Criminal Minds (TV Series)

Lessons Learned (2006)

Mandy Patinkin: Jason Gideon

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• Derek Morgan : [the team has two days to break a detained terrorist]  We have two days to do what the CIA hasn't managed in two months?

  Jason Gideon : We could be looking at the first attack on our soil since 9/11.

• Jason Gideon : [voiceover]  Ralph Waldo Emerson said "In order to learn the import lessons of life, one must each day surmount a fear."

• Emily Prentiss : Excuse me sir, I just want to let you know how much I appreciate...

  Jason Gideon : You don't thank me

  Emily Prentiss : Sir?

  Jason Gideon : Not a favor

  Emily Prentiss : Of course. I know that

  Jason Gideon : You're coming to do a job

• Jason Gideon : It's amazing what you learn when you talk to people!

• Jason Gideon : Why? Why is it always those who profess to be the most fervent believers in this war, they always manipulate other people to die for them?

  Jind Allah : Does your president go into battle? Or does he send your children?

  Jason Gideon : Tonight, all those innocent people...

  Jind Allah : There is no such thing Gideon. They were infidels. And they were engaged in activities that spread American policies over the entire world. Your incessant need to own things, material things. Your capitalism rests on the back of third world countries. No one's hands are clean, no one is innocent.

• Jason Gideon : [voiceover]  Dale Turner mused some of the best lessons are learned from past mistakes. The error of the past is the wisdom of the future.

• Jason Gideon : GitMo's runway's perpendicular to Cuban airspace, so approaching aircraft have to negotiate a last-minute, ninety degree right turn in order to land. They call it the GitMo twist.