Criminal Minds (TV Series)

Face Off (2020)

Joe Mantegna: David Rossi

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Quotes 

• David Rossi : [opening quotation]  "Damaged people are dangerous. They know they can survive." - Josephine Hart.

• David Rossi : JJ, Roberta isn't there to kill Lynch. She's there to die with him.

  Jennifer Jareau : [seeing Reid following the tac team]  Spence, stop!

• David Rossi : Forget the unsub. What do you want?

  Jason Gideon : I want you to ask yourself that fundamental question that's been nagging at you this whole time.

  David Rossi : I already answered it.

  Jason Gideon : I'm the unsub. Why didn't I kill you when I had the chance?

  David Rossi : [flashing back to his struggle with Lynch]  You kill me, you killed a federal agent, and that brings down...

  Jason Gideon : [imitating a buzzer]  EHH! That's the wrong answer. You'd never been in that situation before. He had you on the ground, knife to your face. You resigned yourself to the thought of dying.

• Jason Gideon : You know why you lasted longer in this job than I ever did? You never really let the unsub get inside your head.

  David Rossi : Is that your way of saying you were better than me, Jason?

  Jason Gideon : You tell me. I'm inside your head.

  [pointing to a composite sketch of Lynch] 

  Jason Gideon : I'm the unsub. What do I want?

  David Rossi : You know, I never liked your games.

  Jason Gideon : I know. Remember? You and me? My yin to your yang? We were like Martin and Lewis.

• Jason Gideon : Everett Lynch didn't kill you because he looked in your eyes and saw something, of his father.

  David Rossi : Sons kill their fathers, Jason.

  Jason Gideon : Sure, they do, but not typically if they still have issues to work out.

  David Rossi : Lynch's dad is dead. His name was Douglas Moore. He was an insurance man. Lynch's mother was trying to grift him and got careless and got pregnant. The guy drowned in a boating accident.

  Jason Gideon : Drowned, huh? Kind of like how Lynch would describe Grace drowning.

  David Rossi : Oh, look, the Moore story checked out.

  [a thought strikes him] 

  David Rossi : Unless... Roberta lied to me. And if she lied to me, she probably lied to her son, and if he found out, he'd want to find his father, don't you think?

  [turning around, he sees Gideon is gone] 

• Dr. Spencer Reid : It's been a year since we first encountered Lynch

  David Rossi : Yeah, I'll probably forget my wedding anniversary, but I'll never forget that day