Criminal Minds (TV Series)

The Good Earth (2012)

Joe Mantegna: David Rossi

Quotes 

• Jennifer Jareau : Excuse me, everybody. I have an announcement to make. As I'm sure some of you were aware, Henry was a little nervous about going trick-or-treating this year, but he's decided to go anyway.

  David Rossi : Great. What changed his mind?

  Jennifer Jareau : The BAU did. I told him that he should go out on Halloween and try to figure out which monsters are real and which ones are not.

  Derek Morgan : So he wants to be a profiler.

  Jennifer Jareau : Ah, he wants to be his favorite profiler.

  [Henry appears in Reid-like wear] 

• [Reid starts to realize something and his lips move] 

  David Rossi : I can hear the high-pitched whine from your IQ all the way over here. What is it?

• Penelope Garcia : What do you mean he's not going? Every kid loves trick-or-treating.

  Jennifer Jareau : Henry's scared! One of his little buddies told him Halloween was the only time when all the real monsters come out because they can blend in.

  David Rossi : Never thought about that! Good monster strategy.

  Penelope Garcia : Hum, you did tell him it wasn't true, right?

  Jennifer Jareau : Of course I did, but he's convinced.

  David Rossi : Childhood fears are resistant to adult logic. Sometimes you just have to wait it out.

  Jennifer Jareau : For how long?

  David Rossi : Well, if he's twenty-three and this still worries you, you got a problem.

• David Rossi : So, did you learn anything?

  Jennifer Jareau : Yeah. Spence here does not like the beach.

  Dr. Spencer Reid : [matter-of-factly]  I don't.

• David Rossi : [reads a message]  That was Hotch. The doctor told him the placenta was scraped completely out of the victim's uterus. Every bit of it.

  Dr. Spencer Reid : You know, the placenta does carry special significance in many cultures. In ancient Egypt, it had its own hieroglyph. And the Ibo tribe in Nigeria considered it to be the child's dead twin.

  Jennifer Jareau : Well, that would be helpful, if our unsub was an ancient Egyptian or Ibo tribeswoman, but...

• Aaron Hotchner : [picks up his mobile]  Go ahead, Garcia.

  Penelope Garcia : I just hit the trifecta but with two things instead of three. What's that? A bifecta?

  David Rossi : Exactly. What do you got?

  Penelope Garcia : Well, that's just... Anyway, uh, two missing vehicles not missing any more.

• David Rossi : What is it?

  Dr. Spencer Reid : It could be placentophagy.

  Jennifer Jareau : What?

  Dr. Spencer Reid : Consuming it. In the wild, it's common for animals to eat their own afterbirth. It's super rich in nutrients.

  David Rossi : Whoa, whoa, whoa, wait. So the unsub might have harvested this last victim... for food?

• Derek Morgan : He's efficient and well-organized. It's not easy to make four people vanish and then stay vanished.

  Dr. Spencer Reid : It has been done before, though. Uh, political kidnappings frequently require holding multiple adults simultaneously.

  David Rossi : Or they're already dead. Nothing says "can't be found" like a shallow grave in the middle of nowhere.

• David Rossi : I recognize that scowl, Aaron. What are you thinking?

• Penelope Garcia : It's been really bugging me,. I can't figure out what Terry Rodgers was doing those missing five months. I mean, you can't sit on a park bench in this country and not leave a paper trail.

  David Rossi : But you figured it out?

  Penelope Garcia : No. That's just me venting.