Criminal Minds (TV Series)

Neon Terror (2017)

Joe Mantegna: David Rossi

Quotes 

• David Rossi : [closing quotation]  "I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train." - Oscar Wilde.

• David Rossi : [leaving the Channel 3 station]  Now we have a serial killer and a narcissist. Did you see that wall of fame?

  Jennifer Jareau : Uh, yeah. Every inch was covered with photos of her on camera. And she has covered everything, from hurricanes, the Versace murders, cartel wars, suburban homicides to gang violence.

  David Rossi : Sandra loves being on the front lines. From what I saw, the awards stopped coming.

  Jennifer Jareau : Then becoming a news director would be a demotion for someone like her.

  David Rossi : No doubt. She's probably using this story to goose Channel 3's profile.

  Jennifer Jareau : Well, once that name goes public, he's gonna to get all the attention he wants.

  David Rossi : And that's only going to make the unsub take bigger risks, and bigger risks means more victims.

• David Rossi : It feels like we've been through every media member in the city and we still got nothing. Even those Channel 3 jagoffs checked out.

  Matt Simmons : Well, maybe he's not a journalist.

  David Rossi : What is he, then?

  Matt Simmons : He could just be a digital loner. You see lots of guys and girls like that these days. They have the impulse to catalog their lives no matter how mundane it is to the rest of the world. He could be cataloging these crime scene photos right now.

  David Rossi : That's an interesting idea, but how does he get in and out of the crime scene unnoticed?

  Matt Simmons : Well, that's kind of why I'm hitting the wall, too. I was hoping you might have a way around it.

• Jennifer Jareau : Hey, guys, look at this. Okay, so this was taken from just inside Lindsey's garage. What's missing?

  Matt Simmons : The cops. They're not there yet.

  David Rossi : But they responded within minutes. So whoever filmed this had to be there when it happened.

  Jennifer Jareau : Well, this was filmed by a Kal Montgomery at Channel 3. I checked their site. He's on their I.T. staff.

  David Rossi : First Channel 3 breaks the story about the hairclips, and now this.

  Matt Simmons : Well, if he's not a cameraman or a reporter, he wouldn't show up on our sweep.

  Jennifer Jareau : Oh, and I double-checked. His name is on every Neon Terror crime scene Channel 3's put on the news.

  Matt Simmons : All right. I got him. Found him on social media. And it looks like he's posted multiple rants about an ex-girlfriend who looks a lot like our victims.

  David Rossi : Sounds like a digital loner to me. Let's go have a chat with Kal.

• Brian Stoll : Of the hundreds of murderers that you have encountered, why did you choose to write about Yates?

  David Rossi : With him it was personal

  Brian Stoll : Well, every year on your birthday you would visit Yates in prison and he'd give you the location of a body of one of his victims. Why is that?

  David Rossi : Tommy Yates was in an 8-by-6 foot cell. Every second of his life was dictated

  Brian Stoll : So it was a game to him?

  David Rossi : It was and I played along in order to provide closure to those families