"If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace." Thomas Paine
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S1 E15Unfinished Business
Robert Kennedy once said, "Tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom, not a guide by which to live."
How could their friends not see anything?
It's like when the lion preys upon antelope.
You lost me.
Well, that's because you, Emily Prentiss, have never been one of the antelope.
Oh, scratch that. You totally lost me.
Okay, check this out. The antelope travel in packs; so the lion just sits and waits. Waits for just one of the antelope to break away from its herd. So when he's alone, vulnerable, and completely unprotected, that's when the lioness strikes, that's when she makes her move.
Wait a minute, her move?
Prentiss, there's only one thing that's gonna make a straight man leave his friends on guys' night out, and it'll make him leave every time.
Are you gonna tell me why you missed that flight to Galveston?
I already told you, there was no cell reception.
Right.
What?
Reid, any time you want to come up with a better answer, I'm standing right here.
You are the best ever.
Aw, and you're the most perceptive.
[to Reid] I have been playing at this job, in one way or another, for almost 30 years. I've felt lost; I've felt great. I have felt scared... sick... insane. I don't know... I guess the day this job stops gnawing at your soul and... hands, your hands stop feeling cold, maybe that's the time to leave.
"The torture of a bad conscience is the hell of a living soul." John Calvin
Statistically, 94% of all serial arsonists are male, 75% are white and few, if any, are ever caught.
Few? You don't have a percentage?
16%. Those 16% set 30 plus fires before they're ever apprehended. I'm trying to be more conversational.
Oh. It's not working.
When he arrives, bring the fake bodies right past us, nice and slow. I want him to get a good look.
LVLt. Vega
Remind me never to play poker with you guys.
I catch killers, I save lives, I'm a hero until my key hits my front door and then I'm just the father and the husband who's never there.
Yeah, I got that one.
Here's the thing. When I'm home, I'm in this silent panic. Because I know that I have to be as good as I can as fast as I can. Because any minute, the phone is going to ring and my time is up. And that panic is exactly what I saw in Abby.
Gandhi said, "Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever." [NOTE: This quote is often disputed as to whether or not Gandhi said it. There are other forms of the quotation, including: The aphorism "Study as if you were to live forever. Live as if you were to die tomorrow" is variously attributed to Isidore of Seville and a similar quote by by Johann Gottfried Herder: "Man, enjoy your life as if you were to depart tomorrow; spare your life as if you were to linger here forever."]
An old Russian proverb reminds us, "There can be no good without evil."
AEAmbassador Elizabeth Prentiss
How are you enjoying your assignment to the BAU?
Well, enjoying is an odd description.
AEAmbassador Elizabeth Prentiss
Is it?
Well, we, um, deal with some pretty horrible things.
AEAmbassador Elizabeth Prentiss
I thought that was where you wanted to be.
It is, definitely.
AEAmbassador Elizabeth Prentiss
Then you do enjoy it.
ALArseny Lysowsky
[to Gideon and Reid] Would you like something to eat? This borscht is exquisite. It's my mother's old country recipe.
Didn't you forsake all your relatives when you swore the Thieves' Code?
ALArseny Lysowsky
I didn't forsake her recipes.
Natalya was a part of this.
How did I not see this coming?
How could any of us, man? She sought us out. We were so blinded by the fact that she trusted us, we never considered not trusting her.
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