- [Morgan, Prentiss, and JJ have arrived to help Rossi on a twenty year old cold case, after he asked them not to]
- David Rossi: Why do you care?
- Emily Prentiss: Because you do.
- Penelope Garcia: [mortified that Kevin will talk with Rossi about their relationship] If you get within a hundred feet of Agent Rossi, I will unleash an unrecoverable virus onto your personal computer system that will reduce your electronic world into something between a Commodore 64, and a block of government cheese.
- Kevin Lynch: Agent Rossi? We need to talk, about Penelope, man to man
- David Rossi: Man to man
- [both walk away]
- Derek Morgan: What about Penelope?
- Dr. Spencer Reid: I don't know
- Jennifer 'JJ' Jareau: [singing] Garcia and Kevin sitting in a tree...
- [turns around and walks away]
- Derek Morgan: Get out of here! Are you serious?
- [joins JJ]
- Emily Prentiss: Just when I thought nothing scandalous was every gonna happen around here
- Dr. Spencer Reid: What? What does that mean?
- Emily Prentiss: Didn't you hear JJ?
- Dr. Spencer Reid: That song meant something? No! No I missed it
- Emily Prentiss: It... it... You know what, never mind
- Dr. Spencer Reid: [looks around bewildered] What?
- Emily Prentiss: He might need our help.
- Penelope Garcia: He didn't ask anyone for help.
- Emily Prentiss: Penelope, Rossi is a guy who color-coded his hand-written notes in his notebooks. Blue pen for evidential items, red pen for supposition and theory. The guy is a fussy, anal-retentive, neat freak who never leaves anything out of its place. I would say this is a scream for help.
- David Rossi: Hi, Connie. I brought the team with...
- Connie Galen: You need to stop this.
- David Rossi: Excuse me?
- Connie Galen: We thought that if we didn't call you back the last couple times, you would just give up and leave us alone.
- David Rossi: I know that it hurts, but I'm only trying to make sure someone pays for your parents' deaths.
- Connie Galen: We don't care anymore. It's been twenty years! We need to be able to move past it. Please!
- David Rossi: I won't bother you kids again.
- Connie Galen: And you'll stop it with the gifts, too?
- David Rossi: Gifts?
- Connie Galen: What are we suppose to do with... a bunch of toys that remind us of the worst day of our lives?
- David Rossi: I never sent you any gifts.
- Aaron Hotchner: [closing quote, voiceover] "There is no formula for success, except perhaps an unconditional acceptance of life and what it brings." - Arthur Rubinstein.
- David Rossi: [opening quote, voiceover] "Within the core of each of us is the child we once were. This child constitutes the foundation of what we have become, who we are, and what we will be." - Neuroscientist Dr. R. Joseph.
- Derek Morgan: I can't believe people actually pay good money to play these fixed games
- Jennifer 'JJ' Jareau: Men
- Derek Morgan: Excuse me?
- Jennifer 'JJ' Jareau: It's not people, it's men
- Derek Morgan: Is that a fact?
- Jennifer 'JJ' Jareau: Only a man would waste $50 trying to win back that $3 stuffed animal
- David Rossi: This isn't even a BAU case
- Jennifer 'JJ' Jareau: Maybe not yet, but I can make anything a BAU case, if I want to. It's about paperwork and I know the paperwork
- David Rossi: Morgan, obsessional crimes are your specialty.
- Derek Morgan: Well, there's two kinds of obsessional offenders that would send gifts to survivors. Sadists, who want to make the families keep reliving the crime, or guilt-laden offenders, desperately trying to find some type of way to apologize.
- David Rossi: Sadists usually use something they know will remind the family of the person or the crime. Jewelry, newspaper clippings.
- Emily Prentiss: These don't look like the kind of things you would send to inflict pain on someone.
- David Rossi: So, guilt-laden.
- Emily Prentiss: You know, they actually look like the kind of thing a child would send.
- Derek Morgan: Okay. Well, it's rare, but an unsub who feels this much guilt sometimes commits the crime unintentionally. They tend to be developmentally disabled, extremely low IQ offender, and generally, well, they're physically large and they're very strong. Strong enough to hurt somebody accidentally.
- Emily Prentiss: Like Lennie in "Of Mice and Men".
- David Rossi: I was here on a serial rapist in '88. It was pretty short work. The guy wasn't gonna win any IQ contests. The day after we, uh, collared him, a local detective was driving me to the airport, and, um, he hears a call on his walkie of kids screaming in a house not far from where we were. He asks if I mind taking the job in with him. We were first on the scene. Inside we found...
- Derek Morgan: [placing the case file on the table] Found this.
- David Rossi: The ax had been left behind, but it had been wiped clean. It turns out it belonged to the family. The, uh, oldest daughter, Connie, told me her father bought it on Christmas Eve a few months earlier, to cut down the Christmas tree. Now I, uh, always associate the whole thing with Christmas. Never been able to put a tree up myself again.
- Jennifer 'JJ' Jareau: So he... he never hurt the kids at all?
- David Rossi: Not physically.
- Derek Morgan: But he would have known that the kids were in the house.
- David Rossi: He only hurt the parents and then left.
- Emily Prentiss: Okay, so using a weapon he found at the scene and not eliminating all of the potential witnesses, that makes him disorganized.
- Derek Morgan: But he left no evidence, which suggests he's organized.
- Jennifer 'JJ' Jareau: There was a fingerprint.
- David Rossi: But it was behind the bedroom door. I don't even think he knew it was there. There should have been prints in other places, but they were wiped clean. An open back door, a... a drinking glass left in the kitchen. And that one good print... was not a match anywhere. I've been over this a million times. I... I keep thinking if there was just one more piece, one more thing to go on. The answer was right in front of me.
- Emily Prentiss: He might be dead.
- David Rossi: I have to be sure.
- Derek Morgan: Rossi, if he's dead, you may never really know.
- David Rossi: When we arrived on the scene... before any of the other units got there, I could hear them... before I even got out of the car. It was a warm morning and the, um, the windows were open in the upstairs bedroom. And their voices... floated out into the street. They were crying and calling for their mommy and daddy. Three terrified children screaming for their murdered parents. I've seen so much death and pain, but that sound... it's been twenty years and I can still hear them screaming every night... crying. If I can't tell them for sure that whoever's responsible will never do it again... that screaming might never stop.
- David Rossi: Where're my notes, my original crime scene notes?
- Penelope Garcia: Again, sorry, you didn't ask for that specific you used...
- David Rossi: I have to say how to look for everything? What kind of a researcher are you?
- Penelope Garcia: I'm not a researcher, I'm a technical analyst.
- David Rossi: What the hell does that even mean?
- Kevin Lynch: [coming in] You left the middle of my back totally unloofahed.
- Penelope Garcia: [Rushes into JJ's office] I might be in big trouble
- Jennifer 'JJ' Jareau: Come on in
- [keeps on reading her papers]
- Penelope Garcia: I can't believe he showed up at my apartment
- Jennifer 'JJ' Jareau: It's not like I am doing anything in here
- Penelope Garcia: We just had a seminar on fraternization last week, but
- Jennifer 'JJ' Jareau: I really have a lot of work to do, Garcia
- Penelope Garcia: So you don't want to hear how agent Rossi showed up at my door in the middle of the night while I was enjoying post-coital shower with fellow FBI technical analyst Kevin Lynch?
- Jennifer 'JJ' Jareau: [closes file, turns chair] Sit. So you were in the shower with Kevin Lynch?
- Penelope Garcia: Come on JJ, I am being serious I need your help
- Jennifer 'JJ' Jareau: With what?
- Penelope Garcia: Agent Rossi! We're not supposed to date fellow bureau employees
- Jennifer 'JJ' Jareau: From what I hear, Rossi is the reason most of these fraternization rules even exist, okay? He's not going tell anyone. Just relax. Wait, what was Rossi doing in your apartment?
- Penelope Garcia: That's a good... I am not supposed to tell anyone
- Jennifer 'JJ' Jareau: Why?
- Penelope Garcia: I didn't press the issue. I was all naked and all drippy
- Jennifer 'JJ' Jareau: Doesn't showering with someone always seem like a better idea before you're actually doing it?
- Penelope Garcia: [laughs] Yes, it's a bit of a workout
- Jennifer 'JJ' Jareau: And there comes a point where a girl just got to wash her hair alone, you know
- Emily Prentiss: You're buyin', I'm drinkin'.
- Derek Morgan: I don't think any of us could afford this place otherwise.
- Jennifer 'JJ' Jareau: Yeah, I know I can't.
- David Rossi: Go home.
- Emily Prentiss: We thought you might need some help.
- David Rossi: You're wrong.
- Derek Morgan: Come on, now, Rossi. Bounce some theories off us. Fresh eyes can't hurt.
- David Rossi: This isn't even a BAU case.
- Jennifer 'JJ' Jareau: Maybe not yet, but I can make anything a BAU case if I want to. It's about paperwork, and I know the paperwork.
- Penelope Garcia: [Shower runs, knocks on the door] There is no acceptable excuse for violence, but for you I am making an exception!
- [opens door]
- Penelope Garcia: Oh my God! Agent Rossi
- David Rossi: This can't be everything
- Penelope Garcia: I'm sorry sir
- David Rossi: This is not everything
- [walks into her house]
- Penelope Garcia: I was taking a sh... your're coming in
- 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