Criminal Minds (TV Series)

#6 (2013)

Matthew Gray Gubler: Dr. Spencer Reid

Quotes 

• 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.

• CEO #2 : You're presuming that the three different car companies represented in this room track our drivers via their GPS. That's a bold presumption.

  Dr. Spencer Reid : Actually, it's not bold, and we're presuming nothing. When customers access their GPS for the first time, they go to a "Terms and Conditions" screen. They scroll to the bottom, they click the box that says "Agree" so they can start using it. They don't realize they've just agreed to allowing their car to communicate its entire driving history with your corporate headquarters. For research purposes only, of course. The only reason these people agree to share this information with you, is because they don't take the time to read the fine print. But I do.

• Dr. Spencer Reid : You've made up your mind, haven't you?

  [Blake nods weakly] 

  Dr. Spencer Reid : I'm happy for you.

• David Rossi : This car becomes an abduction vehicle and a dumping site.

  Dr. Spencer Reid : According to missing persons' reports, he holds on to them for all about a week. Do we know what he does with them during that time?

  Penelope Garcia : Yes, unfortunately we do, and that information is on your tablets in picture form. And if you'll excuse me, I'm going to go to my happy place.

• 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.

• Detective Ron Keaton : [Walking with Hotch towards Dr. Reid]  And I gave Dr. Reid as detailed map of Detroit and Grosse Pointe as I could, so he should be all right

  Dr. Spencer Reid : Wow

  Aaron Hotchner : What'd you find?

  Dr. Spencer Reid : Well, date night is very important to the unsub

  Detective Ron Keaton : He goes on dates?

  Dr. Spencer Reid : No, but his victims do, and the unsub knows that

• David Rossi : So, we know this unsub uses the victims' own cars as his dumpsite

  Dr. Spencer Reid : Technically, it's not a dumpsite, it's transportation disposal modality