Criminal Minds (TV Series)

Luke (2018)

Daniel Henney: Matt Simmons

Quotes 

• Dr. Spencer Reid : You know, most assassinations are one and dones. Hit men acquire a target, execute them, and then disappear. Killing multiple victims without changing his M.O. exposes him and makes him trackable.

  Jennifer Jareau : The victims were seemingly-average people with normal, middle-class lives. Nothing here says they would be targeted by a hit man.

  Dr. Tara Lewis : Yeah, killing random people's just not what a hit man does.

  Luke Alvez : If they're moving this fast, they must be working off a list.

  Matt Simmons : What if all three victims are key witnesses to a federal crime? That would put them on a list.

  David Rossi : As would witness protection.

  Emily Prentiss : Garcia, start running through the WITSEC database. I'll reach out to them and the U.S. Attorney's office, see if there's any overlap.

• Matt Simmons : Paul McEntee has a panic room.

  Jennifer Jareau : Why would an accountant with no family need a panic room?

  Matt Simmons : Well, if he was a witness in a key case or in WITSEC, he'd probably want to feel protected.

  Jennifer Jareau : Yeah. WITSEC wouldn't pay for something like this, and he couldn't afford this on his salary.

  Matt Simmons : Paul must have had a second income, likely discreet and paid in cash to keep him off any radars.

  Jennifer Jareau : Well, we need to follow that money trail. It could help us piece together the victimology connection we've been missing.

• Matt Simmons : JJ, just look around. What do you see?

  Jennifer Jareau : Well, except for that blood spatter, I'd have no idea a crime was committed here.

  Matt Simmons : Exactly.

  Jennifer Jareau : Heh. Yeah, this guy's not losing control. He's cold, calculated.

  Matt Simmons : He's simply doing a job. He's not trying to teach anybody a lesson here. It feels like we can take "moral enforcer" off the table.

• Matt Simmons : What did you find, Spence?

  Dr. Spencer Reid : Victim's name is Mike Everson. He owns an auto shop and lived alone. Now, the DEA says he's a known drug trafficker for the Martinez cartel, so even though Ramos isn't our guy, it appears as though the unsub is still punishing his victims for their cartel ties.

  Luke Alvez : Any signs of a struggle? Did Mike fight back?

  Dr. Spencer Reid : He did, and during the fight, this happened.

  [showing them blood spatter on the wall] 

  Dr. Spencer Reid : This part right here isn't blood. It's a mixture of chewing tobacco and saliva. What's weird is the unsub used bleach to try to clean it up, but he left behind some residue. I'm having it run through all the appropriate criminal databases. I mean, hopefully there's a hit.

  Luke Alvez : [realizing]  Son of a...

  Dr. Spencer Reid : What?

  Luke Alvez : We need the whole team. I know who did this.

• Luke Alvez : So, DNA from the latest crime scene confirms that our unsub is Jeremy Grant. He was a DEA sniper Phil and I worked with in Mexico when we were hunting Eduardo Ramos. We weren't tight, but we knew him a bit. He took orders well. He was good at his job. I lost touch with him after Mexico.

  Phil Brooks : Yeah, so did I.

  Matt Simmons : That's not uncommon after a mission. So, what happened?

  Penelope Garcia : [typing]  Jeremy Grant still works for the DEA. He lives in Mexico with his wife and two daughters. Wow, he was practically Ramos' neighbor. Uh, he's lived in Mexico for over ten years. Both of his daughters were born there.

  [seeing a report pop up] 

  Penelope Garcia : He was just put on mandatory bereavement for... oh, my.

  Emily Prentiss : [looking over her shoulder]  His wife and children were all murdered in the family's home. They were all forced to drink bleach before being shot twice in the back of the head with a .40 caliber pistol. It must be Ramos.

  Phil Brooks : Where was Grant when it happened?

  Penelope Garcia : He was out of the country on assignment. He discovered the bodies.

  Luke Alvez : Somehow, Ramos must have gotten a list of everybody involved with his arrest. And he went after the Grants first because they lived the closest. After that, he likely would have gone after Silva and his men, and then crossed stateside and come after us. But Grant got to him first.

• Emily Prentiss : Jeremy Grant has killed multiple people. Now that he's murdered a federal agent, he knows the full weight of every agency in the U.S. law enforcement machine will be looking for him.

  Dr. Spencer Reid : We know from his profile he's not suicidal.

  Jennifer Jareau : Exactly. So he'll go underground, which means he'll either flee the country or wait for the storm to pass.

  Matt Simmons : He's a sniper with resources on both sides of the border.

  Dr. Tara Lewis : Right. These guys are trained to have safe houses and backstops.

  Emily Prentiss : Okay, that's where we start. I want a full background on Grant's DEA history; missions, known associates, anyone or anything that would help keep him off the radar. JJ's right, he will try and go underground, but before he does, I have a feeling he's gonna wanna get in one final shot.

• Emily Prentiss : Garcia, we're minutes away from the marina.

  Penelope Garcia : Turn around. Turn around right now. Jeremy Grant is in Baltimore at the port.

  Matt Simmons : But we already ruled out that port.

  Penelope Garcia : I know, but Luke.

  Matt Simmons : What about him?

  Emily Prentiss : I had a hunch about Luke, so I had Garcia keep tabs on all the phones he used during his undercover days in the manhunter unit.

  Penelope Garcia : Yeah, and all those phones are dead except for one, and it is pinging right at the port.

  Emily Prentiss : Thanks, Garcia. We're turning around.

• Matt Simmons : [alone with JJ]  They told us to go to the bedroom

  Jennifer Jareau : That's weird