Criminal Minds (TV Series)

Big Sea (2011)

Matthew Gray Gubler: Dr. Spencer Reid

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• Aaron Hotchner : Have you nailed down the victimology?

  Dr. Spencer Reid : You know, I found a unique evolution, actually. The earliest victims appear to be high-risk. These lesions are consistent with syphilis, most likely a prostitute. This one has severely ground and missing teeth, commonly seen in excessive methamphetamine abuse. And then all of a sudden out of nowhere, a sea change - healthier and stronger victims all the way through to number twelve.

  Aaron Hotchner : Lower-risk, harder for him to hunt. What do we know about the first victim?

  Dr. Spencer Reid : You know, that one's tough. He or she has been in the water so long, they're mostly bone fragments. I can attempt to reconstruct...

  Aaron Hotchner : You've got three hours.

  Dr. Spencer Reid : I can do it in two.

  Aaron Hotchner : Make it one.

• Dr. Spencer Reid : The wounds on the thigh show hesitation marks. An unsub this experienced wouldn't display that.

  Derek Morgan : I don't think the unsub did. The angle indicates left-handed dominance. The file says this guy was left-handed, too.

  Dr. Spencer Reid : You know, if he'd been given trilamide, the unsub could have forced him to cut himself. It makes sense for a sadist with abandonment issues, but wouldn't he finish the job?

  Derek Morgan : The victim must have gotten a chance to escape and took it.

  Dr. Spencer Reid : But how? The trilamide kept him compliant enough to hurt himself. It overcame his self-preservation instinct.

  Derek Morgan : Well, then another instinct must have been stronger.

  Dr. Spencer Reid : Like what?

  Derek Morgan : A protective one. This guy was mentally and physically compromised, but he still went after the unsub with everything he had.

  Dr. Spencer Reid : Who would he fight that hard for?

  [cut to Morgan on the phone with Garcia] 

  Derek Morgan : A child, Garcia. Search nationwide missing persons reports for men traveling with their kids.

  Penelope Garcia : Am I looking for a son or daughter?

  Derek Morgan : We don't know yet.

  Penelope Garcia : No, no, I'm sorry, honey. No dice. Hey, what if they're not reported as missing yet?

  Derek Morgan : Yeah, of course not. When the unsub met them, they were starting over. All right, baby girl, new deal. USPS changes of address notices, people moving into Florida and South Carolina.

  Penelope Garcia : Done.

  Derek Morgan : All right, eliminate women, wives, couples. Narrow it down to men only.

  Penelope Garcia : So... so we're thinking divorced dad here, right?

  Derek Morgan : Yeah, but not just any divorced dad. This guy wants as much distance between his son and his ex-wife as possible. So look for custody disputes, injunctions, allegations. The messier, the better, Garcia.

• Dr. Spencer Reid : I don't think this was written under duress. You said Dr. Cormick wasn't taking medication for Parkinson's, right? Look at her handwriting. No indication of tremors or shaking. There's a drug called trilamide. In minute doses it treats Parkinson's, but its main use is for seasickness.

  David, Rossi : Something a fisherman would have access to.

  Derek Morgan : And criminals in South America. Intel reports say they figured out a high dose makes a victim totally compliant.

  Dr. Spencer Reid : Yeah, they slip it in your drink or blow the powder in your face and nasodermal absorption's almost immediate. You're instantaneously susceptible to any suggestion. There have been reports of locals letting thugs into their apartments to rob them, even helping them load the getaway trucks.