Criminal Minds: Beyond Borders (TV Series)

Type A (2017)

Daniel Henney: Matt Simmons

Quotes 

• Emily Prentiss : Communication addressed to the BAU came across my desk this morning. It was sent by Inspector Jin Taan of the Taipei Ministry of Criminal Investigations. In the last twelve days, he's had two unusual murders, which may be linked to one of the cases in the BAU's Zero Files.

  Russ Montgomery : Our victims, Lynn Zhou and Yian Chen, were posed in the same specific display - office building, knife through the heart, flower in the lap.

  Matt Simmons : Then why the purple orchid? Is this homage to...

  Emily Prentiss : The Vinegar Hill Slayer. The BAU hunted him in 2001. He killed four women in the Vinegar Hill section of Brooklyn, New York. All four of his victims were publicly displayed, knife in the heart, flower in the lap.

  Clara Seger : Precisely the same way these women in Taipei were.

  Emily Prentiss : At the time of the New York murders, I was working as an intern at the U.N.

  Clara Seger : As was I.

  Russ Montgomery : Oh, I didn't realize you guys went back that far.

  Clara Seger : Indeed we do. In fact, we knew one of the Vinegar Hill victims. She was a translator for the U.N. Her name was Lisa Sojourn.

  Emily Prentiss : Lisa, Clara, and I, some other girls, would go out after work and drink, dance, meet boys.

  Clara Seger : All that stopped after Lisa's death.

  Emily Prentiss : The preliminary investigation didn't lead to more substantive action. It was reclassified as a Zero File because the BAU's efforts were interrupted by the September 11th attacks.

  Matt Simmons : Right, when the FBI's top priority became terrorism.

• Jack Garrett : Sixteen years is an awfully long period of dormancy.

  Mae Jarvis : Could it be a copycat?

  Emily Prentiss : It's possible, but the purple orchid was a detail that was never made public.

  Jack Garrett : Did the BAU establish an operating theory at the time?

  Emily Prentiss : It was incomplete, but the profile indicated a male, late teens to early 20s, native to New York, sophisticated but with significant anger issues toward women.

  Jack Garrett : Ordinarily, we go to help American victims of crime overseas, but in this case, it looks like we may be looking at an American killing abroad.

  Matt Simmons : From four kills in six months to two murders in two weeks, that means the killings are accelerating.

  Jack Garrett : So we need to stop this unsub before he kills again.

• Matt Simmons : You ready to roll?

  [staring an old picture of her and Lisa, Clara doesn't reply] 

  Matt Simmons : Oops. Sorry, Clara, I didn't know you were...

  Clara Seger : No, it's okay. Um, I was just... remembering my friend Lisa.

  [showing Matt the picture] 

  Clara Seger : It's hard to believe how much time has passed.

  Matt Simmons : Life has a way of doing that.

  Clara Seger : Yeah, but at least we have a life. You know, Lisa's was... was cut short before it even had a chance to start.

  Matt Simmons : Seems like you have some good memories of her.

  Clara Seger : [he hands the picture back]  Yeah, I do. If you would have known Lisa, she... she was this... breath of fresh air. She could talk to anyone. She could wear just about anything. And she loved to go juking.

  Matt Simmons : Juking?

  Clara Seger : It's dancing.

  Matt Simmons : Ah.

  Clara Seger : She was from Georgia, so that's what she called it. But... many a times, we would juke until the morning sun came up.

  Matt Simmons : I'll bet you did.

  Clara Seger : And she had this laugh. It was... it was contagious. And when Lisa got going, you knew eventually you were gonna end up on the floor right next to her. I miss that. I miss her. I just want to honor her, you know, and her memory.

  Matt Simmons : I think you just did.

  Clara Seger : Thank you. I think the only way to really honor her is to catch this killer who took her life.

  Matt Simmons : And we will.

• Jack Garrett : This is a heavily trafficked business area. The unsub had to have timed this precisely to stage the body out here without being observed

  Matt Simmons : Displaying the victim in public is significant to the unsub's ritual, just like in New York, but the BAU never determined what it meant.

  Jack Garrett : We need to figure out what the unsub's trying to say and to whom.

  Matt Simmons : Six victims in two very different countries suggests divergent comfort zones half a world apart, which is very unusual, unless we're talking about a copycat here, right?

  Jack Garrett : Yeah, possibly. Or perhaps it speaks to the unsub being at home in both countries. Maybe a dual citizen.

• Russ Montgomery : So our lovely and talented BAU counterpart and I dug deeper into the unsub's mysterious hiatus.

  Jack Garrett : You found something?

  Russ Montgomery : Yeah, the victims in Taiwan didn't flag on the BAU's Interpol query because Taiwan doesn't share an Interpol database.

  Jack Garrett : So if Prentiss hadn't been contacted by Inspector Jin, we might never have known.

  Russ Montgomery : Yes, well, which inspired us to conduct an open-source intelligence review of all print and broadcast media in non-Interpol countries. We found seven other murders with the same M.O. in seven Pacific Rim countries, none of which are part of Interpol.

  Matt Simmons : So each of them thought the killing in their country was an isolated case, not part of a serial event.

  Russ Montgomery : Bingo.

  Clara Seger : If the unsub has only killed once in each of those countries, but has already killed twice in Taiwan, that means his presence here signifies something special.

• Jack Garrett : The unsub may have accelerated his killing tempo in Taiwan because, like New York, he feels at home here.

  Clara Seger : Well, there's definitely a contradiction between the violence in his early kills and the lack of it now. I mean, he has gotten less violent over time.

  Mae Jarvis : Well, maybe he's been perfecting his methodology.

  Matt Simmons : Certainly not his coping mechanism when it comes to women. He seems to have no intention of stopping.

  Jack Garrett : We need to get ahead of him. Find out how he's targeting his victims.

• Russ Montgomery : Inspector Jin found Yian Chen's computer at her office. On it was a history of an online dating site that both victims were members of. Uh, "Taipei Twine is an online dating and matchmaking service that offers professionals a unique dating experience that doesn't require users to post pictures. Instead, drawing potential couples together for deeper relationships..."

  Matt Simmons : "Based on profile, personalities, and promises, not shallow infatuation based solely on looks."

  Clara Seger : Well, makes sense that professionals would use a more discreet online site to seek potential lovers.

  Mae Jarvis : Yeah, our unsub would certainly prefer that type of anonymity.

  Clara Seger : So he lured these women to their death with the promise of love?

  Matt Simmons : No, there's something these particular women had in common that keyed our unsub to choose them.

• Mae Jarvis : Professional woman, slender build, dark hair. Just the unsub's type.

  Matt Simmons : Yeah. Looks like the unsub found the closest woman to his victim type and improvised from there. He cut her hair.

  Mae Jarvis : Yep. Looks like a blitz attack. He certainly didn't take the time to charm her.

  Matt Simmons : No. This kill was done out of necessity, but he did take the time to place the purple orchid in her lap. Is there any way we can trace its origin?

  Inspector Jin Taan : In Taiwan, breeding orchids is a mass production business.

  Mae Jarvis : Well, given the blood, I would say that the stab wound is definitely the C.O.D.

  Inspector Jin Taan : The key aspect for this unsub throughout his kill history has been the ritual displaying of the body, is it not?

  Matt Simmons : Yeah. His compulsion to kill comes secondary to his need to display his victims, but he didn't take the time to deliver the full message here by properly displaying it.

  Inspector Jin Taan : Yet he hastily chopped the victim's hair because he didn't want to vary from his physical type?

  Mae Jarvis : Maybe it's not a physical type. Maybe it's a specific woman. And the question is who?

• Jack Garrett : Thanks for all your assistance.

  Inspector Jin Taan : It is I who should thank you and your wonderful team, Jack.

  Mae Jarvis : Pleasure was all ours.

  Inspector Jin Taan : You know, I actually spent time at the FBI National Academy. It was the singular honor of my career. I can never repay the FBI for the prestige it's brought me.

  Matt Simmons : Well, it goes both ways. The FBI benefits immensely from working with officers of your caliber.

  Inspector Jin Taan : May I ask a favor?

  Jack Garrett : Of course.

  Inspector Jin Taan : Should you return to Taipei, would it be possible to bring one of those delightful chicken parmesean sandwiches from that little Italian deli by the back gate to Quantico?

  [the IRT team snickers] 

  Jack Garrett : You can count on it. Uh, I only hope it's under better circumstances than this trip.