“Unfinished Business” quotes from Criminal Minds

Hello?

Is Mr or Mrs. Wall there?

No, there are no Walls here.

(laughs) Then what holds up the ceiling?

Da Vinci residence. Leonardo speaking.

Hello, I'm looking for a Mr. O'Brains, first name Ivan.

Ivan O'Brains?

(laughs) You have no brains?!

What? No! I didn't mean that!

You're the one who said it, dude!

Hello?

Hi, er, do you have a blue shirt?

A blue shirt? Why yes I do.

Ah, then why don't you cheer it up?

Johnny, lately you seem to know an awful lot about... everything.

What's so weird about knowing that King Charles made Blasco Núñez Vela the first viceroy of Peru in 1544?

Uh-huh. Er... what's a viceroy?

I don't know. Wait! I do know!

Just because you think someone performed highly experimental cutting edge augmentation on your brain you instantly blame us?

Er... yeah.

(speaking in a female computer voice) Virus detected. Auto-restart.

I'll save you!

That kinda tickled.

[last lines] You're wrong, Mr. Teacherman. This is Porkbelly, where we make our own history.

You've done a nice job. She looks peaceful.

David

Well, she is at peace now.

If there's any justice in the universe, she's shoveling shit in Hell.

Nate

Everybody forgives everybody for everything.

Nate

I refuse to sanitize this anymore!

David

This is how it's done.

Nate

Yeah? Well, it's whacked. What is this stupid salt-shaker? Huh? What is this hermetically sealed box? This phony Astroturf around the grave? Jesus, David, it's like surgery. Clean. Antiseptic. Business. He was our father!

David

Please don't do this.

Nate

You can pump him full of chemicals. You can put makeup on him. You can prop him up for a nap in the slumber room; but the fact remains, David, that the only father we're ever gonna have is gone! Forever … and that sucks, but it's a goddamned part of life and you can't really accept it without getting your hands dirty. Well, I do accept it, and I intend to honor the old bastard by letting the whole world see just how fucked up and shitty I feel that he's dead! God damn it!

Amen.

David

What the hell?

Ruth

There's been an accident. The new hearse is totaled. Your father is dead. Your father is dead, and my pot roast is ruined.

[to Nate] Well, well, the prodigal returns. This is what you've been running away from your whole life, buddy boy. Scared the crap out of you when you were growing up, didn't it? And you thought you'd escape. Well, guess what? Nobody escapes.

Nate

When I went backpacking through Europe after I quit school, I went to this island off the coast of Sicily—it’s this volcanic island—and on the boat over, there was this pine box. Somebody from the island was being returned to be buried there. And there were all these old Sicilians dressed up all in black, waiting, just lined up on the beach. And when they got that coffin to the beach, those old Sicilian women just went ape-shit, screaming, throwing themselves on, beating their chests, tearing at their hair, making animal noises, and it was just so…so real. I mean, I’ve been around funerals my entire life, but I had never seen such grief. And at the time, it gave me the creeps, but uh…now I think it’s probably so much more healthy than…this.

[to David, talking about the music at the funeral] Anyway, I so prefer this light, classical -- you know, chamber orchestra stuff. It's still spiritual, but doesn't seem so dated or depressing. [Laughs] I studied music appreciation when ... [what she's actually saying fades out and what we now hear is in voice-over -- what David hears her saying in his head.] You think I'm really boring, don't you? Well, get used to it, because now that your father is dead, you can forget about ever going to law school. It's just you and dead people and freaks like me for the rest of your life!"

David

[screams]

Brenda

Well, we're all wounded. We carry our wounds around with us through life, and eventually they kill us. Things happen that leave a mark in space, in time. In us.