Criminal Minds (TV Series)

Red Light (2017)

Paget Brewster: Emily Prentiss

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• Dr. Spencer Reid : You had eyes on me while I was in prison, didn't you?

  Cat Adams : Spencie, don't ruin the moment.

  Dr. Spencer Reid : I don't want to, but I'm on the clock. Answer my question. Am I right?

  Cat Adams : Yes, you're right. I wanted to make sure things were just as uncomfortable for you as they were for me.

  Luke Alvez : That's what we missed. The inside man that's been helping them.

  David Rossi : He didn't just work at Cat's prison, he worked at hers and Reid's.

  Emily Prentiss : Garcia, look for any overlap.

  Penelope Garcia : Compiling now. Here's something. Lionel Wilkins. He worked at both Mount Pleasant and and the Millburn Correctional Facility.

  Dr. Tara Lewis : Okay, look, this guy could have gotten her pregnant. But there's no way he could have gotten his hand on Reid's file.

  Stephen Walker : Well, not directly. He could have called in a favor from a friend at the Bureau.

  Luke Alvez : So someone must have wanted to screw us this whole time.

  Emily Prentiss : Someone who's not gonna work for the Bureau much longer.

• Lindsey Vaughan : I'm waiting for a phone call.

  Emily Prentiss : So are we, Lindsey.

  [a phone rings; as Lindsey checks hers, Prentiss pulls out her own] 

  Emily Prentiss : Whoa, whoa. It's okay. Here it is.

  Lindsey Vaughan : If this is a trick, I'm going to kill all of us.

  Emily Prentiss : I swear to you, it's not a trick. And you want to hear what the person on the other end of this line has to say.

  [turning the phone around, she shows Lindsey the tapped security monitor at Cat's prison] 

  Dr. Spencer Reid : At first I was furious, because the secret had to be the baby inside you. How could it be anything else? But then I realized that somehow, you knew I liked hurting those men. Now I know it's both things.

  Cat Adams : So which is it, Spence? Come on. Don't fumble it now. You're at the one yard line.

  Dr. Spencer Reid : You're not pregnant with my child. You got pregnant with Wilkins to put me in as compromised a position as possible. But it should be mine. I wish it were mine. Because you and I... we deserve each other. That is the real secret.

  [Cat dials Spence's phone, and Lindsey's rings] 

  Cat Adams : Kill her.

  [no response] 

  Cat Adams : Lindsey, I said...

  Lindsey Vaughan : You bitch. You're pregnant?

  Cat Adams : [realizing she's been played]  Lindsey, sweetheart, it's complicated, okay?

  Lindsey Vaughan : No, it's not.

  Emily Prentiss : Playing the game with Reid was more important than being faithful to you. And if you do this, she wins. Don't let her win.

• Dr. Spencer Reid : Dance with me.

  Cat Adams : Why?

  Dr. Spencer Reid : Because I don't want the people watching us to hear what I'm going to say next;

  [as they dance, Cat glances at the security monitor] 

  Jennifer Jareau : [on her phone in the observation room]  You guys got this up?

  Penelope Garcia : [at the BAU]  Streaming now.

  Jennifer Jareau : Okay. Uh, listen, you're... you're gonna hear a lot of weird stuff, like Spence saying he is the father of Cat's baby. Don't let that distract you.

  Penelope Garcia : Uh, I'm sorry. Full stop. Why would Reid say he's the father of...

  Emily Prentiss : Quiet.

• Emily Prentiss : [opening quotation]  "The villainy you teach me I will execute, and it shall go hard. But I will better the instruction." - William Shakespeare.

• Emily Prentiss : I know we're all tired, but we might have a new lead on Mr. Scratch.

  Penelope Garcia : Somebody did a bang-up job of cloning my cell phone to send Morgan a fake text luring him to a non-existent safe house. And whoever that somebody is has mad skills.

  Stephen Walker : The kind of skills Scratch has.

  Luke Alvez : Were you able to trace where the hack came from?

  Penelope Garcia : [to Morgan, insulted]  Do... do you see what I have to put up with?

  Derek Morgan : Alvez, you'll always get a location with this one. You guys are all good to go.

  Emily Prentiss : Obviously, Morgan can't come with us. He's a civilian now.

  Jennifer Jareau : Yeah, we'll miss you out there.

  Derek Morgan : I'd be lying if I said I didn't miss it out there in the field with you guys. I think about it every day. But between my old friends and my new friends, you guys are gonna go out there, you're gonna handle your business, you're gonna make people feel safe, and then you're gonna come home. And that's all that matters.

• Emily Prentiss : Up 'till now, Cat Adams has only worked solo. But this is a partnership. So we need to figure out how these two hit women were able to work together, especially when one of them was in solitary.

  Luke Alvez : And hitmen are driven by profit and self-preservation .They don't take a job unless they know all the angles.

  Dr. Tara Lewis : So, to predict their behavior, we need to ask ourselves a simple question. We know why Cat wanted revenge on Reid. Why does Lindsey?

  David Rossi : Ten years ago, Reid tried to talk Lindsey's father out of one last murder. Cut to last year and she finds out her BFF Cat has been arrested by the federal agent who tried to stop her daddy.

  Luke Alvez : So Lindsey's emotions trumped her professionalism. She could grab and kill Reid's mother without a trace, but instead, she waltzed Diana into his prison because she wanted him and us to know that she was involved.

  Emily Prentiss : But there's risky and there's reckless. It's kind of hard to buy that Lindsey would commit to doing all of this just because Reid kind of sort of got in her way ten years ago. We're missing something.

• David Rossi : Go ahead, JJ.

  Jennifer Jareau : So, Cat has deep background on Spence. She knew about Gideon's death and Morgan leaving the team for his family.

  David Rossi : She's throwing him off-balance.

  Jennifer Jareau : Yeah, but Spence also purposely gave the wrong name of Morgan's son and she didn't correct him.

  Emily Prentiss : She must have gotten her hands on Reid's confidential FBI file. It would mention relevant team information, but wouldn't name Morgan's baby because of confidentiality reasons.

  David Rossi : We were thinking she's been getting help from someone inside the prison. This goes deeper than that.

• Derek Morgan : Hey, baby girl.

  Penelope Garcia : [running and hugging him]  Oh, my god! Oh, my god! It's you! It's really you! Oh, you smell like... you smell like hope and happiness. It is really you.

  Derek Morgan : [she lets him go]  Yes, it's me. It's me. But listen, you gotta focus, okay?

  Penelope Garcia : Yeah. Anything. Anything. Focus. Focus on what?

  Emily Prentiss : This text.

  Penelope Garcia : [reading the text, her eyes bug out]  Oh, crap.

• Penelope Garcia : Hey. I... I got your text message. I'm confused. You want me to see if there are any missing children?

  Emily Prentiss : No, I asked if any AMBER alerts had been issued tonight.

  Penelope Garcia : No. Is that important?

  Emily Prentiss : Yes. I'm gonna put one out.

  Penelope Garcia : You're gonna put out Diana Reid's face and say she's a missing child?

  Emily Prentiss : No, I'm gonna put Lindsey's out as an abductor. People pay attention to AMBERs, and that's what we need.

  Penelope Garcia : Okay. Oh... I'll do it.

  [turning to her computer screens] 

  Emily Prentiss : Penelope, no. It's my call. Which means I'll take responsibility for it. Just pull the screen up, okay?

  [she does so; as she stands up, Prentiss takes her seat] 

  Emily Prentiss : [before Garcia can say anything]  I need you to leave. Right now.

• Stephen Walker : We have something, but, uh... it's out there.

  Emily Prentiss : I'll take "out there".

  Stephen Walker : The gun store owner was more of a libertarian than you would think. He talked about how he never judged his customers or who they love.

  David Rossi : That's... weird.

  Stephen Walker : Yeah, not as weird as when he mentioned Obergefell.

  Emily Prentiss : The Supreme Court decision that legalized gay marriage.

  Stephen Walker : You said we were missing something in the relationship between these two women. What if it's this?

  Dr. Tara Lewis : The risks that Lindsey's taking, the bond she has with Cat, it's not professional. It's romantic.

• Stephen Walker : Well, this casts a big shadow over Lindsey's next move. By exposing their plan to us, she knows there's no happy ending, no future with Cat.

  Luke Alvez : And she's going to take Reid's mother with her. That's the ultimate act of revenge against the guy who took her lover away.

  Emily Prentiss : JJ, what do you have?

  Jennifer Jareau : Will you take me off speaker?

  [Prentiss turns the speakerphone off and leaves; cut to her office, where she drops her cell phone on her desk] 

  Emily Prentiss : Are you kidding me? Are you kidding?

  Jennifer Jareau : Well, here's where it gets tricky. Do we believe her or not? On the one hand, getting pregnant is a power control move straight out of the female psychopath handbook. On the other hand...

  Emily Prentiss : If her story is true, it meant she sent her lesbian lover down to Mexico to get Reid to... ugh.

  Jennifer Jareau : Yeah. Either way, she is pregnant. I just refuse to believe it belongs to Spence.

  Emily Prentiss : It could be the person inside the prison who's been helping her. Getting pregnant serves two purposes: gaslighting Reid and emotional blackmail against that employee.

  Jennifer Jareau : Yeah, but Emily, we don't know who that guy is yet.

  [as JJ talks, Prentiss' phone beeps and she sees the AMBER alert she sent out] 

  Jennifer Jareau : And Alvez and Rossi aren't going to in the time they have left.

  Emily Prentiss : JJ, I gotta call you back.

• Emily Prentiss : Where is he?

  Agent Cal : I put him in your office like you asked me to.

  Emily Prentiss : Thank you.

  [as she enters her office, Morgan turns around] 

  Derek Morgan : Hey. We need to talk.

• David Rossi : You don't call, you don't write.

  Derek Morgan : Rossi.

  [they share a laugh and hug, too] 

  Jennifer Jareau : [entering]  You don't even give us a heads-up and you decide to pop in at three in the morning?

  Derek Morgan : Oh, blondie, come here, come here, come here.

  [hugging JJ] 

  Derek Morgan : Mm. Oh, it is so good to see all of you. Look, I wish I could say I was just here to say hello, but, um, we may have bigger problems.

  [to Prentiss] 

  Derek Morgan : You see what I'm saying about that text? It does not sound like Garcia. You do know what it does sound like.

  Emily Prentiss : A trap.

• Emily Prentiss : Okay, I want a full breakdown on Lindsey's life. Aliases, contacts, hits, uh... where she gets her hollow point rounds.

  Dr. Tara Lewis : Yeah, Walker and I will take that.

  Emily Prentiss : Okay. Then I want a list of everyone who was in Cat's prison in the past year. Cat was communicating with Lindsey through a maximum security facility. Somewhere, there is a weak link to her chain.

• Emily Prentiss : What have you got?

  Dr. Tara Lewis : We looked for overlap with all of Lindsey's known aliases and we found one. She made multiple purchases using multiple IDs at the same location.

  Stephen Walker : Fords Gun Shop.

  Dr. Tara Lewis : And wouldn't you know it, he has the largest selection of hollow point ammunition in the Tri-State area.

  Emily Prentiss : Go, quickly. We are on Cat's clock now. We only have three and a half hours left.

• Emily Prentiss : Have we dispatched units to the location Scratch tried to lure us to?

  Dr. Tara Lewis : I coordinated it before we left. They're on their way.

  Luke Alvez : SWAT will meet us on site at Scratch's house.

  Emily Prentiss : I know we all want this son of a bitch's head on a platter, but SWAT has to clear every single room before we step foot inside.

  Jennifer Jareau : Well, have they been briefed? This guy's traps have traps.

  David Rossi : The house itself could be a setup.

  Stephen Walker : Or a waste of our time so he can get away.

  Emily Prentiss : Whatever it is, he's gonna try to take us by surprise. We have to be ready for anything.

• Emily Prentiss : Helos are on the roof, warming up. Let's go!

• Emily Prentiss : Derek, oh, my god.

  Derek Morgan : [they hug]  Oh, princess. Princess, princess.

  [they let go] 

  Derek Morgan : It is so good to see you. I'm liking your new digs.

  Emily Prentiss : Ohh. I'm not crazy about how I earned them. It's been a tough year.

  Derek Morgan : Yeah, I heard some of what you've been going through. I mean, not everything. Why didn't anyone tell me that the kid had been arrested?

  Emily Prentiss : Reid made a list of people he was willing to see as visitors. You weren't on it. He was humiliated, and honestly, we were barely keeping it together. Garcia almost quit over it.