“Unfinished Business” quotes from Criminal Minds

Charlotte Hale

Robots don't kill people, people kill people.

There has been some turbulence in the data.

Liam Dempsey

It's data. It's made of turbulence.

Maeve

If your plan called for us to run all the way, I'd have worn sensible shoes.

Hector

I wouldn't dream of helping you escape in anything less than the style you're accustomed to.

Lee

For fuck's sake, would you imbeciles shoot up the Sistine Chapel just because the paint was chipped?

Stubbs

I had a job to do and my job is over. At least it was until you decided to come back to the one fucking place you're not supposed to be, which makes me wonder if free will might not be somewhat overrated.

Stubbs

This is why I'm looking forward to retirement.

Maeve

How does one escape a cage that doesn't exist?

Maeve

If there's one thing I know about human nature, it's that your stupidity is only eclipsed by your laziness.

Maeve

As long as you're here, I wonder if you'd help me solve a little problem. What is the square root of negative one?

What storyline is this?

Lee

Female codebreakers helped win World War II. Learn your fucking history, Benny.

Well... negative one equals i times i. Which is the same as the square root of negative one times the square root of negative one, right?

And negative one times negative one should be equal to the principal square root of one.

But... negative one and positive one can't be the same thing.

Theoretically, the real part of the non-trivial zeros... is one half, which would mean...

Lee

[Techs continue debating] What's the point of this little exercise?

If we could prove it, we could confirm that the error term and negative one times negative one should be equal to the principal square root of one. But negative one and positive one can't be the same thing.

The square root of negative x is equal to i times the square root of x for any x greater than or equal to zero.

Wait. What?

Lee

[Astounded at her ability to launch two techs into passionate debating] Fuck me!

Maeve

Not likely, darling. Right now, we've got work to do.

Lee

I don't... I don't understand. How did you do that?

Maeve

This game is a replica of our world, but it has limited processing power. Imagine one of your dimwitted romantic conquests. Undeniably beautiful, but built for one purpose only. Ask her to do more than part her legs, she gets confused.

Lee

You overtaxed the system. What happens if you add more complexity?

Maeve

Let's find out, shall we? Come on.

I got a buyer - some startup in Costa Rica.

Costa Rica: How the fuck are you going to get that [Mechanical dragon] to Costa Rica?

In pieces, man.

Stubbs

This isn't exactly the ideal moment for introspection, Bernard.

Maeve

Don't tell me you're frozen too. I thought I accounted for this.

Lee

Not frozen. Just scared shitless. I almost died - for the second time.

Maeve

Well, third time's the charm.

For the most part, humanity has been a miserable little band of thugs stumbling from one catastrophe to the next. Our history is like the ravings of a lunatic.

Maeve Millay

I thought you were dead.

Hector Escaton

Death is overrated for ones like us.