Yes, I know that I am stubborn, obsessive and single-minded. Those are all traits of great writers.
[Thing gesticulates pointedly]
Yes, and serial killers too. What's your point?
Criminal Minds · Season 1, Episode 15
“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)
Yes, I know that I am stubborn, obsessive and single-minded. Those are all traits of great writers.
[Thing gesticulates pointedly]
Yes, and serial killers too. What's your point?
Edgar Allan Poe said, “Believe nothing you hear and half of what you see.” Clearly Nevermore’s most famous alumni picked that up here. No wonder he became a drug-addled madman.
Never lose that, Wednesday.
Lose what?
The ability to not let others define you. It’s a gift.
Doesn’t always feel that way.
The most interesting plants grow in the shade.
Let’s assess, shall we? Bag over my head for optimal disorientation, wrists tied tight enough to cut off circulation, and no idea if I’m going to live or die. It’s definitely my kind of party.
[referring to the Nightshades] I’m not interested in joining.
You’re seriously turning us down?
[Deadpan] Can you believe it?
Untie her.
I freed myself five minutes ago.
Secrets are like zombies. They never truly die.
Those who forget history are doomed to repeat it.
That’s where you and I differ. Where you see doom, I see opportunity.
That monster could be anyone. The sheriff thinks they only exist behind the walls of this school. The truth is, there are monsters everywhere. And sometimes the monsters we least suspect are the most dangerous. They don’t need teeth and claws to terrify. They hide in the shadows until no one is looking. And then they strike. But I’m looking now. And I won’t stop until I find the truth.
[To Thing, lying in one of the body storing shelves in the morgue] Five more minutes. I was just getting comfortable.
When I suggested giving your side of the room a makeover, I did not have Ted Bundy’s Pinterest in mind.
Still not as creepy as your stuffed unicorn collection.
Thing and I may have made an unsanctioned trip to the county morgue to copy the files of the monster’s victims.
Okay, there are so many levels of Ew in that statement, I don’t even know where to begin.
Aren’t you pumped about disco balls and spiked punch? There’s even a DJ. MC Blood Suckaz.
I’d rather stick needles in my eyes. [pause] I’ll probably do that anyway.
[to Eugene] Listen, people like me and you, we're different. We don't need these inane rites of passage to validate who we are. We're original thinkers, intrepid outliers in this vast cesspool of adolescence.
[to Eugene as they prepare to explore the monster's cave] If you hear me screaming bloody murder, there's a good chance I'm just enjoying myself.
[flashback to 1990] I don’t know what to say, Gomez. Seeing you in handcuffs, accused of murder; I’ve never loved you more.
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