Aaron Hotchner quotes from Criminal Minds

Aaron Hotchner

"Don't you know there comes a midnight hour when everyone has to take off his mask?" Søren Kierkegaard

Aaron Hotchner

"The line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being." Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Aaron Hotchner

"The evil that men do lives after them. The good is oft interred with their bones." William Shakespeare

How about Andrew, it's Greek for valiant.

Let's call him... Sergio.

Haley

Ha ha. Please tell me you're kidding

Hotch

Butch.

Haley

How about Donald?

Hotch

Hans.

Haley

No! Wait, wait. Um... okay. Gideon.

Hotch

Not a chance.

Haley

It's Hebrew. Look what it means. It's perfect. Gideon Hotchner.

Hotch

No.

Haley

Yes

Hotch

No.

Haley

Yes.

Hotch

No.

Haley

Gideon.

Greenaway

I can't see why anyone wanna kill a little old lady who collects cats and coins.

Hotchner

Unless somebody wanted the coins. I spent a good chunk of my childhood looking for a 1944 penny worth thousands. [looks at Elle] Yes, I was a little bit of a nerd. Is that so surprising?

Greenaway

I might have something. Barbara Keller was having trouble insuring some coins she bought. The insurance company thought they might be fake.

Hotchner

So the insurance company's blowing up annoying clients?

Reid

I don't know everything. I mean, despite the fact that you think that I do.

Morgan

I never said that. When have I ever said that?

Reid

Every day since I met you!

Greenaway

This morning at breakfast.

Hotchner

Yesterday when he beat you at cards. Um, we've got one minute.

Morgan

Anybody ever heard of sarcasm?

Hotchner

[about a head shot Reid accomplished] Nice shot.

Reid

I was aiming for his leg.

Hotchner

Well, I wouldn't have kept kicking, but I was afraid you didn't get my plan.

Reid

I got your plan the minute you moved the hostages out of my line of fire.

Hotchner

Well, I hope I didn't hurt you too badly.

Reid

Hotch, I was a twelve year-old child prodigy in a Las Vegas public high school. You kick like a nine year-old girl. [tries to return the gun]

Hotchner

No, keep it. As far as I'm concerned, you passed your qualification.

Hotchner

You were just responding to what you learned, Vincent. When you grow up in an environment like that, an extremely abusive and violent household... it's not surprising that some people grow up to become killers.

Some people?

Hotchner

What's that?

You said some people grow up to become killers.

Hotchner

And some people grow up to catch them.

Hotchner

What happened to you?

Gideon

[entering the room on crutches] I got a list of things I want to try before it's too late.

Greenaway

[sarcastically] And orthopedic surgery's one of them?

Gideon

No, skydiving. Apparently it's all about the landing.

Hotchner

How is it having Gideon around?

Garcia

Uh, you can have him back whenever you would like.

Hotchner

Well, you managed to get on Garcia's nerves pretty thoroughly.

Gideon

Who's Garcia?

Hotchner

Penelope? The tech? With the glasses.

Gideon

In the room with the screens?

Hotchner

Yeah.

Gideon

She's great!

Gideon

Hey, Hotch, did you send flowers to that tech room girl, Garcia, and say they were from me?

Hotchner

Yeah.

Gideon

Why?

Hotchner

Jason, people need to know that they're important and sometimes you forget that.

Gideon

Well, I already sent her a gift, an MP3 player. They last longer unless you drop it or the battery dies, whichever comes first.

Hotchner

So she got two gifts.

Gideon

What if she thinks I'm sweet on her?

Gideon

Well, he's raw, broken, and seriously pissed off.

Hotchner

But he didn't hurt the son to get back at the mother?

Gideon

Not consciously, no.

Hotchner

Are there more bodies?

If I told you that, what would I have left for myself?

Hotchner

You could help these families get closure before you die.

Pass.