Criminal Minds: Beyond Borders (TV Series)

Type A (2017)

Tyler James Williams: Russ Montgomery

Quotes 

• Emily Prentiss : Communication addressed to the BAU came across my desk this morning. It was sent by Inspector Jin Taan of the Taipei Ministry of Criminal Investigations. In the last twelve days, he's had two unusual murders, which may be linked to one of the cases in the BAU's Zero Files.

  Russ Montgomery : Our victims, Lynn Zhou and Yian Chen, were posed in the same specific display - office building, knife through the heart, flower in the lap.

  Matt Simmons : Then why the purple orchid? Is this homage to...

  Emily Prentiss : The Vinegar Hill Slayer. The BAU hunted him in 2001. He killed four women in the Vinegar Hill section of Brooklyn, New York. All four of his victims were publicly displayed, knife in the heart, flower in the lap.

  Clara Seger : Precisely the same way these women in Taipei were.

  Emily Prentiss : At the time of the New York murders, I was working as an intern at the U.N.

  Clara Seger : As was I.

  Russ Montgomery : Oh, I didn't realize you guys went back that far.

  Clara Seger : Indeed we do. In fact, we knew one of the Vinegar Hill victims. She was a translator for the U.N. Her name was Lisa Sojourn.

  Emily Prentiss : Lisa, Clara, and I, some other girls, would go out after work and drink, dance, meet boys.

  Clara Seger : All that stopped after Lisa's death.

  Emily Prentiss : The preliminary investigation didn't lead to more substantive action. It was reclassified as a Zero File because the BAU's efforts were interrupted by the September 11th attacks.

  Matt Simmons : Right, when the FBI's top priority became terrorism.

• Mae Jarvis : There is no backing out now.

  Russ Montgomery : I'm not trying to back out. I'm just saying maybe we should reschedule.

  Mae Jarvis : Come on, Monty. You and I both know that that is not gonna happen.

  Russ Montgomery : Why not? There were no set rules as to how it should go down.

  Mae Jarvis : Au contraire, mon frere.

  Clara Seger : [entering]  You guys ready for tonight?

  Mae Jarvis : Yes.

  Russ Montgomery : No.

  Mae Jarvis : Sout and Pint. 8:00. Sharp.

  Clara Seger : You have no idea how much I've been looking forward to this.

  Mae Jarvis : Look, why don't I just give you both $20 and we call it even?

  Clara Seger : That was not the bet.

  Russ Montgomery : I know, but...

  Clara Seger : Monty, you lost the bet, remember?

  Russ Montgomery : Yes, I remember, and I will never, ever again question your knowledge on the "Fast and Furious" franchise.

• Clara Seger : Look, you act like I'm asking for a pound of flesh.

  Russ Montgomery : I would be willing to negotiate that in lieu of singing karaoke tonight.

  Mae Jarvis : Do not be a baby. You are gonna be fine. We've been practicing.

  Clara Seger : No. Yes, really?

  Mae Jarvis : Mm-hmm. Two words: Kenny. Dolly.

  [Clara gasps in excitement] 

  Mae Jarvis : That's right. This is getting real.

  Clara Seger : "Islands in the Stream".

  Russ Montgomery : There won't be any video, right?

  Clara Seger : No. Not that you're aware of.

  Mae Jarvis : [patting Monty on the shoulder]  It's time to face the music, my friend.

• Russ Montgomery : Hey, boss.

  Jack Garrett : Monty, I need to you to compile visa entries for people who were living in New York in 2001 during the killings there who are now living in Taiwan.

  Russ Montgomery : It's not gonna be a small list.

  Jack Garrett : Well, if your job was easy, anyone could do it.

  Russ Montgomery : Flattery will get you everywhere. All right, I'm on it.

• Mae Jarvis : There's no evidence of a struggle or visible signs of trauma. I gotta say that these Taiwanese killings seem surprisingly humane compared to the ones in New York.

  Russ Montgomery : "Humane" is an interesting word choice.

  Mae Jarvis : What I mean is those victims didn't suffer. They died peacefully. Those victims in New York... I mean, it was blunt force trauma, throat slashed.

  Russ Montgomery : Are you saying you think this is another killer?

  Mae Jarvis : I'm not sure. I mean, these victims appear to have been incapacitated, probably drugged. But like in the other cases, the stabbing of the heart was performed post-mortem; part of the unsub's signature. But taking a closer look, there might actually be enough to link this murder to the prior cases.

  Russ Montgomery : And that link would be?

  Mae Jarvis : [reading autopsy reports]  Well, the other autopsy reports all give very specific details about how the knife was inserted into the victims, but none of those details were ever released to the public. "Blade entry angled upward from below and to the left of the sternum. Penetrating the lower left ventricle, edge downward, and twisted clockwise one-quarter turn." The C.O.D. may be different, but these stabbings are identical. This is no copycat.

• Russ Montgomery : So our lovely and talented BAU counterpart and I dug deeper into the unsub's mysterious hiatus.

  Jack Garrett : You found something?

  Russ Montgomery : Yeah, the victims in Taiwan didn't flag on the BAU's Interpol query because Taiwan doesn't share an Interpol database.

  Jack Garrett : So if Prentiss hadn't been contacted by Inspector Jin, we might never have known.

  Russ Montgomery : Yes, well, which inspired us to conduct an open-source intelligence review of all print and broadcast media in non-Interpol countries. We found seven other murders with the same M.O. in seven Pacific Rim countries, none of which are part of Interpol.

  Matt Simmons : So each of them thought the killing in their country was an isolated case, not part of a serial event.

  Russ Montgomery : Bingo.

  Clara Seger : If the unsub has only killed once in each of those countries, but has already killed twice in Taiwan, that means his presence here signifies something special.

• Russ Montgomery : Inspector Jin found Yian Chen's computer at her office. On it was a history of an online dating site that both victims were members of. Uh, "Taipei Twine is an online dating and matchmaking service that offers professionals a unique dating experience that doesn't require users to post pictures. Instead, drawing potential couples together for deeper relationships..."

  Matt Simmons : "Based on profile, personalities, and promises, not shallow infatuation based solely on looks."

  Clara Seger : Well, makes sense that professionals would use a more discreet online site to seek potential lovers.

  Mae Jarvis : Yeah, our unsub would certainly prefer that type of anonymity.

  Clara Seger : So he lured these women to their death with the promise of love?

  Matt Simmons : No, there's something these particular women had in common that keyed our unsub to choose them.

• Jack Garrett : Well, Mary Gau, the woman who survived her date with Tom Wu, said she got the impression he wasn't really interested in kids.

  Russ Montgomery : Curious. Mr. Wu listed having children as one of his profile prefereneces.

  Clara Seger : Yeah, but once Mary mentioned having to leave to go home and tuck her kids in bed, he basically became a jerk from that point on.

  Russ Montgomery : So what is it about a woman cherishing her children that turns this particular unsub off?

  Mae Jarvis : Maybe he suffered a past trauma related to having children.

  Jack Garrett : Maybe, but I think it hits closer to home for him. I think our unsub's trigger is something in his childhood, something... that he experienced firsthand which he never recovered from.