Criminal Minds, Season 6

JJ:
[Speaking to Billy Flynn over the radio system] But I am a mother. And I, I know what your mother did to you when you were little. What she was... What-- What she made you watch, what she let men do to you and it makes me so... ...it's just... not fair. And -- and no one, no one can make that better. I wish I could. I do. But if I could somehow go back there and make what was happening to you stop, I could just pick you up, and tell you that all would be okay. That's what moms are supposed to do...They are not supposed to be the cause of your pain; they are supposed to make it go away. They are supposed to hold you and tell you that everything is going to be alright. They are supposed to tell you that thunder is angel's bowling, and that it is okay to be afraid of the dark and that it is not silly to think that there are be monsters in your closet and that it is ok that if you want to climb into bed with them just this once, because it is scary in the room all alone.They are supposed to say that it is okay to be afraid, and not be the thing that you are afraid of. But most importantly, they are supposed to love you no matter what. What happened to you isn't fair, it is not right. But... I am supposed to empathize with you, sympathize, understand. But I can't. That would be a lie. The truth is... I don't understand what you've done. I don't sympathize with you killing people all these years and I especially don't understand you taking Ellie. What I can do, is to tell you what a mother should tell you. That you cant take away your pain by hurting someone else. That it doesn't make all the nights you have been scared and alone any better if you scare someone else the way you are scaring Ellie. What happened to you, it isn't fair, but what you are doing to her isn't fair either. And if anyone should understand what that feels like, it's you. You have the power. You can do what you want to do. But for once, you could choose to use that power to do for Ellie what should have been done for you. You can choose letting her go. You can choose teaching her that yes, there are monsters, and it is okay to be afraid of them, but it is not okay to let them win, and it is not okay to be one.

Morgan:
[Confronting Billy Flynn, the UnSub]Shoot me. You know you can't do it. I study you guys for a living. I know more about you than what you know about yourself.

Billy Flynn:
Well, you may not be afraid. But they are. [Pointing to the hostages]

JJ:
"A family is a place where minds come in contact with one another. If these minds love one another, the home will be as beautiful as a flower garden. But if these minds get out of harmony with one another, it is like a storm that plays havoc with the garden." The Buddha

JJ:
Jean Racine said, "A tragedy need not have blood and death; it's enough that it all be filled with that majestic sadness that is the pleasure of tragedy."

Prentiss:
Again with the dairy?

Reid:
I can't help it. I love dairy.

Prentiss:
I don't think it's about the case.

Garcia:
Do you know something?

Prentiss:
Do I know something?

Garcia:
She just repeated the question. You always say that's a sign.

Morgan:
Do you know why JJ's in there?

Prentiss:
I have no idea.

Prentiss:
No...

Morgan:
Wait a minute, I thought Hotch was supposed to...

JJ:
It's above his paygrade; Strauss' too.

Reid:
They can't just take you away

Prentiss:
So we do nothing?

JJ:
It's done

Morgan:
It can't be that simple

JJ:
It is

Morgan:
This job is hard enough. What are they trying to do, bury us?

Prentiss:
You're too good. That's the problem

Rossi:
It's true. You're on everybody's wishlist. Our loss is somebody else's gain.

Reid:
They can't just take you away...

JJ:
You're still here?

Garcia:
Figured you'd get to me eventually. (pauses) You're leaving? (pauses) You could have told me. I would have done something. I would have made it impossible for them to let you go. I would have put something in your file.

JJ:
It's not up to me. Or Hotch.

Garcia:
Don't they understand that we're a family? That that's why this works is because we're a family? Do they even care?

JJ:
I don't know

Garcia:
I can't believe... Okay. No. That's.... I'm supposed to say that this is a great opportunity. Which it is. I don't know the way this place works without you. You're like the glue around here. Who's gonna make us feel safe?

JJ:
There's plenty of big strong men around.

Garcia:
See that, right there? Your total ignorance to how awesome you are? It's one of the 5000 things I love about you.

JJ:
I'm still going to be in the city. Okay? More than normal probably.

Garcia:
Sure. Then we'll make a plan. Breakfast every Tuesday. Then life gets in the way. And what if I only see you on birthdays and holidays?

JJ:
I won't let that happen.

Garcia:
Ok. It better not because I know where to find you. You wanna walk out together?

JJ:
There's, there's one more thing that I have to do before I go. (hugs each other for one last time)

JJ:
I'm thankful for my years spent with this family, for everything we shared, every chance we had to grow. I'll take the best of them with me and lead by their example wherever I go. A friend told me to be honest with you, so here it goes: this isn't what I want, but I'll take the high road. Maybe it's because I look at everything as a lesson or because I don't want to walk around angry. Or maybe it's because I finally understand. There are things we don't want to happen but have to accept; things we don't want to know but have to learn; and people we can't live without but have to let go.

Rossi:
Marcel Proust said, "Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were."

Rossi:
Mark Twain said, "When I was younger I could remember anything, whether it happened or not; but my faculties are decaying now, and soon I shall be so I cannot remember any but the latter. It is sad to go to pieces like this, but we all have to do it."

Garcia:
Abraham Lincoln said, "Whatever you are, be a good one."

Garcia:
How often do I tell you I love you?

Morgan:
Everyday. It's implied.

Prentiss:
"We all wear masks, and the times comes when we cannot remove them without removing our own skin." Andre Berthiaume

Morgan:
"All humanity is one undivided and indivisible family, and each one of us is responsible for the misdeeds of all the others. I cannot detach myself from the wickedest soul." Mahatma Gandhi

Jeremy Sayer:
[Holding Knife at Hostage] Have You ever wondered what is under your skin?

Morgan:
"But I have promises to keep, And miles to go before I sleep, And miles to go before I sleep." Robert Frost

Hotch:
Niccolo Machiavelli said "If an injury has to be done to a man it should be so severe that his vengeance need not be feared".

Hotch:
Thomas Kempis wrote, "Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of its trouble, attempts what is above its strength, pleads no excuse for impossibility; for it thinks all things are lawful for itself, and all things are possible."

(Jack walks into the room, dressed in a makeshift suit)

Hotch:
Woah, that is definitely not Spiderman!

Jack:
He's not a real superhero.

Hotch:
He's not? Ok, I give up. Who are you supposed to be?

Jack:
I'm you, Daddy!

Hotch:
(smiles) Let's go get some candy, my little G-man.

Hotch:
"The herd seek out the great, not for their sake but for their influence; and the great welcome them out of vanity or need." Napoleon Bonaparte

Hotch:
"Without heroes, we are all plain people and don't know how far we can go." Bernard Malamud

Emily:
Whoa!

Garcia:
Welcome to the 21st century. Yay. Technology. Behold every one has a new tablet.

Reid:
We've gone paperless?

Garcia:
Fear not, Doctor of the Dark Ages, I went old school for your anti-technology quirk-paper files, hard copy photos-but the, uh, abacus is your responsibility.

Hotch:
Garcia, not that I don't appreciate your efforts, but exactly where did the funding for these come from?

Garcia:
I did a thing...

Hotch:
"A thing?"

Garcia:
Best not talk about the thing?

Hotch:
We'll talk about the thing later.

Garcia:
I believe humanity was born from conflict. Maybe that's why in all of us lives a dark side. Some of us choose embrace it. Some have no choice. The rest of us fight it. But in the end, it's as natural as the air we breathe. At some point, all of us are forced to face the truth. Ourselves. For me, that day has come.

Reid:
You're here to target a woman but you don't want to attract attention.

Hotch:
Well, standing in the middle gawking at passing women is going to attract attention. [sees Reid gawking at passing women] Like you're doing now.

Reid:
[snaps out of trance] What's that?

Prentiss:
And just like that, [snaps fingers] an IQ of 187 is slashed to 60.

Garcia:
"Fame will go by and, so long, I've had you, fame. If it goes by, I've always known it was fickle. So at least it's something I experience, but that's not where I live." Marilyn Monroe

Morgan:
Ralph Ellison said, "I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me."

Hotch:
Elise Cabot said, "Evil endures a moment's flush, and then leaves but a burnt out shell."

Hotch:
"When we were children, we used to think that when we grew up we would no longer be vulnerable. But to grow up is to accept vulnerability. To be alive is to be vulnerable." writer Madeleine L'Engle

Rossi:
"Children begin by loving their parents. As they grow older, they judge them. Sometimes they forgive them." writer Oscar Wilde

Morgan:
"There is no such thing as part freedom." Nelson Mandela

Morgan:
"All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them." Galileo

Reid:
"No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks."-Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Walker:
What is wrong with you?

Reid:
(holding his eyes) I'm sorry, it's just so bright in here for me.

Reid:
"The best and most beautiful things in life cannot be seen or touched, but just felt by the heart."-Helen Keller

Prentiss:
Friedrich Nietzsche wrote, "What really raises one's indignation against suffering is not suffering intrinsically, but the senselessness of suffering."

Prentiss:
William Glasser said, "What happened in the past that was painful has a great deal to do with what we are today."

Morgan:
"Hunting is not a sport. In a sport, both sides should know they're in the game." -Paul Rodriguez

Morgan:
Considering the wide divergence of abduction and dump sites this guy could be anywhere, LA is over 500 square miles.

Reid:
Uh, 498.3 (looks away)

Morgan:
(Chuckles)

Prentiss:
(On the phone) Reid?

Reid:
Emily, you are not going to believe this.

Prentiss:
No?

Reid:
They're showing Solaris tonight, the original, in the theaters. Do you wanna go?

Prentiss:
Did Morgan put you up to this?

Reid:
What?

Prentiss:
Did Morgan tell you to call me?

Reid:
No, Morgan would have no idea what Solaris is.

Prentiss:
So, uh... You just called me out of the blue?

Reid:
Well, I mean the original one is in Russian, so you and I are the only ones who can really enjoy it.

Prentiss:
Isn't Solaris 4 hours long?

Reid:
It's 5, the best sci-fi medatation film of all time but, for some reason, they never really show it in the theatres. You wanna go with me?

Prentiss:
Sorry, handsome, I'm gonna have to pass. I'm just gonna hang out with Sergio tonight.

Reid:
Oh shoot, I didn't realize --

Prentiss:
Relax, Reid. Sergio is my new cat. But, um... Thank you.

Reid:
For what?

Prentiss:
For being you.

Reid:
Aw, thanks. I don't really know how to be anyone else...

Prentiss:
Yeah. That's what I love about you.

Prentiss:
"Nothing revives the past so completely as a smell that was once associated with it." Novelist Vladimir Nabokov

Rossi:
"It's hard to fight an enemy who has outposts in your head." -Sally Kempton

Prentiss:
"There is no chance, no destiny, no fate, that can hinder or control the firm resolve of a determined soul." -Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Reid:
"Tomorrow you promise yourself will be different, yet tomorrow is too often a repetition of today." -Author James T. McCay

Seaver:
Is that the one where they fly around in the phone booth?

Reid:
First of all, it's a police box. Not a phone booth. Second of all, Doctor Who started a quarter of a century before Bill and Ted even went on their bodacious adventures so really they should have just called it Bill and Ted's Excellent Rip-off. At least then they would've made-

Seaver:
I'm really sorry.

Reid:
For what?

Seaver:
Asking.

Morgan:
Kid definitely likes to draw, but I can't quite figure out what it is he's drawing.

Hotchner:
That's a dog.

Morgan:
How can you possibly know that that looks like a dog?

Hotchner:
Maybe a father knows.

Prentiss:
I knew you were watching me.

Doyle:
What's the expression? Keep your friends close, your enemies under surveillance.

Prentiss:
I've been here for two hours. You should know better than to keep a lady waiting.

Doyle:
Seems hypocritical, seeing as I had to wait seven years.

Prentiss:
Hello, Ian.

Doyle:
Hello, Lauren. Oh wait, Lauren Reynolds died in a car accident, didn't she?

Prentiss:
What do you want?

Doyle:
You. Oh, not today, don't worry about that. But soon.

Prentiss:
I've got a Glock leveled at your crotch. What's to stop me from taking you and the little ones out, right now?

Doyle:
You'd never make it back to your car, and you know it. Tell me, does the lovely Penelope know the truth about you? Or is she too busy watching movies with Derek to care? Here you are, all alone, while Aaron sits at home with his son. And why didn't Dave and Ashley invite you to their game night? Maybe they thought you'd be on the Metro with Dr. Reid. (laughs) Well, that one does have some quirks.

Prentiss:
Come near my team, and I will end you.

Doyle:
I don't have a quarrel with them. How long that remains the case, depends entirely on you. They're innocent, you're not.

Prentiss:
I was doing my job.

Doyle:
I think you did a little more than that. You took the only thing that mattered to me, so I'm going to take the only thing that matters to you--your life." (puts a matchbook with a four leaf clover on it on the table between them) "Honore de Balzac once said, 'Most people of action are inclined to fatalism and most of thought believe in providence.' Tell me, Emily Prentiss, which do you think you are gonna be?

Prentiss:
Lao Tzu said, "When I let go of what I am I become what I might be."

Prentiss:
Journalist Dorothy Dix wrote, "Confession is always weakness. The grave soul keeps its own secrets and takes its own punishment in silence."

Rossi:
The more players we get on this board the sooner Erin will get her nose in it.

Hotchner:
Strauss already knows.

Rossi:
I'm surprised she wasn't in the SCIF.

Hotchner:
She's on vacation.

Rossi:
Oh great, now she'll never take another one.

[Prentiss drops her bag onto her desk, startling Reid]

Prentiss:
I'm sorry.

Reid:
Thought you were in there.

Prentiss:
Are you ok?

Reid:
Yeah, I'm sure these victims overlap somehow. Garcia pulled their phone numbers but so far I haven't found anything.

Prentiss:
You just jumped.

Reid:
I've been having these really intense headaches lately.

Prentiss:
Have you seen a doctor?

Reid:
Yeah a few, but none of them have been able to figure it out.

Prentiss:
Oh, I'm sorry. Does anyone know?

Reid:
You.

Prentiss:
I won't tell anyone.

Reid:
I know. They just worry, you know? Not that you're not gonna worry, but they'll just make me feel like a baby, you know?

Prentiss:
I do.

Prentiss:
"The secret to getting away with lying is believing with all your heart; that goes for lying to yourself even more so than lying to another." -author Elizabeth Bear

Garcia:
[In a message to Emily via phone] Hotch told me to try all your numbers and I have this as an old listing, and you probably don't even use it anymore, but if it is you and you're out there: come home, please. God, Emily, what did you think? That we would just let you walk out of our lives? I am so furious at you right now! [Emily starts crying] Then I think about how scared you must be, hiding in some dark place all alone. But you're not alone, okay? You are not alone. We are in that dark place with you, we are waving flashlights and calling your name. So, if you can see us, come home. But if you can't then...then... you stay alive. Because we're coming.

Clyde Easter:
Agent Hotchner, you took an oath to protect the laws of your country, I took an oath to protect the secrets of mine.

JJ:
Psychoanalyst Walter Langer wrote, "People will believe a big lie sooner than a little one; and if you repeat it frequently enough people will sooner or later believe it."

Reid:
Lizette Reese said, "The old faiths light their candles all about, but burly Truth comes by and puts them out."

Reid:
You know that profile kinda makes it sound like schizophrenia leads to serial killing.

Morgan:
That's not what we said at all, Reid.

Reid:
You know, my mom has schizophrenia. There are many different types.

Morgan:
I know that.

Reid:
Catatonic, disorganized... Just because someone suffers from inability to organize their thoughts, or they can't bathe or dress themselves, doesn't mean they stab someone in the chest 30 time postmortem.

Morgan:
Reid, what's really going on?

Reid:
Our unsub's hallucinations aren't fractured like a typical schizophrenic. They're vivid and clear, leading me to believe that we're missing an important variable. Rather than making crazy conjectures, I think we should be trying to figure out what it is.

Morgan:
Okay, listen to me. I know this is a scary age for you. It's when schizophrenic breaks happen. Have you talked to anybody about this?

Reid:
Emily.

Morgan:
Have you seen a doctor?

Reid:
They all say I'm fine.

Morgan:
Why don't you believe them?

Reid:
Because predicting one's chances of developing a genetic condition are like finding a penny in an ocean... I have terrible headaches. I can't sleep at night. I can't focus on our cases. I... I only read five books last week.

Morgan:
Come on, kid, you gotta cut yourself some slack. You're also depressed about Prentiss, and I get it- we all are. Reid, I miss her every day. But if your mind was splitting, do you really think you'd be able to figure out that this team is missing a variable?

Reid:
I'm just speculating that we are. Need to prove it.

Morgan:
Okay, then you do that. The moment you are wandering around the streets aimlessly, that's when I'll be concerned about you. Come on, pretty boy. Let's get to work.

Reid:
(at the crime scene) Look at the stab wounds.

Morgan:
There's gotta be over 50 of them.

Reid:
71.

Morgan:
Siddharta Buddha said, "It is not his enemy or foe that lures him to evil ways."

Morgan:
Poet Antonio Porchia said, "Man, when he does not grieve, hardly exists."

Hotch:
Stephen King wrote, "Sometimes human places create inhuman monsters."

Seaver:
"Every journey into the past is complicated by delusions, false memories, false namings of real events." - Adrienne Rich

Rossi:
Agathon said, "Of this alone even God is deprived, the power of making things that are past never to have been."

Hotch:
Doménico Cieri Estrada wrote, "Bring the past only if you're going to build from it."

Rossi:
"The sea has never been friendly to man. At most it has been the accomplice of human restlessness." -Joseph Conrad

Hotch :
Until we get a confirmation, we can't make any assumptions based on her behavior.

Morgan:
I'm not saying that we throw away our profile. I'm just saying let's expand our thinking.

Morgan:
Maybe he meets them in transit. How did they get there?

Garcia:
Right, right, ok... Um, there's nothing there either.

Hotch:
But how is that possible? These people are starting their lives over. The whole point is to travel.

Morgan:
Even if they paid cash, Garcia, there'd be a name on a ticket.

Garcia:
Yeah, no, I agree with you. But my binary boxes are never wrong. So, however these folks got from Point A to Point Unsub, there's no record of it.

Morgan:
"We are tied to the ocean. And when we go back to the sea, whether it is to sail or to watch - we are going back from whence we came." -John F. Kennedy

Hotch:
"And yet to every bad, there's a worse." -Thomas Hardy

Rossi:
"What lies in our power to do, lies in our power not to do." -Aristotle

Billy Flynn:
Do you believe in heaven?

Morgan:
[raises his gun and aims at Flynn] This is your last chance.

Billy Flynn:
Do you think I might see her there? Maybe get a second chance? [stands up] I'd really like that.