- Aaron Hotchner: [closing quote, voiceover] "If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace." - Thomas Paine.
- [Morgan has just telephoned Garcia from Houston, Texas]
- Penelope Garcia: Are you lonely in the Lone Star State? And are you wearing chaps?
- Derek Morgan: [laughing] Only in your dreams, Garcia.
- Penelope Garcia: [laughing] Oh, not necessarily. I have Photoshop.
- Dr. Spencer Reid: I'll map out the area and see if I can find any places the victims would have visited in the neighborhood.
- Emily Prentiss: Good. Maybe we can find a connection between them. I'll help you with that.
- Dr. Spencer Reid: I can handle it.
- Emily Prentiss: I wasn't suggesting that you couldn't.
- Dr. Spencer Reid: Isn't that what "I'll help you with it" means?
- Jason Gideon: The first recorded war was 2700 BC. Probably earlier wars, but writing hadn't been invented yet
- Aaron Hotchner: Almost 5000 years of killing each other
- Jason Gideon: One thing human beings have been consistently good at
- Jason Gideon: [opening quote, voiceover] "Our life is made by the death of others." - Leonardo da Vinci.
- Aaron Hotchner: What's that?
- Jennifer Jareau: One of the detective's wives made us cookies
- Emily Prentiss: Wow, homemade cookies?
- Jennifer Jareau: Yeah, I guess that's what they mean by southern hospitality
- [Garcia calls]
- Dr. Spencer Reid: Yeah? What'd you have?
- Penelope Garcia: Why isn't Derek answering his phone?
- Dr. Spencer Reid: He's probably stuck underground somewhere.
- Penelope Garcia: Underground?
- Dr. Spencer Reid: I'll explain later
- Jennifer Jareau: Just three dead man and no witnesses
- Aaron Hotchner: We're looking for a homicidal serial criminal in a neighborhood populated by criminals. The challenge will be separating him from the rest
- Dr. Spencer Reid: Here we have no evidence, no apparent interaction between the unsub and the victims, pre or post mortem and an indistinguishable M.O. Should be simple!
- [They are next to an open manhole where a murder occurred]
- Jason Gideon: Someone has to go down
- Derek Morgan: Ah, see, this ain't cool!
- [Prepares to descent]
- Derek Morgan: I putting in for hazard pay
- Jason Gideon: Good luck with that!