Criminal Minds · Season 1
[On the phone with Garcia.] Just leave it alone until I get there. Hey. Hey. Hard-head. Don't make me spank you when I get back.
[Yelling so Garcia can hear him] Don't listen to him Garcia! He's all talk. [Morgan hits him on the head] Ow! J.J! He just hit me!
Boys behave, or I will ground you both.
Something wrong?
He's the first unsub I've worked who wasn't a bad guy. You know? Six months ago, Johnny McHale was just a regular person.
Every unsub is ill on some level. Most can't help what they do any more than Johnny could.
But he went from successful writer and artist to brutal killer in six months.
He suffered an unbelievable tragedy.
I know. I get it.
So what's bugging you?
It just makes me wonder... are we all capable of becoming something like that?
Life is a hell of a thing to happen to a person.
[as Morgan fixes her chair] You really don't have to do this.
Woman, will you hush?
I could do it myself. I just can't grip anything too tight yet, and when I tried to do it, it kept falling...
Will you sit your motor mouth down?
[sits down] See, now, that's perfect.
Yeah?
Totally.
Well, there you go, my sweet lady.
My hero.
I am nobody's hero. [kisses Garcia on the head]
Hey, do you know who Frank Miller is?
Frank Miller. Um... sounds familiar. Unsub?
No. Graphic novelist. 300? Sin City?
Oh! Right, right, right. Cool movies.
Anyway, he said something once and it makes me think of you: "The noir hero is a knight in blood-caked armor. He's dirty, and he does his best to deny the fact that he's a hero the whole time."
The American poet Anne Sexton once wrote, "It doesn't matter who my father was; it matters who I remember he was."
Ever since we had Jack, I always dread it when you bring me a case involving kids.
Why are you telling me this?
Every case we work, every case we don't work comes across your desk.
Yeah.
And most of the victims are women. And most of them are about your age. It's okay if you lose it every once in a while. It reminds people that we're human.
I wanna show you something. I carry this wherever I go.
[Rossi hands Caulfield a bracelet with three names on it]
Your kids?
Indianapolis, Christmas Eve. One of my first cases on the job. Three kids watched their parents get beaten to death. Every year, I call to tell them I haven't forgotten, I'm still looking.
[Rossi takes the bracelet back]
Last year, not one of them bothered to return my call.
Agent Hotchner?
Yes.
[signs for package]
What is it?
Haley's filing for divorce. I've been served.
Wordsworth wrote, "A simple child, that lightly draws its breath, and feels its life in every limb, what should it know of death?"
"No man or woman who tries to pursue an ideal in his or her own way is without enemies." Daisy Bates
[Jack has his daughter's kidnapper at gunpoint] Jack, you swore to your wife you'd protect Lindsey. Listen to her, Jack. Listen to what she wants. She's... she's begging you to kill somebody right in front of her. What do you think your wife wanted you to protect her from? Jack... your life has been, uh... it's been about violence, and if... you do this, Lindsey's will be, too. Do you want that?
[pleading] No, you don't want that.
When does it end, Jack?
Put down the gun.
[whispering] Kill him.
When does it stop?
[pause]
Tomorrow.
[shotgun blast]
Are you okay, Reid?
I tried. [pause] I tried, but I couldn't.
I have interviewed hundreds of killers. All types of crazy motives for doing what they did. They all share one thing in common, all of them: it's in their eyes!
'Till what they hold most precious is gone... and then they're lost. Just like the rest of us.
"It is a wise father who knows his own child." William Shakespeare
"I know indeed what evil I intend to do, but stronger than all my afterthoughts is my fury, fury that brings upon mortals the greatest evils." Euripides
When I interviewed Bundy, he had a theory about pornography. He said "If you wanna stop people from becoming like me, don't burn Catcher in the Rye."
"Burn 'Hustler'." I read your books, too, Dave.
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