Dr. Thomas Fuller wrote, "With foxes, we must play the fox."
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S1 E7The Fox
EMEric Miller
Is that what this about, huh? You think I'm crazy, man? You think I suddenly snapped and I slaughtered my own wife and kids? You think I did this? Huh?! Is that what you think?!
[discussing Hotchner's newborn son]
He's so gorgeous.
Thank you.
If you find baldness and wrinkles attractive.
Look at his little witty bitty nose. [to Morgan] Don't you want one of these?
I'll stick to practicing.
Both families had a dog... and both houses had a dog door.
Fielding said that the person he saw was small.
Yeah, well, in order to get through that door, you'd have to be 5'4", tops, and real thin.
"When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth."
Sherlock Holmes was a fictional character. Whoever did this isn't. We can be pretty sure he's probably found himself another family by now.
No one gets therapy these days without a healthy dose of medication.
What are you implying, Reid?
That everyone is medicated.
Did you just make a joke?
No, I mean... Statistics, they... They show it...
Reid. Next time, just say yes, okay?
Are you hacking into the government's HMO database? Is that legal?
Course not. We'll both go to prison and you'll be someone's bitch.
Really?
KAKarl Arnold
I would keep them apart until the last night. 'Til the last supper. Then I would bring them, one by one, down to the basement. The youngest first. The father last.
Why, Karl?
KAKarl Arnold
So he could see what happens to families when the head of household isn't strong. Wives wither. Children perish. But me? I'm an excellent father.
S1 E8Natural Born Killer
Hemingway wrote, "There is no hunting like the hunting of man and those who have hunted armed men long enough and liked it, never really care for anything else."
[sees Garcia with a cardboard box] Please tell me you brought some breakfast.
Oh, trust me, sugar. You are not going to want to eat when you see what's in here.
Can you get into those records?
Despite the fact that they were probably expunged, she can find the faintest echo of deletion, successfully recreate the file, thereby sending us all to prison for computer felony fraud counts.
[Greenaway and Garcia share a weird look]
We can make bail.
You were just responding to what you learned, Vincent. When you grow up in an environment like that, an extremely abusive and violent household... it's not surprising that some people grow up to become killers.
VVincent
Some people?
What's that?
VVincent
You said some people grow up to become killers.
And some people grow up to catch them.
Carl Jung said, "The healthy man does not torture others. Generally, it is the tortured who turn into torturers."
S1 E9Derailed
Robert Oxton Bolton wrote, "A belief is not merely an idea the mind possesses; it is an idea that possesses the mind."
And remember, play into the guy's fantasy, believe it yourself.
Actually, did you know that dentists and surgeons have been recruited to secretly implant these during otherwise normal medical procedures? This has been happening on and off since the late 1930s. [Morgan looks at him] Told me to believe.
[to Dr. Bryer] The voices, they helped you right? It's where you get your ideas from. While the other kids were outside in the playground, you were inside reading, and studying, learning. The voices wouldn't stop. They... they helped you understand things that other people could never realize. Then, as you grew older, it became almost a responsibility, right? A responsibility to use that ability, to... to use your knowledge.
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