

  [pause] 

  Alex Blake : Boston's closer than south Sandistan.

  Dr. James Blake : What happened to our veto power?

  Alex Blake : I know you want to be a couple again. I want that, too. But... I need this job. And one of the things that made me fall in love with you, is that you understood that about me.