Jason Gideon quotes from Criminal Minds

Reid

I need to stop by a bookstore and get a copy of Empty Planet. I want to reread it before we talk to the author. I haven't read it since I was six.

Morgan

Six? I was still riding my Big Wheel at six years old.

Reid

Do you mind? It will only take 10 minutes.

Gideon

To buy it or read it?

Reid

Uh... both, actually.

Jind Allah

Is it your intention, Mr. Gideon, to become a man of faith and revert to Islam?

Gideon

I am a man of faith. I have repented, I pray regularly, and I practice charity. I have never committed violence against you, so how is it that my faith would allow you to live and worship as you please, and yours would take my life and snuff it out?

Gideon

We receive comfort from our prayers.

Jind Allah

We?

Gideon

Human beings [pauses]... I say something wrong?

Jind Allah

You placed us on the same level.

Gideon

Aren't we?

Jind Allah

Well, here, I am thought of as less than human.

Gideon

And in your jihad, I am.

Gideon

Those people tonight... they were innocent. They never hurt you.

Jind Allah

They hurt me by existing.

Reid

How many people's lives did I risk in the future?

Gideon

Profiles can be wrong.

Reid

What if it's not? What if next time he kills somebody?

Gideon

Then you catch him.

Gideon

We're dealing with a desperate detective here. Three dead boys and no evidence at all. So he applies the profile directly to someone he already suspected. It's easy to get tunnel vision that way.

Reid

"One begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts." It's one of Sherlock Holmes' favorite quotes.

Gideon

We need to figure out who really killed these boys before they decide to charge Morgan.

Prentiss

What do you want us to do?

Gideon

The last victim was someone Morgan was seen with. Conveniently, Morgan was already a suspect in the other two.

Prentiss

Someone set him up?

Gideon

We should consider Morgan a victim. Prentiss, you and Reid talk to his family, learn about him, especially around the time of the first murder.

Hotchner

We can't have people on this team who have secrets.

Gideon

Come on, Hotch. We all have secrets. Would you want us profiling you?

Morgan

You trying to say something to me right now.

Gideon

Only if you're hiding something. You need to trust us. Trust us enough to tell us about it.

Morgan

Gideon, it's not about trust. It's about having a little privacy. I got the right to keep something to myself. Look at us, man. We practically live together already.

Gideon

[opening a bag with a head inside] Who is this?

Frank

I believe the correct question would be "Who was this?"

You are a crazy son of a bitch.

Frank

We are all sons of bitches.

Frank

My hope is that one day you'll feel the way I do too.

Gideon

If I ever find myself feeling the way you do, I'll kill myself.

Frank

Call me first. I'd love to pick your brains.

Reid

You all right?

Gideon

What?

Reid

You seem unhappy.

Gideon

I am unhappy. Tired of people using religion... to justify the terrible things they do.

Hotchner

[desperately] We're not getting any closer.

Gideon

Reid's brilliant. He'll figure out how to survive.

Hotchner

You know I always take advantage of Reid for his brain, but I never actually teach him how to deal with things emotionally.

Gideon

You lead by example.

Hotchner

What kind of example is that?

Gideon

[solemnly] He'll make it.

Gideon

The first recorded war was 2700 BC. Probably earlier wars, but writing hadn't been invented yet.

Hotchner

Almost five thousand years of killing each other.

Gideon

One thing human beings have been consistently good at.

Gideon

When he arrives, bring the fake bodies right past us, nice and slow. I want him to get a good look.

Remind me never to play poker with you guys.

Hotchner

I catch killers, I save lives, I'm a hero until my key hits my front door and then I'm just the father and the husband who's never there.

Gideon

Yeah, I got that one.

Hotchner

Here's the thing. When I'm home, I'm in this silent panic. Because I know that I have to be as good as I can as fast as I can. Because any minute, the phone is going to ring and my time is up. And that panic is exactly what I saw in Abby.