Criminal Minds (TV Series)

Flesh and Blood (2018)

Aisha Tyler: Dr. Tara Lewis

Quotes 

• 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.

• Dr. Tara Lewis : Have a seat, Ms. Hale.

  Kiara Hale : No. I don't... why am I here?

  Dr. Tara Lewis : [setting camera stills on the table]  That's you with Anthony Nakamura, who was murdered, and it turns out he wasn't the only one. So have a seat.

• Dr. Tara Lewis : You are the material witness to at least one homicide.

  Kiara Hale : No, I'm not a witness to any homicide. That's not what happened.

  Dr. Tara Lewis : Well, tell us what happened.

  Kiara Hale : This guy, Eddie, he posted an ad on DTXBoard.com. $5,000 to help him play a prank on his dad's friend. It was, like, dress up sexy, say, like, my boyfriend left me and that I needed a ride back to my place.

  Luke Alvez : You remember the address?

  Kiara Hale : Yeah. Like, 7634 Tyeman Road.

  Luke Alvez : [turning to leave]  All right. I'll get backup and check it out.

  Dr. Tara Lewis : You can help us by giving me every communication you had with this Eddie, and then sitting down with a sketch artist.

• Luke Alvez : Tara, we caught a break. Rockville police just picked up Kiara Hale.

  Dr. Tara Lewis : [surprised]  She's alive?

  Luke Alvez : Yeah, she is. And the federal Marshals are bringing her here right now.

• Penelope Garcia : Okay, I put the address of Robin Rhodes' mother into your GPS. Sadly, her father died when she was twelve. Her mother is Dr. Elizabeth Rhodes. She's a pretty prominent psychiatrist.

  Dr. Tara Lewis : Dr. Rhodes is the one who filed the missing persons report on Robin.

  Penelope Garcia : Yeah, and she was super-duper critical of the way the investigation was handled. Uh, even going so far as to threaten a civil suit against the Baltimore PD for saying that her daughter's death was just a terrible accident.

  Dr. Tara Lewis : Definitely a grieving mother.

• 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.

• 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.

• David Rossi : He's gone by the name Eddie.

  Dr. Elizabeth Rhodes : Well, I know some Eddies, but none that look like this young man.

  Dr. Tara Lewis : But you are familiar with a Dennis Kirkwood?

  Dr. Elizabeth Rhodes : Of course I am, Dr. Lewis.

  Dr. Tara Lewis : Mr. Kirkwood was murdered, and over the last week, two of his close friends were killed as well, an Athony Nakamura and a Shaun Tate.

  David Rossi : And we have reason to believe that this young man, Eddie here, murdered these men out of a desire to avenge your daughter's death.

  Dr. Elizabeth Rhodes : Well, I'm really not sure how you expect me to respond to all of this.

  David Rossi : Well, actually, we were hoping that you might know something about Eddie.

  Dr. Elizabeth Rhodes : I hold on to two memories of my child that I shall never be able to let go. Her precious face, the first time I held it, and what was left of her face when the coroner pulled back the sheet and asked if I could identify her.

• David Rossi : We're very sorry for your loss.

  Dr. Elizabeth Rhodes : And I'm very sorry that it is your job to hunt down this Eddie.

  Dr. Tara Lewis : Because you don't believe the police conclusion about your daughter's death. You believe that Dennis Kirkwood murdered her and that his friends lied to protect him.

  Dr. Elizabeth Rhodes : It is an absolute fact.

  David Rossi : Baltimore police would disagree.

  Dr. Elizabeth Rhodes : And I would say that the Baltimore police is just a men's club that collects its dues from rich, entitled men like Kirkwood. You want to talk about believe, Dr. Lewis? Let's talk about the men who believe that they're untouchable because of their wealth. I know the truth. Robin meant nothing to them.

  David Rossi : But she does mean something to this young man. And if you're protecting him for any reason...

  Dr. Elizabeth Rhodes : I wish I knew this man, because I would thank him.

• Doctor Melissa Myers : So, as you requested, I reviewed the autopsy of your first victim, Mr. Tate, so I could compare them with my findings here of Mr. Nakamura.

  Dr. Tara Lewis : Well, both men appear to have suffered roughly the same amount of severe blunt-force trauma to their bodies.

  Doctor Melissa Myers : Yes. And all of it exacted perimortem, before death. While nearly every bone in both of these bodies was either broken or cracked, the actual cause of death for both men was exsanguination, due to the severing of the coronary arteries.

  Dr. Tara Lewis : From the removal of the heart?

  Doctor Melissa Myers : I think a more apt description would be... "dug out".

  Dr. Tara Lewis : Oof. Do you have any idea what type of weapon was used here?

  Doctor Melissa Myers : As a matter of fact, I think I do. Follow me.

• Doctor Melissa Myers : The sharp-force instrument used left several deep impressions in the sternum. So I was able to cast a couple of Mikrosil molds of it.

  Dr. Tara Lewis : Looks like the blade of a chisel.

  Doctor Melissa Myers : That's exactly what I would say, too. I would also say that whoever did this took advantage of the hammer that usually comes along with it.

  David Rossi : Makes sense. But what doesn't make sense is our female suspect who lured Nakamura from the parking lot.

  Dr. Tara Lewis : Yeah. She doesn't look like she's got the upper body strength to shatter a sternum.

  David Rossi : And if she couldn't do it, then she must have a partner who can.

• Dr. Tara Lewis : Dr. Rhodes, I've had the opportunity to read some of your published work on behavioral therapy. And I'm quite sure when you started your practice, you did hope to alleviate your patients' suffering.

  Dr. Elizabeth Rhodes : It was my hope, and it is my accomplishment as well, Dr. Lewis.

  Dr. Tara Lewis : But not for Eddie. He came to you a year ago after his father died in prison, desperate for help. And I get it; you were still raw about Robin's death being ruled an accident. But instead of easing his pain, you selfishly twisted it to gratify your own need for revenge.

  Dr. Elizabeth Rhodes : No. I really did no such thing.

  Jerome Winter : He's obviously one of those paranoid schizophrenic types who is targeting Robin's assailants all on his lonesome.

  Dr. Tara Lewis : We both know that's not why he's killing these men, don't we?

  Dr. Elizabeth Rhodes : One reason he may be killing is pure genetics. It's in the blood.

  Jerome Winter : You've got nothing to arrest my client, so we're done here. And if I find out you guys are following my client without probable cause, I'm going to sue your asses off.