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Criminal Minds · Season 1, Episode 15

“Unfinished Business” quotes from Criminal Minds

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“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)

So Mack, personal time?

Don't put me in the middle of this.

What middle? No middle. But you know something.

It's not for me to say. Mack's a very private person. All I know about him is what's in his file. I spent 6 months on a place with the guy and I know even less than you.

So maybe something's on his file.

Maybe you should ask him.

I don't want to annoy him.

Well, I don't know about annoying him, but you're certainly starting to annoy me. Isn't it better to learn things organically, instead of all at once in a report?

No, all at once much better. Private person, secret, same thing. Must be even tougher with May. [both stop walking] If it's better to get to know each other in tiny, slow, annoying pieces...

I don't think that's how I put it.

... then you two will never get together.

Me and May? No, it's not like that.

Please, I don't need to read a file about you two to know. [superspeeds to get a security guard's tag]

You know, no one likes a smartass.

That hasn't been my experience.

NNadeer

Agent Johnson, as an Inhuman yourself, do you feel more responsibility to help Inhumans than normal Americans?

Well, first of all Inhumans are normal, let's be clear about that. But with regard to whom I'll help, I'm here for all Americans, but more often than not, Inhumans are left to fend for themselves with few resources.

NNadeer

So Inhumans cause more trouble?

No, Inhumans are more likely to be victims of hate crimes, which is not fair. They are our friends, they are our co-workers, our brothers. They all deserve help, wherever they may be.

[kicks AIDA off the balcony into a computer matrix] Oh no.

[entering the room] Hello Agent May. [May turns around] Congratulations, you got further this time than your previous attempts at this course.

What is this?

We call it "The Framework." Your journey to escape Dr. Radcliffe's lab, our fight, all of this, is a simulation. I assure you, you're safe, we've moved you to another location.

You've put this in my head.

Dr. Radcliffe knew the best way to keep you busy was to give you something to fight.

Something like you.

Yes, but this is the program's end. We're coding more, but we can't keep up with you. You keep getting through it faster. I'll wipe your memory and send you through again.

You wipe my memory, but I get better every time.

Yes, memory traces.

So I'm beating it, and I'll get out eventually, beat you.

TSTerrence Shockley

The one who comes in this room next won't be me. The man who comes in here will do things to you that I can't even watch. He will break you.

Yeah, well, Koenigs don't break. All right? We're programmed to take pain, so bring it on! Bring it on! [Shockley leaves] Oh, my God. I'm in so much pain. I don't think I can take this. That guy hits really hard.

I don't care what this is or what you guys do. I'm not gonna talk.

You won't have to. That's the beauty of it. This machine will allow me access to his mind. We'll get all the information we need without laying a hand on him

Well, you're not gonna get anything out of me. Because my mind is a steel trap inside of a sealed box surrounded by quicksand and - [Radcliffe puts the machine on his head] Oh, is that a puppy?

AIAnton Ivanov

This book better be worth it.

If you want to get rid of the Inhumans, the answer will be in it.

And what's in it for you?

A better world.

Then we want the same thing.

So, what was it like growing up with four of them?

There was a lot of crying.

They picked on you?

LTL.T.

I picked on them. It was fun. The laundry was disgusting. Enough DNA to make a clone army.

[connects LMD Radcliffe] Just you and me now Tin Man. You don't mess with my buddy and walk away from it.

LRLMD Radcliffe

If you shoot me now, it'll be murder.

Nice try, wrong guy. You're just a bunch of ones and zeroes, not flesh and blood.

LRLMD Radcliffe

Flesh and blood? That's not life Mack, that's just biology, and biology's just... software, programming you to die.

Maybe, but I have something you will never have: a soul, that will continue long after I'm gone.

LRLMD Radcliffe

How can you be so sure I don't have one? If a soul doesn't come from your flesh and blood and my ones and zeroes, then it has to come from somewhere else, somewhere unrelated to our physical bodies. If you can have one, so can I.

My, you are a sly one, aren't you?

LRLMD Radcliffe

If you don't think I'm alive and don't have a soul, then why did you feel the need to switch me on before killing me?

[cocks his shotgun] I like to hear robots scream.

I'd be the first to admit that I followed my worst instincts at times. Last year. Loss will make you do that. Feels good in the moment, but it never ends well. I've lost my temper, I've killed. But lately, I have this voice in my head telling me not to go down that path again. It's telling me to be patient. To stay steady.

I take it you don't mean me sir.

It's Agent May. She'd tell me to stay on mission.

Listen to the woman, she knows what she's talking about.

Agent Simmons?

It's not good news, I'm afraid. The serum that's been giving you your strength... it is potentially lethal.

So you're saying it's a little risky?

I'm saying it's Russian roulette. You've been fortunate so far, but the next injection might cause cardiac arrest. And if it doesn't, the one after is even more likely to kill you, and so on and so on until...

Jeez, don't sugarcoat it doc. [pause] And by that I mean: please, go ahead and sugarcoat it.

I'm sorry. I know General Talbot was hoping to replicate what was done to Steve Rogers, but you'll never be Captain America.

I want to be here for you Phil. Radcliffe has the Darkhold, May is missing, Nadeer and her Russians are gunning for the Inhumans. I need to do something more.

I know, I felt the same way when I started working with the Avengers. It's not easy to find your place when you're working with heroes and gods.

So what did you do?

I did my best to protect the team. Turns out I had a role to play. You'll make the right decision at the right time, or you'll get an Asgardian staff through the chest. I'd try to avoid that part.

[Agnes opens the door to see Coulson]

Hi. I was planning on coming down here and try to throw my weight around, force you to comply. Came up with some pretty good material, but I think the best place to start might be an apology. I know you don't want to hear "I'm sorry" anymore, so I apologize. Really, I do.

AKAgnes Kitsworth

Okay.

Radcliffe took something from me too. Her name is Melinda May, and she means everything to me. [Agnes lets Coulson in] I wish there was another way. I'm trying not to make it personal because May would hate that, but I can't help it, it is.

[answers phone] Who is this?

SShockley

I have a confession to make. You won't want to hear it anymore than I want to say it, but I have to.

Mr. Shockley, and how did you escape S.H.I.E.L.D. custody?

SShockley

The Terrigen. It didn't turn Nadeer into one of those monsters, it made me one. I caused the explosion.

You're inhuman. There is no confession that can absolve you of this.

SShockley

I am a soldier. In a war to protect humanity I can still be that soldier.

You still have my attention.

SShockley

The plan hasn't changed. I will deliver S.H.I.E.L.D. to you.

[taking off the virtual reality head set] I like my video games as much as you, but this is too much.

Yeah well, it's not like the Oculus Rift is a training exercise.

Yeah well, I doubt it's helping May run a triathlon.

Mack!

That's not how I meant it.

You built The Matrix prison and now May's stuck in it, like a brain scan.

The Framework is a tool! That's all that it is, a tool.

Like AIDA was a tool?

What are you trying to say? That all this is my fault?

What I'm saying is that if you didn't build a killer robot or a virtual world, this year would've been much easier for us. And whether you like it or not, that's the reality.

I'm trying to help people, Mack.

I know you're not a bad person Fitz, but this gear has been used for some really bad things. You've got to think about the implications of what you create.

Electricity is used to execute criminals. Does that mean we also shouldn't use it to power our hospitals?

That's not the same thing and you know it.

There's always risk involved in science! That doesn't mean we don't pursue it anyway.

We're going to save them.

What if we can't? What if May suffers from permanent cognitive dysfunction or cerebral atrophy? Or she dies?

Fitz...

We don't know the adverse effects this could have on her brain. I did it to her. AIDA, the Framework, my fingerprints are all over these murder weapons. Mack was right.

Mack was right, you do need to think about the implications of the things you create. But just because someone uses your ideas for evil does not make it your fault for creating it in the first place. You make things from the genius of your mind and the goodness of your heart, to help people! Don't let Radcliffe's actions corrupt that! You are not responsible for the twisted things he's done. Wrongs have been committed, now we make them right. Together.

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