Criminal Minds · Season 1, Episode 15
“Unfinished Business” · Season 1, Episode 15
In this episode: Dean Winchester (940), Damon Salvatore (715), Sam Winchester (665), Olivia Benson (637), Stephen Fry (608), Narrator (554), Clark Kent (523), Nate (486)
I'm not going to detail what we risked to get this [Centipede serum].
I'm aware. And I'm not happy I was left out of that decision.
You wouldn't wake up. But now the decision is yours. You're too weak to stand? Well, we'd like to see you walk out of this room and rejoin the fight. But it's up to you if you think more time is worth it. I've made it clear how I feel.
I think I have, too.
But even now the word scares you.
I'm just having a hard enough time leaving you behind.
So don't.
Yeah. I'm aware that we rolled the dice with Coulson, and I still believe that we need him for this, but I will admit that I let my emotions get the best of me. I thought that Coulson was the only one who could keep us all on the same page. You would say that's proof that I can't do the job, that I shouldn't lead. Well, I agree. The truth is, I can't hold the team together. But he can. Coulson wants me to call the shots in his absence. Well, that's my decision. Mack should call the shots. He has the biggest heart. I mean, physically, but also, you know... You are our moral center. And, look, I never want to stop being a soldier. He's a general we can all rally behind. Anyone who thinks I'm 100% right about this, raise your hand? :[Everyone raises their hands.]
[Enters the room] Couldn't have said it better myself.
Oh, thank god.
Sir, good to see you.
Hold the applause. She didn't go through that for nothing. Time to suit up. So what do we do?
We save lives.
Remember how good it felt to walk in here when we first got back? The Zephyr has been the one place we've been able to call home these last few years.
I'll always miss the Bus.
Me, too.
I wish I would've known you guys back then.
We were different people back then.
I spent a lot of years– Sorry. I've lived a life– surrounded by heroes. None bigger than all of you. Since the day you joined, same as anyone in the line of duty– heroes, because you– because we sign up to lose each other. To get close to good people– and have them taken away. We've all suffered losses. Never lose sight of that.
I never forget those we've lost.
That's right.
Yeah. That's why we're putting that badge up in the cockpit. To never forget.
You don't have to forget. But you have to move on.
No. With respect, sir, you're wrong. We don't move on. We hold that place in our heart, we close it off, we lock the door, we visit from time to time, but we don't move on. Even after we say goodbye.
I don't even know what to call them.
"Anomalies"?
No.
We used that word up last year.
And this is different.
Those were hallucinations coming to life.
And this is reality distorting.
[Mack is watching a hologram of Coulson]
Take it one step at a time. It's not your job to solve every problem. Your job is to put together a team you trust and then to tell them to take it one step at a time. That's all you can do. If you think about everything you're up against all at once, you'll crack. Fury always said, a man can accomplish anything once he realizes he's a part of something bigger.
Still watching those?
I'm hesitant to stop.
He'd be proud. The job suits you. The agents out there know it.
Yeah, well, I'll never be the Director Coulson was.
No, you're a different Director. That's not a bad thing.
[Torturing a D'Rillian caretaker]
Your planet has 68% of the gravity we generate on this aircraft. While that makes it easier to lift ore out of the ground, it makes your cells gelatinous, your bones porous. Now, I'm no expert in D'Rillian anatomy—when I cut into your corpse, I will be—but I assume enough time under this pressure and either your brain will hemorrhage or the weight of your organs will collapse your lungs.
It's time to head home. Yeah, head home and regroup.
Thank God. I mean, one more week with Davis and we will find a dead body, his.
Yes, because one more week with you and I will definitely kill myself.
You guys never wavered. You stayed on when the rest of the crew got off. Thank you. I know this is a lot more than what you guys bargained for, and I think we will all benefit from getting back to, uh, familiar territory. To loved ones. We need them. And they may need us.
[Hiding from a Confederacy warship]
Looks like we've been spotted.
No. I don't think so.
Well, you've always been dumb as a bag of bricks.
I'll put money on it.
Of course you will, because if I win, we'll be dead and you won't have to pay me.
Look at you finally catching on.
Where are you on this doppelganger?
Oh, I have several viable hypotheses. That's what scientists say when they don't know squat. Odds are, it's related to one of S.H.I.E.L.D.'s previous mistakes, which I'm working my way through a very long list um, fear manifestations, nano-masks, Inhumans. Though I'm thinking I should revisit the file on those Life Model Decoys, which really shouldn't be a thing, by the way.
No argument here.
Could this guy be an LMD?
Well, if there's already been one of Phil Coulson, it seems like a possible explanation. But I would need to talk to the idiot who designed them.
You forgot to mention the fact that your former boss had died and come back to life before.
That's not what this is.
Are you sure? This LMD theory's not panning out. LMDs don't have DNA.
We didn't bring him back to life trust me. That was a hot topic.
Well, maybe he never died in the first place. You love secrets, Melinda. Anything you want to share?
Hey, take it easy.
I was there until the very end. He's gone. You have no right to question that. Find me a way to kill that thing out there pretending to be him. And if that's too hard, you know your way back to the bar.
That sounds nice right about now. And good luck sorting out this evidence alone.
Okay, that's enough. Now, is this the DNA you're talking about?
Yeah. This is a sample from the convenience store. At first, I thought it was alien radiation markers I've never seen, foreign methyl groups. Strip that all away, and what you have left is a 100-percent match for Phillip J. Coulson.
[Commenting on a necklace in a jewelry store]
A little plain, don't you think? What about the pieces you save for your most loyal customers? The ones you don't keep in these cases? Price is not an issue here.
I could pull some items from our vault for you.
The vault. That sounds impressive. I know. Right now, you're sizing me up, wondering how much paper money a guy like me has to spend. Could be a big sale. Your heart rate goes up a little. Can you feel it?
We always do our best to meet our customers' needs.
Oh, don't worry about me. I'll be leaving satisfied. Worry about you, your heart rate, because it's about to go nuts when we rob this place. People fantasize about doing something heroic in times like these, but I'd save your own skin.
That word, "Coulson." What does that mean?
I don't know. But it rings a bell.
It will be challenging to conceal that we have murdered the Controller. The crew will be labeled mutineers, a death sentence in this section of space.
So we'd need to sneak off the ship.
It is possible you and I could escape by submerging ourselves in the Xandarian snail tanks before they're unloaded. But the other crew members...
Firstly, no. But more importantly, we did this to keep them alive, so where do we take them?
They could easily find employment on the planet of Kitson. We should have just enough fuel to reach it if we change course now. But what about your plan to go back into cryo-sleep and join Jemma Simmons in the future?
I've got time.
The planet of Kitson is a nasty place, absent any basic scrap of decency.
Someone just described Florida.
Most are ashamed to utter the word "Kitson" as it sounds like the braying of an animal in heat. There's even a well-known saying, "What happens on the planet of Kitson..."
"...stays on Kitson?"
No. "...is contagious and burns."
I have disappointed you, and we may be, as they say, down on our luck, but there are other ways to earn money.
How?
The brothels of Kitson. We are both healthy and not unattractive specimens, and I am well-versed in over 130...
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