- [last lines]
- Man: Agent Hotchner?
- Aaron Hotchner: Yes.
- [signs for package]
- Emily Prentiss: What is it?
- Aaron Hotchner: Haley's filing for divorce. I've been served.
- Aaron Hotchner: Ever since we had Jack, I always dread it when you bring me a case involving kids.
- Jennifer 'JJ' Jareau: Why are you telling me this?
- Aaron Hotchner: Every case we work, every case we don't work comes across your desk.
- Jennifer 'JJ' Jareau: Yeah.
- Aaron Hotchner: And most of the victims are women. And most of them are about your age. It's okay if you lose it every once in a while. It reminds people that we're human.
- Jennifer 'JJ' Jareau: [closing quote, voiceover] Wordsworth wrote "A simple child that lightly draws its breath and feels its life in every limb, what should it know of death?"
- David Rossi: I wanna show you something. I carry this wherever I go.
- [Rossi hands Caulfield a bracelet with three names on it]
- John Caulfield: Your kids?
- David Rossi: Indianapolis, Christmas Eve. One of my first cases on the job. Three kids watched their parents get beaten to death. Every year, I call to tell them I haven't forgotten, I'm still looking.
- [Rossi takes the bracelet back]
- David Rossi: Last year, not one of them bothered to return my call.
- Aaron Hotchner: [opening quote, voiceover] The American poet Anne Sexton once wrote "It doesn't matter who my father was. It matters who I remember he was."
- Dr. Spencer Reid: I remember reading about the case like this in Spotsylvania County, similar marking on the bone.
- Jennifer 'JJ' Jareau: It was the winter of 1980.