Criminal Minds (TV Series)

A Real Rain (2006)

Matthew Gray Gubler: Dr. Spencer Reid

Quotes 

• Derek Morgan : You've never been to New York?

  Dr. Spencer Reid : We've never had an unsub there.

  Aaron "Hotch" Hotchner : [to Gideon]  I thought you were going to talk to Reid about taking some vacation time.

  Jason Gideon : What's vacation time?

• Derek Morgan : [Reid is fumbling his food while trying to eat with a pair of chopsticks]  You don't know how to use 'em, do you?

  Dr. Spencer Reid : It's like trying to forage for dinner with a pair of number two pencils.

• Jason Gideon : [about citizens supporting the unsub]  He's a hero.

  Dr. Spencer Reid : The exact same thing happened with the Goetz-New York subway shooting in the early eighties.

  Jason Gideon : You weren't even born.

  Dr. Spencer Reid : I read a lot.

• Derek Morgan : With no discernible victim patterns, the killer's practically impossible to stop.

  Dr. Spencer Reid : Did you know the original Zodiac Killer actually continually changed his victims. Young, old, men, women, white black.

  Jason Gideon : Exactly. And he killed for thirty years without ever being caught.

• Dr. Spencer Reid : [after overhearing a conversation between Gideon and Hotch]  What happened in Iowa?

  Jason Gideon : It was one of the first cases Hotch and I worked together. Small town, two boys had been murdered, same signature. The profile led us to the, uh, local 4-H leader. We went to interview him. The guy, he was suicidal, he had a shotgun, our guns were drawn. And at some point, he turns the shotgun on Hotch. Instead of firing, Hotch talks him down. The guy surrenders.

  Dr. Spencer Reid : Sounds like pretty good work.

  Jason Gideon : At trial, the guy's wife gave him an alibi for both murders. Small town, they all knew each other. Jurors believed her. Eventually they got him when he killed another boy.

• Derek Morgan : [searching for a clue to indicate the unsub's next target]  You know, this is a lot of boxes. How are we supposed to narrow it down?

  Jason Gideon : Check and see if it ended in acquittal. If it didn't, toss it aside.

  Aaron "Hotch" Hotchner : It has to be a capital case. He's escalating. The more brutal, the better.

  Elle Greenaway : Why not go by most recent?

  Dr. Spencer Reid : Judging by his elaborate filing system, Doyle obviously has obsessive-compulsive disorder. People with OCD often finish tasks, and then go back to the beginning and start over.

  Derek Morgan : So he continually goes through the transcripts and the first one to trigger him becomes his next victim.

  Elle Greenaway : Here's one. This is a liquor store owner who was shot with his own gun.

  Aaron "Hotch" Hotchner : Flip to when they present the defense. Did the defendant testify?

  Elle Greenaway : No.

  Aaron "Hotch" Hotchner : Stick with the ones where the accused took the stand. This is personal. He hears their voices.

  Jason Gideon : Doyle's victims all claimed to be a type of victim themselves. The first two threw themselves on the mercy of the court, pleading alcohol and drug dependency. The priest said he was a victim, victim of recent hysteria.

  Aaron "Hotch" Hotchner : Look for key phrases: victim, mercy, anything that signifies they thought their crime wasn't their fault.

  Dr. Spencer Reid : I think I might have one, guys: Ted Elmore. He shot and killed both his parents after claiming self-defense for years of physical abuse.

  Jason Gideon : Doyle lost his own parents. Hearing someone get away with killing their own, that would haunt him.

• Jason Gideon : There's a lot we still don't know, but we do know this: these are not blitz attacks. They're too controlled. These are absolutely executions.

  Dr. Spencer Reid : An unsub's signature is his own extremely rare combination of M.O. and ritual. An unsub kills to satisfy an inner need, and he'll continue killing until that inner need, which is based on a ritual, is lived out perfectly. Because reality never lives up to fantasy, this becomes an impossibility.

  Jason Gideon : In other words, he's not gonna stop killing until we catch him.