- Derek Morgan: [closing quotation] As a good friend of mine said, every ending is also a beginning. We just don't know it at the time. I'd like to believe she's right.
- Derek Morgan: Listen, we were gonna mail these, but I wanted you to have a birth announcement first.
- Dr. Spencer Reid: [Morgan hands over a card] Hank Spencer Morgan.
- Derek Morgan: Yeah. Hank is for my pops. But Spencer is for the best little brother anybody could ever ask for.
- [he gives Reid a tight, brotherly hug]
- Derek Morgan: I love you, kid.
- Derek Morgan: You know, you're partially to blame for me leaving. You got such a big heart, I think it rubbed off on me.
- Penelope Garcia: Partially. I think the actual reason is that little baby boy.
- Derek Morgan: Yeah.
- Penelope Garcia: I'm really glad it wasn't a baby girl.
- [Morgan laughs]
- Penelope Garcia: I'm really glad. Is that wrong?
- Derek Morgan: No. No. You will always be my original Baby Girl.
- Derek Morgan: So look, uh, my little dude is gonna need a big brother too. To teach him everything he knows about life... and chess
- [both laugh]
- Dr. Spencer Reid: I can do that!
- Aaron Hotchner: Morgan never calls me Aaron. Why would he start?
- Jennifer Jareau: What else did he say?
- Aaron Hotchner: That of all people, I should understand.
- Jennifer Jareau: He was talking about Foyet.
- Aaron Hotchner: Yes, but he mentioned that earlier. Why bring it up again?
- David Rossi: He wanted you to relate to his rage and back off?
- Dr. Tara Lewis: Is there any other relevance to Foyet?
- Aaron Hotchner: He attacked in my home. Maybe Morgan subconsciously let that slip.
- Penelope Garcia: Yeah, but Morgan's house isn't red.
- Dr. Spencer Reid: [realizing something] Yeah, but he's renovated a lot of houses over the years. What if it's one of those?
- David Rossi: I just saw your prince down the hall. He's sleeping like it's his job.
- Derek Morgan: [laughs] 'Cause it is.
- David Rossi: Whew. Pretty incredible, huh?
- Derek Morgan: I'm so grateful.
- David Rossi: You know, I've learned that, in the short time I've had the privilege of being a dad... it heals wounds, just being there for your kid.
- Derek Morgan: [Seeing Reid entering his waiting room] Were you with Garcia?
- Dr. Spencer Reid: Yeah. Here, I brought you a green tea. It won't make you as jittery as coffee
- Derek Morgan: You came instead of Garcia, because you know I would be able to read her
- Dr. Spencer Reid: That is correct
- Derek Morgan: And Hotch send you here to see if I'm stable
- Dr. Spencer Reid: He didn't say that, but...
- [nods yes]
- Derek Morgan: I don't get jittery
- Dr. Spencer Reid: Usually you don't, but your carotid tells a different story. I've counted 10 heartbeats in the last 3 seconds, it's about 20 percent higher than usual when you're under stress
- Derek Morgan: I know you're only trying to protect me, I get it, but knock it off! I just want to know what you've learned
- Dr. Spencer Reid: When you first told me about Savannah, I'd never seen you like that. The decreased levels of central serotonin in your brain cause intrusive thinking. When I finally saw you guys together, that's when I knew for sure. Your pupils dilated, your posture changed, and I saw you involuntarily reach for her hand. Science confirmed it. You found the one. Do you believe that?
- Derek Morgan: Yes.
- Dr. Spencer Reid: Then believe this. Our team loves you, and we are not going to stop until we find whoever did this. But we can only do that with a completely dispassionate and unprejudiced point of view. Paternal instinct is a deadly bias that we just can't risk. It's for your protection, Morgan. I swear.
- Derek Morgan: Okay.
- [Reid turns to leave]
- Derek Morgan: The unsub is a father, isn't he?
- Dr. Spencer Reid: Why do you say that?
- Derek Morgan: "A paternal instinct is a deadly bias". Those were your exact words.
- Dr. Spencer Reid: I meant...
- Derek Morgan: I know what you meant. But that's what you said.
- Dr. Spencer Reid: Why leave a note so seemingly on the nose when every other action has been calculated for maximum pain? It has to mean more than simply "I'm angry". It's a clue, or a symbol. It means something to Morgan, and I think Chazz knows that.
- Jennifer Jareau: Well, he wants to drive Morgan to exact revenge.
- David Rossi: How do you think he's doing?
- Jennifer Jareau: Well, after the physical and emotional stress of six months ago and now this? The guy's a saint.
- David Rossi: He passed his return evals.
- Dr. Spencer Reid: Yeah, but we wrote the questions. He knows exactly what to say.
- Aaron Hotchner: You can't investigate this.
- Derek Morgan: Excuse me?
- Aaron Hotchner: You're a material witness in your wife's shooting, and a target. And not just tonight, but the past six months.
- Derek Morgan: Hotch, how can you of all people ask me to sit this out? You didn't back off when Foyet attacked your family.
- Aaron Hotchner: And how'd that turn out?
- Jennifer Jareau: I don't agree with taking you off the case. When someone hurts one of us... when someone hurts a baby...
- Derek Morgan: Yeah.
- Jennifer Jareau: Yeah. Uh, I need to show this to the team, but I wanted you to see it first.
- [she hands over a scrap of paper]
- Jennifer Jareau: I found it in the pay phone he used to call Garcia.
- Derek Morgan: "How does it feel? Do you see red? I see red."
- Jennifer Jareau: Does that mean anything to you?
- Derek Morgan: [flashbacks; it obviously does] No.
- Jennifer Jareau: You're sure?
- Derek Morgan: Yeah.
- Aaron Hotchner: Jack was never this tiny.
- Derek Morgan: The doctors say this incubator's gonna be home for the next two weeks.
- Aaron Hotchner: It's gonna fly by.
- Derek Morgan: Hotch, I get it. I finally know what you guys have been talking about. I never knew that six pounds, one ounce could knock me out.
- Dr. Spencer Reid: How'd he take it?
- Aaron Hotchner: As expected.
- Penelope Garcia: Sir, I know that when Morgan was on leave after his abduction, you encouraged him to stay away from the case.
- David Rossi: And let me guess: he didn't.
- Derek Morgan: When is someone gonna let me know they're gonna be okay?
- Penelope Garcia: I totally feel you. You're not alone in this.
- Derek Morgan: Just stop. Please, just stop. I can't take your blind optimism right now. It's not helping me.
- Dr. Tara Lewis: How you holding up?
- Penelope Garcia: I've never seen him like this. I just want to fix it and I can't. It's too much for anyone. It's not fair, and it needs to stop.
- Aaron Hotchner: [Morgan has gone off on his own to find Chazz] Where is he?
- Derek Morgan: He's not gonna stop.
- Aaron Hotchner: Morgan, tell me where he is.
- Derek Morgan: I can't get anyone else hurt.
- Aaron Hotchner: This isn't your call.
- Derek Morgan: Come on, you have to know what I'm feeling right now.
- Aaron Hotchner: That's why you need to come back here or tell me where you're going.
- Derek Morgan: I can't do it. I'm sorry, man. Goodbye, Aaron.
- [Morgan hangs up and throws his phone out the car window]
- Derek Morgan: Tell me you got something.
- David Rossi: A casing and a rifle up on the roof.
- Jennifer Jareau: This guy isn't sloppy. He's sending us a message.
- Aaron Hotchner: Garcia, we need to access the surveillance footage.
- Penelope Garcia: [leaving] Of course. I'm on it.
- Derek Morgan: All right, what else we got?
- David Rossi: That's it right now.
- Derek Morgan: [Noticing Hotch watches him very closely] You're looking for micro expression
- Aaron Hotchner: You have divided this team when we need to work together! JJ disobeyed orders by going to you and now you are withholding
- Derek Morgan: I didn't divide this team! You did!
- [first lines]
- Derek Morgan: [carrying Savannah into an emergency room] Help me! Help! She's been shot! Help me!