Criminal Minds (TV Series)

The Bunker (2017)

Adam Rodriguez: Luke Alvez

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• Matt Simmons : Kristy and I can't take two steps in our house without tripping over the kids' toys.

  Jennifer Jareau : Yeah, tell me about it.

  Dr. Spencer Reid : Guys, I read about a guy in California who only has 79 items to his name, including his underwear.

  Luke Alvez : Hey, I am all for living with only the things you really need.

  Penelope Garcia : Amen. Me, too, right?

  [off JJ's look, she realizes the insult] 

  Penelope Garcia : What?

  Matt Simmons : How many fuzzy pens, unicorn statues, mermaid paperweights does one need at her desk?

  Penelope Garcia : All of them.

• Matt Simmons : I gotta say, Coleman's bunker was pretty impressive.

  Emily Prentiss : Yeah, but not where I want to spend my last day on Earth.

  Matt Simmons : Yeah? Where would you?

  Emily Prentiss : Never thought about it.

  Penelope Garcia : I... I don't want to think about it.

  Dr. Tara Lewis : I would definitely be on a beach.

  Luke Alvez : I think I'd prefer the mountains.

  Matt Simmons : I'd be with my family.

  Jennifer Jareau : Same. Spence?

  Dr. Spencer Reid : Paris with my mom. She liked Paris.

  Dr. Tara Lewis : You know, something tells me Dave has this all planned out.

  David Rossi : Don't you know it. When the end comes, you'll find me at home enjoying a meal of carbonara a la Rossi, and if there's still time, I will adjourn to my patio to partake in a double Jack and a vintage Don Carlos.

  Luke Alvez : That sounds great.

  Emily Prentiss : You mind if we join you?

• Emily Prentiss : So four young women go missing, late at night, in the same geographical area.

  Dr. Spencer Reid : There's been no ATM, no cell phone, credit card activity.

  Matt Simmons : And no ransom demands. These weren't kidnappings.

  Luke Alvez : Bodies have never been found. The unsub could be holding them.

  Emily Prentiss : Or he's good at permanent concealment.

• Luke Alvez : Assuming the women are still alive, the unsub would need a place to hold them. A home, warehouse, abandoned building.

  Dr. Spencer Reid : He could be keeping them in multiple locations, in which case he most likely has a large truck or van.

  Jennifer Jareau : He appears to be a night owl. All of the abductions took place around midnight.

  Matt Simmons : Could do shift work. Maybe that's the time he gets off from his job.

  Emily Prentiss : Matt, Dave, go check out the latest crime scene. Tara, Luke, talk to Allie's co-workers at the restaurant. Captain Skinner from the State Police is on his way in. We will work the case from here.

• David Rossi : Five years ago, the unsub takes two pregnant teens. It's obvious why he then takes an obstetrician.

  Matt Simmons : If he's taken other teen girls through the years and keeping them alive, they'd all be mothers with young children now.

  Dr. Tara Lewis : Yeah, mothers and children with needs. Medical, dental, educational, and nutritional.

  Luke Alvez : Yeah, and who would be better caretakers than a doctor, a dentist, a teacher, and a chef?

  David Rossi : With such a large group, he'd need to control them to prevent escapes or rebellions.

  Dr. Tara Lewis : And some could be staying willingly. Others because they're afraid or feel they have no choice.

  Luke Alvez : You know, those are all reasons given by ex-cult members when asked why they didn't leave sooner.

  Matt Simmons : This has the aspects of a cult, but members typically join by their own volition, not abducted.

  David Rossi : There's nothing typical about this case.

• Captain Chuck Skinner : Local walking his dog noticed the body. Doesn't look like she's been here very long.

  Luke Alvez : Well, the disposal site's inside the unsub's abduction zone. Probably knows the area, feels comfortable here.

  Emily Prentiss : [uncovering the body]  This changes things. Dr. Roberta Childs. Five years older, but it's definitely her.

  Luke Alvez : They didn't try to conceal the body. I mean, they could have hidden her here in the brush over there.

  Captain Chuck Skinner : Maybe he didn't have the time.

• Emily Prentiss : He could be devolving. Wrapping the body suggests the unsub cared about her comfort even at the end of her life.

  Luke Alvez : She wasn't starved. Muscle tone's good, which you wouldn't see in someone who's been restrained for so many years.

  Emily Prentiss : Her hair has been washed recently and clothes are clean. You think the unsub staged this to look like a suicide?

  Luke Alvez : [looking at the victim's arm]  It's unlikely. This wasn't her first attempt.

  Emily Prentiss : So the bandages were someone else's attempt to save her.

  Luke Alvez : She's been alive all of this time. And that fact bodes well for the other missing women.

  Emily Prentiss : Assuming they're still alive, the suicide of a long-term captive could cause dissent among the group.

  [her phone rings] 

  Emily Prentiss : Yeah, Garcia.

  [listening for a moment] 

  Emily Prentiss : Another woman's been taken.

• Emily Prentiss : What do we know?

  Matt Simmons : The unsub struck again, this time in the open in a busy parking lot.

  David Rossi : JJ and Tara are still there. They found an eyewitness that caught the whole event on a cell phone.

  Luke Alvez : Well it's obvious he's not abducting and driving at the same time. He's got a partner.

  Matt Simmons : He took a lot of risk abducting in broad daylight like that.

  David Rossi : He looked at something before he took the woman. It made him hesitate. Matt, take it back.

  [Matt rewinds the footage] 

  David Rossi : That building in the background. It's a digital clock. 11:57:30. He waited until that precise moment before he grabbed her.

  Matt Simmons : Yeah, but that was during the day. All the other abductions took place close to 12:00 midnight.

  Luke Alvez : Clocks strike 12:00 twice a day. Maybe it's not AM or PM that matters.

  Emily Prentiss : The numbers 11:57:30 might mean something to him.

  Dr. Spencer Reid : It could be an address, a code. It might even have religious significance.

• Penelope Garcia : Police IDed the latest victim. Paige Burrell.

  Emily Prentiss : Paige is 35, single. Guys, she's a pediatrician.

  David Rossi : The unsub lost a doctor, so he took a doctor. A one-for-one-swap.

  Matt Simmons : But he still needs a doctor's specific skill set.

  Luke Alvez : Which means that our missing women and their children are still alive.

• Jennifer Jareau : Since 1947 when a group of atomic scientists created the clock, the minute hand's been reset many times.

  Dr. Spencer Reid : For the last five years, it's been consistently ticking down. It was last set at two and a half minutes to midnight.

  Emily Prentiss : And the closest it ever was was two minutes in 1953 when the U.S. and Russia tested the first H-bomb.

  Jennifer Jareau : We could be looking at a doomsday cult.

  Captain Chuck Skinner : So he's like one of these survivalists who lives in the woods and wears tinfoil hats.

  Luke Alvez : Actually, the idea of preparing for the end is moving from the fringes of society into mainstream culture.

  Matt Simmons : Yeah, they call themselves preppers. They're trying to retain a certain standard of living for themselves and others while riding out the Apocalpyse, be it nuclear or civil unrest.

  David Rossi : The wealthy are jumping on board. They're hoarding cryptocurrency and buying custom survival shelters.

  Matt Simmons : And the super rich are taking it to another level. They're buying private islands, land in New Zealand, their private jets are always gassed up ready to whisk them away at a moment's notice.

  Emily Prentiss : So, the victims are part of the unsub's prep to repopulate a new civilization in a post-apocalyptic world.

  Dr. Tara Lewis : And the clock starting to tick steadily down five years ago was the trigger.

  Matt Simmons : And with it being so close to midnight and us breathing down his neck, he may decide that it's time to cut all ties with the outside world.

  Emily Prentiss : We need to find him before that happens.

• David Rossi : The unsub's probably been stockpiling provisions, weapons, and other supplies for years.

  Emily Prentiss : That would take a lot of research and planning. Garcia, what kind of online presence do preppers have?

  Penelope Garcia : They're a bunch of chatty Cathys. There's a plethora of chat rooms, podcasts, websites, all about Tee-Ought-Walk-Kee. Uh, that's what they call "The end of the world as we know it".

  Luke Alvez : What do they talk about?

  Penelope Garcia : Everything from food storage tips to basic first aid, best place to get a gas mask, places to live that won't be affected by climate change. Website here that tells preppers they should get corrective eye surgery.

  David Rossi : That makes sense. If you were to lose or break your glasses when the Earth is laid bare, something tells me it would be hard to find a LensCrafters.

  Penelope Garcia : It's like that episode in "The Twilight Zone".

  Emily Prentiss : Garcia.

  Penelope Garcia : Oh, I'm digressing.

• Emily Prentiss : Do a search of the metro D.C. area for men who fall into both the survivalist and prepper camps.

  Penelope Garcia : Okay. Preppers love their firewalls, but it's no match for moi. 110 names.

  Luke Alvez : And what about ones that live in Virginia?

  Penelope Garcia : Seventy. Next player.

  Emily Prentiss : Do any of them own a black van?

  Penelope Garcia : Negative.

  Matt Simmons : Well, technical people usually view risk mathematically. Garcia, filter the list for accountants, engineers, math teachers, and... computer techs.

  Penelope Garcia : Okay, I'm filtering this through my digital colander. Nicely done. Twenty names.

• Luke Alvez : Preppers typically plan to shelter in place, bug in. Which means that they want to ride out any bad situation at home.

  David Rossi : What if they can't?

  Luke Alvez : Then they bug out and they go to secret locations in remote areas.

  Matt Simmons : Well, if Coleman is keeping the women and kids all in one place, it would have to be a really big space.

  Penelope Garcia : I got a home and a work address for him, and also he has rented multiple storage locations in the last five years.

  Emily Prentiss : You know what to do.

  Penelope Garcia : Yeah. Sent it to your phones.

• Luke Alvez : Reid and JJ are definitely here somewhere.

  Emily Prentiss : I can't get them on their phones.

  Matt Simmons : They must be sixty feet underground.

  Luke Alvez : Coleman has access to a large weapons cache down there. We don't want another Waco.

  Emily Prentiss : What did Reid and JJ walk into?