Criminal Minds (TV Series)

Assistance Is Futile (2017)

A.J. Cook: Jennifer Jareau

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• Jennifer Jareau : [visiting Reid and hearing other inmates' catcalling]  It's okay.

  Dr. Spencer Reid : Hmm?

  Jennifer Jareau : It's not my first time in a prison. I can handle it.

  Dr. Spencer Reid : Sorry. I don't want them looking at you.

  Jennifer Jareau : I know. I don't, either. But if that's the price I have to pay to see you, I'm okay with that.

• Jennifer Jareau : So, listen. Um... there are some other things we should talk about. We got your full panel tox screen results. Um, they were negative for Scopolamine.

  Dr. Spencer Reid : [worried]  How are we gonna prove that Scratch is behind all this?

  Jennifer Jareau : We'll find another way. Look, it was too late by the time we took that blood test. You must have metabolized everything.

  Dr. Spencer Reid : He's gonna get away with it.

  Jennifer Jareau : Spence.

  Dr. Spencer Reid : He's gonna get away with it!

  Jennifer Jareau : We're not gonna let him. We're gonna get you out of here. I promise. And we are gonna get that psychopath and we are gonna clear your name. Just, please, keep your head down, and focus on that. Okay?

• Jennifer Jareau : Hey. What are you hammering?

  David Rossi : Oh, uh, just hanging up my newest acquisition.

  Jennifer Jareau : A "W"?

  David Rossi : Well, that's not just any old "W". That, my young friend, is a symbol of victory.

  [seeing her skeptical look] 

  David Rossi : You're not a baseball fan, are you?

  Jennifer Jareau : Mostly hockey, and I do enjoy a football game.

  David Rossi : Well, at Wrigley Field, the home of the Chicago Cubs, they fly that flag after every win.

  Jennifer Jareau : Wait, you're not even from Chicago.

  David Rossi : No. But I lost a good buddy in Vietnam who was. And, uh, since they won the World Series, I thought I'd commemorate it for him since he didn't live long enough to see it himself.

  Jennifer Jareau : That's sweet.

  David Rossi : Hey, what's going on with you?

  Jennifer Jareau : I dunno. Seeing Spence locked up, it... wasn't easy. I guess I'm just a little down.

  David Rossi : Do you know how long it's been since the Cubs last won the Series?

  Jennifer Jareau : It's, like, a hundred years, right?

  David Rossi : 108, to be exact. Which means that generations lived and died without ever seeing a championship. Can you imagine what that does to your psyche?

  Jennifer Jareau : Hmm.

  David Rossi : But that city and all those fans... you know what kept them going? Hope. Until finally, one night, after over a century of despair, hope won. And that's how we're gonna keep going, until we get that kid the hell out of there.

  Jennifer Jareau : [quietly]  Hope.

  David Rossi : Keep it alive. Because I'm afraid, right now, that's all we've got.

• Jennifer Jareau : So, I was thinking, this... this guy's M.O. is pretty sophisticated for a killer who's just started out. Maybe our first victim isn't his first victim. So I had Garcia compile a list of all the females with bone break injuries in New York City in the last three years.

  Penelope Garcia : We ruled out women over thirty, girls under eighteen, came up with... 112 names.

  Stephen Walker : Did any of them have drugs in their system, specifically MDMA?

  Penelope Garcia : Oh, so good, new guy, who doesn't feel new because your deep, baritone voice comforts me. The answer is yes. But not all of them were drug tested, so we only have two that we know for sure had MDMA on board.

  Emily Prentiss : Who are they?

  Jennifer Jareau : Well, there is one in particular that caught my eye.

  Penelope Garcia : Nancy Santiago. She was twenty-two, she was from Long Island, and she died after she fell off a rooftop during a rave almost a year ago.

  Luke Alvez : There any foul play?

  Penelope Garcia : Inconclusive. There was a thunderstorm that night, so the crime scene was compromised.

  Jennifer Jareau : The police report says two guys saw what they thought was a male/female couple having sex in the alley behind the rave. When those two guys spotted them, he took off, left the female behind. When they got closer, they saw the girl was actually dead.

  Penelope Garcia : The... the coroner said she had several broken bones from the fall, most notably a compound fracture, super serious, to her femur.

  David Rossi : Well, if there was sexual assault, do we really think that was our guy?

  Emily Prentiss : I want to know more. Send us everything you have on Nancy Santiago.

• Jennifer Jareau : [visiting Reid in prison]  How are you doing?

  Dr. Spencer Reid : I'm okay. I, uh... I'm really happy to see you. I just... I kind of wish you hadn't come. It's not a good idea.

  Jennifer Jareau : Sorry. You're stuck with me. Garcia has us on shifts, and she of course took first dibs, but, uh, they needed her in the office for a case, so I was the lucky one.

  Dr. Spencer Reid : A case? JJ, you should not be here.

  Jennifer Jareau : The last time I saw you, I promised you would not be alone. I am just trying to keep up the best way I can.

  Dr. Spencer Reid : What's the case?

  Jennifer Jareau : What?

  Dr. Spencer Reid : The case. I'm assuming you stayed behind unless it's local. Is it local?

  Jennifer Jareau : No. New York. But... you really want to hear this?

  Dr. Spencer Reid : Yeah. I'd... I'd love something to think about besides, you know, this.

  Jennifer Jareau : Okay. Um... last night, they found the latest victim, which is the third in the last six weeks. He dumps them in alleys. All female, in their twenties. Equal opportunity; he crosses race lines. Oh, and the media's having a field day. They're calling him the Bone Crusher.

• Jennifer Jareau : How's it going with the case? Everything okay with the girl they found?

  Penelope Garcia : Yeah, I don't know. She's still in surgery. Oh, how's boy wonder?

  Jennifer Jareau : He's good.

  Penelope Garcia : What? No, he must be terrible. What do you mean? Tell me everything. No, don't tell me everything. I don't want to know. No, of course I want to know. Tell me everything. Tell me everything.

  Jennifer Jareau : He can't stay in there. We gotta get him out.

  Penelope Garcia : [standing up and giving her a supportive hug]  Yeah. We will. We will. Come here. We'll get him out.