- Aaron "Hotch" Hotchner: Well, I wouldn't have kept kicking you, I was afraid you didn't get my plan.
- Dr. Spencer Reid: I got your plan the minute you moved the hostages out of my line of fire.
- Aaron "Hotch" Hotchner: Well, I hope I didn't hurt you too badly.
- Dr. Spencer Reid: Hotch, I was a twelve-year-old child prodigy in a Las Vegas public high school. You kick like a nine-year-old girl.
- Jason Gideon: This is gonna hit you. And when it does, there are only three facts you need to remember. You did what you had to do, and a lot of good people are alive because of what you did.
- Dr. Spencer Reid: What's the third?
- Jason Gideon: I'm proud of you.
- Aaron "Hotch" Hotchner: [after Reid has shot Dowd in the middle of his forehead] Nice shot!
- Dr. Spencer Reid: I was aiming for his leg.
- Dr. Spencer Reid: Hotch told me that when he came to the BAU, you told him he didn't need a gun to kill somebody?
- Jason Gideon: Well, the only truly effective weapon we have is our ability to do the one thing they can't.
- Dr. Spencer Reid: Which is what?
- Jason Gideon: Empathize. They dehumanize their victims, we humanize the killers.
- Elle Greenaway: What do we call them then?
- Aaron "Hotch" Hotchner: L.D.S.K.
- Dr. Spencer Reid: Long Distance Serial Killers.
- Elle Greenaway: How many of these guys have we caught using a profile?
- Jason Gideon: None.
- [discussing carrying firearms]
- Dr. Spencer Reid: You're just saying that to convince me I don't need to carry a gun.
- Jason Gideon: I don't care if you carry a gun or not. The deadliest weapon we have is a thorough and accurate profile.
- Dr. Spencer Reid: Of course, you believe that.
- Jason Gideon: The footpath killer had a shotgun to the back of my head. I'm here, he's not.
- Jason Gideon: I believe it's a case of hero homicide.
- Detective Shea Clavin: What's that?
- Dr. Spencer Reid: The best-known case was hospital nurse Richard Angelo. He would inject toxins into his victims, then wait for them to crash so that he could run to the rescue and save them. He killed twenty-five people, and that's just that we know of.
- Detective Shea Clavin: If he attacked 'em to save 'em, why'd he kill twenty-five people?
- Jason Gideon: Wasn't very good at it.
- Penelope Garcia: Rainmaker. How wet do you want it?
- Aaron "Hotch" Hotchner: It's Hotch. I have a cell phone number, and I need the name on the account.
- Penelope Garcia: Yeah. If you call the cell, I can throw in the real-time location, no charge.
- Aaron "Hotch" Hotchner: Are you ready?
- Penelope Garcia: I was born ready.
- Jason Gideon: Sometimes it's not what the unsub does that reveals the profile. Sometimes it is what they do not do.
- Dr. Spencer Reid: He doesn't kill his victims.
- Jason Gideon: Underkill's a unique signature.
- Aaron "Hotch" Hotchner: The question is does he shoot them in the stomach intentionally just to wound them, or is he just aiming at the biggest part of the target? Specifically, does the unsub lack the skill to make the head shot, or simply the will to take it?
- [Answering his cellphone]
- Derek Morgan: Yeah, Morgan.
- Penelope Garcia: Isn't this spooky?
- Derek Morgan: Isn't what spooky?
- Penelope Garcia: That right now you were thinking about me, and out of the blue your phone rings? And it's me. Huh? How's that for a spiritual connection?
- Derek Morgan: Umm... Do I know you?
- Penelope Garcia: Why do you hurt me?
- [Morgan laughs]
- Jason Gideon: Nietzsche said, "The irrationality of a thing is no argument against its existence, rather a condition of it."
- Jennifer "JJ" Jareau: Mr. Jenkins, I'm Special Agent Jennifer Jareau with the FBI. We need you to identify your source.
- Reporter John Jenkins: No way. I know my rights.
- [Gideon grabs Jenkins and cuffs him]
- Reporter John Jenkins: Hey, hey!
- [to his cameraman]
- Reporter John Jenkins: Vic, shoot this! Get this all on tape.
- Jennifer "JJ" Jareau: You should know the FBI considers these shootings an act of terrorism. Under the PATRIOT Act, we can detain you as long as we need to.
- Aaron "Hotch" Hotchner: [closing quote] Shakespeare wrote: "Nothing is so common as the wish to be remarkable"
- Dr. Barry Landman: You're considering *me* a suspect?
- Jason Gideon: Yes.
- Dr. Barry Landman: Well, that's disconcerting. I heard what happened to your last suspect.
- Elle Greenaway: Three more victims with nonfatal wounds, and it's only been forty-eight hours since the last shooting.
- Jason Gideon: The media attention and the FBI presence will only escalate his desire to shoot again.
- Detective Shea Clavin: Meaning...?
- Jason Gideon: This is gonna get much worse.
- Aaron "Hotch" Hotchner: When I joined the BAU, Gideon said to me: "You don't have to carry a gun to kill someone"
- Dr. Spencer Reid: I don't get it
- Aaron "Hotch" Hotchner: You will!
- Aaron "Hotch" Hotchner: We're looking for a 30 to 40 year old male veteran, driving a car large enough to shoot from, but not so large it was noticed. Like the Beltway Shooter, it's probably a Sedan, customized to conceal the shooter, his weapon, and the sound of his shot. The unsub suffers from both narcissistic and paranoid personality disorders. He works out obsessively and is never without a weapon. He's completely self-centered and cannot empathize with others. Incapable of admitting fault, he blames his shortcomings on those around him. He has no friends, and his career history has been marked by frequent job changes. He's drawn to high-stakes jobs by a need to prove his superiority to a world he perceives has undervalued him, and these shootings are the ultimate expression of that need. We believe he changes jurisdictions intentionally and strikes during the first/second shift change, indicating an intimate knowledge of law enforcement.
- Aaron "Hotch" Hotchner: [on the phone to Garcia] The name, Garcia!
- Penelope Garcia: McCarthy, Scott
- Aaron "Hotch" Hotchner: Scott McCarthy
- Detective Shea Clavin: McCarthy is the unsub!
- Aaron "Hotch" Hotchner: Yeah! Where is he?
- Detective Shea Clavin: McCarthy is playing the unsub!