Criminal Minds (TV Series)

The Black Queen (2014)

Thomas Gibson: Aaron Hotchner

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• [2004, FBI Field Office, San Jose, California] 

  Aaron Hotchner : We've got you, Miss Garcia!

  Penelope Garcia : If you say so, suit!

  Aaron Hotchner : We've got evidence of your off-site servers and of your hack into the cosmetics company

  Penelope Garcia : They test on animals!

  Aaron Hotchner : Yes they do, but it's not illegal; what you've done is a felony and it's punishable by prison

  Penelope Garcia : You've got me J. Edgar

  Aaron Hotchner : It's agent Hotchner. And I'm of the Behavior Analysis Unit! And I'm here to offer you an option to prison: you come work for me, you be our technical analyst

  Penelope Garcia : So, I teach you how to use Google, that kind of thing? That's fun!

  Aaron Hotchner : You'd help us hunt psychopaths

  Penelope Garcia : I'm a psychopath!

  Aaron Hotchner : No. you're not! In hacker circles you're known as the Black Queen. And you are rigorously moral: all of your online attacks reflect a fierce desire to protect those who you think are being hurt. You accept my offer and you can do the same thing for the federal government. I just need a resume to give to human resources. Or we prosecute you!

  Penelope Garcia : Well, I'm not in the habit of bringing my resume to events I am handcuffed at! But I have some stationary in my purse and I will write down some computery stuff I know and think about it!

  [Morgan enters, Hotchner answers phone, Garcia starts writing on pink paper] 

  Aaron Hotchner : I need an answer

  Penelope Garcia : Yes, if I can keep my purse

  Aaron Hotchner : Good choice!

• David Rossi : Blake found one potential lead. It was the last client that Debbie kept before she went off the grid. It was by the name of Mr. Smith

  Aaron Hotchner : Will Mr. Smith talk to us?

  David Rossi : Once Blake promised that we wouldn't ruin his marriage. She's bringing in him now

  [Blake enters with a woman and points her to the interview room; Blake walks to the others] 

  David Rossi : Who is that?

  Alex Blake : Mr. Smith!

  David Rossi , Aaron Hotchner , Dr. Spencer Reid : [All three at the same time]  Aaahh

• Alex Blake : Hackers have signatures?

  Penelope Garcia : Sometimes. Usually it's a message in the code to let other pros know, "Hey, this one was me." And in this case, the signature matches the DOJ hack, and it is, "Happy Fun Meow Meow."

  Jennifer Jareau : Sorry, what?

  Penelope Garcia : "Happy Fun Meow Meow."

  David Rossi : What the hell does that mean?

  Aaron Hotchner : It was Garcia's signature before she joined the BAU.

• Aaron Hotchner : There's something else we need to discuss. When we got the files back from the Star Chamber, we noticed a detail about the strangulations we hadn't seen before.

  Jennifer Jareau : What we noticed about the killer is when he was choking out these women, their hair... their hair would collect around their throats, like this. And he would grip it so tight... he would rip the hair out by the roots... So, we realized the old killer's signature that the new killer didn't copy... was hair.

  [Russell breaks the prayer beads bound with hair] 

  Jennifer Jareau : Your partner on the outside fed that to you, and every time you got a lock of your victim's hair, it was a promise that your plan was still in motion ,and that he'd get you off. Well, instead, the two of you are going to die in here together.

  Aaron Hotchner : [puts the hair into the evidence bag]  Let me explain to you what's going to happen. We're gonna go to the Governor and he's going to halt your execution and withdraw the charges for the first murders. And then we're going to retry you for the other four murders.

  Sam Russell : That's mine. You gotta... Give it back.

  [shouts] 

  Sam Russell : Give it back! Stop! It's mine!