Criminal Minds (TV Series)

Flesh and Blood (2018)

Joe Mantegna: David Rossi

Quotes 

• 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.

• 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 : 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.

• 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.

• 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 : 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.

• David Rossi : Not only do you know an Eddie, you know the Eddie we're looking for. He was your patient.

  Jerome Winter : Okay, let's just state for a fact my client did not lie to you people.

  David Rossi : You sure about that?

  Jerome Winter : Yeah, I'm pretty sure she has a deep understanding and appreciation for a little something called physician/patient privilege.