Top 30 Quotes From Assistant Special Agent in Charge Jubal Valentine

Dana: We have an ID on the London assassination.
Jennifer: Thanks to your Dallas field office.
Dana: We were up on a bunch of burner phones bought by Los Zetas.
Assistant: Mexican cartel?
Dana: Mm-hmm. Four minutes before Otan Reis was hit on the tarmac, one of those numbers showed up inbound on a South London cell tower.
Jennifer: Right next to Blackbushe Airport. MI5 couldn't identify the assassin, but we know who was calling him, greenlighting the hit.
Dana: Los Zetas are the competitor.
Assistant: The possibility of Zetas armed with Javelins is horrifying. Border Patrol would be sitting ducks. They could light up every crossing between El Paso and San Diego.

Rowan: Now, as a rule, Martin Vickers doesn't care who he sells to, as long as it's the highest bidder. Hard work is done. I negotiated the price, arranged the meet. All we need is for you to be our Reis and accept delivery. We'll take down Vickers, reclaim the missiles.
Special: This is why I joined the Bureau, ma'am.
Dana: I've already made up my mind. Whatever you need, Rowan.
Assistant: All right, well, the DOJ guidelines say the UC gets to pick the contact agent who will be responsible for for his safety while undercover.
Special: You in?
Special: Of course.
Dana: Then let's get to work. We've got 24 hours to close this deal.

Assistant: The senator's baby is still missing, we haven't heard from the kidnappers in five hours, and now the prime suspect's been murdered, too.
Special: Are we thinking the nanny helped and outlived her usefulness?
Assistant: Haven't found anything to suggest it. More likely collateral damage.
Special: Soon as her name gets out there, it's just a matter of time before the press connects her to Lynch.
Assistant: We told the police to hold off on the release, say they're looking for next of kin.
Special: Tell them the A.G. will take a personal interest in this if it's leaked.
Assistant: Coming from BAU, I figured you'd have some psychological trick to make people do what you want.
Special: Sometimes a simple threat works better.

Assistant: Facial rec...
Analyst: No -- baseball cap is too low plus now he's wearing dark sunglasses
Assistant: All right, so he knows what he is doing. He knows that there are cameras everywhere good for him. But you know what they say, hard work beats talent when talent doesn't work harder so let's work harder and catch this guy and I promise that is the last tropey thing I will say this afternoon

Assistant: Hey, any red flags in the senator's past?
Analyst: Not that we found. Public Integrity has no open investigations. And if we start pressing his old associates without explaning why, it could look like the Bureau messing around in politics.
Special: Not a fire I'm anxious to start.

Assistant: Fifteen minutes ago, Congressman Logan Reed was shot and killed at his home in Scarsdale. Now, as most of you know, Logan Reed was a rising star in the Democratic Party, a former prosecutor. He rose to national prominence last summer during all of the racial unrest. Love him or hate him, he was one of the most talked-about politicians in the country.
Special: The story just broke online, so the entire country's about to start asking if this was politically motivated. We need answers and fast.
Assistant: Let's get some, people. Go to work.

Assistant: All right, listen up, everybody. This is not over yet. Howard Kirkland's killer is still at large. Now, our Brooklyn robbers somehow knew every detail of the original crime, so we need to go over everything from this morning's robbery with fresh eyes; witness statements, street cams, 911 calls. Look for anything that stands out from the three Queens robberies. Leave no stone unturned.

Assistant: Octavio, this is Special Agent Jubal Valentine with the FBI. I need you to put down your weapon and surrender. If you do that, we can get your son the help he needs.
Octavio: You think I'm stupid?
Assistant: No, I think you're a father trying to save his son, so let us help you do that.
Octavio: I want a new surgeon. One that can do a kidney transplant.
Assistant: Well, that-that's not easy to...
Octavio: And if one isn't here in the next ten minutes, the lady doctor dies.
Assistant: Okay, wait, don't...
Special: [Octavio hangs up] Now what?

Assistant: Based on the Rikers telephone record, Cody McCowan learned of Jack's prison yard beating 10:04 a.m. on Tuesday morning. Then six hours later, in what seems like a direct response, beats Marcus in the street. Then, last night, both Marcus and Congressman Reed are shot and killed.
Special: Any luck tracking Cody's phone?
Ian: Yeah, I just got up on the new number. No location data, but for the past two hours, it's been pinging off the same three towers in Brooklyn, putting him somewhere within these ten square blocks.
Assistant: Okay, okay. We are looking for an address in Flatbush. Does Cody have any relatives there? Any friends from the BKB? Any references on social media posts? Let's go. I want to be kicking in a door in 20 minutes, and I need someone in here to tell me exactly which one.

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Assistant: We put a BOLO on his vehicle, but Chief Deputy U.S. Marshal Paul Ackerman is already in the wind. This is a manhunt for a man who hides people for a living, folks. Let's be on our game.

Assistant: Hey, so, the father's desperate. He's got military training. Making a move on him now seems risky.
Special: I understand your concern, but Octavio has no idea that we're on the scene. That gives us the advantage of surprise. Why would we risk losing that?
Assistant: Well, he's got two hostages. Plus his kid is lying on an operating table getting his stomach cut open. That's three lives at risk if we miss. It's a safer play to try to talk him into surrendering.
Special: Okay. This is your call, but if you see a clear shot, do not be afraid to take it.

Special: You know, with no eyewitnesses or video surveillance, that motive is our only jumping-off point.
Special: ERT's processing shell casings and everything else from the scene.
Dana: The Jairo Cartel has resources all over the country. Finding someone to kill Cruz would be easy.
Special: Finding his location wouldn't be.
Assistant: Well, it shouldn't be. So how did the cartel track him down?
Dana: See what you can get from the surviving Marshal, Jim Ruhde.

Agent: Hey, guys, I got something you wanna see. I think the copycats may have just slipped up. I went over hidden camera video from the Brooklyn robbery. I found a detail that doesn't fit the original M.O.
Special: [seeing one of the robbers touch his ear] Well, wait a second. That's acoustic tubing. He's wearing an earpiece.
Agent: Yeah, I think I know what he's listening to. These guys got out of there right before the cops showed up, so I synced up the timecodes to this audio.
Special: [listening] That's police dispatch.
Special: These guys have a police scanner?
Special: Yeah, except that's an encrypted channel. You can't pick that up on a regular old scanner. You have to have a dedicated police radio.
Special: Are you saying these guys might be cops?
Special: That's a pretty serious accusation. Do we have any proof beyond the theory that they had access to the robbery case files?
Agent: Nothing specific.
Special: But if you think about it, some of the details of the prior robberies were only known to the police.
Special: Okay, start checking the logs. Find out which cops had access to the robbery case files. Dig into each of them.
Special: Uh, should I loop in Detective Dixon?
Special: No, let's keep this internal for now. If the cops are involved, we don't wanna tip off the wrong person. We need to wall off NYPD until we are absolutely certain.
Assistant: That might be tough. What do I tell the NYPD rep in the JOC?
Special: Keep any reference to cops as suspects out of the JOC. For now, they are simply robbers until we can prove otherwise.

Assistant: All right, people, the Dog and the Rat have struck again. It's like a kid's book. Two stores in one day. Means they're getting greedy and, hopefully, sloppy. Let's use this to our advantage. So, OA saw one of the robbers fleeing. Did not get a good look at his face, but said he was wearing a green hat, a black backpack, and he swung a left on Forest Street. Where are we with the street cams?
Elise: Pulled everything within a three-block radius. Caught this.
Assistant: Mm-hmm. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Green hat. Can you... can you zoom into his wrist, maybe?
Elise: [doing so] Crescent tattoo. That's our guy.
Assistant: Aha, boom. There it is.
Kelly: Pulled the cab's medallion number. Got access to the interior camera footage.
Assistant: Okay, yeah, that's a good shot. Can we run that through facial rec?
Kelly: Already on it.
Assistant: Of course you are.
[looking over Kelly's shoulder]
Assistant: There he is. Justin Maynard. 41 years old, 5'11", 190.
Elise: That makes him a physical match for the robber in the dog mask.
Agent: Maynard's got a pretty good rap sheet. Armed robbery, violent assault. Already been to prison three times.
Assistant: Really? You got a location on him?
Agent: Parole records show he works at a salvage yard in Queens.
Kelly: Yeah, looks like that's where the cab dropped him off.
Assistant: Okay, let's bring him in.

Dana: Got a minute?
Assistant: Uh, yeah, I... appreciate you posing that as a question. What's up?
Dana: Not here.

Special: I may have something.
Assistant: Yeah?
Special: A report from Givens' probation officer. He did an unannounced home visit, and in it, he stated that Givens was there with a woman.
Special: This woman have a name?
Special: Terri Prader.
Assistant: Uh-huh.
Jess: [seeing Terri's driver's license picture] That's her. That's Givens' girlfriend.
Assistant: Based on?
Jess: Based on the fact that it looks like his birth mother. He used to carry a picture of her in his wallet.

Special: Thomas' alibi checks out. Security footage from the restaurant confirms that he was having dinner when Reed was shot.
Special: NYPD says Marcus Ervin was shot last night in Brooklyn around 10:00 p.m. while he was standing in the doorway of his ground-floor apartment after a rock came crashing through his window.
Special: Same M.O. as Reed.
Assistant: They run the ballistics yet?
Special: It's the same gun.
Special: All right, that's two murders within three hours.
Assistant: That we know of. We could be looking at a killing spree.

Jess: Now, what about this bus? What, did it head south, east, west?
Special: We've been scrubbing as much surveillance video as possible, but so far, no luck.
Special: Yeah. It could be anywhere.
Jess: And Givens' girlfriend?
Assistant: What... what girlfriend?
Jess: I don't know who she is or where she lives, but I know that he's got one.
Assistant: You-you-you... you do? How?
Jess: Givens was an orphan. He's constantly seeking strong women to take care of him.
Assistant: Oh, right. Be... okay.
Jess: It's true.
Assistant: Uh... all right, w-we need hard evidence here, Jess. The clock's ticking, we don't have time to play shrink.
Jess: Well, we don't have any hard evidence. All we have is to play shrink.

Assistant: A bus full of children. What does he want? Is he just reckless? What's his ultimate objective?
Jess: Money.
Special: So he'll ask for ransom?
Jess: Unless he can make more by trafficking the kids. Like I said, he's motivated by money.

Assistant: Dr. Caldwell's partner is an anesthesiologist. So is Dr. Wright. That can't be a coincidence.
Special: Why would Dr. Caldwell have an anesthesiologist as a partner in the first place? It doesn't make any sense.
Assistant: That's pretty odd, right? I feel like we're missing something. What about Caldwell's history? Was he always an internist?
Kelly: He spent two years as a surgical resident at Mass General before leaving the program to go into internal medicine. Five years later, he started the concierge practice with Dr. Nelson.
Elise: Just found something. Might be nothing, but over the past five weeks, the same cell number has repeatedly shown up on both their phone records. Five, six times a day, every day.
Assistant: Okay. Run it.
Elise: [doing so] Cell number is registered to... this guy, Lorenzo Santos.
Special: [seeing he has a record] So, what was he locked up for?
Kelly: He's been in and out of jail for the last decade. A couple of assault charges, a narcotics violation. Also appears to have a lot of connections with this Mexican street gang, Loco-25s.
Special: Why would a guy like this be in constant contact with a concierge medical practice?
Special: Gangbanging is a dangerous business. Maybe they made a deal with Caldwell so that if someone gets injured, they know where to go.
Special: This guy's the same approximate height and weight as our masked man. Ping his cell. I want him brought in for questioning.
Elise: I'm showing he's currently near the intersection of Adam Clayton Powell and 140th. Or at least his cell phone is.
Special: [to Scola and Tiffany] Go.

Analyst: Damon Cruz, formerly Damon Soto. He testified against the Jairo Cartel four years ago, then entered WITSEC.
Special: So, who was he scheduled to testify against this time?
Analyst: Two high-level Jairo players extradicted from Mexico. Cruz's testimony was expected to put them away.
Assistant: Oh, yeah, Cruz was a strong witness, so I guess we don't have to go searching for motive.

Assistant: So, that school bus and 26 grade-school kids just went missing in Westchester County.
Special: How does a school bus go missing?
Assistant: Unclear, but it never arrived at Taft Elementary, and all the cell phones on board went dark at 7:41. We sent a chopper to aid with the search, but so far, nothing.
Special: Well, those buses are tracked. What about the GPS transponder?
Assistant: Disabled, also at 7:41.
Special: So, a mass kidnapping?
Assistant: Could be a kidnapping. Could be a domestic terror attack. It also could be an isolated event or a first salvo. Right now, we have to consider all possibilities.

Assistant: Tyler has leukemia.
Special: What?
Assistant: My son has... uh, yeah, it's... good news is, the doctor says we caught it early. It's curable. Prognosis is excellent, so...
Special: Okay.
Assistant: I gotta... I gotta go.

Assistant: Game faces, people. We now have two victims of the same gunman who might not be done shooting yet. Three hours after killing Congressman Reed in the suburbs, our shooter resurfaced in Brooklyn and killed this man, Marcus Ervin. He's 20 years old. He's a retail clerk. Lived with his mother, was taking IT classes at night. The question is why; either there's a connection between these two murders or we have a madman on the loose throwing rocks through random windows and shooting whoever walks out.
Special: If these two men were targeted, they were not killed for their differences. They were killed for their similarities. What do these two men have in common?

Special: Is that the other witness that Ackerman was in a relationship with?
Dana: Yeah, you were right. He sold her name as a parting shot.
Assistant: We have a team monitoring her apartment. We'll bring in whoever Ackerman sold her name to, if they're dumb enough to follow through.

Assistant: So, Tiffany and Scola just called. Damien Thomas, the community activist who told us about Marcus' murder, he was just killed 30 minutes ago. He was shot in the chest after somebody threw a brick through his office window.
Special: Are we sure this is related?
Assistant: ERT pulled a second slug from the wall. Preliminary ballistics are a match to the other two murders, which means...
Special: Cody McCowan isn't our killer because he was here in our custody when Thomas was shot.
Assistant: Right. And our spree shooter is still out there and still killing people.

Dana: I've asked Jubal if he'd like to run point on Amber's questioning.
Assistant: Because I'm in AA.
Special: Uh, great. She's waiting in the box.
Dana: Jubal's declining.
Special: Why? Witnesses and their families are dying. You having something in common with Amber is a huge asset. I mean, we need to use every resource possible to find Ackerman.
Assistant: Considered. And as I explained to Dana, we have someone fully equipped to run point. She's your suspect; you got this.
Dana: [Maggie glances at her] I won't force him to do this.
Special: I don't understand.
Assistant: I can't use the program against her. I won't.
Dana: [Jubal leaves] AA demands rigorous honesty with yourself and others. That's how you stay alive. And the only way it works is if the participants trust the program and each other.

Analyst: Vincent Marino, amateur paparazzi turned blackmail artist.
Assistant: Yeah, the kind of guy who makes a living collecting hush money from divorce attorneys and clients with things to hide.
Special: Makes sense, given what we found. His cell phone, laptop, SD cards are all missing.
Special: GPS trackers and surveillance equipment all over this place. This guy was a professional scumbag.

Assistant: Dr. Lucas Caldwell; single, Yale undergrad, Harvard Medical School, residency at Mass General. Does he have any criminal history?
Elise: No, nothing. Not even a speeding ticket.
Assistant: Right, okay, so query number two: what is the connection between our two victims? Why did this guy specifically target them? Wright is an anesthesiologist, Caldwell is an internist. Odd combo. Internists spend no time in the O.R., anesthesiologists practically live there. Begs the question: why these two?
Special: What did we find out about their personal life or professional life?
Elise: They don't appear to know each other at all. They have no common acquaintances. Don't live in the same area. Different ages.
Assistant: All right, well, keep digging. Let's go over the timeline of the abductions. Maybe that'll give us a clue into the, uh, motive.
Kelly: Uh, the timestamp on Dr. Caldwell's video doorbell shows that his abduction took place at 6:23 a.m. Dr. Wright was approximately taken an hour and a half later.
Elise: Just wanted to point out that the trunk size of the gray BMW is 16 cubic feet. Dr. Caldwell is about 180 pounds and six feet tall.
Special: Which means it's highly doubtful he was still in the trunk of the BMW when Dr. Wright was placed there.
Assistant: All right, so the abductor either stashed or killed Caldwell before grabbing Wright, but the question is why? There has to be a nexus. We find that, we find our suspect.
Special: Okay, we have two victims, both doctors, no connection personally or professionally.
Assistant: Hmm.
Special: What if they were targeted not for who they are, but for what they do?

Assistant: Hey, Kelly, have your team start scrubbing through videos from the area surrounding both crime scenes and flag anything that appears in both.
Kelly: On it.
Assistant: Ian, you guys run financials on both victims. Look for any common patterns; expenses, accounts. Let's get creative, folks! Our shooter might have plans to strike again. Travel history, online hangouts, common acquaintances. I don't know. Surprise me.