Jason Gideon quotes from Criminal Minds

Gideon

Mr. Fisher?

Shrink or cop?

Gideon

Well, I'm an FBI profiler, so I guess I'm a little of each.

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.

Gideon

I think you're innocent.

We're all guilty of something.

Thought you were going to present the profile?

Gideon

Team can handle it.

The team. We used to work solo when this all started.

Gideon

Well, we were wrong.

You don't worry about too many cooks?

Gideon

Children?

Hotchner

They're fine. We got them out before they got here. We took down these four.

Reid

Without firing a shot?

John Blackwolf

Captain America here shot number five.

Hotchner

You're welcome. Number six is cut up pretty bad. I don't think he's gonna make it.

John Blackwolf

At least I didn't shoot him.

Morgan

I think I'd rather be shot.

Hotchner

There's an old Apache saying: "You can take many paths to get to the same place."

Gideon

[discussing the unsub and how he is perceived by the public] He's a hero.

Reid

The exact same thing happened with the Goetz New York subway shootings in the early eighties.

Gideon

You weren't even born.

Reid

I read a lot.

Gideon

Gandhi said, "Better to be violent, if there's violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of non-violence to cover impotence."

Hotchner

Gandhi also said, "I object to violence because, when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent."

JJ

All right, so is it possible that there are fewer serial killers in Mexican culture?

Gideon

It is possible. But, in my experience, evil is not a cultural phenomenon. It's a human one.

Gideon

Then we have to assume the mole has an exit strategy.

Hotchner

Only now we're blocking the exit, and the only way out is through us.

Hotch

She runs the Crimes Against Children Unit in Maryland.

Morgan

Always wanted to meet her.

Really? I heard she was a bitch.

Gideon

Nobody ever called you that, Katie.

Well, not to my face.

I gave up on him. A year ago, I gave up on looking for him – there were so many other kids.

Gideon

Katie, I'm sure you did what you could.

Do you ever ask yourself how you make a decision like that? How you come to the conclusion that it's time to move on to the next kid? I mean, how do you give yourself that kind of permission? What's happened to that boy in the year I stopped looking for him?

Gideon

Save one life, we save the world.

Hotchner

Yeah. Well, one thing that I didn't tell the trainees.

Gideon

What's that?

Hotchner

We do not get paid enough.

Gideon

You got that right.

Hotchner

You tend to forget, don't you?

Gideon

What?

Hotchner

All the different moods on the plane. I think the mindset's different when the victims are still alive.

Reid

You don't believe the girls are missing?

It's not really the kind of thing that happens around here, you know?

Gideon

You'd be surprised to know how many times we hear that.

Gideon

I'd like to attach a protective detail for you Dr. Cooke, until we find the guy.

No, thank you.

Gideon

Excuse me?

Really now. Do I seem like the sort who would want to be followed around all day by a government goon squad? I don't think so.

Morgan

Goon squad?

Gideon

Ever talk to someone who wants to continually show you he's smarter than you?

Morgan

[motions to Reid] Every day.