Norman Maclean wrote, "It is those we live with and love and should know who elude us."
“Unfinished Business” · Season 1, Episode 15
In this episode: Dean Winchester (940), Damon Salvatore (715), Sam Winchester (665), Olivia Benson (637), Stephen Fry (608), Narrator (554), Clark Kent (523), Nate (486)
[regarding Max Ryan] I heard he was forced into early retirement.
No, he chose to retire.
He's written a new book on the Keystone Killer case.
He moved to Philadelphia to be closer to the crime scenes.
That's retirement?
BAU style.
What do you think of Ryan?
He hasn't changed much.
I think we can learn a lot from him.
What could you possibly learn that you don't already know?
Hotch, repetitive thinking is a death mill for the brain. For complete brain usage, diverse stimulation is the key.
Thought you were going to present the profile?
Team can handle it.
The team. We used to work solo when this all started.
Well, we were wrong.
You don't worry about too many cooks?
Abraham Lincoln once said, "In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years." [NOTE: This quote is often misattributed to Lincoln. The earliest instance that Quote Investigator could locate was "in a 1947 advertisement for a book about aging by Edward J. Stieglitz, M.D".]
Nietzsche wrote, "The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe." [NOTE: This quotation is falsely attributed to Nietzsche, and was actually spoken by Rudyard Kipling in a 1935 interview that was published in Reader's Digest in 1959.]
[to Gideon] You look like a college professor. [to Reid] You look like his student. [to Hotchner] You, you look like FBI.
Inside 21 feet, I win. Outside 21, I have other options besides shooting a man.
Like negotiating.
Like running.
[The rest of the BAU arrives to arrest Jackson Cally's henchmen]
Children?
They're fine. We got them out before they got here. We took down these four.
Without firing a shot?
Captain America here shot number five.
You're welcome. Number six is cut up pretty bad. I don't think he's gonna make it.
At least I didn't shoot him.
I think I'd rather be shot.
There's an old Apache saying: "You can take many paths to get to the same place."
W. H. Auden said, "Murder is unique in that it abolishes the party it injures, so that society must take the place of the victim and on his behalf demand atonement or grant forgiveness."
OK, here's what we know: Blitz attackers are almost always male.
Well, he got picked up in the pouring rain by a New York cabbie, so we definitely know he's not a brother.
[to the waitress after having difficulty with his chopsticks] Excuse me, could I get a fork perhaps? [everyone laughs] Did you know that experts credit Confucius with the advent of the chopstick. He equated knives with acts of aggression.
You don't know how to use them, do ya?
It's like trying to forage for dinner with a pair of number two pencils.
[discussing the unsub and how he is perceived by the public] He's a hero.
The exact same thing happened with the Goetz New York subway shootings in the early eighties.
You weren't even born.
I read a lot.
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."
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."
Diane Arbus once said, "A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you, the less you know."
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