Criminal Minds (TV Series)

Restoration (2013)

Jeanne Tripplehorn: Alex Blake

Quotes 

• Derek Morgan : Carl Buford was an expert at spotting and exploiting vulnerabilities in adolescent boys that he coached at the community center. He had the entire community thinking he was a hero. Parents, teachers, cops. I mean everyone. After my dad died, he locked onto me. And he manipulated me into compliant victimization. Now, you remember how I told you that I got into with that local gangbanger when I was younger? Well, somehow Buford got it all expunged. Now, I didn't understand why a guy who barely knew me would do that. But Buford gave me his time. He taught me how to play football. And then he took me to his cabin on the lake. I was a kid. I was a kid from the south side, I'd never been to a cabin before, much less a lake.

  Aaron Hotchner : Morgan... you don't have to do this.

  Derek Morgan : They need to know, Hotch. They need to know this guy's M.O. Buford built up my trust, and then he would lower my inhibition with Helgison wine; he called it his Jesus juice. And he would molest me. And every time he would see that dead look in my eye that said I wanted him to stop, he would just say "You better man up, boy. Look up to the sky."

  Jennifer Jareau : Did you ever tell anyone about that phrase?

  Derek Morgan : No.

  David Rossi : We're probably looking at someone Buford abused.

  Aaron Hotchner : Victim could harbor a great deal of anger if he didn't deal with his own abuse, and with the right trigger, it could develop into this kind of rage.

  Alex Blake : Where's Buford now?

  Derek Morgan : We got him locked up for homicide in 2006, but because of the statute of limitations, we never got him for molestation.

  Dr. Spencer Reid : Buford ran the community center for years. An offender like him could have hundreds of victims.

• Alex Blake : How far away from here did you grow up?

  Derek Morgan : Five blocks. The park we just passed is where I used to play football. The bus stop on that corner, that's where I played kissy-face with my first girlfriend.

  Alex Blake : How old were you?

  Derek Morgan : Ten.

• Jennifer Jareau : That's new.

  David Rossi : What do you see?

  Derek Morgan : [phone rings]  Hey, what's up? You find anything in the array?

  Jennifer Jareau : Yeah, there's some writing on the dumpster.

  Derek Morgan : What's it say?

  [looks around] 

  Derek Morgan : Hold on a second.

  Alex Blake : They got something?

  Jennifer Jareau : Do you see something? Morgan?

  David Rossi : Look up to the sky?

  Derek Morgan : [finds the writing also]  I gotta go.

  Alex Blake : Linguistically, it may mean God judges the victim for his sins...

  Derek Morgan : That's not it.

  Alex Blake : And taken in context, with the pants pulled...

  Derek Morgan : Blake, that's not it. Let's go.