Jason Gideon quotes from Criminal Minds

Gideon

Natalya was a part of this.

Morgan

How did I not see this coming?

Reid

How could any of us, man? She sought us out. We were so blinded by the fact that she trusted us, we never considered not trusting her.

Gideon

Most hunters put animals out of their misery. The men we're looking for - they don't show any mercy.

Morgan

These guys take pleasure in watching their casualties die a slow death.

Hotchner

What's this?

Gideon

It's genius

Hotchner

You have Chaplin on film?

Gideon

My great-granddad was an accountant at one of the first movie studios

Hotchner

He lived in California?

Gideon

No, no, no, Chicago. Essanay Studios, closed 1920. Back then, 4 out of 5 movies made in US were made in Chicago. They closed down, they let my grandfather take a... , eh, a couple of extra prints home

Hotchner

They "let" him?

Gideon

Well, that's a family story, we're sticking to it

Hotchner

We're going to provide a psychological profile of the man we're looking for. It contains some unusual, specific personality traits that someone out there is bound to recognize.

Gideon

Which will make him relatively easy to locate. Long-lasting, negative impression he leaves on anyone he might meet.

Morgan

We have a term for the killing behavior this unsub displays: cleaning house. Fixing what's wrong with the world.

Reid

He's deeply rationalized this behavior, and while he certainly knows the killing is wrong, he truly believes that he's doing the world a great service.

Morgan

Ultimately, this type of unsub becomes a loner. There won't be too many people that can still tolerate him. Now, if he does have a relationship at all, the person will not be his equal. It'll be someone subservient to him.

Reid

He'll be... fastidious, tending toward obsessive-compulsive disorder, and he'll have an overwhelming sense of indignation towards the things that he's judged to be wrong. He wouldn't even consider the reasons why someone might disagree with him.

He sounds like a real jagoff.

Morgan

Exactly. Class "A" scumbag.

Prentiss

Detective McGee started noticing the disappearances a year ago. The Unsub probably had a stressor at this time. The death of a family member, or someone who had some semblance of control over him. Right now, no one has control over him.

Reid

It's probable that he isn't currently working after this many victims and the devolution that it brings, a job just wouldn't leave him time to practice his true calling.

Capt. Wright

Which is...?

Hotchner

A predator. A killing machine. By now, it's become all he thinks about.

You're killing me here. Make up your mind.

Gideon

[Picks up his phone] Hey, back off, pal.

Hotchner

[On the phone] What did I do?

Gideon

[To Hotch] I wasn't talking to you. [to the flower vendor] I guess roses.

Hotchner

Are you on a date?

Gideon

No, Uh, Hold on -- Hold on the roses, will you?

Hotchner

And you didn't tell me?

Gideon

Tell you what? I'm not on a date. I'm just buying flowers.

Hotchner

For who?

Gideon

Old college friend. Hotch, tell me something, do roses say the wrong thing?

Hotchner

What do you want to say?

Gideon

Welcome, Hi, Good to see you, sorry I'm so damn late.

Hotchner

Ah, roses say more than that.

Face buddy, you want some action... it's the roses.

Hotchner

She's right.

Gideon

Hey, Hotch, you're the best Unit Chief I know.

Hotchner

Jason, I'm the only Unit Chief you know.

Gideon

I'm coming in.

Hotchner

No, do that and this investigation moves inside an interrogation room and by the time the cops catch up we're going to be looking at more dead bodies. He's going to change who he goes after, he has to. We know who Frank is, we don't know the why - you help us find out the why and we'll catch him.

Garcia

[talking to herself while waiting in her car for Gideon] Nervous whistle. Stop it. Everything is... everything is cool, Garci. Gorgeous tech kitten found in lonely, dark parking lot, throat slashed ear-to-ear. Horrific. Tragic. With the very files of one of the most prolific serial killers ever. Tonight he remains at large, the blood of Quantico's finest...

Garcia

Oh God! Oh my God!

Gideon

Drive.

Garcia

You're right, drive! Yes drive! Drive where?

Gideon

Just drive.

Garcia

Just drive, just drive...

Gideon

Sarah was a doctor. She was a mother of three boys.

Frank

Hello, Jason.

Gideon

She worked and ran a treatment center for patients with terminal cancer.

Frank

Do you know the birder's term "twitching," Jason?

Gideon

She dedicated her life to easing the pain of others.

Frank

The pursuit of a previously located rare bird.

Gideon

You took the lives of hundreds. All because your mother was a whore?

Hotchner

Mary Louise Breitkopf. Single mother, German immigrant, lived on the upper east side of Manhattan. She gave birth to her only son, Frank Breitkopf, a bright but ultimately strange boy. A boy that only a mother could love. His needs were such that even the three jobs she worked didn't provide for this special child, a child she wouldn't let out into the world. And when she turned to the world's oldest profession, the boy witnessed every terrible visitation.

Gideon

You're not a rare bird, Frank. Nothing special about you. You're common, pedestrian... boring.

Hotchner

We'd like to give you a rough profile of the man we're all looking for. This is someone with access. He's managed to move in a small community with a high police presence without raising suspicion.

Prentiss

Which means there's a good chance that this is someone you've seen.

Morgan

This Unsub has killed three women in four days. That's what we call a spree killer. Now, most likely something has happened in the past few days to set him off.

Gideon

And because he kills white, brunette women, that stressor probably has to do with a woman in his life that fits the same description. Wife, mother girlfriend. Women he's killing, they're most likely a substitute.

Prentiss

What we need you to do is look at people who are part of the campus fabric. See if anyone fits the bill, students, professors, support staff.

I'm sorry, how are my men supposed to know about somebody's home life?

Hotchner

Well, the people around him have seen him devolving. If you suspect someone on campus, talk to anyone who knows him, find out if he's recently found religion, been drinking, even if he's been harming himself.

Morgan

He may feel emasculated. Considering the stressor and the victimology, there's a good chance that rejection is a recurring theme in his life.

Gideon

This Unsub displays a great amount of anger, stabs his victims repeatedly, even after their dead. Seconds later, he feels remorse. It's possible that his guilt is because his victims were in a position to trust him.

Gideon

How long can you hold that lawyer off?

Hotchner

Are you kidding? I was a prosecutor. I can hold him off for days.

Where you headed?

Gideon

Nowhere in particular.

How will you know when you get there?

Gideon

That's a good question... [reads her nametag] Rose. That's a very good question. Have a great day.