Criminal Minds (TV Series)

Minimal Loss (2008)

Shemar Moore: Derek Morgan

Quotes 

• Derek Morgan : Garcia, what do we got on Cyrus?

  Penelope Garcia : Um... we've got bupkis. It's like the guy never cast a shadow on the known universe. However, his predecessor, Leo Cane, is doing a seventeen-year stretch at Dearfield Federal Prison. Apparently, Libertarians do not like paying taxes.

  Derek Morgan : Seventeen years for tax evasion?

  Penelope Garcia : Oh, no. That would be two years for tax evasion and fifteen for going after four I.R.S. agents with a Louisville Slugger.

• Jennifer Jareau : Morgan.

  Derek Morgan : What's up?

  Reporter : [she turns on the news]  What is reportedly being called a routine questions and answers meeting by Colorado Child Services has turned into a violent and deadly standoff between Colorado authorities and a fringe religious group known as the Separtarian Sect. The raid on...

  Derek Morgan : JJ, that's not the ranch where Prentiss and Reid...

  Jennifer Jareau : They're still inside.

  Derek Morgan : HOTCH!

• Kane : Charles Mulgrew is his real name. Charles Mulgrew. His mother was five months pregnant when she showed up at our doorstep. He turned out to be one of the smart ones. Amazing memory that kid had. Anything he read, he could repeat back to you. And he did. Mouthy little son of a bitch.

  Derek Morgan : Why'd he leave the ranch?

  Kane : When he was 17, a couple of our young girls came to me and said that he'd been messing with them.

  Derek Morgan : You mean sexually?

  Kane : Yes, sir, I do. Now, don't get me wrong. I'm a Libertarian. But... those little girls were too young for a 17 year old to be messing with.

  Derek Morgan : So you kicked him out for that?

  Kane : Yes, sir. I did. His mother took him to Kentucky. Hadn't heard anything from him for years. And then when he finally showed up again, he said his mother had died, he found God, and he wanted to come home.

  Derek Morgan : How does a kid like that get rid of you?

  Kane : One day he came to me and said God told him that I should leave the ranch. I said if God felt that way, God can tell me himself. He put a gun to my head and said "He just did." Took me twenty years to build that ranch. I'll do anything I can to help you send that ungrateful son of a bitch straight to hell.

• Reporter : ...turned deadly when the Colorado state police officers tried to serve a warrant. Colorado Attorney General Jim Wells says the reclusive cult has been the subject of a six-month weapons investigation.

  Derek Morgan : Six months. We didn't check?

  Jennifer Jareau : No, we checked. I had ATF call Wells. He told ATF there were no pending state investigations. He lied.

  David Rossi : Why?

  Jennifer Jareau : Wells is challenging the governor in the next election. He thought that ATF was about to poach his big election-launching weapons bust. Now, it's clear he didn't know there were FBI agents there. He just thought that the best time to serve a state warrant was when the kids were safe inside the school being interviewed.

• David Rossi : What do we know about the sect?

  Penelope Garcia : Liberty Ranch was founded in 1980 by Libertarian Leo Kane. He created it as a self-sustaining commune.

  Derek Morgan : Libertarians believe that everyone has the right to do what they want as long as they aren't infringing on the rights of others.

  David Rossi : But Libertarians aren't religious. Clearly this sect abandoned Libertarian principles.

  Aaron Hotchner : Benjamin Cyrus, the current leader, introduced religion eight years ago when Kane left.

• David Rossi : We call this the minimal loss scenario. Every person we get out is a life saved. We won't save them all. All of us have to be prepared to accept that situation.

  Derek Morgan : Cults are structured like pyramids. You got the leader at the top. Diehard believers beneath. The biggest group, the base, followers.

  [drawing a triangle to illustrate, he circles "followers"] 

  Derek Morgan : Women and children. These are the people we can save.

  Aaron Hotchner : The "trickle, flow, gush" strategy is designed to get base followers out. First one or two, then three or four, then as many as we can as fast as we can. And if at any point it starts to go bad, we go in.

  David Rossi : The leaders are charismatic sociopaths who target those most susceptible to their seduction. They have the ability to see what each person needs, and then become that thing. We have to undermine their perception that we're an invading army laying siege to their home.

  Dan Torre : We'll lose the fatigues. Rancher's clothes work for you? Like we did at the Freemen standoff?

  David Rossi : Perfect. Anything we can do to de-militarize situation.

• David Rossi : I'm gonna confirm the kids, Prentiss, and Reid are okay.

  Derek Morgan : Rossi, at least let me come with you.

  David Rossi : No. This is about building trust. I go alone.

• David Rossi : Reid and Prentiss are okay.

  Derek Morgan : What about Cyrus?

  David Rossi : He's too calm. But, it... it's like he was waiting for this to happen. And now that it has, he feels vindicated.

  Techie : I got a signal. I'm getting a signal here.

  Benjamin Cyrus : [to his congregation]  We will be with Him soon. We have drank the poison together.

• Benjamin Cyrus : Mothers... fathers... children, though we walk through the valley of the shadow of death, we fear no evil, for thou art with us.

  David Rossi : [listening through the bugs]  This doesn't fit. I looked him in the eye. He was calm, lucid.

  Aaron Hotchner : They're committing mass suicide.

  David Rossi : We don't know that for sure.

  Derek Morgan : Rossi, he just said it.

  Dan Torre : We're ready to go.

  David Rossi : If we go in there, people are gonna die.

  Aaron Hotchner : People are already dying.