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S1 E15Unfinished Business

Bernard Shaw once said, "An American has no sense of privacy. He does not know what it means. There is no such thing in the country."

JJessica

[watching Hotchner hold his son] You're holding him like a cantaloupe.

What, you think you can do better? Okay, smartypants, knock yourself out. [he hands her the baby] It's okay, it's for the... [the baby quiets down in her arms] Alright, let's see you profile a disorganized psychopath.

Anthony Brandt wrote, "Other things may change us, but we start and end with family."

All right, so is it possible that there are fewer serial killers in Mexican culture?

It is possible. But, in my experience, evil is not a cultural phenomenon. It's a human one.

What's all this?

DBDeputy Borquez

Día de los Muertos.

Day of the Dead. A three-day Latin holiday where souls of dead relatives are said to return to earth to enjoy the pleasures that they once knew of.

DBDeputy Borquez

It sounds like he was reading that out of a book.

No, trust me. He always sounds like that.

Actually, I was reading. I picked this pamphlet up at the airport.

The French philosopher Voltaire wrote, "There are some that only employ words for the purpose of disguising their thoughts."

You really don't know someone till you take a road trip with them.

What are you trying to say?

Look at this car, man. There's empty soda cans and fast food wrappers everywhere. You're a slob. You know, back at Quantico your desk was all neat, but I bet if you looked in those drawers you'd find a mess.

OK, we have been on the road way too long. [hearing Elle's phone ring] Aww, that must be the boyfriend.

Yes, it is. [answers phone] Hey Gideon.

Aaron, do you have any idea how many people drown every day?

Well, yeah. There're more in the summer for obvious reasons, but I think it averages to about sixty-five hundred a year, which is 17 a day?

Is this Reid?

What, are you impressed?

I am, Slick, I am.

The author François de La Rochefoucauld wrote, "We are so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others that in the end we become disguised to ourselves."

Albert Einstein said, "Whoever undertakes to set himself up as judge in the field of truth and knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods."

Do you do know what this means?

What?

We'll be able to find out whether Princess Diana's death was really an accident!

I think that's exactly the kind of thing that got you on that list.

Then we have to assume the mole has an exit strategy.

Only now we're blocking the exit, and the only way out is through us.

GSGina Sanchez

Let's get one thing clear. We all write a letter just like the one Summers wrote.

A suicide note? That doesn't mess with your mind just a little bit?

GSGina Sanchez

I am neither disillusioned nor confused about what I am, what I do, or what I have done.

Somebody here is. Why else would they rat out their own people?

GSGina Sanchez

You'll have to ask them.

George Orwell said, "In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act." [NOTE: No source for this quote among Orwell's writings has yet been located]

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