Elbert Hubbard once wrote, "If men could only know each other, they would neither idolize nor hate."
“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)
Ma'am, we've just been assigned your daughter's case. We're in the process of gathering information, but so far no witnesses have come forward.
BBetty
Well around here guns go off like those damn car alarms, every 15 minutes. Nobody's stupid enough to talk, nobody cares.
We do.
BBetty
You wouldn't even be here if it wasn't for them [gestures towards the children in the other room. [picks up newspaper and reads from it] "Heinous crimes against upstanding members of the community." Nobody writes about prostitutes being shot, because they won't admit they think they're cleaning up the place.
You're right. Cases like your daughter's usually go unsolved, the problem is people aren't looking for them, because they don't know that they're missing. Part of her job was to stay below the radar. Doesn't mean she was any less important.
[to the Mill Creek Killer] If killing those women made you an artist, the things you did to them after they were dead, what does that make you? I mean, really, it just doesn't seem very artistic, does it?
Mahatma Gandhi once said, "Remember that all through history there have been tyrants and murderers, and for a time they seemed invincible. But in the end, they always fall. Always." [NOTE: Gandhi never actually said this quote; it was written for the 1982 film Gandhi and was spoken by Ben Kingsley, who played Gandhi.]
Dale Turner mused, "Some of the best lessons are learned from past mistakes. The error of the past is the wisdom of the future."
Is it your intention, Mr. Gideon, to become a man of faith and revert to Islam?
I am a man of faith. I have repented, I pray regularly, and I practice charity. I have never committed violence against you, so how is it that my faith would allow you to live and worship as you please, and yours would take my life and snuff it out?
We receive comfort from our prayers.
We?
Human beings [pauses]... I say something wrong?
You placed us on the same level.
Aren't we?
Well, here, I am thought of as less than human.
And in your jihad, I am.
Those people tonight... they were innocent. They never hurt you.
They hurt me by existing.
Ralph Waldo Emerson said, "In order to learn the important lessons in life, one must each day surmount to fear." [NOTE: This quote is often disputed as to whether or not Emerson said it. Dale Carnegie's books and articles have confusingly credited the saying to Emerson, Elbert Hubbard, and Napoleon Bonaparte. Therefore, the originator remains unknown.]
T. S. Eliot wrote, "Between the idea and the reality, between the motion and the act, falls the shadow."
There's nothing in the juvenile offender records.
So you think like a high school kid.
I was 12 and I hadn't been though puberty when I was in high school.
Okay, reset. I think like a high school student. You think like a profiler.
[to Hotchner] Well, I think politics makes people distrustful. I think it makes them hate themselves. I think it tears families apart, and damages people. So if there's nothing else, I would like to get back out on the street and find out who's killing these women. Sir.
T. S. Eliot wrote, "Between the desire and the spasm, between the potency and the existence, between the essence and the descent, falls the shadow. This is the way the world ends."
How many people's lives did I risk in the future?
Profiles can be wrong.
What if it's not? What if next time he kills somebody?
Then you catch him.
"All secrets are deep. All secrets become dark. That's in the nature of secrets." Writer Cory Doctorow
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