How long can you hold that lawyer off?
Are you kidding? I was a prosecutor. I can hold him off for days.
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S1 E15Unfinished Business
Did you actually allow a disturbed college student to meet with a man you believed to be a serial killer?
We didn't know who, but we knew the meeting would take place.
We?
I, ma'am. It was my decision.
And now, that student is dead.
She committed suicide, yes... after killing the Unsub.
How could you let this happen?
It was not the outcome we had hoped for.
It wasn't the outcome you had hoped for? That's your answer to me?
Yes, ma'am.
Give me your badge.
Ma'am?
You're suspended for two weeks without pay, pending an investigation of your conduct. And Agent Hotchner, if it were solely up to me, you would never get these credentials back.
Always a pleasure.
[writing the conclusion of his letter in voiceover] And that was the last domino — the death of that girl. Hotch being suspended over something that was my fault. I said at the beginning of this letter that I knew it would be you to come up here. I'm so sorry the explanation couldn't be better. And I am so sorry that it doesn't make more sense. But I've already told you. I just don't understand any of it anymore. I'm sorry.
George Washington said, "Let your heart feel for the affliction and distress of everyone."
Garcia, baby girl, please tell me something I wanna hear.
You're a statuesque god of sculpted chocolate thunder.
How about something I don't already know.
I have a sweet tooth?
[answering the phone] Talk dirty to me.
This is section Chief Erin Strauss!
Ma'am, I think it goes without saying that I expected to be someone else.
Call in S.W.A.T., secure the perimeter, wait for him to come out.
Ma'am he's holding a woman inside.
We don't know that for certain. We don't have probable cause.
She's right.
If he's got her he waits 48 hours, he's not gonna kill her yet.
He's changed the pattern of the dump sites, now he's changed how he abducts them. Do we really want to gamble that he's sticking to the rest of the model?
CCop
So let's pound on the door! Maybe he'll panic.
But he could spook just enough to kill her early.
I want to go in alone. The boy's in the family room, he'll answer the door.
No.
We need to get invited in that door. He's looking for female authority figures. If he lets me in I can signal as soon I see anything that gives us cause.
Technically you're not even in the FBI.
All the better.
She's interfering with a federal investigation!
Well if I'm no longer in the FBI then you have no authority over me. I'm just a civilian knocking on a little boy's door.
Prentiss. [hands her a gun]
Thanks.
As soon as you have probable cause, give us the signal and get out of there.
Okay.
RRose
Where you headed?
Nowhere in particular.
RRose
How will you know when you get there?
That's a good question... [reads her nametag] Rose. That's a very good question. Have a great day.
The Taoist philosopher Lao Tzu once wrote, "He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still."
[Reid and Morgan get stuck in an elevator; Morgan starts pushing buttons]
Don't do that!
Why not?
Because there are six elevator related deaths per year, not to mention 10,000 injuries that require hospitalization. Chill out.
That sounds like pretty good odds to me. Are you scared, Reid?
I'm not scared. I don't want to be in an elevator with you, to be honest.
How about I push that? What if I push... [the elevator falls a few feet]
So Hotch is even more intense now that Gideon's gone.
Yeah, I've noticed.
Do you think that's gonna change?
I certainly think we'll find out.
What about you? You okay?
Oh, I'm- I'm great.
Do you want to talk about it?
What's there to talk about, really?
Gideon.
Oh, no. He, uh- he left a letter explaining everything. Just like my dad did when he abandoned me and my mom.
He addressed it to you.
Yeah, yeah. You know, Gideon stood toe to toe with some of the... the sickest people on this planet. I think that took a lot of courage, right?
Yeah.
So, why'd he do this? It's addressed to me, but I'm- I'm not- I'm not the only one that he abandoned.
But why is it addressed to you? I think you need to read that letter again.
I have an eidetic memory, Emily.
Ah, yeah, I know, and an IQ of 187, but what do you remember about your father?
What do you mean?
Well, he gave you ten years before he left, and yet you've erased all those memories. And it's too painful, I get it. But then Gideon leaves. I think you need to read that letter again, and ask yourself why, of all the people he walked away from, did he only explain himself to one person: you.
Eleanor Roosevelt once said, "You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing which you think you cannot do."
I, um... can't sleep.
Want me to turn off the light?
No. I wouldn't be able to sleep.
What's the matter?
What's the matter with you, Hotch? You're sitting here doing work when you'd normally take a break. Please don't tell me it's about Gideon leaving.
You know, we made a deal a long time ago not to profile each other.
Am I wrong? You know, Hotch, today was a huge, huge victory for all of us. I mean, I never thought I'd say this, but... we're doing just fine without Gideon. Hotch. What's keeping you up tonight?
[pause]
Haley's left. And I don't know if she's coming back.
"In the city, crime is taken as emblematic of class and race. In the suburbs, though, it's intimate and psychological; resistant to generalization; a mystery of the individual soul." Barbara Ehrenreich
Hey girl, you're on speaker. Behave.
Or what, you'll spank me?
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