Criminal Minds (TV Series)

Minimal Loss (2008)

Connor Trinneer: Dan Torre

Quotes 

• Aaron Hotchner : Hey, Dan. You know Dave Rossi.

  Dan Torre : Sure.

  David Rossi : We've been here before, haven't we?

  Dan Torre : Waco. Ruby Ridge. Freemen standoff. Let's hope someone listens to you guys this time.

  David Rossi : Oh, they did more than listen. They put us in charge.

• Dan Torre : I've sent the state police packing. They started this mess. Lost a man in the process. Hope that's okay.

  Aaron Hotchner : If you hadn't, we would have.

  Dan Torre : Good. County sheriffs have had no run-ins with the sect, so we're using them as support. We've had no contact with them so far. They've got power; solar. We can shoot out the panels if you think...

  David Rossi : No, no. That's an escalation.

  Dan Torre : Okay. But that means they have access to the news.

  Aaron Hotchner : I'll get JJ to talk to the press.

• 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.

• Dan Torre : I want the parabolic arc mikes fixed on every window in that structure.

  Techie : They won't pick up much. They have blinds on all the windows. Unless they're shouting, the glass won't vibrate enough for us to get an audio.

  Dan Torre : Well, if they're not shouting, these bugs will pick 'em up. At least until the batteries die.

• Dan Torre : How familiar are Agents Prentiss and Reid with our playbook?

  Aaron Hotchner : The BAU wrote the CIRG handbook. They'll know that we're trying to get ears in there at all times.

  Dan Torre : Good. Let's hope they can get these people talking.

  Aaron Hotchner : They will.

• 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.

• David Rossi : Jim Jones pulled the same stunt! They did a test run just like this years before they did the real thing.

  Aaron Hotchner : [to Torre]  Prepare your men to go in.

  Benjamin Cyrus : Be still. There was no poison.

  Aaron Hotchner : Dan.

  Benjamin Cyrus : Instead, a test of faith. Because your adversary, the devil, waltzes about as a roaring lion, choosing whom he may devour. Watch each other for signs of weakness. You are your brother's keeper.

  Aaron Hotchner : Tell 'em to stand down.

  Dan Torre : Yes, sir.

  [to Rossi] 

  Dan Torre : Nice call.