The Best Special Agent in Charge Isobel Castille Quotes

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.

Assistant: So, surveillance, masks, assault rifles. This was a well-planned operation.
Special: Yeah, but why? Why abduct 26 kids? And we're monitoring the parents' phones and e-mails, but there's no claim of responsibility, no ransom demand.
Assistant: Well, a demand may still come in.
Special: And what if it's not money he's after? You should have seen those parents. Just... despair.
Assistant: I can't imagine.

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.

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: 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.

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?

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?

Special: Has Givens ever abducted anyone before?
Jess: Not that I'm aware of. His specialty was home invasion robbery, but he's been in the slammer for ten years. I'm sure he picked up some new tricks.

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: 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.