“Unfinished Business” quotes from Criminal Minds

The FBI works for me now.

[to Elizabeth about Tom] We never really know anyone, do we? It seems you have two options. Either you turn him in or you confront him... or perhaps there's a third option.

[to Elizabeth] What if I were to tell you that all the things you've come to believe about yourself are a lie?

[dismissing an operative while playing himself in chess] I prefer to play with myself in private.

Elizabeth Keen

[about Wujing] He's a myth.

That's what they said about Deep Throat... and the G-spot.

Elizabeth Keen

I'm sorry, you're decoding CIA messages on behalf of the Chinese...

[nods at Elizabeth reassuringly] Now you see? You make it sound like treason, so black and white. It's not, it's green.

I've been moving comfortably through the world for the past twenty years without a trace, and now some two-bit spy killer is going to put my life and business in jeopardy?

What's the question?

Elizabeth Keen

Why me?

Because of your father.

Elizabeth Keen

A man's life is at stake!

A man's life is always at stake. And tragically low stakes at that. I should remind you that I did not offer you my services to help you round up your run of the mill drug lord or what have you. You all seem to be doing a perfectly mediocre job of that on your own. I'm after the big game Lizzie. The ones that matter.

See Lizzie, now I'm interested. The Stewmaker's in town. You're going to need a plumber.

Donald Ressler

Lorca is not going anywhere, and I'll never trust you. You know why?

Because after tracking me for years, you've come up with one undeniable truth: I only do what's good for me. And that is a person you can trust, Donald. Now, lets go.

Your witness is dead, you lost Lorca, and he took Agent Keen. I'd say my meeting with Lorca might be the equivalent of you falling on your ass and landing on a pile of Christmas.

Are you a mother?

Elizabeth Keen

No.

That's good... I was asked to make you suffer.

Elizabeth Keen

Why are you doing this?! You don't take life. You clean up death.

Everything changes. Everything evolves. This is my evolution.

Elizabeth Keen

You know what I think? I think this idea of you vanishing people to aid nature is a lie. I think you're trying to dissolve something else. Your past, maybe? Whatever the horrible thing was that twisted you up inside and made you into the freak that you are!

[to the Stewmaker while Elizabeth listens] A farmer comes home one day to find that everything that gives meaning to his life is gone. Crops are burned, animals slaughtered, bodies and broken pieces of his life strewn about. Everything that he loved taken from him - his children. One can only imagine the pit of despair, the hours of Job-like lamentations, the burden of existence. He makes a promise to himself in those dark hours. A life's work erupts from his knotted mind. Years go by. His suffering becomes complicated. One day he stops - the farmer who is no longer a farmer - sees the wreckage he's left in his wake. It is now he who burns, he who slaughters, and he knows in his heart he must pay.