- Emily Prentiss: [opening quote] "Family quarrels are bitter things, they're not like aches or wounds, they're more like splits in skin that won't heal because there is not enough material" - F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Dr. Spencer Reid: Well, if you really want me to support you, just answer me this question: why is it not ok for me to walk out on the team, but it is for you?
- Emily Prentiss: Because you and I are different
- Jennifer Jareau: Glad to hear your voice, Emily, even though you're not really there
- Emily Prentiss: It's great to be heard, even though I am not really here
- Assistant Director Linda Barnes: Now we need to ensure that mistakes, likes the ones you made today, never happen again
- Jennifer Jareau: Mistakes *we* made?
- Assistant Director Linda Barnes: That said, Agent Prentiss, your suspension is lifted. You'll be reassigned within the Bureau. Your new post has yet to be determined
- Penelope Garcia: What?
- Assistant Director Linda Barnes: Agent Lewis, you will also be reassigned. Agent Reid, you will be a full-time professor with our exchange program. Agent Rossi, the FBI deeply appreciates your service, and the director wishes you nothing but the best in your retirement. Agent Simmons, Agent Alvez, you will remain here at the BAU. Garcia, your loyalty to the team is appreciated, but it feels like a fresh start in a different department would be best
- Penelope Garcia: Fresh start? I don't want a fresh start. I need... I need to be here
- Jennifer Jareau: I'm fired, aren't I?
- Assistant Director Linda Barnes: No. You're the conditional unit chief of the BAU. Congratulations
- Jennifer Jareau: There's no such thing
- Assistant Director Linda Barnes: You're right. There wasn't. But I was able with the director's approval to create a new position just for you. I won't be going into the field with you anymore, but you will run every decision past me, big and small, before you act. Good night
- Penelope Garcia: This can't be the end. Can it?
- Jennifer Jareau: I don't wanna be unit chief, not like this
- David Rossi: I've been in your shoes and for the lack of a better word: it sucks! But you're gonna do just fine
- Jennifer Jareau: Linda Barnes will try to pick us apart, one by one
- David Rossi: There have been people trying to pick us apart since the doors opened. It hasn't worked yet
- Penelope Garcia: Last night in St. Louis, four roommates were killed in a rental home in what the police called a robbery turned homicide
- Luke Alvez: It's brutal!
- Matt Simmons: Yeah! Looks like two sides of his brain were fighting with each other: left side want to rob the place, the right side want to cause some destruction
- David Rossi: Yeah, and both sides got exactly what they wanted
- Assistant Director Linda Barnes: Because this is exactly the kind of case the BAU takes from here on
- David Rossi: Maybe it's just me, but I need at little help understanding our new case selection criteria
- Assistant Director Linda Barnes: We want cases with good optics that are also quick and easy to clear
- Assistant Director Linda Barnes: Your daughter is in the Bay Area, huh? It's beautiful up there
- David Rossi: [Reluctant] Yeah
- Assistant Director Linda Barnes: I hear you have a grandson who is five? My son just turned six. It seems like just yesterday when he was in my arms at the hospital and now Kenny doesn't want a hug when I drop him off at school
- David Rossi: Hmm
- Assistant Director Linda Barnes: I look forward to the day I can sit my porch, enjoy the sunset, glass or red in my hand, with not a care in the world
- David Rossi: Okay, stop!
- Assistant Director Linda Barnes: Stop what?
- David Rossi: You're sniffing around to see if I am up for retirement
- Assistant Director Linda Barnes: Don't be so paranoid, agent Rossi, I am just making conversation. Besides I am not in the position to do that
- David Rossi: That's right, because when it is time for me to retire, I'll let you know
- Penelope Garcia: I love you each so much, I wanna lick your faces! Oh, listen to me saying my things. Isn't the world a brighter place, with more air when Linda Barnes isn't around being Linda Barnes?
- Matt Simmons: No comment. Next question
- Penelope Garcia: It's not a question, per se, it is a confirmation of a fact
- Matt Simmons: [after searching through an empty apartment] Damn it!
- David Rossi: Yeah, that about sums it up