Criminal Minds (TV Series)

Damaged (2008)

Michael Shamus Wiles: Chester Hardwick

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Quotes 

• Chester Hardwick : Is that true - I never had a chance?

  Dr. Spencer Reid : I don't know - maybe.

• Chester Hardwick : Nobody gives a *damn* about the truth.

• Aaron Hotchner : Have a nice trip, Chester. You're going where you belong.

  Chester Hardwick : It's 5:17. Evening yard started at 5:00. Guard staff's outside with the population. There won't be anyone to open that door for... at least 13 minutes.

  [picking up a crime scene photo] 

  Chester Hardwick : And it took me less than five to do this.

• Chester Hardwick : While you were doing your research, maybe a question or two about security tones would have been a good idea.

  Aaron Hotchner : I heard the tones.

  Chester Hardwick : So you planned to be locked inside with me, with no guns or weapons.

  Aaron Hotchner : I won't need a gun.

  Chester Hardwick : There's no way they're gonna execute me next week, not after I kill two FBI agents. You saved my life by coming here.

  Aaron Hotchner : But unfortunately for you, I'm not a 5-foot-tall, hundred-pound girl.

  [taking off his blazer and tie] 

  Aaron Hotchner : All your life, you've gone after victims who couldn't fight back. And the rest of the time you spent looking over your shoulder, worried about the knock on the door, scared that somebody like me would be on the other side waiting to put you away. At your core, you're a coward.

• Dr. Spencer Reid : Your mother's by polar and almost certainly an undifferentiated schizophrenic your father suffered severe shell shock in the war now referred to as post traumatic stress disorder. As far as I can tell you remained clinically depressed the rest of his life. 53% of all serial killers have some sort of mental illness. In your case both your parent suffered from psychological disorders which they largely took out on you. Maybe you beat each other as much as they beat you so violence became a natural expression of love. There's something called the Hypotham region of the limback system. It's the most creative part of the brain. Once were ones without conscious and without judge. It's what makes babies cry when they're hungry, uh, scream when they want affection, become enraged when a toy is taken away from them. On most children a healthy relationship with their mothers counters the hypothalamus and maps the child's brain, a healthy. Your hypothalamus never learned control it still operates. Pre records indicate you display symptoms of sydariast you're, you're obsessed with sex. Sex and love are cross wired with pain. Additionally your hypothalamus won't allow you to stop seeking the desires that it wants, so you became a sexual sadist. Sexual partners will never be as similar to the painful desires that you had. Making sure they do exactly what you want them to do and you ensure that by killing them. Earlier you said your victims never had a chance, I think you know deep down it was really you who never had a chance

  Chester Hardwick : Is that true I never had a chance?

  Dr. Spencer Reid : I dunno, maybe