Criminal Minds · Season 1
Hey, don't knock family. I'm gonna get nothing but for the next 36 hours.
Hmm, good for you.
Haley's got a list of chores a mile long and I can't wait. The biggest decision I gotta make is what I'm gonna do first.
I bet you she has a thought or two about that as well.
Bring it on.
Writer Elbert Hubbard said, "No man needs a vacation so much as the man who has just had one." [NOTE: This quote is often misattributed to Hubbard. The earliest instance that Quote Investigator could locate was in an 1899 article by Mary Sargent Hopkins, who disclaimed credit for the following remark: "There is an old saying that one never needs a vacation so much as the day after returning from one." Therefore, the originator of the quote is unknown, but it was heavily popularized by Hubbard, starting in 1904.]
[about the incredible Sir Kneighf] Oh god, please tell me you don't have a crush on a fictional character.
He's not fictional. He's the online alter-ego of a real person.
Mm-hmm, but you don't know anything about him, or even if he is... a him.
Okay, you know what? Look, we meet online at specified times that he is never late to. We spend hours adventuring and chatting during which time I have his undivided attention and he lavishes me with flattery.
Wow.
When was the last time you had a date go that well?
See if he's got a fictional brother.
[angrily over the phone to Morgan when he asks for information] The information superhighway is closed.
What are you talking about?
Someone had the nerve to run a black hat op into my computers, Morgan. They hacked me, okay? But you can bet your sweet ass I will find them. I've got honeypot farms hidden behind UML kernel data packets and a first generation honeynet I personally programmed. My snort-log lists every visitor, every server request, every keystroke of this entire network. If I have to back-hack his IP all the way to the freakin' stone age I will find this son of a bitch, okay? So, bye!
I needed a place where I didn't have to know what was out there, where I could, uh, close my eyes and not see bodies torn to pieces, or hear children calling out for help. That cabin was the only thing I had left and this guy took it away from me.
"The defects and faults of the mind are like wounds in the body; after all imaginable care has been taken to heal them up, still there will be a scar left behind." French writer François La Rochefoucauld
People tell me their secrets all the time. I think it's because they know I don't have anyone to betray them to. Except my mother. I... I tell her pretty much everything.
Detective, I've seen kids missing for a decade and their rooms look exactly the way they did the day that they left. Parents don't just pack up their kids stuff and put them in boxes in the garage. Parents don't give up, ever. What the hell is going on here?
Ask the question, I'll be healed and you may take the grail. Just ask the question, Sir Knight.
I can't.
Heal me.
Mr. Garner, a fisher king wound cannot be healed by somebody else. It's... it's not a wound of the body. It's a wound of the memory, a wound of the mind. It's... it's a wound that only you can find, and a wound that only you can heal.
Just ask the question.
There's only one question that matters, Mr. Garner. There's only one really important question. Can you forgive yourself?
"It has been said time heals all wounds. I do not agree. The wounds remain. In time, the mind, protecting its sanity, covers them with scar tissue and the pain lessens. But it is never gone." Rose Kennedy
She runs the Crimes Against Children Unit in Maryland.
Always wanted to meet her.
Really? I heard she was a bitch.
Nobody ever called you that, Katie.
Well, not to my face.
Theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer said, "The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children."
I gave up on him. A year ago, I gave up on looking for him – there were so many other kids.
Katie, I'm sure you did what you could.
Do you ever ask yourself how you make a decision like that? How you come to the conclusion that it's time to move on to the next kid? I mean, how do you give yourself that kind of permission? What's happened to that boy in the year I stopped looking for him?
All right, guys, listen up, we might have something. 12 men were interviewed. Eight are back in prison, one is dead, one lives in California, and two have last-known addresses within 10 minutes of us: a Patrick Forest and a Michael Earlson.
Patrick Forest isn't smart enough to put this all together.
What about Michael Earlson?
Definitely.
Mark Twain wrote, "Of all the animals, man is the only one that is cruel. He is the only one that inflicts pain for the pleasure of doing it."
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