"A sad soul can kill you quicker, far quicker, than a germ." John Steinbeck
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S1 E15Unfinished Business
SHSheriff Hallum
[referring to high-school bullying] Oh, boys have a way of working these things out for themselves.
I'll say: Owen's out there right now working things out with an assault rifle.
His life was one torment after another. His teachers gave up on him, his classmates bullied him and his father blamed him while giving him access to guns. Given these condition,s you're actually quite fortunate.
DLDeputy Lawford
It sounds like you're saying these victims deserved this.
We're not. Nobody deserves this.
But you could have prevented it.
Reid, can I talk to you?
[They walk out into another room]
It's the truth! They could have done something, they work with his father, they knew Owen!
So what? All adolescents profile like sociopaths. There's a reason you can't diagnose them until they're 18.
Yeah, they could have seen the signs!
Nobody sees the signs, Reid! You know that! And making it their fault is not only unfair, it's dangerous. I want you to go back to the Savage house and I want you go through Owen's room.
Morgan's already doing that.
Yeah, and you're going to join him.
Oh, you're punishing me?
No, I'm using you. You know this kid better than anybody. Go find us something we can use!
You said I was a high school jock. I was, but not at first. My freshman year, I was five foot three. I weighed a buck twenty soaking wet, so trust me when I tell you I got my ass kicked every day. So the following summer, I hit the weights. And I got lucky, I grew six inches. But it was never about vanity, Reid. It was about survival.
I was in the library and, um... Harper Hillman comes up to me, and she tells me that, uh... Alexa Lisbon wants to meet me behind the field house. Alexa Lisbon's like, easily, the prettiest girl in school.
So what happened? Alexa wasn't there?
No, she was there. So was the entire football team. They... stripped me naked and tied me to a goalpost. So many kids were there, you know, just watching.
Nobody tried to stop it?
I begged... I begged them to, but they just... just watched. And... finally, they got bored and they left. It was like midnight when I finally got home. And my mom had... mom was having one of her episodes, so she didn't even realize I was late.
You never told her what happened?
I never told anybody. I thought... it was one of those things that I thought if I didn't talk about it, I'd just forget. But I remember it like it was yesterday.
[sighs] Oh, Reid, you don't need an eidetic memory for that. You know, we forget half of what they teach us in school, but when it comes to the torment and the people who inflicted it, we've all got an elephant's memory.
"We cross our bridges when we come to them and burn them behind us, with nothing to show for our progress except a memory of the smell of smoke, and a presumption that once our eyes watered." Tom Stoppard
You knowingly jeopardized your life and the lives of others. I should fire you. You're the smartest kid in the room, but you're not the only one in that room. You pull something like this again, you will be. Am I clear?
Yes, sir. It won't happen again. Thank you.
What were you thinking?
I was thinking that would have been, uh, the second time a kid died in front of me.
You're keeping score, just like Owen.
It was my turn to save one.
It doesn't work like that.
It should.
I know it's painful when the person you identify with is the bad guy.
What's that make me?
Good at the job. I know it's none of my business, but when we land, I think you should go and catch the rest of that movie.
"There are no secrets better kept than the secrets that everybody guesses." George Bernard Shaw
[looking through a victim's personal belongings] It's always sad seeing someone's life reduced to the things they had with them when they died. It's just so clear they didn't know how short their time would be.
TLDetective Tina Lopez
I am gonna take the skinny kid and Derek to the dumpsites. So, I got my cell, radio if anyone doesn't give you anything, just call me.
Great.
[Detective Tina turns and leaves]
She did say she wasn't good at names.
Remembered Derek.
Wonder how she'll describe us?
Oh, I am sure I don't wanna know!
He could be suffering from Cluster B.
TLDetective Tina Lopez
Cluster B?
Ah, cluster of personality disorders. It's also called a erratic, dramatic emotional cluster. An enduring pattern of inner experience and behavior that differentiates itself markedly from the expectations the individual's cultures. It manifests...
[Interrupts Reid] This guy is a sick dude!
[Reid nods yes]
"If we knew each other's secrets, what comforts we should find." John Churton Collins
Author Christian Nestell Bovee once wrote, "No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities."
The only people I ever made happy were divorce attorneys.
SBDetective Steve Berry
Aren't you guys a little overqualified for this case? I mean, this guy's no serial killer.
We construct behavioral profiles for a variety of investigative scenarios. That includes stalking.
We've seen this kind of thing before, and it can get ugly real fast.
What was that?
Bureaucratic red tape. Every case we take, I have to explain why, in terms of cost and size relative to the BAU. They don't always think it's worth it.
They do have four agents doing the work that locals should.
Just because there isn't a dead body doesn't mean we shouldn't take the case.
Hey, I... the fact that law enforcement, including the FBI, can't help someone until they've been injured is appalling. All I'm saying is it is a drain on the system.
Emily. Last year in Denver, a woman was being harassed by her ex-boyfriend. Cops knew who he was, but they couldn't arrest him. We didn't take that case. She was finally granted a restraining order three days after he threw acid in her face. Right now, I don't... I don't care about limited resources. I cannot make that same mistake again.
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