“Unfinished Business” quotes from Criminal Minds

Jessica Fletcher: Since Mr. Gardner risked bringing me here at the point of a gun, I assume he feels a very strong attachment to you.

Erica Baldwin: For the past two years, Horatio chose a celibate life, Mrs. Fletcher. With Michael's cooperation, I didn't.

Jessica Fletcher: [after deducing the murderer's identity] I think you sensed they were going to defect. When you saw them leave the stage, you ran after them, hoping to stop the man you loved from running out of your life. But you found their dressing room empty. Berensky came in, sent by Major Karzoff. He told you the Masurovs were gone. But there was still one way to prevent them from making good their escape, and in your desperation, you picked up Alexander's dagger.

Irina Katsa: Stop! Stop, please, stop. I just... I wanted him back. I didn't think. I didn't know what I was doing.

Jessica Fletcher: I'd like to send you a signed copy. If it won't compromise you in the Kremlin.

Maj. Anatole Karzoff: Sometimes, a man likes to be compromised, eh?

Jessica Fletcher: Good morning, Mr. Michaels.

Bud Michaels: Is it? I didn't notice.

Jessica Fletcher: [after deducing the murderer's identity] You weren't in a trance just now, and you weren't in a trance last night. You cleverly discovered how to outwit Cagliostro's most powerful tool: his voice. You put earplugs in your ears before you came up to the room. In effect, you became temporarily deaf. That's why you didn't respond when I called to you in the lobby. Because you couldn't hear me. Upstairs in the room, you pretended to be in a trance like the others. Then you surprised Cagliostro and stabbed him to death with a steak knife from the restaurant.

Andrew Townsend: No wonder you're a writer. You've got one hell of an imagination.

Jessica Fletcher: Lieutenant Bergkamp confirmed that you bought your earplugs in the gift shop. And your reference to the elevator as a lift suggested that you had spent some time in England. And I'm sure that some digging around will turn up a connection with Cagliostro.

Andrew Townsend: I'll save you the trouble. My father was Bud Michaels's bureau chief, and as such, he okayed the article that Cagliostro tricked Michaels into writing. So when Cagliostro sued Michaels, my father was named too. And when Michaels's career was destroyed, my father's was destroyed along with it. He just couldn't face starting over again, so he killed himself. I wanted to get Cagliostro for years, but I just could never figure out how. But when this thing dropped into my lap, the whole plan came to me just like that.

Det. Lt. Avery Mendelsohn: Maybe you should have been a cop.

Jessica Fletcher: I am a cop. When I'm at the typewriter.

Jessica Fletcher: Excuse me, Mr. Chairman. Would it be possible for me to say a few words?

Committee Chairman: I would hope, Mrs. Fletcher, that they will be considerably fewer than those voiced by your colleague from New York.

Jessica Fletcher: I have studied this bill very carefully. And heaven knows this cannery would certainly bring a lot of new jobs to my district. And if that were the only consideration, I would vote for it without any hesitation. However, I've discovered that there are seven abandoned canneries in my state. Can you imagine? Seven. No longer working, no longer employing people. And why? Because the owners walked away from them rather than spend money to modernize their operations. [to Ray Dixon, who is sitting in the gallery] Now, I believe two of them are your companies, Mr. Dixon. [to the committee] Now, I realize that there is expense involved in updating equipment and perhaps those locations are no longer as convenient as McHenry's Point. But, you know, I'm very upset by this notion that we can just dispose of buildings or people when they become a little troublesome or unprofitable. Almost five thousand people used to work at those abandoned canneries. Now, that's truly disgraceful, to put people out of work, to abandon perfectly good buildings because our tax laws make it financially advantageous. Well, I'm sorry, but I think that sort of attitude is not only preposterous, but it's inhuman. Now, the Pendrake Corporation doesn't need a new cannery. They need to put the canneries they already own back into operation. [to Ray Dixon] Now, Mr. Dixon, you and your fellow canners have been taking a lot out of the state of Maine and I think it's high time you started putting something back.

Joe Blinn: [after Jessica exposes him as the murderer] I'm no different than anyone else in this town, Mrs. Fletcher. You buy and you sell. People, legislation and influence. There's a price tag on everything and everyone. And I was doing real well, too. Until Martha got just a little too big for her pantyhose.

Jessica Fletcher: And did you think you were the only one to play the game of buy and sell?

Rita Bristol: Funny thing about having your name in lights. When the power fails, you learn a lot about yourself and your friends.

Barry Bristol: [after Jessica exposes him as the murderer] Mother, I'm sorry.

Rita Bristol: Oh, Barry, darling. Did you never know how much I love you?

Lafayette Duquesne: I always say that whatever time a man's got spending it with good food, good friends, good music and good conversation, man can't die no ways but happy.

Jessica Fletcher: You're a patron of the arts.

Dr. Aaron Kramer: No, that's someone with class. I'm just a talent broker with a tin ear.

Eddie Walters: [after Jessica exposes him as the murderer] Ben was the best friend I ever had. He wasn't nice to a whole lot of people. But he wasn't never not nice to me. Not never. He was my friend, and he took real good care of me. A long time ago, Ben, Joey and me, we done somethin' bad. Real bad. Callie? Callie told the police we were with her, so they wouldn't arrest us. Now, she did that 'cause she loved Ben. And Ben and me, we love her right back. Then Ben didn't love her no more. He said he wasn't gonna let her go to Las Vegas with us. That if she found out, she'd tell the police she'd lied, and we'd go to jail. When we were in that place, South America, Ben told me he was gonna kill Callie. He even went out and got the poison to do it. Now, I couldn't, I couldn't just let him do that. I told him, I said, "Ben, Callie would never do anything to hurt us." But he wouldn't listen to me. He wouldn't believe me! And when I tried to tell Callie, Callie didn't believe me either! So I couldn't just let him kill her. 'Cause he didn't love her no more. But I did. But I did. I did, I did, I did!