Mahatma Gandhi once said, "Remember that all through history there have been tyrants and murderers, and for a time they seemed invincible. But in the end, they always fall. Always." [NOTE: Gandhi never actually said this quote; it was written for the 1982 film Gandhi and was spoken by Ben Kingsley, who played Gandhi.]
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Dale Turner mused, "Some of the best lessons are learned from past mistakes. The error of the past is the wisdom of the future."
Is it your intention, Mr. Gideon, to become a man of faith and revert to Islam?
I am a man of faith. I have repented, I pray regularly, and I practice charity. I have never committed violence against you, so how is it that my faith would allow you to live and worship as you please, and yours would take my life and snuff it out?
We receive comfort from our prayers.
We?
Human beings [pauses]... I say something wrong?
You placed us on the same level.
Aren't we?
Well, here, I am thought of as less than human.
And in your jihad, I am.
Those people tonight... they were innocent. They never hurt you.
They hurt me by existing.
Ralph Waldo Emerson said, "In order to learn the important lessons in life, one must each day surmount to fear." [NOTE: This quote is often disputed as to whether or not Emerson said it. Dale Carnegie's books and articles have confusingly credited the saying to Emerson, Elbert Hubbard, and Napoleon Bonaparte. Therefore, the originator remains unknown.]
T. S. Eliot wrote, "Between the idea and the reality, between the motion and the act, falls the shadow."
There's nothing in the juvenile offender records.
So you think like a high school kid.
I was 12 and I hadn't been though puberty when I was in high school.
Okay, reset. I think like a high school student. You think like a profiler.
[to Hotchner] Well, I think politics makes people distrustful. I think it makes them hate themselves. I think it tears families apart, and damages people. So if there's nothing else, I would like to get back out on the street and find out who's killing these women. Sir.
T. S. Eliot wrote, "Between the desire and the spasm, between the potency and the existence, between the essence and the descent, falls the shadow. This is the way the world ends."
How many people's lives did I risk in the future?
Profiles can be wrong.
What if it's not? What if next time he kills somebody?
Then you catch him.
"All secrets are deep. All secrets become dark. That's in the nature of secrets." Writer Cory Doctorow
[while discussing evidence against Morgan] This is all just coincidence.
DGDet. Gordinski
A hell of a lot of coincidences.
We're dealing with a desperate detective here. Three dead boys and no evidence at all. So he applies the profile directly to someone he already suspected. It's easy to get tunnel vision that way.
"One begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts." It's one of Sherlock Holmes' favorite quotes.
We need to figure out who really killed these boys before they decide to charge Morgan.
What do you want us to do?
The last victim was someone Morgan was seen with. Conveniently, Morgan was already a suspect in the other two.
Someone set him up?
We should consider Morgan a victim. Prentiss, you and Reid talk to his family, learn about him, especially around the time of the first murder.
We can't have people on this team who have secrets.
Come on, Hotch. We all have secrets. Would you want us profiling you?
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