Criminal Minds (TV Series)

Proof (2011)

Joe Mantegna: David Rossi

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Quotes 

• David Rossi : So, are you gonna get psychological counseling for the team or handle it internally?

  Aaron Hotchner : No, I think that if we all just got together, maybe a cooking lesson at the home of one of our founders...

  David Rossi : Oh, no, not you, too.

  Aaron Hotchner : It could boost morale.

  David Rossi : Is this an order?

  Aaron Hotchner : No, it's just a very tempered suggestion.

  David Rossi : Tempered suggestion.

  [Hotch smiles] 

• [the team is still in shock Prentiss is alive] 

  David Rossi : How's Reid?

  Aaron Hotchner : He's angry and frustrated. I'm surprised everybody isn't.

  David Rossi : Ah, some of us had an inkling.

  [Hotch looks at Rossi in surprise] 

  David Rossi : What? I'm good at what I do.

• [last lines] 

  David Rossi : Cooking is the most sensual art form. And these are my paints.

  Penelope Garcia : So your hands must be brushes.

  David Rossi : Don't interrupt. In a pot of boiling water, we cook our spaghetti until it's al dente, firm to the tooth. Here you go. Everybody pass it around. See? Feel the texture. There we go. Okay. Now, in a large pan, we fry up our pancetta. Keeping a sharp eye that the edges are crisp.

  Aaron Hotchner : But careful not to burn the onions.

  David Rossi : Bravo, Aaron! We sauté until translucence.

  Derek Morgan : [hearing ding-dong]  I got it.

  David Rossi : Grazie mille!

  [seeing JJ raises the glass to her lips, puts up a hand to stop her] 

  David Rossi : Oh! Now, we mix in the eggs, the parmesan, the spaghetti and parsley. You see, it's all about timing and rhythm. And if you don't feel yourself doing it properly, please, order a pizza.

  Dr. Spencer Reid : Sorry, I'm late.

  David Rossi : Yeah. And this is why I cook alone.

  Emily Prentiss : So, when do we get to drink the wine?

  David Rossi : Almost there. Okay. We start at the beginning. You eat what you cook, I'll supervise, but we're gonna do this all together, just like a family.

  Jennifer 'JJ' Jareau : [holding the glass]  Okay now?

  David Rossi : Now. Salud!

  Penelope Garcia , Aaron Hotchner , Derek Morgan , Dr. Spencer Reid , Emily Prentiss , Jennifer 'JJ' Jareau : Salud!

• David Rossi : [voiceover]  Scott Adams wrote, "Nothing inspires forgiveness quite like revenge."

• Penelope Garcia : Okay, you can be honest. I can take it.

  David Rossi : Okay, I prefer my pasta al dente, and the pancetta was a little weird.

  Penelope Garcia : Oh, that's 'cause it's tofu.

  David Rossi : Tofu? I give you my recipe and you do an improv?

  Penelope Garcia : No, no. I followed it down to the micron, aside from the pig. Look, master of all things Italian, I am having a Fellini festival at my house this weekend, and I must serve the beautiful food of his country.

  David Rossi : Maybe you should show a Disney film and stick with burgers.

  Derek Morgan : You know, Rossi, you could always give Penelope a cooking lesson.

  Penelope Garcia : Oh, my gosh, that would be amazing. That would be like... That would be like the Iron Chef meets the BAU. And we could do it at your house.

  David Rossi : I don't have a house, I have a mansion.

  Aaron Hotchner : All right. Let's get started.

• Aaron Hotchner : All right; let's get started.

  Jennifer 'JJ' Jareau : Oh.

  [realizes the cases are not hers and proudly hands the information over to a thankful Garcia] 

  Penelope Garcia : All right, Mes Amis.

  [stands to present] 

  Penelope Garcia : You are jetting to Durant, Oklahoma, because, in the last three days, two women have been found dead after being sexually tortured and then blinded with a sulfuric acid solution. Abby Elcott is our first victim; 19-year-old art student; she was heading to campus for an advanced drawing class. She'd been missing for two days. Same goes for our second victim, Beth Westerly, 17.

  [draws a breath] 

  Penelope Garcia : She had just finished her coffee shop shift and was on her way to a bar method class.

  Emily Prentiss : Both low-risk victims.

  Derek Morgan : And physically similar.

  David Rossi : How close are the two abduction sites?

  Penelope Garcia : [looking down at information]  5 miles apart at bus stops. Abby's cell was found near one. Beth's scarf near the other.

  [map illustrates her words] 

  Dr. Spencer Reid : Where're the dump sites?

  Penelope Garcia : One in an alley, the other in a field.

  Jennifer 'JJ' Jareau : So he stapled their eyes open, then he blinded them.

  [Spencer's reaction to JJ is seen and she notices it] 

  Derek Morgan : It's about power and control; maybe he didn't want them to watch while he hurt 'em.

  Dr. Spencer Reid : Or it could be about shame; perhaps the unsub is disfigured himself. Blinding the victims leaves them helpless, lost, totally dependent; it may be a manifestation of how he sees himself in this world.

  Emily Prentiss : It is a form of enucleation, just without the scalpel.

  David Rossi : His face is the last they see before darkness.

  Aaron Hotchner : Garcia, come up with a list of jobs that would give the unsub access to sulfuric acid. The rest of us, wheels up in 30 minutes.

  [arises from seat] 

• Dr. Spencer Reid : [voiceover as plane flies]  "If it is a miracle, any sort of evidence will answer, but if it is a fact, proof is necessary." Mark Twain.

  Aaron Hotchner : Victimology is very similar. Blonde-haired, blue-eyed teenage girls.

  [looks at photos] 

  Jennifer 'JJ' Jareau : We believe they were each abducted near public transportation stops.

  Emily Prentiss : [holds up photo]  When was this photo taken?

  Derek Morgan : Beth was caught on a bank surveillance camera three hours before she disappeared; that's a recent photo of Abby.

  Emily Prentiss : So, she wasn't found in the same clothes she was abducted in.

  David Rossi : Maybe he changed them because hers were burned by the sulfuric acid.

  Dr. Spencer Reid : It's possible. Sulfuric acid can turn human flesh into soap.

  [JJ's face as Reid is talking is shown as affected due to their conflict] 

  Aaron Hotchner : Garcia, any recent similar cases in the surrounding area?

  Penelope Garcia : [on laptop]  Actually, yes. Two months ago, a prostitute and a runaway were both found raped and killed and they had stab wounds to their eyes.

  Jennifer 'JJ' Jareau : So maybe he practiced on high-risk victims first.

  Derek Morgan : And then advanced to chemical enucleation.

  Jennifer 'JJ' Jareau : Isn't that a rare paraphilia?

  Emily Prentiss : Well, the chemical part is. It would exacerbate the pain.

  David Rossi : Like Ed Kemper, he's probably practicing on surrogates, before going after the real object of his rage.

  Aaron Hotchner : Dave, you and I will talk to the parents. Morgan and Prentiss, go to the disposal sites. JJ, you and Reid to the abduction sites.

  [JJ and Reid's faces reflect their feelings about the orders]