Criminal Minds (TV Series)

Elephant's Memory (2008)

Shemar Moore: Derek Morgan

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• Derek Morgan : You said I was a high school jock. I was, but not at first. My freshman year, I was five foot three. I weighed a buck twenty soaking wet, so trust me when I tell you I got my ass kicked every day. So the following summer, I hit the weights. And I got lucky, I grew six inches. But it was never about vanity, Reid. It was about survival.

  Dr. Spencer Reid : I was in the library and, um... Harper Hillman comes up to me, and she tells me that, uh... Alexa Lisbon wants to meet me behind the field house. Alexa Lisbon's like, easily, the prettiest girl in school.

  Derek Morgan : So what happened? Alexa wasn't there?

  Dr. Spencer Reid : No, she was there. So was the entire football team. They... stripped me naked and tied me to a goalpost. So many kids were there, you know, just watching.

  Derek Morgan : Nobody tried to stop it?

  Dr. Spencer Reid : I begged... I begged them to, but they just... just watched. And... finally, they got bored and they left. It was like midnight when I finally got home. And my mom had... mom was having one of her episodes, so she didn't even realize I was late.

  Derek Morgan : You never told her what happened?

  Dr. Spencer Reid : I never told anybody. I thought... it was one of those things that I thought if I didn't talk about it, I'd just forget. But I remember it like it was yesterday.

  Derek Morgan : [sighs]  Oh, Reid, you don't need an eidetic memory for that. You know, we forget half of what they teach us in school, but when it comes to the torment and the people who inflicted it, we've all got an elephant's memory.

• Dr. Spencer Reid : [rushing into the briefing room]  Sorry I'm late.

  David Rossi : I hope she was worth it.

  Derek Morgan : [turning to look at Reid with a grin]  I hope it was a she.

  Dr. Spencer Reid : Sorry, I was at the movies.

  David Rossi : Oh, really. Why don't you tell us what it was about?

  Dr. Spencer Reid : Uh, I had to leave early, so I can't really...

  [stops because of Rossi's look] 

• Derek Morgan : So Owen identifies with being a misunderstood loner. You know, I wish all of our unsubs would just tack their profiles on their walls like this for us.

  Dr. Spencer Reid : [looks at him]  That doesn't mean anything. What, you grew up in Chicago, a high school jock, and you have pictures of Scottie Pippen and Michael Jordan on your walls and trophies everywhere?

  Derek Morgan : Yeah. But you forgot Walter Payton. Not to mention the sexy ladies of the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue.

• Sheriff Britt Hallum : Here's your gun safe. I don't know the combination.

  Aaron Hotchner : Start with birthdays. Lou's, Owen's, Hope's.

  Derek Morgan : Hotch. Dress blues in plastic. No pics of wife and son.

  Sheriff Britt Hallum : [trying to open the safe]  No luck.

  Aaron Hotchner : Try 11-10-75.

  Derek Morgan : November 10, 1975? What's that?

  Aaron Hotchner : 1775. Marine Corps birthday.

  Sheriff Britt Hallum : [the safe opens]  You might have just sold me on that profiling of yours.

• Derek Morgan : [searching Owen Savage's room]  All his clothes are black.

  Dr. Spencer Reid : [looking in Owen's closet]  Same here.

  Derek Morgan : [seeing a poster of Johnny Cash]  Just like his friend Johnny Cash. So Owen identifies as being a misunderstood loner. You know, I wish all our unsubs would just tack their profiles on their walls like this for us.

• Derek Morgan : [walking the crime scene]  Hit pattern says they were fired on full auto. Tight grouping for it. Single burst put 'em both down. That takes skill, and some serious training.

  Aaron Hotchner : Letts lands here, still alive. Savage falls there dead.

  Derek Morgan : But I walk past Letts, and I shoot Lou Savage in the face when I know he's already dead.

  Aaron Hotchner : This was personal.

  Sheriff Britt Hallum : They knew each other?

  Dr. Spencer Reid : Enough to know Rod Norris would enter through the back door while smoking.

  Derek Morgan : And that Lou Savage was on duty and would respond.

  Sheriff Britt Hallum : So what are we talking about here?

  Aaron Hotchner : This wasn't terrorism, domestic or otherwise. Terrorists rarely know their victims, at least not personally.

  Sheriff Britt Hallum : Because they knew Rod Norris was a smoker who used his back door?

  Derek Morgan : And shot Deputy Savage in the face at point-blank range.

  Sheriff Britt Hallum : They weren't being thorough?

  Derek Morgan : No. He walked past Letts, who was alive, shoots Savage in the face when he knows he's already dead. Responders were coming. That last shot was risky overkill.

  Dr. Spencer Reid : Overkill means rage. Rage means a close personal relationship.

• Derek Morgan : You already checked his computer?

  Dr. Spencer Reid : It's password encrypted.

  Derek Morgan : Well, smart move if your dad is a cop.

  Dr. Spencer Reid : Eh, assuming he cares enough to snoop.

  Derek Morgan : Hey, Reid! Check yourself! That sheriff out there wanted to take your head off. I think Hotch might have let him.