“Unfinished Business” quotes from Criminal Minds

Brenda

You don't really believe in God, do you?

Nate

Well yeah. I mean, I don't believe in a bearded little old man up in a cloud but I believe in something. Some sort of undefinable creative force.

Brenda

I think it's all just totally random.

Nate

Really?

Brenda

Yeah. We live, we die. Ultimately, nothing means anything.

Nate

How can you live like that?

Brenda

I don't know. Sometimes I wake up so fucking empty that I wish I'd never been born, but what choice do I have?

So I'm walking along one day, and this asshole stops me and asks me if I'm all right. He says I got a look. He'd seen a man with that same look once and had ignored it, and that man had jumped out a nine-story window. You know the reconstruction involved in a death like that? This business gets under your skin, it's like a fucking virus. They can even see it on your face, smell it on you.

Nate

What the hell is this place, this music? Since when did you listen to the Classics IV? What the hell did you do here? Who the hell are you?

So many questions. Why couldn't you ask 'em when I was still alive? It's okay, I couldn't answer most of them anyway, unlike now. Now I'm a fucking prophet.

Nate

All right.

Think I'm kiddin,' buddy boy? That's one of the perks of being dead: you know what happens after you die – and you know the meaning of life.

Nate

That seems fairly useless.

Yeah, I know – life is wasted on the living.

Nate

Could've told me you were proud of me.

Never around for me to tell, which is exactly what I was proud of you for. Therein lies your Catch-22.

Nate

So what's the meaning of life?

You really wanna know?

Nate

I don't know. Will it fuck me up if I do?

David

Thank you, Nate, I appreciate your honesty, wrapped as it was in such a bouquet of condescension.

The hardest part about my work is the fact that most people don't want a real relationship with God. Yeah, sure, they'll pray to a man nailed to a cross, but they'll – they'll ignore the gay kid who gets strung up, or the black man who gets dragged behind a car, or someone's mother living in a box.

Ruth

Is this a school trip?

Claire

No. You go to the mountains and confront fear and get in touch with your most basic self... It looks good on your college application.

Well, religion is politics, David. Jesus was a revolutionary, threatened those in power, and they had him assassinated. And they'd do the same thing to him today.

Algebra forces your mind to solve problems logically. It's one of the only perfect sciences—

Claire

You think the world runs on logic? Come on. Open your eyes.

Nate

Sorry, there was an accident on the 405. Both cars totaled. Should have stopped to hand out cards.

Nate

Come on, Dave. I watch Will & Grace. I have gay-dar.

David

Okay, don't say gay-dar.

Good. That's what I want people to think.

Claire

When in reality you're, like, this compulsive liar, danger slut.

I thought you were, like, this Goth arty freak girl......who was, like, tragic and suicidal.

Claire

Oh, my God, that is so not who I am.

Brenda

You know what I find interesting? If you lose a spouse, you're called a widow or a widower. If you're a child and you lose your parents, then you're an orphan. But what's the word to describe a parent who loses a child? I guess that's just too fucking awful to even have a name.

Ruth

Nathaniel, what happened to us? We were so in love once.

Life happened to us. I buried hundreds of people, and we watched each other grow old.

Ruth

But we're not old.

Well, technically speaking, I'm as old as I'm ever going to get.

Ruth

We were such children when we met. Then we watched those children disappear.

Ruth

I miss what we had.

So find it again.

Ruth

Thank you. I've had the best time coming to this funny restaurant and having you yell at me in the bathroom!

I never worked in a funeral home that was this depressing.