Joe Mantegna: David Rossi

Wheels Up

David Rossi

David Rossi: You, go through my pants pockets and find my keys. Second, you, you're back on the team.
Dr. Spencer Reid: Not sure I should be. Has the Director approved that?
David Rossi: I'm making the calls now. I'll take the heat. You're back on the team.
Luke Alvez: [fiding the keys] I got 'em.
David Rossi: There's a little one there, to a file cabinet in my office. You following me?
Luke Alvez: Yeah. Following you.
David Rossi: Inside, there's Chicago Bears season tickets. When you get 'em, you call Matt Simmons. I promised him those tickets.
Luke Alvez: They must have given him something in the ambulance to make him loopy.
Dr. Spencer Reid: I'll get the doctor. We'll get him into surgery.
David Rossi: Just shut up and listen. Now, Emily is missing. Stephen is dead. As for you two ass clowns, you'll do me the courtesy of following my orders.
Luke Alvez: Your orders aren't making sense.
David Rossi: Follow my orders, and then I'll go into surgery.
Luke Alvez: [he and Reid turn to leave] This has got nothing to do with season tickets.
Dr. Spencer Reid: "Ass clown"?

David Rossi: Those spike strips took out our two SUVs. Then the truck blindsided us. We have six agents that are...
[looking around, he notices something]
David Rossi: Where's Emily?

Emily Prentiss: Scratch got deeper into my head than I care to admit, and the only way I was able to stay sane was by repeating a mantra, two words. You know what those two words were? "Wheels up." It saved my life when I wasn't sure I was gonna make it because it reminded me that you were out there fighting, so take your rest - you've earned it - but when we get back, wheels up, Matt.
Matt Simmons: Wheels up, Emily.
Emily Prentiss: Wheels up, Tara.
Dr. Tara Lewis: Wheels up.
Jennifer Jareau: Wheels up.
Penelope Garcia: Wheels up.
Luke Alvez: Wheels up.
David Rossi: Damn right, wheels up
Dr. Spencer Reid: Wheels up.

Dr. Tara Lewis: Scratch took Emily. I saw him.
Luke Alvez: Yeah. We know. We're looking for him.
Dr. Tara Lewis: He dosed her.
David Rossi: In the SUV while she was knocked out?
Dr. Tara Lewis: Yeah.
[flashback, with Tara narrating in voiceover]
Dr. Tara Lewis: He brought his gas with him.
Peter Lewis: Your legs are broken. Your right arm is broken. You're in severe traction, and you're paralyzed. You feel unimaginable agony all over your body unless I give you high doses of painkiller.
Jennifer Jareau: [the scene returns to the hospital] She would wake in a delusion he'd have total control over.
Luke Alvez: He thinks she knows where Hotch is, so he's trying to trick her. She's one of the smartest people we know. She'd see through it.
Jennifer Jareau: So Scratch would go even farther.
Luke Alvez: Sometimes interrogators even simulate death. Man, he could make it feel like the real thing.
Jennifer Jareau: No. That wouldn't work. Remember, Rossi, when Prentiss told us about when she died, for real died, how for her, it was just dark and cold?
David Rossi: That's right. If he made her experience some out-of-body vision, she'd know it was a lie.

Emily Prentiss: So, we all need to discuss what Peter Lewis' death means for this team.
Penelope Garcia: It means that Hotch can come back.
David Rossi: Yeah. We, uh, spoke to him. He was relieved that he and Jack were out of danger. They're out of witness protection, but, um...
Jennifer Jareau: He's not coming back, is he?
Emily Prentiss: He loves being a full-time dad. He never got to do that before, and, let's face it, in this job...
David Rossi: There's always gonna be another Scratch. And he's lost enough.

David Rossi: [speaking to Reid and Alvez] As for you two assclowns, you'll do me the courtesy of following my orders.