Criminal Minds (TV Series)

Flesh and Blood (2018)

Paget Brewster: Emily Prentiss

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• David Rossi : Emily, how is the Bolognese de Rossi turning out?

  Emily Prentiss : Yeah, that's the thing. Um, it's not tasting the way I expected.

  David Rossi : What do you mean?

  Emily Prentiss : I'm pretty sure I screwed up.

  David Rossi : Well, how is that possible?

  Emily Prentiss : Well, I kind of misplaced what you wrote down for me, so I winged it.

  David Rossi : [insulted]  You winged it? Y-Y-You don't exactly have the memory of our boy genius, you know.

  Emily Prentiss : Therein lies my problem. So, uh, let me go over what I've done so far, starting with 28 ounces of pureed tomatoes, six ounces of canned tomato paste, a half cup of Orto red wine...

  David Rossi : Whoa, whoa, whoa. Stop. That's cooking wine.

  Emily Prentiss : Yes.

  David Rossi : Emily, if my dear Nonna told me once, she told me a thousand times, if you no drink-a the wine, you no cook with the wine.

  Emily Prentiss : Okay, but...

  David Rossi : This is like when Garcia substituted tofu for pancetta. You have to start over. Ciao.

• Emily Prentiss : [closing quotation]  It's been said that Mark Twain once observed "History never repeats itself, but it often rhymes."

• Penelope Garcia : Good evening. I am the artist currently known as she who ruins your evening by sharing revolting VICAP hits. Case in point. Two men have been murdered, both attorneys, Shaun Tate, Anthony Nakamura. Shaun Tate was killed two weeks ago in Baltimore. Anthony Nakamura was found murdered earlier today in Rockville.

  Luke Alvez : Now, according to police reports, each victim was declared missing 48 hours prior to his body being found dumped in a downtown alley, each wrapped in a construction tarp.

  Penelope Garcia : Each man was severely beaten, like every bone in their body was smashed. And their hearts were cut out of their chest.

  Emily Prentiss : You said Tate and Nakamura were both lawyers, but they never worked together. Are there any other connections between the two?

  Luke Alvez : Nothing that stands out, no.

• Matt Simmons : Now, Anthony Nakamura's autopsy is still pending, but Shaun Tate's autopsy didn't indicate that our unsub has any surgical expertise. Uh... just tore a guy's heart out.

  Luke Alvez : Yeah, our unsub is acting on some pretty sadistic impulses right now.

  Dr. Tara Lewis : Yeah, impulses likely driven by a need to punish or to seek retribution for some profound personal grievance.

  Emily Prentiss : If this is our unsub's twisted payback, where are the hearts? Wouldn't he just get rid of them nearby, throw them away like trash?

  Matt Simmons : You'd assume that if he's keeping them as souvenirs or trophies that they must mean something to him.

  David Rossi : Oh, I think we need to be careful not to walk into the weeds with the, um, obvious symbolism going on here.

  Emily Prentiss : Right. Unfortunately, we're still down a man with Reid finishing up his classes, so, JJ, you and I will help Garcia with the victimologies here. Dave, Tara, check out Anthony Nakamura's autopsy. Luke, Matt, you're gonna need to inspect the dump sites in Baltimore and Rockville. Something tells me this is unsub is far from gratifying his sadistic urges.

• Emily Prentiss : Shaun Tate was married with a daughter. He practiced maritime law in Baltimore. Meanwhile, Anthony Nakamura was a criminal defense attorney in Rockville, married and divorced twice but no children.

  Jennifer Jareau : Okay, well, here's some kind of connection. Both men were in the same graduating class in college; Wiltmore University.

  Penelope Garcia : [entering with a laptop in hand]  Ladies, you're gonna want to look at this security footage that I just found. It was taken in the parking lot of Anthony Nakamura's office. It is the night before he was reported as a missing person.

  Jennifer Jareau : [watching the tape]  So it looks like Nakamura's on his way home for the night when this young woman comes up to him in need of some kind of assistance.

  Emily Prentiss : Assistance or solicitation?

  Jennifer Jareau : Okay, but doesn't it look more like she's telling him a sob story? Like she's in need of a ride.

  Penelope Garcia : Yeah, and he's more than willing to be her knight in shining Beemer.

  Emily Prentiss : But the Rockville police said the last person who reported seeing Nakamura alive was his law partner, Geoffrey Flores.

  Penelope Garcia : Uh-huh. This was taken minutes after that.

  Emily Prentiss : Meaning this woman is actually the last person who saw Nakamura alive, and she may very well be the reason he's dead.

• Jennifer Jareau : I knew I had seen something like these crime scenes before. We both have, in Milwaukee eleven years ago. But they were women. Six women.

  Emily Prentiss : [remembering]  I can't believe I forgot.

  Jennifer Jareau : It was a terrible time for us. Gideon was gone, Hotch was suspended, Strauss was trying to tear up the BAU, and... you were leaving.

  Emily Prentiss : Their hearts were cut out, too.

  Jennifer Jareau : Yeah, by Joe Smith, whose wife abandoned him after he was diagnosed with cancer, which triggered his psychotic rage towards all the women in Milwaukee.

  Emily Prentiss : Yeah, I remember when we arrested him, he said he'd never stand trial because the cancer would get him first, but it didn't. He died in prison last year. So you think we're dealing with a copycat here?

  Jennifer Jareau : Worse.

  [handing her a folder] 

  Jennifer Jareau : Dr. Rhodes' client list. So, back then, you told me the Addisons were moving to Baltimore.

  Emily Prentiss : Yeah, after they adopted Joe Smith's son. They renamed him Edward Addison and they...

  [noticing Edward's name] 

  Emily Prentiss : Oh, my god. The Eddie we're looking for is David Smith.

  Jennifer Jareau : The son of a serial killer.

• Penelope Garcia : Ohh, my heart hurts for David.

  Jennifer Jareau : Mm. Fate was awfully cruel to him.

  Penelope Garcia : He was born and-and raised in his formative years by a psychopath. What chance did he really have?

  Jennifer Jareau : The Addisons were good people, but... the damage had already been done.

  Emily Prentiss : I can't help thinking that given different circumstances, I might have changed things for him.

  Penelope Garcia : No. Don't put this on or anywhere near you.

  Emily Prentiss : I know. It's not really about that, though. It's... it's more about remembering what I intended to do and reconciling with what I had to do.

• Andrew Mendoza : For the record, I would have had absolutely no problem eating whatever it was you were trying to get going over there.

  Emily Prentiss : Oh, thank you. But I couldn't have lived with myself if after everything you've been through, I poisoned you.

  Andrew Mendoza : Well, I appreciate you having my back. And this is nice. I'm glad we finally got a chance to do it. Got to be honest, I was starting to think that you were trying to get out of it.

  Emily Prentiss : What makes you say that?

  Andrew Mendoza : You called me, what, five times to reschedule this date?

  Emily Prentiss : Well, I wasn't making those cases up.

  Andrew Mendoza : I know you weren't. But I'm thinking, you and I made this connection based on the fact that we had taken down these machete killers together. And then it dawns on me, that's pretty much an everyday thing for you.

  Emily Prentiss : Yeah, I guess you could say that.

• Emily Prentiss : When are you cleared for duty?

  Andrew Mendoza : Uh, day after tomorrow. Can't wait.

  Emily Prentiss : How are you feeling?

  Andrew Mendoza : Good. Good. You know. What's one more scar, right?

  Emily Prentiss : Someone wise once said you've never really lived if you don't have any scars.

• Jennifer Jareau : So, Rockville PD was able to identify our mystery woman. Her name is Kiara Hale, and she has a rather long rap sheet, mainly arrests for solicitation.

  Emily Prentiss : Is she in custody?

  Jennifer Jareau : No, not yet. Uh, we have a problem. Uh, if you scroll through to her cell phone records, according to them, Hale was in Rockville at the same time Shaun Tate was being abducted and murdered up in Baltimore.

  Emily Prentiss : Okay. So, what if Kiara Hale isn't the only woman playing the damsel in distress ruse here?

  Jennifer Jareau : You mean multiple female unsubs?

  Emily Prentiss : No. Now I'm reconsidering the probability of just one unsub, presumably male, and he's using women like Hale. He's probably paying them to lure his victims.

  Jennifer Jareau : Well, if you are right, these women were witnesses to his crimes. And I'd say there's no way he could take the chance to keep them alive.

  Emily Prentiss : Yeah. He'd have to kill them, too.

  Jennifer Jareau : So why haven't we found the bodies of these women along with the men?

  Emily Prentiss : Maybe they're collateral damage. He can sweep them away, while the men are part of some kind of statement, the focus of his rage and revenge.

• Emily Prentiss : David, stop. It doesn't have to end like this. This isn't who you really are.

  [he flashes back to his childhood] 

  Emily Prentiss : No, David, listen. This isn't who you really are.

  David Smith : But it is. It's exactly who I am.

• Andrew Mendoza : [Emily's phone buzzes]  Sounds like somebody at the BAU really wants your attention.

  Emily Prentiss : It does, but it's my night off.

  Andrew Mendoza : [handing the phone to her]  But I think it's lucky for all of us that Emily Prentiss doesn't take nights off.

• Dr. Elizabeth Rhodes : I made David kill those men. I gave him... gave him their names. I gave him the money. I gave him this place.

  Emily Prentiss : I won't lie to you. The road from here is hard. But there's hope.

  [David aims his gun at her] 

  Emily Prentiss : [holstering her own]  If you don't want to take my help, then you're gonna have to shoot me. Is that what you want?

  David Smith : Please don't make me do this.

  Emily Prentiss : I'm not gonna make you do anything you don't want to do.

  David Smith : Emily, no!

  Emily Prentiss : David, go ahead. Do what you have to do. Shoot me if that's who you really are.

  David Smith : [dropping the gun]  Oh, my god, Emily.

  [she holds him as he sobs] 

  David Smith : I'm so sorry.

  Emily Prentiss : Shh.

  David Smith : I'm so, so sorry.

  Emily Prentiss : It's all right. I know. I know. This is who you really are.

• Emily Prentiss : Hey. How do you feel about breakfast?

  [cut to her apartment the next morning; the doorbell rings] 

  Emily Prentiss : It's open!

  Andrew Mendoza : [entering]  Hey. Good morning.

  Emily Prentiss : Hey. So, contrary to previous experience, I can actually cook.

  Andrew Mendoza : Oh, wow. I was looking forward to some leftover pizza, but, you know, it's all right.

• Emily Prentiss : Your instincts were correct.

  Andrew Mendoza : About what?

  Emily Prentiss : You know, about those times before. I was blowing you off. I mean, I did have to work, but, um, I could have made the time. And the truth is, it's just hard in this line of work. It's hard to get close to someone. And maybe I have some scars that haven't totally healed.

  Andrew Mendoza : Yeah. So do I. That's okay, right? 'Cause somebody pretty wise once told me a person who doesn't have any scars hasn't lived. So I'm wearing mine like a badge of honor.

  [he leans to kiss her, but they're interrupted by a timer going off] 

  Andrew Mendoza : Well, sounds like something's ready.

  Emily Prentiss : You know what? Let it burn, because I know this great pizza place that delivers.

• Emily Prentiss : Matt, what do we got?

  Matt Simmons : City disposal crews discovered the body about 90 minutes ago, called it in. Alexandria police, they notified us, and they held the scene. The victim's been identified as Dennis Kirkwood, 47 years old. He ran a financial management company called Turnblade Capital.

  Emily Prentiss : [seeing JJ look around]  JJ, you okay?

  Jennifer Jareau : Yeah. Yeah, it's just odd. I have this overwhelming sense of deja vu.

  Matt Simmons : What, the scene look familiar to you?

  Jennifer Jareau : Look, I have been to way too many scenes like this before, right, so I don't know what it is exactly.

• Emily Prentiss : Who reported Kirkwood missing?

  Matt Simmons : Uh, his wife. 48 hours ago, after he didn't come home from a run.

  Emily Prentiss : He must be holding his victims somewhere he feels protected. So maybe a good part of that 48 hours is the travel time to and from his secure location.

  Matt Simmons : You are probably right, but as far as a geoprofile goes, it's gonna be hard to reconcile the two axioms of serial killer behavior.

  Jennifer Jareau : Never commit a crime close to home and never travel farther than necessary to dispose of your victims.

  Matt Simmons : Exactly. And this guy's crossed state lines, which means he's willing to go the extra mile, which complicates the math.

• Emily Prentiss : CCTV traffic camera captured this image on the afternoon that our last victim, Dennis Kirkwood, went missing. Alexandria PD have identified Kirkwood's passenger here as a Rebecca Marcus. She's also a working girl. She's telling the same story as Hale, except that Eddie told her to deliver Kirkwood to a different address.

  Jennifer Jareau : Fortunately for her, he doesn't seem compelled to kill women.

  Emily Prentiss : Unfortunately for us, our description of this Eddie is just too generic, and Luke found nothing at either apartment.

  David Rossi : You know, Eddie looks too damn young to this good at his M.O.

  Emily Prentiss : Yeah. Everything about this speaks to someone who's had more than enough time to perfect their craft.

  Jennifer Jareau : Okay, so how did our young Eddie accelerate his learning curve?

• Emily Prentiss : Go ahead, Garcia.

  Penelope Garcia : So, I was doing my due dilligence, as I do, on Mr. Dennis Kirkwood, and I have found a bewildering connection between him and the first two victims. If I can direct your attention to the big screen. Three years ago in Baltimore, Mr. Kirkwood was considered a person of interest in the death of Robin Rhodes, who was fished out of the Patapsco River. She was 22 years old and worked as an intern at Kirkwood's company, Turnblade Capital, for a year.

  David Rossi : Were there rumors of an affair?

  Penelope Garcia : Oh, you betcha, although at the time, Kirkwood was engaged to his current wife. I mean, current widow.

  David Rossi : Okay, so how do Tate and Nakamura get connected to all this?

  Penelope Garcia : Well, uh, Kirkwood's alibi the night that Robin Rhodes went missing was that he was at his bachelor party. And although I don't have the entire guest list, I can tell you that two people at that party where Shaun Tate and Anthony Nakamura.

  Jennifer Jareau : And so Kirkwood was never charged?

  Penelope Garcia : Not only was he never charged, but after a two-year-long investigation, Baltimore PD determined that Robin Rhodes' death was - wait for it - just accidental. They say that she went for a jog, slipped off a steep embankment, and hit her head on a rock.

  Emily Prentiss : Garcia, we're gonna need you to get a complete list of all the men who were at Kirkwood's bachelor party.

  Jennifer Jareau : And I will get that for you. Copy.

  Jennifer Jareau : [Garcia hangs up]  Well, if we're looking for a personal trauma to inspire revenge killings, I think we just found it.

  Emily Prentiss : And I think we have what we need right now to deliver the profile.

• Emily Prentiss : Our unknown subject, AKA Eddie, is described as being a male Caucasian between the ages of 18 and 25, standing between 5'10" and 6'2" in height with dark blond hair.

  Emily Prentiss : This unsub is what we call a grief-induced killer. In his heartbreak, he is lashing out at the men that he thinks are responsible for covering up what he believes to be the murder three years ago of a Robin Rhodes.

  Luke Alvez : This after Baltimore police concluded that Robin's death was an accident. And he may also have genuine reason to feel that evidence was overlooked or, as seems more likely, he tends toward a paranoid personality.

  Emily Prentiss : Unfortunately, the sketch and description we have do not match any known associates, friends, or family of Ms. Rhodes. And yet the key to this case will lie in re-examining the circumstances of Robin Rhodes' disappearance and death.

  Luke Alvez : Given his age range, he seems too young to be this good. It's taken him three years since Robin's death to train himself to take his revenge fantasy and turn it into a cold-blooded reality.

• Emily Prentiss : When David Smith was eight years old, his serial killer father used him as bait to lure his victims. David became so inured to this behavior that he actually lured his father's last victim without even being prompted.

  Dr. Tara Lewis : What happened to David after his father was arrested? Was CPS able to reunite him with his mother?

  Emily Prentiss : They were. She didn't want him. So I kept tabs on his foster care and his therapy. Fortunately, about a year later, Kate and Alan Addison adopted David. They decided to change his name to Edward, and they moved to Baltimore in 2011.

  Matt Simmons : Did you continue to keep in touch with him?

  Emily Prentiss : I wish I could have, but... anyway, the last time I checked on David, he was doing about as well as one could expect.

• Matt Simmons : So, based on what we know about Robin Rhodes, there was neither a David Smith nor an Edward Addison that was ever part of her life. The only connection they have is through her mother, Dr. Rhodes, who took him in as a client last year.

  David Rossi : Well, she couldn't be paying him to kill off Kirkwood and all his friends.

  Jennifer Jareau : No, David's inherited impulses wouldn't allow him to commit such a purely mercenary act of violence.

  Dr. Tara Lewis : And we know vengeance isn't emotionally transferrable, so why would David be killing these men to satisfy Dr. Rhodes' need for revenge?

  Emily Prentiss : Dr. Rhodes was able to take advantage of the fact that David's internalized love map is in a state of arrested development. Even when I first encountered him, he was susceptible to extreme maternal transference.

  Jennifer Jareau : It's also why he's not inclined to harm his female accomplices.

  Luke Alvez : So David was worried that he shared his dad's violent urges, and he went to Dr. Rhodes for help, but instead of helping him, she manipulated his trust in order to do her own bidding.

  David Rossi : I bet she's telling him that these guys are just like dear old dad, and if he has this urge to kill, the best way of working through it all is to kill them.

• Emily Prentiss : We just got another victim. Body was just discovered in Georgetown. James Baxter, a risk manager at Dellington Capital.

  David Rossi : No doubt another gentleman off of Dennis Kirkwood's guest list.

  Emily Prentiss : Dave, Tara, I'd like you to bring in Dr. Rhodes and...

  David Rossi : Lean on her a little bit?

  Emily Prentiss : A little bit.

• Emily Prentiss : Penelope, you said you had something on Edward Addison?

  Penelope Garcia : Yeah, I've been backtracking how he's soliciting his female helpers online. Looks like he tried to cover his tracks by bouncing around to different classified ad websites. This is his latest ad. It went live two minutes ago.

  Emily Prentiss : Can you stop someone from answering that ad?

  Penelope Garcia : Done and doner.

  Emily Prentiss : I'm going to assume you can't pinpoint his computer's location.

  Penelope Garcia : Well-assumed, my love.

  Emily Prentiss : But we might finally get the chance to start playing offense. I'm going to coordinate with our undercover tactical team. We are gonna answer this ad ourselves and bait David out into the open.

• Agent Cheryl Price : Agent Price in position. Over.

  Emily Prentiss : Copy that. We have eyes on you. Over.

  Luke Alvez : Matt and I are also in position, but nothing unusual yet.

• Agent Cheryl Price : Well, he's running late.

  Jennifer Jareau : He knows we're here.

  Emily Prentiss : I expected he would.

  Agent Cheryl Price : [her phone rings]  Hey. What's the deal? You're late.

  David Smith : Please, I need to speak to Emily.

  Agent Cheryl Price : [feigning ignorance]  Emily? Who the hell is Emily?

  David Smith : Stop. I want to speak to Emily.

  Emily Prentiss : It's okay. Stand down.

  [taking the phone] 

  Emily Prentiss : Hello, David.

• David Smith : Emily, I... just never thought I'd hear your voice again.

  Emily Prentiss : But you knew I'd be here.

  David Smith : It's your job, isn't it?

  Emily Prentiss : Yes, it is.

  David Smith : You used to visit me.

  Emily Prentiss : I remember.

  David Smith : And if I got scared, you said you'd be there. But you weren't, remember?

  Emily Prentiss : I have no excuses, David. I'm sorry.

  David Smith : Me, too. But I have to do this.

  Emily Prentiss : No, David, please listen. You don't understand what you're doing.

  David Smith : I do.

  Jennifer Jareau : Matt, Luke, Price and I are on the move. We're covering the south.

  David Smith : These men need to suffer. They need to be punished for what they've done, just like my father.

  Emily Prentiss : You only think that because she told you. She lied, David.

• Jennifer Jareau : By the time we got there, David was gone. He's in the wind.

  Dr. Tara Lewis : Well, Garcia finally has a list compiled of David Kirkwood's party guests. We have federal marshals placing the rest of them into protective custody as we speak.

  Emily Prentiss : Good. Only I'm not so sure those men are on David's mind right now.

  David Rossi : But if he feels betrayed by his idealized maternal figure, he might just decide to kill himself.

  Emily Prentiss : Or devolve to the point where he finally subscribes to his father's psychotic rage toward women.

  David Rossi : Which means you'd be his target.

  Emily Prentiss : [realizing]  No, not me.

  David Smith : [breaking into Dr. Rhodes' home, gun drawn]  You really should answer my calls. You lied to me.

• David Rossi : Baltimore PD confirmed a break-in at Dr. Rhodes' home. She's gone.

  Dr. Tara Lewis : We're on our way there now.

  Luke Alvez : Emily, we've located the Addisons. They're up in Lancaster. They say they haven't seen David in weeks, that he actually moved out of their house over a year ago.

  Jennifer Jareau : That would be right around the time his dad died in prison.

  Emily Prentiss : It definitely triggered him, and he probably wanted to make sure he didn't do anything to hurt his adoptive parents.

  Jennifer Jareau : [her phone buzzes]  Penelope and Matt have something.

• Matt Simmons : So, with that last crime scene and plus a list of addresses for our victims and potential victims...

  Penelope Garcia : We finally have enough data to calculate the probable comfort zone of David's horrible home away from home.

  Jennifer Jareau : Looks like somewhere in Briar Point, Maryland. Probably someplace tied to the Rhodes family.

  Penelope Garcia : Say, something like the old defunct Friedman Medical Depot that's owned by Dr. Rhodes' uncle?

  Emily Prentiss : JJ, let's go.

• Emily Prentiss : [after watching a tape]  Penelope, I need...

  Penelope Garcia : I am here to fulfill your needs. I have already enhanced this image. I'm running it through facial recognition software now

  Emily Prentiss : Good! Hopefully this young lady has gotten into some trouble before and we can get her ID

• Emily Prentiss : [at the end of day]  Anyway, it's late or really early. We'll get back at this in a couple of hours