Criminal Minds (TV Series)

The Inspiration (2013)

A.J. Cook: Jennifer Jareau

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• David Rossi : See no evil, hear no gossip

  Jennifer Jareau : Oh, come on, we see evil all day long

• Jennifer Jareau : We were this close to going to Ocean City and I get the text.

  Dr. Spencer Reid : I was in the middle of calculating force times distance times the coefficient of friction to determine how fast I can make a hairpin turn in a PRIUS.

  Jennifer Jareau : You don't have a hybrid, Spence.

  Dr. Spencer Reid : I know, but if I did, I'd want to know.

• Dr. Spencer Reid : [finding something on a victim]  Guys, look. She choked on something.

  Jennifer Jareau : [Reid pulls a severed tongue out of the vic's mouth]  Oh, jeez. Please tell me that's hers.

• Jennifer Jareau : [Uses mobile]  Hey, Garcia

  Penelope Garcia : I was starting to feel like the hottest people I know had left me at the altar, but now you're here, to kiss me with crime! What's up?

• Aaron Hotchner : Yes, they did talk to me about the section chief job.

  Dr. Spencer Reid : Do you want it?

  Aaron Hotchner : I know what I don't want is an outsider coming in and questioning every move that this team makes. I told them that I'd think about it.

  Jennifer Jareau : So what happens if you accept?

  Aaron Hotchner : Means this would be my last case in the field, but nothing's been decided. As soon as I figure out what to do, you'll be the first to know.

• Dr. Spencer Reid : The praying mantis can kill and eat a multitude of creatures but the most interesting fact is that oftentimes the female mantis engages in sexual cannibalism, meaning she'll bite off the head of her mate once copulation is complete, sometimes even during intercourse, actually.

  Alex Blake : So, that's what someone did to our UnSub.

  Dr. Spencer Reid : It also explains why he shoots his victims in the heart.

  Jennifer Jareau : But the center of our UnSub's anger didn't bite off his head.

  Dr. Spencer Reid : No, but she hurt him so badly that she got into his brain.

  Alex Blake : So, he's flipping the script.

  Dr. Spencer Reid : He's completely taking it over. He basically sees the victims as the praying mantis out to destroy him, so before they can get to him, he rapes them, forces them to engage in cannibalism, thereby taking away their control of the situation. He's essentially walking them through the mating behavior of a captive praying mantis, only entirely on his terms. He even mirrors the decapitation of the insect by forcing them to eat pieces of a human head, only it's not a male human head, it's a female human head.

  Aaron Hotchner : The woman that's the core of his rage.

  Dr. Spencer Reid : Exactly. Now all women are his enemy. They're his predators and he believes they're out to get him.

• Penelope Garcia : Two women, Sarah Beck and Jill Elks, were found in a park in Glendale, Arizona within the last three days. Both of them were single in their late twenties, and following their normal low-risk routines when they were abducted.

  Alex Blake : Where we they taken from?

  Penelope Garcia : Sarah was on her way to her theater group rehearsal, and Jill was abducted form her apartment. The unsub broke in through a window.

  Dr. Spencer Reid : Well, clearly he's hunting a specific type.

  Derek Morgan : He left the jewelry untouched.

  Aaron Hotchner : Yeah, it's not about robbery.

  Penelope Garcia : Both women were sexually assaulted and then they were shot in the heart and left in that... prayer position.

  Jennifer Jareau : It's odd.

  David Rossi : Maybe it's religious. Looks like they're leaning on a cross.

  Derek Morgan : Their hands are titled forward.

  Dr. Spencer Reid : He could have made them supplicate and their hands clenched in rigor mortis.

  Jennifer Jareau : So they're possibly trying to atone for their sins.

  Alex Blake : I doubt that. Both women have pretty clean backgrounds.

  Dr. Spencer Reid : Since the posing was done postmortem, maybe it's representation of the way in which he made them beg for their lives.

  David Rossi : We've definitely seen that before.

  Aaron Hotchner : Hmm. He's getting off on the power. Let's head to Arizona. Wheels up in thirty.