Criminal Minds (TV Series)

There's No Place Like Home (2011)

Matthew Gray Gubler: Dr. Spencer Reid

Quotes 

• Dr. Spencer Reid : I didn't know you were a bad flyer.

  David Rossi : I'm not. I just hate turbulence.

  Dr. Spencer Reid : You know, turbulence very rarely causes planes to crash.

  David Rossi : That does me absolutely no good at the moment. Thank you.

  Dr. Spencer Reid : What we really need to worry about are microbursts - a sudden downburst of air associated with thunderstorms - but small craft like this one, if we hit one of those at the wrong altitude...

  [pantomimes explosion] 

  Dr. Spencer Reid : Get pulverized.

  David Rossi : [to the rest of the team]  I beg of you to make him stop.

• Dr. Spencer Reid : Hey, Hotch.

  Aaron Hotchner : Yeah?

  Dr. Spencer Reid : I've been thinking... The vast majority of unsubs with this type of m.o. aren't driven by the killing, they're merely fascinated by the body parts. Psychologically, they exist in a realm where fantasy meets delusion. It's basically the perfect blueprint for creation of a serial killer b... I'm rambling, aren't I?

  Aaron Hotchner : Yes.

  Dr. Spencer Reid : I should probably get to the point.

• Dr. Spencer Reid : All right, try looking for thefts involving body parts, specifically left legs.

  Penelope Garcia : Okay. See, this is why I can't talk about how my day was at dinner. Breakfast, lunch.

  [sees a search result] 

  Penelope Garcia : Spencer, you scare me.

  David Rossi : Join the club.

  Penelope Garcia : A left leg was stolen off a body a year ago at the Riggio Funeral Home in Tulsa. They never found who did it.

• Dr. Spencer Reid : It's Frankenstein.

  Derek Morgan : What?

  Dr. Spencer Reid : The UnSub isn't just trying to put his brother back together, he's trying to bring him back from the dead. He believes that tornadoes have the power to take life, so conversely, they should have the power to restore it.

• Penelope Garcia : P.G. at your service, don't let the name fool ya.

  Derek Morgan : Baby girl you're on speaker.

  Dr. Spencer Reid : Garcia can you look for grave robberies in tornado alley over the last five years?

  Penelope Garcia : Okey Dokey, searching.Oh it's a shockingly big list. Who knew grave robbing was so on trend?

• Jennifer 'JJ' Jareau : Central Plains. Right in the middle of Tornado Alley.

  Dr. Spencer Reid : If this UnSub is using tornadoes as a forensic countermeasure, then Kansas certainly is the ideal setting. Tornadoes do pose a significant threat. During this year's Super Outbreak back in April, there were 336 confirmed tornadoes in just several days, resulting in over 300 lives lost.

• Jennifer 'JJ' Jareau : Who's that with Hotch?

  Dr. Spencer Reid : There's been another abduction. A boy named Shaun Rutledge. That's his younger brother Billy.

  Derek Morgan : Says a young white guy in an RV attacked them with a crowbar in the rain.

  Dr. Spencer Reid : He's also changed his victim selection criterion. The boy he grabbed gets straight A's, plays football, even volunteers at his church.

  Jennifer 'JJ' Jareau : So he wanted him so badly he was willing to leave a witness?

  Dr. Spencer Reid : Which suggests he's losing touch with reality and his delusions are starting to take over.

  Derek Morgan : What is it about this kid that was so attractive to him?

  Jennifer 'JJ' Jareau : He was teenage and Caucasian like the others, right?

  Dr. Spencer Reid : We also think that a sexual element may actually not be at play.

  Derek Morgan : So then what the hell is driving this guy?

  Jennifer 'JJ' Jareau : Maybe it's love. What if he's trying to recreate someone he loves?

  Derek Morgan : It is an emotion that drives us to extremes.