Top 30 Quotes From Special Agent Maggie Bell

Arson: We got the point of origin in the basement. The gas line to the furnace was pulled out. We found traces of a lit candle on the floor about eight feet away. The gas accumulated in the basement, and when it filled up and got down to the candle...
Special: The house went up. Are there any other vehicles registered to the family?
Detective: There's a compact SUV registered to Connie Gilman, probably in the garage.
Special: [entering the garage] It's gone. Gilman took it and left his to make it look like he was still here.

Alexis: We don't have those kinds of issues.
Special: Are you sure you'd know?
Alexis: My life with Gary is good. His career, Gracie, it's all we wanted.
[realizing]
Alexis: Ah, is that why you're... you're talking to us separately.
Special: We can cover more ground that way. Hopefully get closer to a motive.
Alexis: But isn't the motive money?
Special: They want the money. But they also called your husband a liar. That's personal. Who would do that?

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.

Jim: Hell, no. This is impossible. No way I'd compromise my cases.
Special: Well, how did this happen?
Jim: You don't understand. I-I care about these people. I'd never put them in any kind of danger.
U.S. Marshal Paul Ackerman: Office hasn't detected a breach in our software. All of our hardware is accounted for. I'm sorry, Jim, if the list is secure internally...
Jim: I'll take a polygraph, boss, hand over my log-in, credentials...
Special: Marshal Ruhde, did anyone know about scheduled visits with your witnesses?
Jim: No one. And visits varied on a case-by-case basis, protocol.
Special: Mind if I have a look in your garage?
Jim: Whatever you need to do.

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.

Special: I know you said not to use AA to get Amber to talk, and I just want you to know that I really respect that you stood your ground. I hope I didn't lose your trust.
Assistant: Well, I said I wouldn't use it. You're not beholden to the program, Maggie. I am. You did what you had to do.
Special: So we're good?
Assistant: There's nothing more important than putting the bad guys away. But, uh... yeah, without AA, I don't get to be a fed. And I like being a fed.

Special: You brought up the importance of sticking to WITSEC rules more than once. I can't help but think there's something behind that.
Special: Curtis was my old witness.
Special: He break the rules?
Special: Yeah, but he couldn't help himself.
Special: What, family?
Special: Yeah. His mom's 50th birthday. So he called her to reach out, but 15th Street Gang was listening to her calls. But the thing is is that these people were being so careful.
Special: Doesn't make what happened to Curtis any less tragic.
Special: No.
Special: Would you still encourage people to go into the program?
Special: Without a doubt.

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.

Special: [pursuing robbers of check-cashing stores] All right, so we can put cameras on both sides of the building. One in the parking lot.
Special: And inside if the manager's willing to cooperate, of course.
Special: Who's gonna say no to free surveillance equipment?

Special: Is Patrice here?
Jasmine: Are you here to talk to her about the shooting?
Special: Is she here?
Jasmine: No. I'm her roommate, Jasmine.
Special: We've been trying to contact her.
Jasmine: She left this morning.
Special: Left to go where?
Jasmine: She didn't say. Caleb's death, the shooting, hit her hard. She said she needed to go off the grid for a while to clear her head. So she shut off all her devices and packed a suitcase and split.
Special: Do you have any idea where she went?
Jasmine: I told her she probably shouldn't be alone. But she insisted.
Special: Okay, well, someone has to know where she went. Parents or friends?
Jasmine: I can get you her mom and dad's number, but they're flying back from South Africa right now. They cut their vacation short when they heard what happened.
Special: Okay, do you know a guy named Jim Housley Dietz?
Jasmine: Yeah. He and Patrice had a thing, but he started acting kinda creepy.
Special: What do you mean?
Jasmine: Patrice isn't the "in a relationship" type. And he got freakily possessive. When she pulled back, he went neo-n*zi on her. Which is strange, because hello, she's a sister. So she ghosted him. Blocked his number, his email.
Special: How long ago was this?
Jasmine: Uh, a few weeks ago, I think. Does Jim have something to do with the shooting? Because he showed up here today.
Special: When?
Jasmine: A couple hours ago, maybe. He said that he heard the news about the shooting and wanted to check in on Patrice.
Special: And Patrice has no idea that he came here?
Jasmine: No. Jim was, like, ancient history to her.
Special: But you have no idea where she is?
Jasmine: I try not to get too involved with Patrice's affairs. Oh, my God. Did Jim shot those people at the club?
Special: Jasmine, it's gonna be okay. We're gonna have undercover agents outside of your door. Here's my card. If Patrice or Jim contact you, let us know immediately.

Special: I don't like him.
Special: You don't have to. Just find his kid.
Special: It'd be easier if he'd cooperate.
Special: He's scared. Either he doesn't see or he doesn't want to see who might do this to him.
Special: So if the victim won't help, what do we do?
Special: Go back to the evidence.

Special: Ah, I love our job. We're gonna talk to someone who pays off mistresses to see if he knows someone corrupt enough to kidnap a baby.
Special: Yeah. It's ironic.
Special: I would say more like pathetic.

Assistant: Jilian Starls, Agents Bell and Zidan. Jill runs Special Investigations Unit 2. So, SIU has an ongoing undercover operation they think we're uniquely suited to assist.
Jillian: The target is one of the biggest arms dealers in the world, Martin Vickers.
Assistant: Yeah, he's been around for a while. Didn't Comey give him a nickname?
Jillian: The Merchant of Venom.
Assistant: That's right.
Jillian: And we might finally be able to catch him in the act.
Special: How'd you tie him to Vickers?
Jillian: An established black market broker, Otan Reis. Fronts buys for 20% of the world's war criminals, and we flipped him.
Special: Who managed that?

Special: Hey. Why didn't you answer your phone?
Special: There's no service down here.
Special: Then go to the gym like a normal person.
Special: There's too many people looking at themselves in the mirror.

U.S. Marshal Paul Ackerman: Welcome to hell. Chief Deputy Paul Ackerman, U.S. Marshals Service. I know the FBI's used to this kind of thing. This is a fiasco.
Special: Eyewitnesses?
U.S. Marshal Paul Ackerman: No, they made sure of that. Took out this passing motorist and-and this kid on a skateboard. Including my Marshal there, that's three dead. Now, my other man is stable, but the uh... the witness is in surgery.
Special: Government witness?
U.S. Marshal Paul Ackerman: Yeah.
Special: Tell us about him.
U.S. Marshal Paul Ackerman: Damon Cruz. My deputies were gonna escort him to Los Angeles so that he could testify in a Jairo Cartel case.
Special: Blood patterns are smeared.
U.S. Marshal Paul Ackerman: Yeah, that's Cruz. He got shot five times.
Special: He knew to tuck and roll to protect his vital organs while being shot at.
U.S. Marshal Paul Ackerman: Majority of our witnesses are formal criminals. Their instincts are hard-wired.

Special: What the hell's going on?
Special: What are you talking about?
Special: You and Tiff. It's clear you're not on the same page.
Special: That obvious, huh? She, uh, she used to work with Dixon. He was her training officer, and she loves the guy, so...
Special: Hmm. And you're not sold?
[he shrugs non-commitally]
Special: I mean, do you think he might be involved?
Special: He seems like a nice enough guy, but you never know, right?
Special: You know, when it's personal, it's easy to make a mistake you can't walk back from. Just keep an eye out for her. Okay?
Special: Goes without saying.
Special: I know. Wanted to say it anyway.

Special: When I was a cop in Indiana, I worked a kidnapping with the Bureau. It's actually how I ended up here.
Special: What happened?
Special: Well, we found the kidnappers in under six hours, but the kid was already dead before they even made the ransom demand.
Special: The parents had no idea?
Special: None of us did.

Special: Captain, what have we got?
FD: Three bodies: adult female on a bed over there, two juveniles.
Detective: The Gilmans had two kids; boy and girl, eight and ten.
Special: Names.
Detective: Roy and Mia.
Special: What about Tom Gilman?
Detective: Haven't found any other remains.

Special: How long for the gas to get to the candle?
Arson: Rough estimate, nine to ten hours.
Special: [to OA] Okay, the house goes up around 10:15. That means that Gilman would have had to pull the gas line around midnight. He's got a 14-hour lead on us.

Special: Pull up in front. Let the gate close before we get out.
Special: You know I worked undercover, right?
Special: We have two hours to get on top of this.
Special: Kidnappers gave them 24.
Special: 75% of abducted kids who don't make it are killed within the first three hours. That e-mail came in an hour ago.

FBI: This is a fugitive case now. Your job is done.
Special: Really? I saw those children. My job is done when Gilman's in custody.
FBI: Jubal will tell you, I work with a small team, people who've known me for years.
Special: Agent LaCroix...
FBI: It's nothing personal. My team has a shorthand, no wasted motions.
Special: Yeah, I caught one of your talks in Quantico three years ago. I know how you work. Just give me this: call me for the takedown.
FBI: No promises. You have passion, Agent Bell. Hold on to it; it's useful.

Special: What was Cruz's involvement with the Jairo Cartel?
U.S. Marshal Paul Ackerman: Money laundering, and he was good at it, too. He helped the Jairo Cartel screw over a lot of good people.
Special: Shooter got out of the car to get a better shot at Cruz.
Special: So Cruz was the primary target. The rest were just collateral.
Special: And his wife?
U.S. Marshal Paul Ackerman: She's at the hospital, but she... she didn't know that Cruz was in witness protection.
Special: He didn't tell her?
Special: No, he couldn't. Not if he met her after he already entered the program.

Special: What's up?
Special: I don't know. Jubal didn't say. He just said to collect you and get to the JOC. Come on. We're already late.

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.

Special: [When handcuffing Lisa Blake] Not today, bitch.

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.

Special: What's up with Otan Reis?
Rowan: Like most intructors, I split my classroom time with field time. Last fourteen months, I've been on this guy. I stung him, flipped him, recruited him to help take down Martin Vickers. Yesterday he was about to board a private plane from Blackbushe to Teterboro.
Special: Was?
Rowan: Assassinated on the tarmac.
Jillian: Which should have been the end of the mission.
Rowan: [glancing at OA] Except... except Reis' height, weight, and ethnicity match exactly one agent in the Bureau.

Special: You know, they're not all criminals.
Special: What, the people in WITSEC?
Special: Yeah. 15% of them are innocent. Wrong place, wrong time.
Special: You do a stint in the Marshals Service before this?
Special: Put someone in WITSEC when I was a cop in Indiana. Curtis, sixteen years old, witnessed a gang shooting at his after-school job.
Special: You encourage him to testify?
Special: I did. He was one of the good ones. It was heartbreaking seeing him say goodbye to his family.
Special: Kind of like living undercover, just permanently.
Special: Yeah, all to find the bad guy. I don't think I could do it.
Special: To save your life, to save your family's life, you could.

Detective: Neighbor says it sounded like a bomb. The owner, Thomas Gilman, is a deportation officer for the ICE office in Port Chester. We suspect he was the target.
Special: Was he home?
Detective: That's his truck in the driveway. The fire departmnet's still searching for victims. We got one neighbor DOA, two more in the ICU.
Special: Any evidence of a bomb besides the, uh, big noise?
Detective: Look at this place. What else would do this?

Cody: All these criminals running in the streets, and what do you do? You arrest an innocent man.
Special: If you're so innocent, then why'd you run?
Cody: I got outstanding warrants, and I didn't feel like surrendering just yet; more work to do, since the cops don't have the guts to do their jobs anymore.
Special: [showing him footage of his assault of Marcus Ervin] This your idea of police work?
Cody: That's called payback.
Special: For what?
Cody: Race riots last summer.
Special: Oh, you're referring to the protests.
Cody: Looked more like riots to me. This punk Marcus threw a brick through the window of my mom's bar. Looters stormed inside, started destroying the place like animals. Cops didn't do a damn thing to stop it.
Special: So that gives your brother Jack the right to take a bat to his head?
Cody: To save our mom's bar! It's called self-defense. And the Internet runs with it. All of a sudden, we're evil racists. They started it, not us. We were minding our own business, and then they started protesting and looting. But my brother's the one who got sent to prison, and now he's hooked up to a feeding tube, so hell yeah I kicked that kid's ass.
Special: Yeah, but that wasn't enough. That's why you went after Marcus again, right? But this time, you killed him.
Special: Right after you killed Congressman Reed?
Cody: What the hell are you talking about?
Special: Come on, Cody, you said it yourself. Your brother got screwed. You wanted revenge.
Cody: Yeah, but I didn't kill anybody.