Top 100 Quotes From Alex Blake

Alex: Start shooting! Start shooting!
David: Where?
Alex: Everywhere!

Jennifer: You know he wants kids. Can you image Spence as a dad?
Alex: That would be the luckiest kid in the world.
Jennifer: No doubt.

Alex: Come on, you're killing me here. The worst thing you can do to a linguist is not communicate.

Jennifer: The victim at the gas station wasn't just shot; the body showed signs of have been run over several times by a large vehicle
Alex: That's one way to put the over in overkill!

Alex: [has no signal on her phone] Ah, thought you said it doesn't get any worse?
David: Until it does.

Tory: Cutting the heads off of people? Only a crazy person would do that, right? And crazy people get released eventually.
Alex: I wouldn't count on that.
Tory: It may take 25 years, but I can do that. 25 years, that's nothing. It's only time.

Aaron: We're looking for a physically fit male from his late twenties to mid-thirties.He's brazen, confident, and organized.
Derek: This person may be a moral vigilante. Abby Stafford had drug issues, Gloria Carlyle moved in with her boyfriend, Parker Mills was a sexual deviant.
Dr. Spencer Reid: Moral vigilantism typically has its roots in repression and guilt. This generally manifests itself in low self-esteem and self-loathing. By punishing others, the unsub may also be punishing himself.
Aaron: He's also literally branding his victims. We're not sure why, but he's likely marking them as his own.
Alex: His organizational skills suggest someone who can get and keep a full-time job.
David: But the work is likely low-level. His impaired social development would not allow him to move very far in the professional world.
Jennifer: Consequently, this is someone most comfortable working in solitude, having minimal interaction with others.
Derek: And this makes it a challenge to determine how and where this person is choosing his victims.
Dr. Spencer Reid: The two female victims were reserved and studious; Parker Mills lived quietly in the margins of conventional society.
Jennifer: So the killer may frequent or work in locations that attracts this type of person. Uh, places of solitude, contemplation.
Alex: Museums, gardens and parks, bookstores.
David: His choice of a city square, rather than a remote canyon, means he's gaining confidence.
Derek: But the recklessness of killing in such a public space suggests that this confidence may be stemming from a delusion.
Jennifer: He may believe he's in a place in time that makes him invulnerable.
Aaron: And if his delusion is gaining in strength, then his next killing may be riskier and more dramatic. Thank you.

Alex: What do you want?
John: You're the profiler. You tell me.

Dr. Ray Mathis: I heard it took the L.A. M.E. four hours to find the second victim's entire body.
David: Yeah, he was spread all over the place.
Dr. Ray Mathis: Now, victim one had it easy by comparison. She was dragged postmortem.
Alex: We thought she was alive at first.
Dr. Ray Mathis: No. She died from a series of blows to the head.
David: [as he talks, he takes out his cell phone and dials] So the unsub was scared on his first kill, then two hours later when he got his second victim, his confidence suddenly evolved.
Alex: Pretty quick evolution.
David: And therein lies the problem.

Penelope: Oh, God, JJ sent that alert 30 minutes ago. They must have looped the system. That's why I couldn't read any hard-lines.
Aaron: Which of the servers sent the message?
Security: [coming to Garcia and Kevin] Hands where we can see them.
Kevin: What? Wow, wow. Wow.
Penelope: Utherlay oadchurchbray... Utherlay oadchurchbray.
Alex: You don't need to be a linguist to recognize pig Latin.
Dr. Spencer Reid: Luther and Broad Church is the location of Cramer Industries. It's a research and development company.

[Blake's last scene]
Dr. Spencer Reid: You're all right?
Alex: Yesterday touched a nerve when I saw you like that
Dr. Spencer Reid: Who's Ethan?
Alex: My son. He was nine when he died. Doctors said it was neurological, but they didn't have a name for it, still don't. That drove me crazy, no word to put to this thing that took away my greatest love
Dr. Spencer Reid: I'm sorry
Alex: He... he kept growing despite his disease. The last time I laid beside him he was almost as long as me. He was ready to go, but I was unready to say goodbye. Begged him to open his eyes. Well, the cruelest part was that I could see who he would be at twenty, but I knew he would never get there
[sighs]
Dr. Spencer Reid: Ethan is a great name
Alex: Yeah. It means enduring
Dr. Spencer Reid: It's fitting. You and James never let go one another
[Blakes shakes no and starts leaving the room]
Dr. Spencer Reid: Have you ever had that feeling that your future is somehow behind you?
Alex: All the time
Dr. Spencer Reid: I do too, but it isn't
Alex: Ethan would have been a lot like you
Dr. Spencer Reid: Thank you for being there when I woke up. It meant a lot
Alex: Of course
[and walks away, down the stairs]
Dr. Spencer Reid: Bye, Alex

Dr. Spencer Reid: You know, it's interesting how much you can tell about a person by what they choose to read. This shelf, for instance, is devoted to Ayn Rand, Christopher Hitchens, Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris.
Bob: So?
Dr. Spencer Reid: You're an atheist.
Alex: And your comment about the stack of bibles is a linguistic tell. You're overcompensating, which means you're hiding something.

Alex: Sounds like a convent.
Penelope: You know, it sort of is. Residents have to take the same kinds of vows as nuns: celibacy, poverty, days spend in quiet contemplation. I would not be a good candidate for admission, in other words.

Alex: Did any of you work on the Silencer case?
David: That was during my extended sabbatical.
Aaron: We all consulted, but nobody made the trip to Texas.
Alex: Why not? Three women in four months; that's textbook kill rate. An undeniable signature, obvious surrogates...
Aaron: We weren't invited by the local police.
Alex: Aren't you tired of that?
Aaron: Welcome to our world.

Alex: Hey, guys, this is awful. Daniel's father didn't just make him watch the sexual encounters, he made him videotape them.

Alex: [open quote] Author Jennifer Smith wrote: "Marriage is a mosaic you build with your spouse, millions of tiny moments that creates your love story"

Jennifer: If losing her mother didn't change everything, I know losing her sister certainly will.
Alex: I didn't know. How old were you when your sister died?
Jennifer: Eleven. She was seventeen.

David: Any idea who's behind it?
Penelope: Best guess is that's online collective known as Star Chamber. There one of several justice oriented groups that sprung up in the wake of the Steubenville rape case
Alex: Star Chamber? Interesting name
Dr. Spencer Reid: It's derived from the 17th century British court designed to ensure fair enforcement of laws against the rich and powerful
Penelope: Actually according to my research they named it that because it's also the name of a mediocre, yet awesome Michael Douglas movie from 1983

Dr. James Blake: Well?
Alex: Let's go visit Harvard.
Dr. James Blake: Really? You're gonna come?
Alex: On holidays and weekends.
[pause]
Alex: Boston's closer than south Sandistan.
Dr. James Blake: What happened to our veto power?
Alex: I know you want to be a couple again. I want that, too. But... I need this job. And one of the things that made me fall in love with you, is that you understood that about me.

David: He killed a woman this time.
Aaron: Yeah. She's also the first one he covered up. This is remorse. She wasn't part of the plan.
David: Which explains why he moved the body. She wasn't killed here.
Alex: The garrote was used postmortem. C.O.D. appears to be blunt-force trauma to the back of the head.
David: He didn't do a good job of covering this up.
Aaron: He's panicking. We find where she was killed, we find him.
Alex: Except no one even knows what her name is.
David: No ID, just a phone.
[Rossi plays the phone's voicemail]
Derek: Hi, my name is Derek Morgan with the FBI. I'm trying to locate a woman, first name Ashley. It's extremely important.
David: This is Ashley.

Alex: You don't want to know.
John: Reverse psychology. I'm not gonna beg for your analysis.
Alex: You don't have to beg. I already know how desperate you are for it.
John: I didn't remember you being so skittish.
Alex: No, you've never seen me in chains before?
John: I've seen you with your hands tied, so to speak. Erin Strauss and the Bureau discarded us. We were the forgotten ones
Alex: They forgot you. I did all right.
John: But they'll remember me now. You know, I admired you back then, leading the charge on the day it all changed, the day Erin Strauss ruined us. I sat next to you, borrowed your pen to sign my transfer. They put me in Kansas. Me. You know what I've been wondering? Why did Strauss change her mind about you?
Alex: Kept my head down and I worked hard.
John: We all did, but you got my chance.

Aaron: Hold on! Can you rewind that about 5 seconds? Take a look at Renee.
Alex: She's stealing!
Detective: She's a strip-miner! I can't believe I missed that. Strip-miners take money or chips left behind or unwatched by careless tourists. They dress to look like tourists themselves so they are not spotted by casino security.

Alex: He said he used eight locks because there used to be eight of us.
Aaron: That's all he said?
Alex: About that, yes.
Dr. Spencer Reid: There's only six keys. That mean two keys will be used twice. Each key is a letter, likely corresponds to a number on the locks. Seven, seventh letter of the alphabet's "g."
Aaron: What are the other letters?
Dr. Spencer Reid: Z, u, w... Zugzwang.
[pause]
Dr. Spencer Reid: It's too easy.

Alex: [sees Reid writing formulae] I always wondered what Spencer Reid's grocery list looked like.
Dr. Spencer Reid: Uh, it's actually, ih, Riemann's hypothesis.
Alex: Which is?
Dr. Spencer Reid: It's a mathematical conjecture from the 19th century that states that the Riemann Zeta function zeroes all lie on the critical line.
Alex: Yeah, I get it.
Dr. Spencer Reid: I noodle it from time to time. It sort of helps me unwind, you know?
Alex: Oh, well, since we're on the subject of unwinding, how'd your date go?
Dr. Spencer Reid: Uh, had to cancel at the last minute.
Alex: Oh? You did or she did?
Dr. Spencer Reid: Um, sort of both did, but... it's fine. I talked to her this morning and things are good.

Alex: Hold on. See how he wrote "Waiting on the taste of honey." It's got southern U.S. roots, but more specifically, it's Texas south, a sub-dialect of southern English found in the north-central part of the state. Right here, you wait for something that hasn't shown up, you wait on something that's nearby.
Dr. Spencer Reid: Then the taste of honey would be close.
Alex: Yes, and the storyteller is probably from north of here.

Derek: Blake?
Alex: Yeah, what's up?
Derek: I think I figured it out! Check every shelf in that house for a wooden box
Alex: What's in the box?
Derek: The answer to this case!

Dr. Spencer Reid: This is where a pimp works?
Alex: According to our local source, of all the pimps in town, this is the guy known for imported girls.
[Blake and Reid go into the shop and Blake plays the recorded voice]
Alex: Do you know who she is?
Dr. Spencer Reid: She's speaking Brazilian Portuguese if that helps jog your memory.
Leon: What am I, Rosetta Stone?
Alex: Well, we have reason to believe she's a prostitute. Any of your girls, maybe from 15 years back, speak Portuguese?
Leon: I don't know who sent you guys, but you obviously got the wrong idea about me. As you can plainly see, I'm a... purveyor of fine meats.
Dr. Spencer Reid: No, Leon, we were told that you run a pretty lucrative business on the side.
Leon: Now you're flattering me. I make a mean barbecue sauce, but I don't make much money on it.
Alex: You know, I find it interesting you haven't asked what any of this is about.
Leon: I have a dreadful lack of curiosity.
Alex: Well, let me fill you in. A child was murdered yesterday, and at his home they found blood on his front door. Pig's blood.
Dr. Spencer Reid: You know what? It actually just occurred to me, but I feel like this is the sort of shop you could find a lot of pig's blood.
Leon: Ah, you're right.
Dr. Spencer Reid: We're not saying you had anything to do with this, Leon. But we are saying that the F.B.I. is desperate for any leads, and it would be a shame if we had to shut your shop down to collect D.N.A. samples to try to identify the source of that pig's blood.
Leon: Now, look, I don't know nothin' about blood on a door. But I think I do remember something about a couple of Brazilian girls who used to work for a... an acquaintance of mine.
Dr. Spencer Reid: What were their names?
Leon: Raquel Castro and Luisa Gomez. Raquel moved back to Brazil in '95.
Alex: What about Luisa?
Leon: That bitch? She totally betrayed my buddy.
Alex: Did she walk out on him?
Leon: No. She married his best customer.

Alex: That means she was probably a tourist though.
Dr. Spencer Reid: Last year Las Vegas documented 39,727,022 visitors.

Alex: Wait, there's something else. All her communications are to Minnesota numbers. There's not one from California.
Dr. Spencer Reid: So she lived somewhere two months and didn't make any friends? I thought that only happened to me.

Penelope: His name is Tanner Johnson, and life has not been kind.
Jennifer: He lost a child, didn't he?
Penelope: Yeah, last year. Ten year old son Jeremy. According to reports, Jeremy was playing with a friend, they were, like, fake 'wrestling', when Tanner, a freelance photographer/night time doorman, got a call, left the room to take it; when he returned, his son was unconscious, the friend was trying to revive him from a chokehold gone horribly wrong.
Aaron: The son was strangled; that's why he uses a garrote.
Penelope: Jeremy was on life support for a few days, but he died.
Alex: And Tanner blames himself. He stopped watching for a minute and he lost his son.
David: He hasn't stopped watching since. The grief must have consumed him.
Jennifer: That's a hell of a stressor, but what triggered the murders?
Aaron: Garcia, what happened to Tanner's wife? Did the marriage survive?
Penelope: Uh... nope. She kicked him out two months ago. Right before the killings started.
Jennifer: So he loses his child, then his wife and home. It's enough to make anyone unstable.
Alex: Add guilt to that, and it's all too much. He dissociated.
David: Paternal transference. Claimed the residents of the apartment building as his family.

Dr. Spencer Reid: This place brings back memories. When I was a kid, I made a model of the universe out of salt.
Alex: Was it for a school project?
Dr. Spencer Reid: No, it was a birthday present for Carl Sagan, but I don't think he ever got it.

Dr. Spencer Reid: [Blake's phone beeps] You want me to...
Alex: No.
Dr. Spencer Reid: You want to talk about what's bothering you?
Alex: No. Nothing's bothering me.
Dr. Spencer Reid: Something's bothering you. I can always tell when you're bothered because you whisper lyrics to yourself. Hip-hop specifically. I thought it was odd at first, but then I remembered your dissertation was on the fluidity of metaphor. You seem to have a particular fondness for Nas.
Alex: Wow. How did you know?
Dr. Spencer Reid: Morgan made me listen to him when we started working together. He said anybody that can't quote Illmatic is ignorant. So, do you want to talk about it?
Alex: Uh, the text, it's from my husband.
Dr. Spencer Reid: Is that a bad thing?
Alex: He just wants to know if I've thought about his offer.
Dr. Spencer Reid: What offer?
Alex: To teach with him at Harvard.
Dr. Spencer Reid: How would you... Ah.
Alex: Yeah.
Dr. Spencer Reid: Tough call. What do you think you're gonna do?
Alex: When we got married, part of the attraction was that we were both obsessed with our work, and for a while that was okay.
Dr. Spencer Reid: Yeah, the last time we talked about it, you seemed to prefer it.
Alex: Oh, not anymore. I don't like going home to an empty house.
Dr. Spencer Reid: May I offer some advice?
Alex: Sure.
Dr. Spencer Reid: We need to turn around. You just passed the house.
Alex: Oh.
Dr. Spencer Reid: [car arrives at the house] That's not the advice, though. Blake, for the last ten years, this job has been my life. And then, for a few months, I had a taste of what you have. So, work. There's always work, and there'll always be work. What's rare is finding someone who makes us happy.

Donny: Fifteen years! Fifteen years and not a peep from the FBI! No letter, no email, no "Sorry we turned your life upside down, Donnie." Nothing!
Alex: Well, it must feel real good to release it after all these years.
Donny: You're damn right. Those nurses that I bled out, this time they're your fault. You people made me into this.
Jennifer: All right, so that is why you followed us across the country and copycat these? You wanted us to look as bad as you did. I mean, it's just an awful lot of work, Donnie. We have New Mexico, Dallas, D.C.
Donny: What are those? What are you talking about?
Alex: We found your photo collection, the one hidden under your bed, and your victim's eyelids, too.
Donny: What?
Jennifer: Just cooperate with us, Donnie, tell us everything, and give yourself a chance to see your girls again.
Donny: I want my lawyer. And a phone call. I get a phone call.

Alex: [opening voiceover] "The world breaks everyone, and afterward, many are stronger at the broken places." - Ernest Hemingway

Detective: Hello?
Damon: You're late.
Alex: Like... what... five minutes.
Damon: You're still late.
Detective: Hey Pop.
Damon: How's the melon?
Detective: It's all right. It's fine.
Damon: Uh, you two made up, didn't you? Yeah, I figured... been doing that since you were kids. Fight like cats and dogs, then forget about it 10 minutes later. Used to drive your mother crazy. Then she'd drive me crazy.
Detective: Hey, Pop, you know she got shot?
Alex: Oh, that's great.
Detective: Well...
Damon: Yeah, I heard.
Alex: You heard?
Penelope: Mr. Miller? We need more ice.
Damon: Help yourself.
Penelope: Hey, what's up?... You must be Scott. I'm Penelope.
Detective: Hi.
Alex: What are you doing here?
Damon: I invited them.
Penelope: Yeah. It's only a two-and-a-half-hour flight. When I hear Kansas City barbecue, I come a runnin', for the sides and the fixings. I'm a vegetarian.
Alex: What do you mean, them?
[comes out to the garden]
Alex: Oh, you're all here. My words are colliding.
Aaron: And your dad promised ribs.
Derek: And your pops is no joke on this grill.
Damon: Can't celebrate unless the whole family's here.
Alex: I can't argue with that.

Jennifer: While we initially thought Barry Flynn might be a suspect, it turns out we're looking for one of his followers, an unsub who suffers from erotomania. He's obsessed with Flynn, his latest abductee, and he may believe that Flynn's also in love with him.
Dr. Spencer Reid: Erotomania has very little to do with sex. It's a romantic or spiritual connection that erotomanics crave. Victims of the delusion tend to be from a higher social status and have done very little to stimulate or encourage such a belief.
David: In fact, it's likely the unsub and Barry Flynn have had no previous contact. His infatuation probably began from afar, considering Flynn's celebrity status.
Alex: The patience required to commit his crimes makes us believe he's a male in his late thirties to forties, who is single and socially immature. He's a loner with poor social skills.
Derek: And although he is capable of holding down a job, he most likely neglects his duties to focus on his obsession. This is a guy who spends much of his time living in his delusional fantasy world, and he may have been tracking Flynn for quite some time.
Aaron: And with erotomania, the most likely recipient of violence is the person standing in the way of the desired object.
Alex: It's possible the unsub witnessed an interaction between his two first victims and Flynn, killing them in a jealous rage.
Jennifer: Another possibility is that the unsub killed them to prove his devotion.
Dr. Spencer Reid: The weapon used had a ceremonial quality to it, which means the unsub probably views these victims as sacrifices, and the messages he is leaving may be meant for Flynn.
Derek: In his head, he may believe that he's already involved in a personal relationship with Flynn, and now that Flynn is under his control, the situation is especially precarious.
David: If the unsub is under the delusion that Flynn also cares about him, then any misstep by Flynn that contradicts that belief could lead to more victims, or even Flynn's own murder to prove they have a special bond.
Aaron: And with each passing hour, it's increasingly unlikely that Flynn will be able to match the unsub's expectations for him, so we must act quickly. Thank you.

Alex: Did you guys ever compare lists, the different people you dated?
Dr. Spencer Reid: November 4th, 3:46 p.m. I asked her if she dated a lot growing up.
Dr. Maeve Donovan: [in Reid's recollection] No way. Do you know how many Friday nights I had where it was just me and a microscope?
Dr. Spencer Reid: I thought that was just me.
Dr. Maeve Donovan: [laughs] Oh, come on. Girls must have adored you in high school.
Dr. Spencer Reid: I was twelve. It was kind of... confusing. Once I got a note from this girl I had crush on. She thought I was cute but would only meet me if I wore a blindfold. I did, and she took my shirt off. That's when I heard the laughter. Most of the senior class was in there.
Alex: Oh, sounds awful.
Dr. Spencer Reid: Maeve thought so, too.
Dr. Maeve Donovan: When we finally meet, I'm going to make blindfolds fun again.

David: As you all know, Eddie Lee Wilcox is armed and dangerous.
Jennifer: He's also smart and criminally sophisticated. He knows police procedure and how to use it.
Dr. Spencer Reid: He's flush with cash from his robbery in Chicago, but he'll try to maintain a low profile, so he may resort to his robbery skills at some point.
Derek: Eddie's a car thief. And he's a good one, so he'll switch vehicles often.
Jennifer: He was last seen in a Chevy minivan, but we do not count on him being in it for long.
Derek: So canvass crowded parking lots and malls. That's most likely where he'll ditch cars and find new ones.
David: We've been calling this a child abduction, but Eddie's daughter Samantha may actually be an unwitting participant.
Alex: We know she wanted to run away from home, and her father's somehow taking advantage of that.
Derek: This guy's evolved into a sociopathic spree killer, and he's got the ego of a career criminal, so there's no telling how far he'll go to save himself.
David: That ego may be feeding a sort of pipe dream that if he does escape, he may actually get to have a healthy relationship with his daughter.
Jennifer: A relationship he believes was taken from him.
Alex: But when reality sets in, his dream will be shattered and that's when Samantha will be in the most danger.
Dr. Spencer Reid: The majority of these cases end in either murder-suicide or suicide by cop.
Jennifer: Up to this point, we've been reacting to him, but the roadblocks and the media blitz are set up to make him react to us.
Derek: So if you spot him, call for backup and proceed with extreme caution. He's probably sleep deprived and irrational.
David: The closer we get, the more dangerous he becomes.

Alex: It's funny about this job, it's it? The extremes.
David: Yeah, well, it's always been that way. One of the best days in my career turned out to be one of the worst. July 16th 1983, child abduction turned murder. The guy we napped killed five boys and there were cases we already tracked. It was such a victory in knowing that we'd stopped him hurting anyone else. When I got home my bags were packed. Caroline had had enough, I'd forgotten our anniversary again. As well as all the other little things that didn't seem important, because saving lives trumped everything, so I let ours die. Ah, well, it's the great balance of life. It finds its way to knock your legs away

Detective: And I don't know why you made me so mad.
Alex: Because I'm your sister. It's normal for siblings to resent each other.
Detective: Okay, what is that? What, is that your profile of me? Resent?... Look, I don't resent you, Alex. I miss you.
Alex: You sure have a funny way of showing it.
Detective: ...You know, after Danny died, you just left. And then with mom, it's like you just stopped coming around altogether. It's like here you are, my big sister, and you just bailed.
Alex: I couldn't stay here, Scott.
Detective: I know. You know what? Trust me, I get it, I figured it out. But the funny thing is, here you are this hotshot linguist... and you can never say anything. You never call, you never write... nothing.

Derek: You and Strauss got a little history?
Alex: Ah. In another life.
Derek: There's a story in there.

Aaron: It's possible we're dealing with a terrorist organization with one man at the center. We're basing our profile on his motivation.
Derek: We believe these children were abducted by a preferential offender who targets pre-pubescent boys.
Alex: Our unsub is likely a male in his forties, with some military or law enforcement training.
Jennifer: We think he has a secluded location that provides enough privacy to hold his victims captive for several years.
David: In that time, he breaks these kids down, rebuilds them to be hardened soldiers.
Dr. Spencer Reid: We believe they're suffering from an extreme case of Stockholm syndrome. Much like Patty Hearst, who came to view the SLA as her new family and the rest of the world as adversaries, we believe he's attempting to instill this same feeling within his army.
Derek: He likely uses military torture techniques to get his victims to see his enemies as their own.
Dr. Spencer Reid: He puts them through a rigorous and punishing military training regimen in order to prepare them mentally and physically for his war.
Derek: And once this happens, the physical threats stop and the reprogramming begins.
Jennifer: And now that he has their trust, he maintains this connection by bolstering them with love and affection.
David: His connection to them is important. It ensures once they're released, they will not deviate from their orders.
Alex: His ultimate target has yet to be determined, but it could be as broad as American citizens.
Dr. Spencer Reid: These attacks have been well orchestrated, methodical, and extremely violent in order to maximize destruction and panic.
Aaron: Which is why we need to get ahead of him in order to prevent more bloodshed. But in order to do that, we need to identify the source of his rage.

Derek: JJ, you okay?
Jennifer: They don't have any place safe to be.
Alex: It's not ideal, but they'll be in foster care until they find a family.
David: Yeah, but how many more kids like that are out there?
Aaron: That's a good question.

Penelope: Two women, Sarah Beck and Jill Elks, were found in a park in Glendale, Arizona within the last three days. Both of them were single in their late twenties, and following their normal low-risk routines when they were abducted.
Alex: Where we they taken from?
Penelope: Sarah was on her way to her theater group rehearsal, and Jill was abducted form her apartment. The unsub broke in through a window.
Dr. Spencer Reid: Well, clearly he's hunting a specific type.
Derek: He left the jewelry untouched.
Aaron: Yeah, it's not about robbery.
Penelope: Both women were sexually assaulted and then they were shot in the heart and left in that... prayer position.
Jennifer: It's odd.
David: Maybe it's religious. Looks like they're leaning on a cross.
Derek: Their hands are titled forward.
Dr. Spencer Reid: He could have made them supplicate and their hands clenched in rigor mortis.
Jennifer: So they're possibly trying to atone for their sins.
Alex: I doubt that. Both women have pretty clean backgrounds.
Dr. Spencer Reid: Since the posing was done postmortem, maybe it's representation of the way in which he made them beg for their lives.
David: We've definitely seen that before.
Aaron: Hmm. He's getting off on the power. Let's head to Arizona. Wheels up in thirty.

Aaron: We believe that this unsub is a white male in his 20s or 30s, and he thinks of himself as a painter or an artist.
Alex: The placement of the victims tells us a lot about who he is.
Jennifer: Pamela Hurd was found near a painting done by a little-known San Francisco artist, Henry Floyd.
Derek: Gary Porter was posed near a piece of graffiti art by a street artist named Cypher, who is currently wanted by the police.
Aaron: And the third victim, Lynn Stevens, was found near a mural painted by inner-city youths.
Alex: Finally, Amy Fortner was placed near the statue of St. Luke, patron saint of the artist.
Jennifer: This is a compulsion; it's not accidental. He is obsessed with art.
David: All of the works of art are neglected, ignored, cast aside. It's how he feels about himself.
Aaron: We believe it's also the reason that he's evolved into removing the victims' eyelids. He's forcing them to see what he sees.
Jennifer: There's no sexual component with these murders, but that's because the blood and the use of the blood is his sexual release.
Det. Lennon Miles: So, wait. What... what is he doing with the blood?
Aaron: Because he's so obsessed with art, we believe he's painting with it.
David: He has a quick kill pace. More blood means more paint. The more paintings he does, the greater the chance someone will recognize his work.
Aaron: We think that because of his need for acceptance, he may be trying to sell the paintings, so focus your canvassing on places that might sell this kind of fringe art.

Derek: We believe that the unsub that we're looking for is a woman who's trying to get pregnant. She's experiencing what we call black widow maternal desire. She has a desperate need for a child, which most likely stems from the recent loss of one.
Alex: That child may have died or been taken away in a custody situation.
Dr. Spencer Reid: She's drugging her male victims in order to keep them under her control for forty-eight hours, and we believe she's using them as breeding partners to help replace the child that she lost.
David: Her victims are surrogates for a male figure in her life. One she may have already killed. He could be a boyfriend or husband who most likely fathered the child she lost.
Aaron: And the signs of torture indicate that she may blame the child's father for this loss and is exacting her revenge on these victims.
Alex: After they're dead, she dismembers them for easier disposal.
Derek: The strength required to do this, and transport body parts, it's likely that she's working with a submissive partner she dominates with her agenda.
David: Based on the sophistication and patience required for these crimes, we believe this unsub is probably in her thirties and no older than her early forties, if pregnancy is her goal.
Jennifer: And she works at night, luring victims from parties or bars. She may even have an illness, or feign one to gain their sympathy.
Aaron: Chad Dumont's been missing for almost thirty hours, and if the unsub keeps to her schedule, he may still be alive. But time is of the essence.
Dr. Spencer Reid: Even though the first two victims are dead, we can certainly step up our game so we can give the victims' families some answers
Aaron: Thank you.

Thane: Look, I think I'd like my phone call now.
Erin: You could do that, sure.
David: Or, we could play a little game called "Let's Make a Deal."
Liz: I don't want to make any deals without my lawyer.
Alex: Yeah, this one you do. See, this is what somebody did to your boss.
David: You see, Thane, whoever it is that's out there, he managed to get to Jim Peters outside of his apartment.
Jennifer: The person who did that isn't very happy right now, and he is waiting, just waiting to get his hands on someone else connected to your club's operation. And you know what we're gonna do?
Erin: We're gonna let you go.
Thane: You're what?
David: What makes you think that if he was able to get to the big boss, he'd have any trouble getting his hands on you?
Alex: So, like I said, we're gonna let you walk right out of here...
Liz: All right. I'll tell you what you want to know. Just...
Thane: You have to protect me.

Penelope: Beantown has turned into Chokeville. Three victims, all male, wallets stolen.
Aaron: The unsub uses a garrote to strangle his victims. He strikes at night, and there have been no witnesses.
David: How much did he get?
Aaron: What's odd. Each of the victims' socio-economically is lower to middle class. It's doubtful there would have been much cash, and there have been no charge attempts on any of the credit cards.
Alex: So the murders might not be about money at all. Taking the wallets could be a forensic countermeasure to delay victim identification.
Penelope: That could be the sitch with the first two victims, but the latest one, Scott Delfino, he was on the phone with his roommate when he was attacked; call cut out unexpectedly, repeated callbacks went straight to voicemail.
Aaron: And Delfino's body was found an hour later, indications were that he'd been blitzed.
Dr. Spencer Reid: Which speaks to the killer's prep work, but also his desperation. He chose a location to lay in wait, but wasn't capable of adapting to a target on the phone.
Jennifer: Well, that could be arrogance getting in the way, making his organization appear mixed. To me, that screams false confidence.
Derek: Which means the desperation is what's driving him. It's not about the kills, it's about what the murders represent.
Jennifer: He's mission oriented. He doesn't want to kill them, he has to.
David: Which suggests the unsub has no personal connection to his victims.
Alex: Except choking as a kill method is extremely personal. He feels each victim take their last breath.
Derek: What if the wallets are a form of depersonalization? He's stripping his victims of their identities.
Dr. Spencer Reid: Which means he may feel stripped of his own. If the wallets are trophies, he could be seeking recognition for his work.
Aaron: And he may not stop killing until he gets that recognition. Let's go.

Dr. Spencer Reid: The praying mantis can kill and eat a multitude of creatures but the most interesting fact is that oftentimes the female mantis engages in sexual cannibalism, meaning she'll bite off the head of her mate once copulation is complete, sometimes even during intercourse, actually.
Alex: So, that's what someone did to our UnSub.
Dr. Spencer Reid: It also explains why he shoots his victims in the heart.
Jennifer: But the center of our UnSub's anger didn't bite off his head.
Dr. Spencer Reid: No, but she hurt him so badly that she got into his brain.
Alex: So, he's flipping the script.
Dr. Spencer Reid: He's completely taking it over. He basically sees the victims as the praying mantis out to destroy him, so before they can get to him, he rapes them, forces them to engage in cannibalism, thereby taking away their control of the situation. He's essentially walking them through the mating behavior of a captive praying mantis, only entirely on his terms. He even mirrors the decapitation of the insect by forcing them to eat pieces of a human head, only it's not a male human head, it's a female human head.
Aaron: The woman that's the core of his rage.
Dr. Spencer Reid: Exactly. Now all women are his enemy. They're his predators and he believes they're out to get him.

Dr. Spencer Reid: To switch from male child victims to a female adult's highly unusual.
Alex: The last call went to Malcolm's cell phone. Maybe this is personal, just like torturing Richard Clayvin in the psychiatric unit was.
Dr. Spencer Reid: The fathers could be the real target of the unsub's rage.

Dr. Spencer Reid: Up until now, he's been an equal opportunity, anger retaliatory sadist.
David: Which is fancy talk for he hates the husbands as much as the wives.
Dr. Spencer Reid: Most likely because his own marriage failed in a humiliating way, and his wife left him for a man she may be engaged or even already married to.
Derek: But a major shift happened with Mary Hammond. He wasn't able to kidnap the husband, but he needed someone to cut her.
Jennifer: So his MO was forced to evolve. We believe he's abducted the sixth victim, a man, probably someone who reminds him of his own failed marriage.
Alex: And he's keeping number six alive so he can repeat the process with Emma Churchill.
David: Number six could be a surrogate for the ex-wife's new husband or actually be the new husband.
Dr. Spencer Reid: Which is why the fastest way to find this UnSub is through this most recent unknown victim.

Dr. Spencer Reid: I talked to three farmers with three different strands of barbed wire stolen. None of them saw the thief, but they all swear it was the same person: The Mountain Man!
Alex: Should we have Garcia look into it as a pseudonym?
Dr. Spencer Reid: I think maybe we should hold off on that. The Mountain Man seems to be a confluence of several local legends. Some say he's part of the backwoods Appalachian population, others say he's a confederate holdout trying to start a second civil war to turn brother against brother. But the one thing they all could agree upon is that when you go into a darkened bathroom and you chant "I hate The Mountain Man" three times, he'll pop up behind you and kill you the next time you hear Lynyrd Skynyrd on the radio!

Aaron: Dave, a figure 8?
David: That's what it look like. I just sent you all a picture.
Dr. Spencer Reid: Maybe it's an infinity symbol.
Alex: Well, if it's infinity, he could be boasting "I'll go on forever"?
Derek: Or if it's an 8. Strauss was his 8th victim.
Jennifer: And the unofficial 8th member of our team.

Alex: Was this house remodeled?
Dr. Spencer Reid: It's a Tudor revival house, which means it was built in the 1940s. But I see hardware fixtures from the 1980s, composite window moldings from 2000...
Alex: That would be yes.

Penelope: Ladies and gents, the Golden State awaits. Meet who is formerly Gary Porter. He was found dead outside a San Francisco nightclub last night, and Pamela Hurd, she was found near a cable car stop in San Francisco's Mission district.
Jennifer: They were both found wrapped in clear plastic.
Derek: It says here they were dead only a few hours before they were found, and that's not long enough for the elements to have made them that pale.
Penelope: 'Cause that's where we enter the town of Weirdville on the corner of eww and icky icky. Both victims were almost completely drained of their blood. Less than a pint left.
Alex: He's exsanguinating them.
Aaron: While they were still alive.
Derek: Well, it might be utilitarian. He needs them alive so they can pump out the blood themselves.
David: Draining a body like that is extremely hard to do. Once the heart stops pumping, it's difficult to continue to extract the blood.
Alex: So the question is how is he doing it?
Penelope: Oh, I wish you wouldn't ask that, 'cause now I've gotta show this picture.
Aaron: There are large bore holes in the femoral artery of each victim.
Jennifer: Our unsub could have medical knowledge.
Aaron: It's possible. We'll know more when we get there. Wheels up in thirty.

Dr. Spencer Reid: You know what's odd? Usually in cannibalism, it's the visceral organs and the fleshy parts being eaten. But this UnSub is making the victims eat exclusively from the head. Why?
Alex: That may be symbolic. It's the one body part a person cannot survive losing.

Emma: My daughter will be dead by then.
Alex: I believe you, Emma. I can see how sick she is. I talked to your doctor.
Emma: Dr. Gourse? You... you talked to Dr. Gourse?
Alex: Yes. He said Lexy is too sick for this to work. This man's blood won't do anything.
Emma: But it has to. It's all I have left.
Alex: No. No. What can cure Lexy is what cured you. Funeral homes are required by law to keep a portion of the remains of those that they cremate. These are your husband's ashes. Only these will make your daughter well.

Alex: If I were you, I'd give your vacation days away to a colleague in need.
David: [snaps fingers] Garcia, see how many people in the bureau have spouses in the military serving overseas.
Penelope: I am on it. Altruism is sexy.
Aaron: [walks in] Yes, it is.

David: Blake found one potential lead. It was the last client that Debbie kept before she went off the grid. It was by the name of Mr. Smith
Aaron: Will Mr. Smith talk to us?
David: Once Blake promised that we wouldn't ruin his marriage. She's bringing in him now
[Blake enters with a woman and points her to the interview room; Blake walks to the others]
David: Who is that?
Alex: Mr. Smith!
David: [All three at the same time] Aaahh

Dr. Spencer Reid: We have to hope Maya follows the rules. The shelter says the women are supposed to remain in hiding for at least two months. They're supposed to stay behind closed windows, closed doors. Volunteers bring supplies and food to them.
Agent: Maya left her husband six weeks ago, so the killer's gotta wait another two weeks for her to come out. There's a good chance he'll give up. He can't wait forever.
Aaron: Well, a sniper can wait up to seventy-two hours without sleeping.
Agent: Seriously?
David: That's part of their training. They can stay awake for seventy-two hours and reamin completely focused on their target.
Agent: How?
Aaron: By using a mental exercise called fantasy integration. The sniper creates a scenario involving the target that keeps that person at the forefront of their mind.
Derek: Often, they'll imagine a place where they're with the target doing something together that takes time; for example, building a car.
Jennifer: For some, the fantasy begins the minute they're assigned a target, and nothing will distract them.
Agent: So as long as she stays inside, she should be safe, right?
Alex: The problem is staying cooped up for a couple months without a breath of fresh air is hard to do.
David: It's what the sniper's counting on, and she has no idea he's waiting for her.

Alex: You're gonna need a bigger copying machine!

Penelope: [the team reminisces about Strauss] Do you guys remember that one time that she called me, but I thought that it was somebody else?
[indicates Morgan]
Derek: Oh, no.
Jennifer: That... that was funny.
Penelope: Oh, maybe to you. I was mortified.
Alex: What did you say?
Penelope: [laughing] I said "Talk dirty to me."
Derek: Yes, she did.
Alex: [open-mouthed surprise] Are you kidding?

Alex: I don't feel comfortable speculating in front of them.
Derek: What about the rest of us?
Alex: Dr. Reid and I are coming up theories. You're welcome to join us.

Alex: Hackers have signatures?
Penelope: Sometimes. Usually it's a message in the code to let other pros know, "Hey, this one was me." And in this case, the signature matches the DOJ hack, and it is, "Happy Fun Meow Meow."
Jennifer: Sorry, what?
Penelope: "Happy Fun Meow Meow."
David: What the hell does that mean?
Aaron: It was Garcia's signature before she joined the BAU.

Alex: 2 out of 10 again. But this is the third victim that we know about, so it can't be about a hit list.
Dr. Spencer Reid: 2 out of 10 isn't a countdown at all. I think he might be referring to a hobo code.
Alex: From the Great Depression?
Dr. Spencer Reid: Exactly. It means two eyes on ten fingers because thieves are present.

Dr. Spencer Reid: Braden certainly would be vulnerable. Unlike classic autism, language ability is intact in people with Asperger's. They appear to lack empathy and have trouble reading social cues. Albert Einstein supposedly had it, as do some well-known Silicon Valley types.
Alex: Well, how about you?
Dr. Spencer Reid: What's that?

David: Garcia? I don't get it. Didn't the car companies give you the same GPS data?
Penelope: [Agitated] Yes, they did. But the meta-data has to be translated into latitude and longitude, which is like looking for a needle in a needle stack in a field of needles!
Alex: Can't you match the dates? We know he breaks into the cars three days beforehand
Penelope: But that would imply there's a timestamp on each of the numbers, which there's not, thank you very much. And forgive my tone, but I'm frustrated
[computer starts finding matches]
Penelope: Wait! My mood is changing. We may have a lotto here!

Jennifer: Okay, it takes a lot of strength to rip out someone's tongue. It's one of the strongest muscles in the body.
Aaron: The M.E. is still trying to determine whether it was done ante or postmortem.
Dr. Spencer Reid: According to Chinese mythology, one of the most dreadful punishments in the 18 levels of hell involves having one's tongue ripped out. It's considered to be one of the most horrific forms of torture.
Alex: It's also symbolic, used to punish liars and anti-regime activists.

Penelope: [Hotch has called the team back into the office] You must be peeved.
Alex: I get to Dulles, make it through security, about to board the plane to Boston and bam, I get the call.
Penelope: I say we all demand a vacation.
Dr. Spencer Reid: From who, the guy that works three jobs? Good luck with that.

Alex: I know that look. The wheels are turning.
David: I've seen this before. Muzzle flash burns. We'd occasionally see this on POWs in Vietnam.
Alex: So someone held a gun to his head and repeatedly fired blanks.
Dr. Spencer Reid: It's incredibly risky, especially considering the margin of error when holding the barrel of a gun to someone's temporal bone. The discharge alone can cause a skull to shatter.
David: Which means not only did this person want to put the fear of god into Gavin, but he knew exactly how to do it without killing him.
Alex: This poor kid was tortured.
Dr. Spencer Reid: Or trained. What if whoever did this wanted to make sure if he got caught, he'd never talk?

Alex: What's the deal? Something's not right, Spencer!
Dr. Spencer Reid: What do you mean? Why did you come back?
Alex: Don't answer a question with a question!

Alex: You know, by the way, no offense earlier when I suggested you had Asperger's.
Dr. Spencer Reid: None taken. When did you do that?
Alex: Ah... , and that's what I love about you. You're not overly sensitive like some people. I mean, think about how much time we'd save if everyone just got straight to the point.
Dr. Spencer Reid: Yeah. Cut out all the handshakes and how-do-you-dos.
Alex: Yeah.

Alex: A 25-year dormancy period is highly unusual.
Dr. Spencer Reid: But not unheard of. A number of serial killers have had long intervals of time between kills. BTK, Jeffrey Dahmer, the Keystone Killer, Jack the Ripper and the Zodiac Killer appear to have even stopped completely.

Aaron: Everything alright?
Alex: Ehm, yeah, sorry, just, I'm distracted.
Dr. Spencer Reid: Perfectly understandable. Familiar sounds, visual cues, even olfactory inputs can trigger memories and emotions we thought were long gone; happens to me every time I go home too.
Aaron: When was the last time you were back?
Dr. Spencer Reid: It's been like 422 days.
Aaron: I was talking to Blake.
Alex: Ah, it's been about five years.
Aaron: It's a long time.
Alex: Yeah, once I got out of Kansas City I pretty much wanted to stay out.

Alex: He removed the white blood cells. Plasma.
David: Why would he take the plasma?
Aaron: It would make it thicker. Easier to use as a paint.
Derek: What type of equipment would it take to do that?
Alex: You can easily buy a centrifuge online these days for couple hundred bucks.
Aaron: What other reasons would he have for separating the plasma from the blood?
Dr. Spencer Reid: It's a habit.
Aaron: Reid.
Jennifer: Spence.
Aaron: I didn't expect you back this soon. You sure you're ready?
Dr. Spencer Reid: No, but I think I figured something out.

Derek: These guys are replicating a video game?
David: In the game, you take over a form of public transportation. Subway, train, bus. That's how you get your players.
Alex: Wait a minute. You've played this game before?
David: Well, I may have played it once or twice. As I remember, the game consists of five players. Captain, lieutenant, a pair of soldiers, and the pawn.

Aaron: Garcia, Heather Clarke is the victim that our unsub's been feeding to the others.
Penelope: Yikes.
Aaron: See if she had any enemies.
Penelope: [typing] No. I mean, she was her company's top regional manager, she... she looks loved.
David: Well, the unsub's rage has probably been brewing for a long time.
Alex: And he most likely expressed his disdain for her long before he killed her.
Derek: Baby girl, check middle and high school records.
Penelope: [typing again] No, zero. Zero, there's nothing there.
David: There's gotta be something. See if her parents ever filed a restraining order.
Penelope: [finding a result] Oh, creepy bingo.

Alex: The origin of "nice" is 12th century Middle English, meaning "foolish" or "stupid." I hope you're referring to the modern use of the adjective.
[pause]
Alex: You must be Penelope. I'm Alex Blake.
Penelope: Nice to meet you. Really, actually nice in the nicest of ways nice.

Alex: Identical twins! What are the odds?
David: About 3.5 per thousand
[Alex gazes at David]
David: Well, I asked the Reid the same question.

Alex: There you are. How's the geographical profiling going, and why are you doing it in here?
Dr. Spencer Reid: It's going good. I'm-I'm having trouble concentrating out there is all, so I came in here.
Alex: Hmm. So, what's with you today? Is this about... Phone Booth Girl?
Dr. Spencer Reid: She wants to meet.
Alex: Wait. You guys have never met?
[Reid shakes no]
Alex: Aren't you curious what she looks like?
Dr. Spencer Reid: Oh, it-it doesn't matter what she looks like. I mean, she's already the most beautiful girl in the world to me, it's just... what if SHE doesn't like ME?
Alex: Why wouldn't she like you?
Dr. Spencer Reid: Because I'm weird. I slouch, my hair's too long, my tie's perpetual crooked.
Alex: You hair's fine.
Dr. Spencer Reid: Really? Thanks. My mom thinks it's too long, so does my aunt Ethel.
Alex: Well, you're not dating them.
Dr. Spencer Reid: It's... I-I just wouldn't wanna ruin something so special over something so trivial as looks.
Alex: I think you're excited, but afraid.
[Reid shakes yes]
Alex: Seeing her will only make the relationship better. Trust me. When does she want to meet?
Dr. Spencer Reid: Right when we get back.
Alex: Do it. Don't psych yourself out.
Dr. Spencer Reid: We'll see.

Aaron: The unsub we're looking for is a dangerous voyeur, who feeds off the thrill of knowing his victims can't see him.
Dr. Spencer Reid: Typically, voyeurs are non-violent and content to remain bystanders. This one is different; he's on a mission that includes taking action.
Aaron: And in that mission, he didn't hesitate to kill a teenage boy. Anyone who stands between him and his goal is at risk.
Alex: We believe he's documenting his work. He's taking pictures and collects personal connections to his victims; their wallets and their hair.
David: It's important to him to have proof of what he's doing.
Derek: Voyeurs like to create fantasies in their heads of what the objects of their obsession should be like.
David: He creates a character identity instead of a reality, and when a person steps outside of the parameters that the unsub has set for them, he strikes.
Jennifer: This unsub appears to be triggered by males acting on what he perceives to be character flaws. Seemingly innocuous infractions to us are magnified in the unsub's psychosis.
Aaron: Based on the planning and sophistication of the kills, we believe that he's in his late thirties or forties.
Dr. Spencer Reid: The geographic profile tells us this unsub is not only dumping his victims downtown, he's hunting there, too.
Derek: So this is where we need to redouble our efforts. Go building to building, door to door. This guy's a fly on the wall; he's able to leanr secrets without anyone realizing he's there.
Alex: He'll have a job that involves very little social interaction, but that puts him in a position where he can observe others unnoticed.
Jennifer: So we should look at service workers, groundskeepers, anyone paid to be invisible.
Aaron: And we need to move quickly. This unsub is approaching some sort of perceived deadline. The closer it gets, the more erratic and dangerous he'll become.

David: Hey? You're sure you're okay?
Alex: Oh yeah! It's nothing.
Dr. Spencer Reid: A couple of inches to your right and he could have hit your brachial artery. All things considered you were extraordinarily lucky.
Alex: Yeah, luck had nothing to do with it, I'm practically bullet proof.
David: Yeah, I heard that about you.

Carla: Wallace was out of control. He forced us to come here. He was gonna shoot us both. Thank God, Jesse was stronger than he was.
Wallace: [pretends to be Jesse Gentry] I'll only talk to my lawyer.
Aaron: Take them both into custody.
Alex: Show me your hands.
David: We'll fingerprint him at the station, see who matches who.
Aaron: Fingerprint analysis isn't an exact science. A good defense lawyer can poke holes in it.
David: Juries expect DNA, and DNA isn't gonna make the case here.
Aaron: No, but behavior might. Sergeant, I need you to do something.

David: Anything?
Derek: Well, these women practically lived online. Their posts went up 5, 6 times an hour
Derek: [Reads a post] "Brian used his own toilet for the first time today"
Alex: Ah, cut her some slack, she's excited her son is potty trained!
David: Brian is her Cocker Spaniel!

Alex: [closing, voiceover] Alfred Austin said, "Show me your garden, and I shall tell you what you are."

Dr. Spencer Reid: You know, the fact is, this is an experienced sniper who can account for timing. After the first shot, no one moves. People are puzzled. Everyone's reaction is to look for a source of the sound. After the second shot, it takes the average person one and a half seconds to cognitively process that they're in a potentially life-threatening situation. It takes another .7 seconds for a physical response to kick in, by which time the third shot has already been fired.
Jennifer: So the unsub wanted victim number three.
Alex: Well, anyone after number three had a chance of getting away, and the unsub wouldn't have taken that risk.

Alex: Look at his posture... He's too agitated... There is something odd about his syntax I can't... that I can't explain.
Detective: And why is that? Because that profile's too complicated for me?
Alex: Really?... Really?... Right now?... Please, Scott, for once, just go with me here.

Alex: [opening quote] "The past is never dead. It is not even past" - William Faulker

Penelope: I am all over the DOJ names including support staff. I have Kevin pulling files and photos. System is down, so it's hard to track entire career paths, but there were two agents in New York in 2001. Scratch that, Lehman died in October, that leaves Curtis.
Alex: Wait a second. John Curtis?
Penelope: You know him?
Alex: I haven't seen him in a long time. He was a nice guy. We were first office agents together, but I thought he left the Bureau after Amerithrax case.
Aaron: Could it be him? Does he fit the profile?
Alex: He was quiet and a loner, but brilliant. He specialized in a lot of fields, but his passion was biochemistry.

Andre: Welcome, my name is Andre. Before we start, I'll need you to fill out a small waiver.
Alex: No, no, no, no, we're not a couple.
Andre: That's okay. We cater all kinds of relationships.
David: Well, our relationship is with the FBI.

Alex: Fingernail polish was removed... crudely!
Linda: A mixture of citrus juice and vinegar. And when that didn't do the trick the polish was roughly scraped off with a sharp object
David: Not how I remembered my ex-wives removing their polish
Alex: Well, this was done to her, not by her

Jennifer: No signs of forced entry or a struggle, according to the initial police report.
Penelope: Mom and dad put him to bed at ten. Woke up this morning, he was gone.
Alex: Any visitors or workers to the house recently?
Penelope: No, but the parents say in the last two weeks, they've received five phone calls from what sounds like a little boy prank calling them.
Aaron: They complained to authorities, but police determined that no laws had been broken.
Penelope: Mm-hmm. The little boy says "I'm gonna get you", according to police reports. There's a lot of crazy people talking in the background; it sounds like it's coming from an asylum or prison.
Derek: Well, I'd say the calls might coincidental, except the boy called again right after the parents found Andy missing, and he had a different message this time; "Did you see what I did?".
Jennifer: So he's taunting them. Maybe this is about revenge.
Alex: "I'm gonna get you" is typically a threat, but in the case of children, it can also be a phrase used during play.
Dr. Spencer Reid: You know, this sounds similar to a cold case from fifteen years ago. Frankie Clayvin of Memphis.
David: I remember that. Gideon handled it. It obviously pre-dates all of you.
Dr. Spencer Reid: Frankie Clayvin was nine years old at the time. He never made it home from school one day, was found dead in the woods thirty-six hours later five miles from his house.

Jennifer: That's new.
David: What do you see?
Derek: [phone rings] Hey, what's up? You find anything in the array?
Jennifer: Yeah, there's some writing on the dumpster.
Derek: What's it say?
[looks around]
Derek: Hold on a second.
Alex: They got something?
Jennifer: Do you see something? Morgan?
David: Look up to the sky?
Derek: [finds the writing also] I gotta go.
Alex: Linguistically, it may mean God judges the victim for his sins...
Derek: That's not it.
Alex: And taken in context, with the pants pulled...
Derek: Blake, that's not it. Let's go.

Penelope: He inherited a family compound in rural Virginia. Coordinates are on your phone.
Alex: What else do you have on Curtis?
Penelope: Just like you thought. John Curtis was demoted in the FBI after the Amerithrax case. He was slated to take over the coveted New York field office, but then was shipped to the not coveted Kansas City one. He worked there for many years quietly before he was able to weasel his way back into the nation's capital. On paper, he is a rock star. He immediately transferred to the Department of Justice, the Intelligence Oversight section. He's a genius on multiple levels.
Aaron: What's his background?
Penelope: Only child, parents died when he was 18. Never married. Total loner, just like Blake said.
Aaron: And all he's ever had to care about is his work.
Derek: And when he lost that, he snapped.

Aaron: We're looking for an LDSK, or a long-distance serial killer. He's a very skilled marksman with a god complex.
Derek: He derives pleasure out of remaining unseen and determining the fates of people from afar.
Jennifer: He's criminally sophisticated and methodical, concealing his method of ingress and egress, leaving little evidence behind in the sniper perches.
Alex: This suggests a great deal of experience, so this unsub has a military or a law enforcement background, possibly even Special Forces.
Dr. Spencer Reid: His victims at first to be targets of opportunity, but it now appears that one or more of them are targets of choice. The remaining victims were collateral damage to be used as a forensic countermeasure; similar to what John Allen Muhammad and Lee Boyd Malvo did with the D.C. sniper case in 2002.
Derek: This means there's some unknown connection between one or more victims at the first and second crime scenes.
Agent: What about the Caucasian male that an eyewitness saw at the plaza?
Derek: It's something to consider, but we can't rule out others. We know that the unsub is likely in his late thirties to forties, in order to have the means and patience to plan and execute these attacks.
Aaron: If he still has specific targets, it's likely he won't wait long to attack, so the public needs to remain vigilant.

Jennifer: [watching grieving parents] Look at how bereft they are. That's hard to fake.
Alex: There's no way any of them are involved.

Alex: And the auto shop aids in conversion how?
Connor: We found that immersing the boys in traditional male gender roles stimulates an appreciation of their own masculinity.

Penelope: [badgering Rossi about his unused vacation days] Everyone likes vacation.
David: Vacations are overrated.
Dr. Spencer Reid: Didn't you take a vacation two years ago?
David: Luckily, two days in I was called back.
Penelope: Yeah, and now he's got thirty-one days.
Alex: A month?
Dr. Spencer Reid: You know, sunshine is an essential source of Vitamin D. You should go to Florida and get some sunshine.
David: That's for old guys.
Derek: What about a safari in Africa?
David: Too hot.
Dr. Spencer Reid: How about Italy?
David: Too many relatives.

David: [walking through an ill-lit hallway] The unsub sold his painting to THIS place?
Alex: It reminds me of the 80s.
[Rossi looks at Alex]
Alex: What?
David: Do I even want to know?
Alex: Probably.

Alex: Well, when we get back to the station, you can help the police artist render a likeness?
Madison: No.
Alex: Excuse me?
Madison: You have no idea what it's been like. The past two years I wake up every morning scared to death. Terry was crazy violent and nobody would do a single thing about it.
Alex: He was issued a restraining order.
Madison: Oh, yeah. You saw how restrained he was. You want to see what he did once? I was cooking dinner, he got mad and threw scalding oil at me.
Dr. Spencer Reid: Did you press charges?
Madison: Terry told everyone it was an accident that I dropped a frying pan.
Alex: But the police would have investigated, Madison.
Madison: Terry's Mr. Charity fund-raiser, all-around good guy at the country club. It was my word against his. Please, give me a break. But it's over now, thanks to that guy... I hope you don't find him. Whoever it was, I hope he gets away.