Major Crimes (TV Series)

Two Options (2014)

Bill Brochtrup: Dr. Joe Bowman

Quotes 

• Jamey Perez : Because only two things that can be done in a situation like this.

  Sharon Raydor : A hostage negotiation or a rescue.

  Gloria Lim : Hostage negotiation, with SWAT.

  Ann McGinnis : Is that based on your vast professional experience? Because I think this is definitely a rescue operation.

  Russell Taylor : Uh, while we're evacuating building, why don't we run those options by a behavioral science professional?

  Dr. Joe Bowman : Oh.

  [pause] 

  Dr. Joe Bowman : I, I came to help the children afterward. If you're gonna profile an adult offender, maybe someone else...

  Jamey Perez : That's okay, Dr. Joe. Just listen to the two options and then give Miss Lim here your best bet as to which one we should pursue. Commander?

  Ann McGinnis : Do we try and negotiate with this murderer or do we rescue the hostages by taking him by surprise?

  Dr. Joe Bowman : Well, clinically, that's an impossible question to answer, but the suspect had several years in prison to plan what he'd do after release, so we have to believe that murdering his parents and kidnapping his children and wife are all constituent parts of that plan. Also, he found someone willing to help him, which suggests he's persuasive, organized and determined. I have to say, so far, he seems to have done everything he wanted to do, so... I'm worried by the absence of an exit strategy.

  Ann McGinnis : That's okay, doctor. As it turns out, I am a specialist in exit strategies.

  Louie Provenza : I say get your snipers ready, Commander.

  Gloria Lim : Snipers? Snipers endanger the children's lives.

  Sharon Raydor : We will only be firing non-lethal Arwen rounds through the window to distract him.

  Gloria Lim : Firing them from where? The top floor of your suspect's building is the highest point available.

  Ann McGinnis : No. It isn't.